'Styles of Perception': From Historical Perspectives to the Digital Age

For the audience, lunch will be provided.

Day 1 (30 June)

09.30 – 10.00: Registration, Welcome, and Opening Remarks

10.00 – 11.00: Will Tullett (University of York) - Smelling Nostalgically: A History of Smelling the Past

11.00 – 12.00: PGR Panel 1

Francesco Azzarone (Scuola Normale Superiore)- Simmel’s Sociological Aesthetics and the Perceptual Style of Modernity

Pang Zheng (School of Philosophy & Art Institute, Fudan University) - Manifold Vision: Space, Perception, and Epistemic Structures in Modern Art and Science

12.00 – 13.00: Lunch Break 

13.00 – 1400: Clare Mac Cumhaill - Staring Dangerously: Perceptual Placement and Practices of Looking

14.00 – 15.00: PGR Panel 2 

William Patterson (King's College London) - Styles of Perception and Styles of Attention

 Ingrid Banerjee Marvin (University of Leeds) - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You: Clipper Culture and the Architecture of Desire

15.00 – 15.30: Coffee Break

15.30 – 17.00: PGR Panel 3 

Shen Nan (Fudan University) - From the Eye to the Gut: Feedback, Anal Optics, and the Collapse of Perceptual Boundaries in Nam June Paik

Lena Trost (Bauhaus-University Weimar), Ilja Croijmans(Radboud University Nijmegen) - The Subjective of Space 

Virginia Soro (University of Lausanne) - John McDowell’s Engaged Intellect: Self-consciousness in Action 

19:00: Workshop Dinner

Day 2 (1 July)

9.00 - 10.00: Ludmila Lupinacci (University of Leeds)- No thoughts, just vibes: digital platforms and the mediation of atmospheres

10.00 – 11.00: PGR Panel 4 

James Trybendis (The New School for Social Research) - Listening to the Voice in the Age of Digital (Re)Production

Sam Heffron (University of St Andrews) - Experiencing Realism in Films

12.00 - 13.00: Lunch 

13.00 - 14.00: Pablo Velasco (University of Stirling)- Navigation and the senses

14.00 – 15.00:  PGR Panel 5 

Pedro Figueiredo (École Normale Supérieure, PSL) - Worldstyle: The Rhythmic Coordination of Perception and Affect from a Developmental‑Enactive Perspective

Pierce Robertson-Voth (University of Warwick) - Perceiving Through the Living Transcendental: Schematism, Style, and the Digital Disruption of Recognition

15.00 - 15.30: Break

15.30 - 16.30: Workshop on Academic Career 

16.30 - 17.00: Closing Roundtable & General Discussion