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Colour, Seeing & Seeing Colour (Interdisciplinary Symposia, Durham, February 2013)

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Research Summary: Colour, Seeing & Seeing Colour Interdisciplinary Symposia

Category: Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium
Key Topics: Neuroscience of colour perception, medieval perspectives on colour, artistic and phenomenological approaches, liturgical symbolism
Event Format: Two-part symposium held at St Cuthbert's College (4 February 2013) and St Chad's College (11 February 2013), 7:30-9pm
Participating Disciplines: Neuroscience, medievalism, physics, theology, art, heraldry, phenomenology
Evidence Grade: Multidisciplinary scholarly inquiry integrating empirical neuroscience with humanistic historical and theological interpretation
Primary Focus: Explores colour perception through cognitive, sensory, historical, artistic, and symbolic dimensions across multiple epistemological frameworks
Accessibility: Open to all; refreshments provided from 7:15pm; consideration of non-visual sensory experiences including blindness and synaesthesia

Colour, Seeing & Seeing Colour
“A Symposium in Two Parts, in Two Places”
An interdisciplinary symposia sponsored by St Cuthbert’s Society and St Chad’s will take place in College St Cuthbert’s College Dining Hall, Monday 4th February, 7.30-9pm and St Chad’s College Chapel, Monday 11th February, 7.30-9pm.

St Cuthbert’s College Dining Hall, Monday 4th February, 7.30-9pm

  • Anya Hurlbert (Neuroscientist) Cognitive perspectives on colour perception
  • Fiona and Richard Gameson (Medievalists) Personal experience of colour through senses other than sight – blindness and synaesthesia
  • Judy Hurst (Artist) Putting Colour on a Blank Page

St Chad’s College Chapel, Monday 11th February, 7.30-9pm

  • Tom McLeish (Physicist) A physicist looks at colour through medieval eyes
  • Michael Sadgrove (Dean of Durham Cathedral) GOD’S COLOURS?: the symbolism of worship and liturgy
  • Mike Huxtable (Medievalist and Colour Phenomenologist) Colouring Chivalry: medieval heraldic perspectives on colours and their evaluation

Refreshments from 7.15pm All Welcome!

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