Rethinking the Senses (Public Engagement Case Study – Dr Merle Fairhurst)

by Talking Humanities | Mar 24, 2015 | Being Human festival, Censes, Fellowships & Networks, Interviews, Philosophy, Projects, Research & Resources

To mark the launch of our call for applications for the first SAS/Senate House Library ‘Public Engagement Innovators Scheme’, we asked some staff from across the School about their experiences of public engagement and how it has influenced their research and...

#PotW: CenSes Seminar on Multisensory Perception and Action: Embodiment in perception and language – 11 December

by aseifert | Dec 8, 2014 | Events

In the Research Unit in Cognitive and Affective Sciences, we have recently performed a series of psychophysical and brain imaging studies together with neuropsychological investigations of brain-lesioned patients to demonstrate that perception is to be considered as...

PoTW – Aesthetic Adjectives and Disagreements about Taste

by bcoleman | Mar 10, 2014 | Events

This workshop will bring together researchers in aesthetics, philosophy of language and linguistics to consider a topic significant to all these domains: aesthetic adjectives, such as ‘beautiful’, ‘ugly’, ‘elegant’ and...

Project Launch – What’s so special about the Human Mind?

by admin | Dec 5, 2013 | Events, The Human Mind Project

The Human Mind Project will launch on 12 December 2013 with a FREE public panel session entitled ‘What’s so special about the Human Mind?’.  At the School of Advanced Study we are delighted that this important, international, and interdisciplinary project will be...

The SAS Annual Review – Heston Blumenthal explores our senses

by aseifert | Nov 25, 2013 | Events, Features

Next month the School of Advanced Study will award Heston Blumenthal the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa, in recognition of his pioneering research and achievements.  For this year’s Annual Review (published next week) we talked to the innovative chef about...

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