denamark conference

[Guest guest]

November 5 and 6, 2007

at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

This conference combines various areas of

knowledge such as Neuropsychology, Musical

Sciences, Theatrical Arts, Arts Therapy and

Linguistics, amongst others. It aims a holistic and

interdisciplinary approach to education, disability,

and rehabilitation. It intends to question how the

inter-related practice and processing of different types

of language (musical, psychomotor, verbal,

technological, and

aesthetics) can

contribute to enhance

interventions in education

and disability (motor, verbal

or mental).

Part I: Art & Brain

Part II: Art, Education,

Rehabilitation

Exhibition Art & Inclusion

Workshops

Org: Investigation Subunit on

Psycholinguistics and Clinical

Linguistics (Centre of Linguistics

of Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Programme | November 5 | Auditorium 3

9 - 10.30am | Registration

9 - 9.15am | Welcome speech

Ana Monção - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e

Humanas

Investigation subunit on Psycholoinguistics and Clinical Linguistics -

Centre of Linguistics

9.15 - 10am | Opening session

(official invitations to be confirmed)

10 - 10.30am | Coffee Break / Inauguraton of the Painting Exhibition Art &

Inclusio | Room 3

10.30am - 1pm | Art & Brain

Moderator: Rute Costa (CLUNL)

10.30 - 11am | The visual brain: what art can reveal about the brain?

(lecture in english)

Luca Francesco Ticini - Società Italiana di Neuroestetica " Semir Zeki " ,

Trieste, Italy

11 - 11.30am | Brain specialization, art and language pathologies

(lecture in portuguese)

Joaquim Aires - Instituto de Psicologia Aplicada e Formação, Lisbon,

Portugal

11,30am - 12pm | Brain, art, and language:

Lessons on this relationship from neurological damage in artists

Dahlia Zaidel - University of California, Los Angeles, USA

12pm - 12.30pm | Music and the brain: amusia, aphasia and musical expertise

(lecture in english)

Pascale Lidji - Université Libre de Bruxelles & International Laboratory for

Brain, Music

and Sound Research (BRAMS), Bélgica - Canadá

12.30 - 1pm | Debate

13 - 2.30h | Lunch Break

Workshops | Programme for November 5 and 6

2.30 - 3.30pm | Voice in communication: from speaking to singing (in

portuguese)

Helena Rodrigues, Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical,

(CESEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e

Humanas, Lisbon, Portugal

November 5: Auditorium 3 - Group A1 | November 6: Auditorium 3 - Group B1

2.30 - 4pm | The Sensitive Library (in portuguese)

Raúl Oliveira & Rúben Tiago - TRUTA Associação Cultural, Lisboa, Portugal

November 5: Room 2 - Group A2 | November 6: Room 2 - Group B2

Break - Painting Exhibition Art and Inclusion | paintings of artists with

disabilities

November 5: Room 3 - Group B | November 6: Room 3 - Group A

4 - 6pm | Aphasic Theater (Thêatre Aphasique) - (in english and french)

Isabelle Côté & Gaulin - Hôpital de réadaptation Villa Medica,

Montréal, Canadá

November 5: Room 2 - Group B | November 6: Room 2 - Group A

Programme | November 6 | Auditorium 3

9.30am - 13pm | Art, Education and Rehabilitation

Moderator: Rita Mendes Leal (CLUNL)

9.30 - 10am | Psychomotor foundations of artistic expressions: an

ontogenetic approach

(lecture in portuguese)

Vítor da Fonseca -Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal

10 - 10.30am | The arts in education: the opening of new frontiers

(lecture in portuguese)

Alberto Sousa - Universidade Moderna & Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa,

Portugal

10.30 - 11am | Visual text versus illustration: the role of each one in the

development of reading

(lecture in portuguese)

Eduarda Coquet - Universidade do Minho - Instituto de Estudos da Criança,

Braga, Portugal

11 - 11.30am | Coffee Break

11.30am - 12pm | Arts Therapists: Artists, Scientists, Therapists and

Researchers:

Are we really the new 'Renaissance Man' (or Woman)?

Janek Dubowsky - Roehampton University, London, UK.

12pm - 12.30pm | Artabilitation: Non-formal learning from interactive

multi-sensory environments

that promote explorative play, creative expression and joyful activity.

(lecture in english)

Tony & Eva sson - Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark

12.30 - 1pm | Debate

1pm - 2.30pm | Lunch Break

* conferences and workshops are not translated

November 5 | workshops programme

2.30 - 3.30pm 2.30 - 4pm

Voice in communication:

from speaking to singing The Sensitive Library

Auditorium 3 - Group A1 Room 2 - Group A2

20 participants 20 participants

Break | Painting Exhibition Art and Inclusion

Room 3 - Group B

4 - 6pm

Aphasic Theater

Room 2 - Group B | 40 participants

November 6 | workshops programme

2.30 - 3.30pm 2.30 - 4pm

Voice in communication:

from speaking to singing The Sensitive Library

Auditorium 3 - Group B1 Room 2 - Group B2

20 participants 20 participants

Break | Painting Exhibition Art and Inclusion

Room 3 - Group A

4 - 6pm

Aphasic Theater

Room 2 - Group A | 40 participants

Voice in communication: from speaking to singing - workshop

Helena Rodrigues, Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical,

(CESEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa,

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

This workshop is specially targeted to those who consider that they " do not

have an ear for music " or that they are " not able to

sing " . These are, in fact, false statements, we were all born with the

capacity to express ourselves musically. Isn't human

communication intrinsic musical in its nature? This workshop intends to

provide a rich musical experience, exploring the

communicative potentialities of the voice. It is not about chest voice, head

voice or " falsetto " . Just about music and the voice of

the heart. Target audience: For all, especially for those who do not dare to

sing in public.

Helena Rodrigues, is graduated in Piano (Oporto's Conservatory), Education

Sciences (Master) and Psychology (PhD from Coimbra's University). She also

has been studying singing, psychotherapy and music pedagogy. She is

Assistant professor at the Department of Musical Sciences of Faculdade de

Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, teaching Music

Psychology and Music Pedagogy. Her main research interests are

based on musical development and communication in music and early infancy.

Dr. Rodrigues is the Artistic-director of Companhia de Música

Teatral (www.musicateatral.com), a theatrical music group with which she has

participated in the conception and interpretation of several

interdisciplinary

projects.

The sensitive library - Workshop

Rúben Tiago & Raúl Oliveira - TRUTA Associação Cultural, Lisboa, Portugal

The Sensitive Library is an itinerant project whose aim is to promote the

book and the reading, through a non conventional

exploration of the book as an object. It is not a theatre show but an

encounter between storytellers and children where, through

the objects manipulation, it is intended to recycle their common sense and

to suggest new ways of reading, allowing an introduction

to plastic arts and performance arts. The Itinerant Sensitive Library had

its origins in Catalano' s installation/show

Sensitive Universes, presented in the Centro de Pedagogia e Animação do

Centro Cultural de Belém (Centro Cultural of Belém's

Centre of Pedagogy and Animation) which recovered the spirit of itinerant

libraries, particularly relevant in areas of geographic

and social exclusion. More than telling stories, we aim to develop the

pleasure of children (4 - 8 years old) for the book and the

reading. As a strategy, according to which the storyteller carries out a

role that potentiates the child's creativity and imagination,

the act of reading is performed. This way the appropriation of reading

implies, beyond the story that is tolled, a direct relation

with the object and its plastic qualities and handling. On the other hand,

these stories also appeal to spatial and temporal notions

that help the child to organize a time sequential vision, allowing the

mental reconstitution and representation of events and

experiences. This Library can be installed in schools, museums, public

libraries, book fairs and other places. In its shelves inhabit

fantastic bread books, made of leaves, wood, wind, containing surreal

stories, livened up for the gesture and voice of its tellers.

The strangest stories make the most incredible books. we can only trust our

imagination.

Raúl Oliveira, graduated in Sociology (Instituto Superior de Ciências do

Trabalho e da Empresa - 1997) and has a bachelor's degree on acting (Escola

Superior de Teatro e Cinema). He was one of the founders of TRUTA (Theater

Company - 2003) and of GATO S. A. having participated in all its

shows, some of them under the direction of Mário Primo (1988-1994). He also

participated in the company Os Satyros (1995) in Woyzeck and Hamlet

Machine. He worked with several directors as Cruz, Tiago Rodrigues,

a Diogo, Moura, Rodolfo Vasquez and Joaquim Horta.

He collaborated in the C.P.A. of Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB - Cultural

Center of Belém, Lisbon) in Universos Sensíveis (Sensitive Universes, 2002),

Pavilions das Maravilhas (Wonders Pavilions of António Catalano, Casa degli.

Aliei, Italy, 2004) and in Fernanda Fragateiro' s installation Das Histórias

nascem Histórias (Stories give birth to Stories). He also took part of Casa

do Ogre (The Ogre's House) from Letizia Quintavalla (Italy) and of Les

Gumes from Phun.

Rúben Tiago, has a bachelor's degree on ESCT´s Drama Course and has done

several other courses: Choreographic Formation and Research (2006),

Management and Production in Performing Arts (2004, Fórum Dança), Open

Course on Scenography (ESE, Coimbra). He was one of the founders of

TRUTA (theater company - 2003), having participated in all its shows and in

Ideias do Levante (Lagoa-Algarve). He collaborated with the theater

companies Projecto Teatral Lisbon, 2000) and Teatro Praga (2001). In the

C.P.A. of Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB - Cultural Center of Belém) he

performed in Universos Sensíveis (Sensitive Universes, 2002) and in

Pavilhões das Maravilhas (Wonders Pavilions of Catalano, Casa degli.

Aliei, Italy, 2004). He also took part of Força do Hábito ( Bernhard'

s play Die Macht der Gewohnheim, directed by Joaquim Horta). He directed

Depois de ta (Sharman Macdonald' s play After t, Teatro Mosca,

2005) and was co-creator of Da mão para a boca ( Auster´s play Hand

to Mouth, TRUTA, 2005).

Aphasic Theater - Workshop

Isabelle Côté & Gaulin - Hôpital de Réadaptation Villa Medica,

Montreal, Canada

The Aphasic Theater workshops are meant to help aphasic persons to find ways

to regain confidence in themselves.

Through different types of exercises, we explore all the possibilities

available that would help each individual to redefine the

communication process.

The range of activities goes from concentration exercises, expressive

actions, improvisation, the ability to recreate situation and

respond to specified requests or tasks, vocal and breathing techniques,

stretching and physical activities, non speaking exercises,

free association, free speech abilities, work with emotions and others.

Gaulin, is an actor, comedian, drama teacher and director. Bachelor

of dramatic art from École Supérieure de Théâtre of the Université du

Québec, in Montréal he has been with Théâtre Aphasique since 1998,

developing in collaboration with a speech language therapist, theater and

video

workshops for aphasic patients at Hospital de Readaptation Villa Medica in

Montreal (Canada). He wrote and directed the most recent play

Metronome, performed by the Aphasique theater group. All the performers are

aphasic persons and this latest creation as been produced in several

cities throughout the Quebec province, Belgium and France. He also gives

acting classes to mentally disable persons at Muses Art Center in Montreal,

in order to bring those artists to a professional level.

Isabelle Côté, is the artistic and administrative director of Théâtre

Aphasique since 1996. Actress, comedian, teacher and director, she is

bachelor in

dramatic art from École Supérieure de Théâtre of the Université du Québec,

in Montréal. She is in charge of a theater workshop adapted for aphasic

patients, writes and directs theatre shows for the aphasic group. She

manages all the administrative, financial and artistic needs of the company.

Information | workshops

The workshops registration is limited to a maximum number

of 80 participants.

Each participant will be enrolled in two workshops - the

" Aphasic Theatre " and in one of the other two (that are

offered). You will have to choose between the

workshops " Sensitive Library " OR " Voice in

communication: from speaking to singing " .

The participant must indicate its preference on the

registration form.

Those enrolled in the workshops will be divided

into two groups - A and B. Group A will end the

first day at 3,30 or 4 pm, and the second day at

6 pm. Group B will end the first day at 6 pm and

the second day at 3,30 or 4 pm

*please see workshops programme schedule below.

On the registration form the participant can

indicate his or her preference regarding the

workshops schedule.

The indicated schedule preferences will

be considered by registration order.

November 5 and 6, 2007

at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Org: Investigation Subunit on

Psycholinguistics and Clinical

Linguistics (Centre of Linguistics

of Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Workshops | Description | biographies

November 5 and 6, 2007

at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Org: Investigation Subunit on

Psycholinguistics and Clinical

Linguistics (Centre of Linguistics

of Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Biographies | Lecturers

Luca Francesco Ticini, is a Neurobiologist (University of Trieste, Italy)

who currently works

at the Center of Neurology at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain

Research (Tübingen,

Germany). He is the President of the Italian Semir Zeki Neuro-Aesthetics

Society, as well as

the founder and vice-President of the Committee for the Promotion of

Neurosciences.

Additionally, Dr. Ticini is Member of the Italian Society of Neurosciences

and represents the

Institute of Neuro-Aesthetics (London, U.K. and Berkeley, CA.). He has

written numerous

articles and essays which explore the relations between different forms of

artistic

expression and the physiology of the brain. Dr. Ticini has been the creator

and curator of

many expositions, among them, " Genialmente, l'Arte del Cervello " , which

involved scientists

like Semir Zeki and the designer Ottavio Missoni. His work in this

particular exposition has

been praised for its originality and scientific content by the President of

the Italian Republic.

Joaquim Quintino Aires is a Neuropsychologist, clinical psychologist and

psychotherapist. He

is the director of the Instituto de Psicologia Aplicada e Formação (IPAF)

and teaches in

universities at Lisbon, Madrid, São o and Moscow. His PhD dissertation

in the area

Psycholinguistics connects studies in Linguistics, Anthropology and

Neurosciences. He is a

researcher in the Psycholinguistics and Clinical Linguistics sub-unit of the

Centro de

Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL).

Dahlia W. Zaidel is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Behavioral

Neuroscience at the

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Member of the Brain

Research Institute of

this University. In her book, Neuropsychology of Art - Neurological,

Cognitive and Evolutionary

Perspectives (2005), Dr. Zaidel explores the intersection between artistic

creativity,

talent, aesthetics and brain structures based on interdisciplinary

principles such as the

biology of art, brain evolution, cognition and neuroscience. Among her

research interests

are the consequences of perceptual problems in famous artists, the

performance of autistic

savants and established artists with brain damage as a result of unilateral

stroke, dementia,

or various other neurological conditions. Dr. Zaidel also investigates the

hemispheric

memory for surrealistic and realistic paintings, as well as the perception

of facial

symmetry-asymmetry and attractiveness.

Pascale Lidji is a Neuropsychologist, as well as a Teaching assistant and

Junior Researcher

in the Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B., Belgium) and in the Laboratory

for Brain, Music

and Sound (BRAMS) in University of Montreal (Canada). Her Ph.D. dissertation

is directed by

Pr. Régine Kolinsky (U.L.B.) and Pr. Isabelle Peretz (BRAMS). She uses

behavioral and

electrophysiological methods to study the interactions between language and

music in the

song perception of both musicians and non musicians. She is also interested

in the mental

representations associated to pitch and melody and in the effects of musical

expertise on

these representations. Lidji occasionally takes part in research about the

impact of brain

lesions on musical abilities in professional musicians. As a hobby, she is a

singer, actress and

director in several theater companies, and animates since 2005 theater

lessons conceived

for teenagers and psychiatric patients.

Vitor da Fonseca is a Professor in Learning and Development Disabilities at

the Department

of Special Education and Rehabilitation of the Faculty of Human Motricity

(FMH), Univ.

Técnica de Lisboa. His PhD is in the area of Special Education and

Rehabilitation (FMH) and

his master' s degree is in Learning Disabilities (University of

Northwestern, Chicago). He was

psychopedagogist in the Pedagogic Investigation Centre of the Calouste

Gulbenkian

Foundation and did his traineeship with Ajuriaguerra, Bergés, Lapierre,

Aucoutorier, Vayer,

Helmer Myklebust and Doris . He is the President of the Dyslexia

Association in

Lisbon, as well as the founder of the Center of Observation and

Psicoeducational Rehabilitation

(CORPE), where he works as a clinician. He is the author of a great number

of books,

some of them published in Brazil, England, Germany and Spain.

Alberto B. Sousa has a PhD. in Education Sciences (University of Ever) and

has two master's

degrees in Psychology of Education from the University of Bristol and the

Superior Institute of

Applied Psychology (ISPA, Lisbon). His undergraduation is in Clinical

Psychology (University of

Lisbon), Education through Art (National Conservatory) and Physical

Education (Federal

University of Macolin, Switzerland). Currently, he is professor at the

Polytechnic Institute of

Lisbon and headmaster of the Master's Course in Education through Arts on

the Modern

University (Lisbon). In the field of Clinical Psychology, he has created a

child and family

counseling office where, with a team of specialists, he develops intense

work in support of

children with special needs.

Eduarda Coquet graduated in Plastic Arts (Faculdade de Belas Artes da

Universidade do Porto),

has a master's degree in Portuguese Literature and Culture (Faculdade de

Ciências Sociais e

Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and a PhD in Architecture, in the

area of Visual

Communication (Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa).

She is

Associate Professor and head of the Department of Artistic Expressions and

Physical Education

of the Institute of Child Studies, Universidade do Minho. Her research

interests focus on

illustration and visual text, having published in 2006, with two other

colleagues, Leitura,

literatura infantil e ilustração : investigação e prática docente (Reading,

Children Literature and

Illustration). She is the director of Ensinarte, a publication about arts in

educational settings

and coordinates a Master's course on Child Studies. She is still producing

regularly artistic

work, with two individual shows: Regresso (Return, 2004) at Galeria da UM,

Museu Nogueira

da Silva, Braga; and Inevitável (Inevitable, 2005) at Sala do Recibo,

Mosteiro de São ho

de Tibães.

Janek Duboswsky is currently the Subject Head for the Arts & Play Therapies

area of the

School of Human & Life Sciences, Roehampton University, London. As such he

has responsibility

for the management of the MA Art Therapy, MA Dance Movement Therapy, MA

Dramatherapy, MA Music Therapy and MA Play Therapy Programmes. He is also

active within

'APT' the Arts and Play Therapies Research Cluster located within the

University. Dubowsky is

a qualified Arts Therapist, Counselor and Psychotherapist who is actively

involved in research

focusing in the application of the Arts Therapies with people who have

severe communication

problems such as autism. He also investigates Jungian Analytical Psychology

and the use and

understanding of symbols as products of the unconscious. He has been

involved in training Art

Therapists at University level for over 25 years and has a wealth of

experience in developing

training courses both in the UK and internationally. He has contributed to

the development of

Art Therapy training in Finland, Ireland and, recently, Lithuania.

Tony has developed a body of work that is recognized as a platform

for interdisciplinary

research. The SoundScapes concept uses interactive art and game playing in

room size

environments with large screens where non-intrusive technologies empower

intuitive and

motivated creative and fun engagement between " user and technology " and

" user and user

with technology " - all where gesture controls the feedback stimulus. The

research since 1987

has focused on persons with disabilities with a targeted goal of creating a

new form of

supplemental tool for therapists and towards encouraging other digital

artists to explore the

potentials for their own development from interacting and creatively working

together with

this community. Close cooperation with experts, teachers, caregivers and

families is inherent

to his research. In 2006 the research evolved into an international

conference titled ArtAbilitation.

Sensorama Lab | http://www.aaue.dk/~bh/sensorama/

Eva sson has developed interdisciplinary and international projects and

research in

human-centered design, development, and implementation/use of toys,

educational

media/multimedia/, and interactive environments applied in play, learning,

and (re)habilitation

contexts, involving flexible methods of delivery for local, national and

international users. Dr

sson has developed theories on non-formal learning, play, and activity

related to how

technologies can support playful activities motivated by curiosity and

exploration rather than

externally defined tasks. Systems designed to support playful values are

open-ended and

ambiguous and offer situations for people to appropriate, explore, and

interpret. Dr sson's

work includes methodological approaches which consider idiosyncratic

appropriation,

participatory involvement, and action driven situated use. She has

researched and presented

with Dr Tony around the world on the combined attributes and

potentials of nonformal

learning and SoundScapes/ArtAbilitation.

Registration Form

Registration deadline: October 7, 2007

Name:

Address (*):

Profession:

E-Mail (**):

(*) Please give us your address in order to send you the receipt by post.

(`**) Please give us your email address, so that we can confirm your

payement and workshops

registration.

Congress total number of registrations: 120

Maximum number of registrations in the congress WITH workshops: 80

Registration without workshops | 75 euros YES | NO

Registration with workshops | 100 euros

(for more information please go to: www.fcsh.unl.pt/psicolinguistica)

1) Aphasic Theatre Workshop YES | NO

(maximum of 80 particicipants)

2) Optional Workshop: choose 1 of these 2 workshops

Sensitive Library Workshop YES | NO

(maximum of 40 particicipants)

Voice in communication: from speaking to singing Workshop YES | NO

(maximum of 40 particicipants)

Payment options:

By cheque:

(endorsed to Ana Fernandes Congresso Arte Cérebro e Linguagens)

Address - Linha de Investigação nº 5 do CLUNL

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Av. de Berna 26 C

1069 - 061 Lisboa

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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian | How to get there

Public Transports:

By Metro (tube): Blue line - S. Sebastião or Praça de Espanha stations

By bus: (buses) - 16, 26, 31, 46, 56

Car Parking (payed):

Avenida de Berna e Avenida Visconde de Valbom

Address: Av. de Berna 45A 1067-001 Lisboa - Portugal

Sponsors |

Technical data for the 1st Conference on Art, Brain and Languages:

Scientific Coordination: Ana Monção e Rute Costa (CLUNL) | Organizing

Commitee: Ana Monção, Ana Rebelo, Andreia Periquito e Inês Marques (CLUNL)

Exhibition Committee: Rui andre (curador), Cristina Passos (Fundação

LIGA), Cristina Fontes (ANACED), Ana Silva (Hospital Bombarda),

Luís Lobato (CD conception ETIC); Art Direction | Graphic Design: Margarida

Mouzinho |

November 5 and 6, 2007

at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Summarised Programme:

Part I: Art & Brain

Part II: Art, Education,

Rehabilitation

Exhibition Art & Inclusion

Workshops

For more information, please go to:

www.fcsh.unl.pt/psicolinguistica

Org: Investigation Subunit on

Psycholinguistics and Clinical

Linguistics (Centre of Linguistics

of Universidade Nova de Lisboa)