International Network for Cognition, Theatre and Performance (INCTP)
Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities
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).