<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Could you please share this on Vision list?</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">========================</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Art in Conversation (ArC) is a
multidisciplinary seminar series on art hosted by the University of St Andrews.
The seminar already brought together 48 leading researchers and art
practitioners to discuss different perspectives around a set of core themes
that are relevant to art: <a href="https://artinconversation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/">https://artinconversation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">This year, in collaboration with The
International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists, ArC is
organizing a special issue on synaesthesia in art in September-December 2023:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://artinconversation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-and-synaesthesia/">https://artinconversation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-and-synaesthesia/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">We will be hosting art practitioners with synaesthetic experience in
conversation with academics. The ArC seminars will focus on olfactory art
(perfumery) and visual art (design and cinema). Each online seminar will
feature two pre-edited video essays (approx. 20 min each) about synaesthetic
artistic practice and research, as well as a live Q&A session involving the
practitioner and academic that contributed to the videos.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">We invite academics in psychology and
neuroscience with experience in empirical research in cross-modal aspects of 1)
perfumery/olfactory art; 2) film; 3) design/product design. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">Please contact us before 31 March
2023 if you are interested in taking part in one of these seminars:
<a href="mailto:mi59@st-andrews.ac.uk">mi59@st-andrews.ac.uk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Best,</span></p><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif">Marina Iosifian (she/her)</font></span></div><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif">Senior Research Fellow, PhD</font></span></div><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">University of St Andrews</span><br></div><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif">Fife, Scotland</font></span></div><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Email: </span><a href="mailto:mi59@st-andrews.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">mi59@st-andrews.ac.uk</a><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p></div>