American Synesthesia Association, 12th National Conference at Harvard College, October 6–8, 2017

American Synesthesia Association, Inc.

12th National Conference at Harvard College    October 6–8, 2017

Call for Papers

The 12th National American Synesthesia Association, Inc. conference will be hosted at Harvard on October 6 – 8 by Dr. Takao Hensch, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Professor of Neurology, and made possible by the Board Members of the ASA, Greta Berman, Edward M. Hubbard, Daphne Maurer, Lawrence E. Marks, and Carol Steen. 

The Board Members of the ASA invite the submission of abstracts from individuals wishing to make a presentation on any of the following: a scholarly paper, a discussion of creative aspects of synesthesia, a reading, a presentation of visual artwork, audio compositions, or video presentations. If you are interested in being considered for a presentation, please submit an abstract, no longer than 250 words. 

Please include your name, e-mail address, telephone contact number, and a short resume (no more than two pages) or web-link to same. The number of presentation slots will be limited, so there is no guarantee that a submission can be accepted. Individuals are urged to attend even if they do not intend to make a presentation.  

Please also list any audio/visual equipment, including podium and microphone, you might need for your presentation. Please plan to limit your presentation to 20 minutes (not including an additional 5 minutes for Questions & Answers) in length.  

Our abstract review board is representative of the diverse interests, talents, and approaches to exploring and experiencing synesthesia. It includes artists, linguists, historians, and scientists, some of whom are synesthetes themselves. 

DEADLINE for Abstract Submission: July 7, 2017.  

NOTIFICATION will be on or before July 25, 2017

To submit your abstract, contact information, short resume and audio/visual equipment needs, please go to the ASA website: www.synesthesia.info  More details will be posted on the ASA's home page soon.

Abstracts should be submitted here: http://www.synesthesia.info/submissionformcaptcha.asp  

This link will be activated soon.

All selected presenters who are U.S. residents must be members of the American Synesthesia Association, Inc.

Sincerely,

Takao Hensch

Greta Berman

Edward M. Hubbard

Lawrence E. Marks

Daphne Maurer

Carol Steen

Art Synaesthesia Course in Beijing Middle School

Art Synaesthesia Course in Beijing Middle School

Edited by Andi XIONG

Introduction: CCTV News network team were at Beijing No.24 Middle School on May 31^st 2017 for the program “visiting the school closed to your home”, where new courses were introduced with excellent examples in education. Vice director of Education Committee Ms. YOU Na, President of No. 24 Middle School Mr. Niu Xiao Hua entered Art Synaesthesia Classroom with CCTV Journalist. This project has been developed jointly by teacher Ms. JIANG Xin, LIU Liyun, XU Qing and ZHANG Na with Mr. Ninghui XIONG, the father of one student. What demonstrated here were the artworks of the students inspired and created after recent activity for “travel learning” by school, including poetry, painting and music combination in a culture tradition way in China, where synaesthesia concept had been introduced.

Following the theory and supported by Ninghui, the project team created a new way of education from single discipline category mode to interdisciplinary mode to combine literature, art and music together. For those students after training, their performance in “activity of travel learning to the south cities”, has demonstrated excellent result in creative sense, smart learning and good memory as an achievement shown here during CCTV interview program.

Visual interpretations of Maurice Ravel's Bolero 

by Ninghio Xiong (left) and Timothy Layden (right).