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Confirmed Keynote contributions from Carol Brown (Carol Brown Dances / University of Auckland, New Zealand), Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Jan Erkert  (University of Illinois, USA) This three-day event, presented in collaboration with Independent Dance (London), invites somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a range of subject domains to transverse discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can afford to philosophical and socio-cultural…See More

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Silke Arnold-de Simine (s.arnold-desimine@bbk.ac.uk).Deadline: 29 February 2012Overview The concept of empathy has become central to the transdisciplinary field of memory studies with the rise of interest in witnessing and trauma. Trauma studies has raised the question of primary witnessing’s relations with the unrepresentable and the problems this poses for…See More

This conference literally discovers dance ‘through the looking-glass’. It explores the possibilities of dance’s reflection through the combination and gesture of divergent philosophical ‘steps’. Philosophical studies, aesthetical theories, critical investigations, literary responses and research in the field of practice echo the wide range of scholarly lines drawn towards dance. Movements of thought are instruments or mirrors for an exploration of the nature of dance and moving bodies. This…See More