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'Vitruvian man inside the Buckyball'
design by Sir Harry Kroto
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Arts-Science Encounters
The Arts meet the Sciences and Social Sciences in a series of talks and performances where anything could happen.
The Arts-Science Encounters are a series of talks bringing together researchers from across the University´s five faculties and recognised external speakers. The topics are broad ranging, including speakers from more than twenty disciplines, ranging from History, English, Music, Geography and Politics, to Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience and Psychology. We will be hosting visiting academics and performers from Aberdeen, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Oxford and elsewhere. The talks are free and open to the general public and are pitched at non-specialists.
Unless otherwise indicated, events will be held at the Douglas Knoop Research Centre, Humanities Research Institute, 34 Gell St, from 5:30-6:30, followed by Q&A and wine reception.
Coming up...
Dancing to Darwin
13 April
Cambridge University psychologist Professor Nicky Clayton will discuss her work on the evolution and development of cognition in animals and humans, and her recent collaboration with the Ballet Rambert Dance Company. She will discuss how scientific ideas can inspire the movement, energy and musicality of dance. In celebration of the life and work of Charles Darwin in his bicentennial year, Nicky Clayton worked with Mark Baldwin of Ballet Rambert to produce an original ballet on the subject of evolution and animal behaviour. The resulting project, The Comedy of Change, directed by Mark Baldwin, with a score by renowned British composer Julian Anderson, and designed by Parisian artist Kader Attia, will be performed at Sheffield´s Lyceum Theatre on 28-30 April.
The Science and Poetry of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
27 April
How does the groundbreaking use of MRI in brain research affect the way we understand mind and emotion through engagement with the arts? In this Encounter, a renowned brain scientist engages in discussion with a leading British poet, to discuss the technicalities and the philosophical implications of brain-scanning imagery. Northern poet Professor Jon Glover will read from his recent collection, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and discuss his recent experience being scanned. Professor Sean Spence is world-leader in brain science research into deception, and a founder member of the European Consortium for Psychological Research on the Detection of Deception.
Please register a place for any of these events via the link on the left-hand side of this page
