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SUMMARY:Performance and Cognition: Medicine\, Mask\, and Simulation  - Pro
 fessor Peter Meineck (Associate Professor of Classics\, New York Universit
 y) and Professor Roger Kneebone (PhD FRCS FRCSEd FRCGP\, Professor of Surg
 ical Education\, Imperial College\, London)
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CONTACT:Jonas Tinius
DESCRIPTION:Professor Peter Meineck (Associate Professor of Classics\, New
  York University)\n\nProfessor Roger Kneebone (PhD FRCS FRCSEd FRCGP\, Pro
 fessor of Surgical Education\, Imperial College\, London)\n\nChair:  Profe
 ssor Vladimir Mirodan (Professor of Theatre\, Drama Centre\, Central Saint
  Martins)\n\nWith demonstrations by Hadas Selbst (Physical Theatre Perform
 er\, Director and Teacher \, MFA\, lecoq-based physical theatre London Int
 ernational School of Performing Arts and Naropa University\, USA)\n \n\n--
 -\n\nProfessor Meineck examines the "cognitive gaps" that are filled by pe
 rformance (e.g. cognitive absorption\, empathy\, mind-body dissonance\, mu
 sic and emotions\, movement and multi-modal processing) and its role in th
 e Health Humanities. Through his company Aquila Theatre he has directed an
 d/or produced works by Homer\, Aeschylus\, Sophocles\, Euripides\, Aristop
 hanes\, Chaucer\, Shakespeare\, Rostand\, Ibsen\, Wilde\, Pirandello\, Jos
 eph Heller and Ray Bradbury in worldwide festivals and at venues as divers
 e as Carnegie Hall\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, the Ancient Stadium a
 t Delphi and the White House.\nhttp://classics.as.nyu.edu/object/PeterMein
 eck.html\n\n \n\nProfessor Kneebone’s innovative work around clinical si
 mulation has brought international recognition. His recent appointment as 
 Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow 2013 reflects his passionate commitment t
 o public engagement.  \nhttp://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/r.kneeb
 one/\n\n \n\nProfessor Mirodan  is co-director of Performance: Arts\, Crit
 ique\, Experiment (P:ACE) a new collaboration between Cambridge and CSM Fa
 culty and students\n(http://www.p-ace.group.cam.ac.uk/wordpress/chorus/)\n
 Central Saint Martins (http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/research/staffresearchpro
 files/professorvladimirmirodan/)\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Seminar room SG1\, Ground floor  
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