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The Senses of Space

Space has more than three dimensions. Our sense of space is generated by movement, that is, by time. But space is foremost a multimodal experience: visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, and gustative. There is also an inner dimension when we feel parts of our body aching or enjoying pleasure. This inner space, however, is not the [...]

Asides

  • "Evolution trumps revolution, and things happen slowly." Clive Thompson (The Breakthrough Myth. Wired, August 2011, p.44)   #

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Notices

Call for Papers: The International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) announces the Fifth Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: The communicative body in development, to take place in Lund, Sweden, July 24–27, 2012.

We invite abstracts of unpublished work for individual papers, posters, and thematic panels.Each author may submit no more than three abstracts: one as main author and two as co-author).

Important dates

•February 13, 2012: deadline for all submissions
•April 13, 2012: notification of acceptance
•July 24-27, 2012: conference, starting in the morning
•July 24, closing in the afternoon on July 27.

Local committee

•Marianne Gullberg, Lund University
•Mats Andrén, Lund University
•Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
•Maria Graziano, Lund University
•Agneta Gulz, Lund University
•Elaine Madsen, Lund University
•Sandra Debreslioska, MA, Lund University
•Maja Petersson, Lund University