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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>How does the space between art and
science manifest itself?

style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Saturday 20 March 2010 at the w:st="on">Thackray Museum,
Leeds.

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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Speakers and discussion.

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face=Arial>Keynote Speaker 1 class=apple-style-span> font-weight:bold'>: style='font-size:11.0pt'> Siân Ede class=apple-style-span>, Arts Director w:st="on">UK Branch Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, author of Art & Science and Strange and Charmed: science and
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ECHOES IN ART AND SCIENCE  class=apple-style-span> font-style:italic'>

face=Arial>Investigative approaches in art and
science have little in common but co-exist in the same human context and may
unwittingly reflect each other’s thought processes and imagery. In this
talk I will venture to explore how far images in contemporary art and science
reflect each other’s aesthetic and epistemological currencies. 

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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Keynote Speaker 2: size=2>Dr Mary Midgley,
Philosopher.

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>SCIENCE AND POETRY size=2>

9.0pt'>Science and Poetry are not rival concerns competing for our attention.
They are complementary aspects of our lives. The same imaginative faculties
forge both of them, providing the basic structures round which they grow. In
every age, scientists need to have a suitable guiding vision, a vision which is
adapted both to new data and to changes in the background culture.

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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Speaker 3: size=2>James Peto, Senior
Curator, Wellcome Collection. style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>THE CULTURE OF MEDICINE:
EXHIBITIONS AT THE WELLCOME COLLECTION  size=2>

face=Arial>Since the Wellcome Collection opened
two years ago, its exhibitions have covered such diverse subjects as the
relationship between medicine and warfare; what we understand - or imagine - is
happening in our brains and bodies while we sleep; how artists and scientists
have grappled with the question of human identity; the history of our
understanding of the anatomical and symbolic role of the human heart; the
relationship between mental illness and the visual arts in Freud's Vienna. class=apple-style-span>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Speaker 4: size=2> Professor Mike Vanden
Heuvel is author of Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance: Alternative
Theater and the Dramatic Text and Elmer Rice: A Research and Production
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>TO INFINITY, AND
BEYOND!’ CAN THEATRE PLAY WITH SCIENCE?

9.0pt'>Given the recent appearance of a number of well-received plays with
scientific themes, characters, and metaphors, it is no surprise that critical
discourse is just beginning to assess the quality and accomplishments of science
plays. A leading spokesperson for one critical approach is Carl Djerassi, an
award-winning chemist who, after retiring from academia, has published a number
of plays on science themes (Oxygen;
An Immaculate style='font-style:italic'>Misconception). As well, Djerassi has become
a respected polemicist for adjudicating which plays belong to the category of
what he terms “science-in-theatre.”

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face=Arial>£20/£15 (includes lunch) Reservations
required –for further details and booking form contact href="mailto:pj.digby@ntlworld.com"
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