26 May 2025
COSPECS Dept, Room 200, Ground floor

1:30 Brief Welcome

1:45-2:15 Cristiana Minasi - Effective Action: Embodiment, Improvisation, Atmospheres

2:30-3:30 Hansel Tan - Making Sense from Sensation: Devising through Chekhov’s Imaginary Centers

3:45-4:45 Richard J. Kemp - The Situational Self: Proprioception, Kinesthesia, and Character in Acting Practice

5:00-6:00 Joelle Ré Arp-Dunham - To Hold or Not to Hold: The Question of How a Script becomes Action in the Actor’s Body

6:15-7:15 Dario Tomasello and Maria Rita Chierchia - The Agency of a Paper's Little Ball: A Performative Experiment

27 May 2025
COSPECS Dept, Room 200, Ground floor floor

9:15 Brief welcome

9:30-11:00 Marta Calbi, Luca Spadaro, Daniele Vagnozzi / Teatro & Scienza - Theatre & Science: Walking Emotions

11:15-12:15 Xristina Penna - Making-up two minds: testing the more-than-material tools of Scenography

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Amy Cook - Donmar Warehouse's Henry IV directed by Phillipa Lloyd: Scene screening and open discussion on intersections of cognitive science and performance

2:45-4:15 Martina Musilová - Dialogical Acting with the Inner Partner

4:30-5:30 Mark Pizzato - Creating “Sacred” Space as a Cognitive Theatrical Tool: Discussion and Experiment

5:45-6:45 John Lutterbie roundtable discussion and toast led by Amy Cook, Nicola Shaughnessy, Rhonda Blair, and Maiya Murphy - On the introduction to Toward a General Theory of Acting (2011).

COSPECS - Department of COgnitive Sciences, Psychology, Education, and Cultural Studies, Via Concezione, 6, Messina (check the conference map here).

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