{"id":167,"date":"2013-12-08T10:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T10:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=167"},"modified":"2013-12-10T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T12:30:15","slug":"inaugural-lecture-professor-nicola-shaughnessy-19th-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2013\/12\/08\/inaugural-lecture-professor-nicola-shaughnessy-19th-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Lecture: Professor Nicola Shaughnessy 19th December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">Professor Nicola Shaughnessy invites you to her KIASH inaugural lecture on <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Thursday 19th December at 6pm<\/span><\/b> in the Aphra Theatre (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus\/building\/grimond-building\">Grimond building<\/a>), University of Kent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><b>Valuing Performance: Art or Science?<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">This lecture considers the role and function of performance as an art form and as a research method. Higher Education funders require academics to measure impact but how can this be assessed in performance? What are its benefits to society?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">Drawing upon interdisciplinary collaborations between artists and scientists, I will show how performance can respond to one of the key problems expressed by neuro scientists: <i>\u2018the need for a means of accessing human experience\u2019<\/i>. Performance practice, as I will demonstrate, offers ways of engaging and understanding concepts such as imagination, emotion, empathy, perception and cognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nicola Shaughnessy invites you to her KIASH inaugural lecture on Thursday 19th December at 6pm in the Aphra Theatre (Grimond building), University of Kent. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2013\/12\/08\/inaugural-lecture-professor-nicola-shaughnessy-19th-december\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5263,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,124],"tags":[1248,100403,50230,20537,5064],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}