Conference: Synaesthesia with children

Documentation

Thursday May 10th 2012

The Speakers and Actors of the international conference were welcomed by the Mayor of the City of Neu-Ulm, Opens external link in new windowGerold Noerenberg,.

Dr. Dagmar Engels (vh Ulm), Dr. Jamie Ward (England) and Sabine Fratzke (Radio free FM Ulm) (cs)
Klaus Schmidtke, Gerold Noerenberg (cs)
Dr. Sean A. Day (USA) interviewed by Anita Schlesak (SWR) (cs)

Friday May 11th 2012

09:30 Welcome - Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stadtmüller / Vice President, University of Ulm
and Introduction - Christine Söffing / Musisches Zentrum, University of Ulm

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stadtmüller (cs)
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stadtmüller (ks)
Christine Söffing (akr)
The Organisers: Klaus Schmidtke, Christine Söffing, Dr. Jörg Jewanski, Prof. Dr. Dr. Hinderk M. Emrich, Dr. Jasmin Rani Sinha and Alexandra Kirschner (akr)

09:45 - 10:00 Synaesthetes introduce their synaesthesia as examples

Molly Holst (cs)
Christine Söffing and Molly Holst (akr)
Ruth Reghely (cs)

10:00 - 10:45 Prof. Dr. Dr. Hinderk M. Emrich / Medical University of Hannover, Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Social Psychiatry - Opening Speech: Crucial questions as to the origin of synaesthesia during childhood

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hinderk M. Emrich (cs)
Christopher Sinke and Prof. Dr. Dr. Hinderk M. Emrich (cs)
Christopher Sinke (akr)

11:00 Dr. Jörg Jewanski / University of Münster, Deptartment University of Music - The beginning of research on synaesthesia with children. Searching for traces in the 19th century

Dr. Jörg Jewanski (cs)
The Auditory (cs)

11:30 Dr. Sean A. Day / Trident Technical College, Department of English & Journalism, Charleston, SC, USA / Head of the American Synesthesia Association (ASA) - Synesthetes and their families: in their own words

Dr. Sean A. Day (cs)
Dr. Sean A. Day (cs)

12:00 Dr. Jamie Ward / University of Sussex, School of Psychology, United Kingdom - Strengths and Weaknesses in People in Synaesthesia

Dr. Jamie Ward (cs)
Dr. Jamie Ward (akr)

13:30 Christine Söffing / Musisches Zentrum, University of Ulm - The blank sheet. Synaesthesia as a method in artistic workshops

Christine Söffing (akr)

14:00 Alexandra Kirschner / Aurelius Sängerknaben Calw - Synaesthesia and visual imagery in children. Synaesthesia as a method in vocal education

Alexandra Kirschner (akr)
The film by Alexandra Kirschner and Christine Söffing (cs)

14:30 Dr. Cretien van Campen / Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague, The Netherlands and Clara Froger / Rotterdam, The Netherlands - How children paint music: theory

Dr. Cretien van Campen (cs)
Clara Froger (cs)

15:00 Michael Samarajiwa / Klangwerkstatt Wendelsheim - How to re-musicalize children through Synaesthesia

Michael Samarajiwa (akr)
Michael Samarajiwa (cs)

16:00 Michael Funk / Technical University Dresden, Institute for Philosophy - Synaesthesia and philosophy – What is the meaning of the word "creativity”?

Michael Funk (cs)
Michael Funk (akr)

16:30 Solange Glasser / Paris, France - The Ambiguous Synaesthesia of Olivier Messiaen

Solange Glasser (cs)
Solange Glasser (akr)

17:00 Short presentation with musical example of the EMU - Experimental Music & Art, University of Ulm - Colour-light-music

EMU-Ensemble: Tobias Hornberger, Axel Baune, Klaus Schmidtke, Christine Söffing, Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst and the SWR (akr)
EMU-Ensemble: Tobias Hornberger, Axel Baune, Christine Söffing, Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst (akr)

17:15 Panel discussion about the day - conducted by Prof. Dr. Harald Bode, University Hospital Ulm

Christine Söffing, Michael Samarajiwa, Prof. Dr. Harald Bode, Alexandra Kirschner, Dr. Jamie Ward, Clara Froger, Dr. Cretien van Campen, Solange Glasser, Dr. Jörg Jewanski, Dr. Sean A. Day (akr)
Anton Dorso, Michael Samarajiwa, Christine Söffing, Prof. Dr. Harald Bode (akr)
Dr. Cretien van Campen, Solange Glasser, Dr. Jörg Jewanski, Dr. Sean A. Day, Michael Funk (akr)
Speakers and Actors of the first Day: Cretien van Campen, Jasmin Rani Sinha, Clara Froger, Tobias Hornberger, Axel Baune, Michael Samarajiwa, Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst, Alexandra Kirchner, Christine Söffing, Prof. Bode, Sean A.Day, Solange Glasser, Jamie Ward, Jörg Jewanski, Michael Funk, Klaus Schmidtke - not on the image: Prof. Hinderk Emrich, Christopher Sinke (akr)

Saturday May 12th 2012

09:30 Anton Dorso / Lenin Moscow Pedagogical State University, Cross-Departmental Chair of Fundamental Psychology / Russia - Some cognitive aspects of the synaesthesia stimuli as possible ontogenetic markers of synaesthesia development in early childhood

Anton Dorso (akr)
Sean A. Day, Anton Dorso (cs)
One of Anton's Slides (cs)

10:00 Dr. Cretien van Campen / Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague, The Netherlands and Clara Froger / Rotterdam, The Netherlands - How children paint music: workshop

Dr. Cretien van Campen, Clara Froger (cs)
Dr. Cretien van Campen, Clara Froger (akr)
Clara Froger, Dr. Jörg Jewanski, Katja Krüger, Dr. Cretien van Campen (cs)
A color had to be chosen (akr)
Dr. Jörg Jewanski plays Gold (cs)
Katja Krüger plays Blue (akr)

11:00 University Ballett dances the smell and taste of a tangerine

The University Ballett (akr)
The University Ballett (cs)
Dr. Kay Astrid Weithöner answers questions of the audience (akr)

11:30 Prof. Dr. Ursula Ditzig-Engelhardt / University of Münster, Department of Musicology and Music Education - Painting to music with children

Prof. Dr. Ursula Ditzig-Engelhardt (cs)
Prof. Dr. Ursula Ditzig-Engelhardt (cs)
Prof. Dr. Ursula Ditzig-Engelhardt (akr)

12:00 Prof. Dr. Tina Seufert / University of Ulm, Institute of Psychology and Education, Department Learning & Instruction - Synaesthesia in multimedia learning?

Prof. Dr. Tina Seufert (cs)
Prof. Dr. Tina Seufert (cs)
Prof. Dr. Tina Seufert (akr)

12:30 Dr. Jasmin Rani Sinha / Luxembourg - how to learn languages using synaesthesia

Dr. Jasmin Rani Sinha (akr)
Dr. Jasmin Rani Sinha (cs)
Dr. Jasmin Rani Sinha (cs)

14:00 Dr. Danko Nikolic / Max Planck Institut for Brain Research, Frankfurt - Ideaesthesia - Synaesthetic child in a semantic vacuum - (via skype)

Dr. Danko Nikolic (akr)
Dr. Danko Nikolic (akr)

14:30 Katja Krüger / Hamburg-Henstedt and Anna Rowedder / Leipzig - Synaesthetic music-project

Anna Rowedder (cs)
Anna Rowedder, Katja Krüger (ks)
Anna Rowedder (nh)

15:00 Dr. Arnold Wohler / Neuburg an der Donau - Why does the child paint pictures the way it paints? Synaesthesia as a meaningful scheme in the drawing of the child

Dr. Arnold Wohler (nh)
Dr. Arnold Wohler (akr)
Dr. Sean A. Day (nh)

16:00 Karsten Greth / University for Music and Mdance, Cologne - Synaesthesia, an elastic phrase - Its use in music didactics

Karsten Greth (cs)
Karsten Greth (akr)

16:30 Prof. Dr. Manfred Bartel / University of Aalen, Department of Microcomputer Engineering - Grapheme Color Synaesthesia Test Component

Prof. Dr. Manfred Bartel (akr)
Prof. Dr. Manfred Bartel (cs)
Prof. Dr. Manfred Bartel (ks)

17:00 Dr. Mª José De Córdoba Serrano / University of Granada / Spain - Synaesthesia methodologies and practices experience, teaching approaches

Julia López de la Torre Lucha (ks)
Dr. Mª José De Córdoba Serrano (akr)
Dr. Mª José De Córdoba Serrano (akr)

18:00 Public discussion with the speakers - To which conclusions does the conference lead?

Anna Mandel, Ruth Reghely, Claudia Perk, Ursula Ditzig-Engelhardt, Natalia Zakharova (js)
Molly Holst, Michael Samarajiwa, Christine Söffing, Klaus Schmidtke, Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst, Sean A. Day (akr)
Raphael Aeschlimann, Michael Funk, Jörg Jewanski, Karsten Greth (js)
Solange Glasser, Raphael Aeschlimann, Michael Funk (akr)
Alexandra Kirschner, Molly Holst, Michael Samarajiwa, Christine Söffing, Klaus Schmidtke, Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst, Sean A. Day (akr)
Ursula Ditzig-Engelhardt, Natalia Zakharova, Anton Dorso, Alexandra Kirschner, Molly Holst, Michael Samarajiwa, Klaus Schmidtke, Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst, Sean A. Day (akr)
Sean A. Day, Katja Weise, Anna Rowedder, Julia López de la Torre Lucha, Solange Glasser, Raphael Aeschlimann, Michael Funk (cs)

19:00 Anna Mandel / Hamburg and Karsten GrethCologne - Singing sculptures - Flute and voice

Anna Mandel, Karsten Greth (cs)
Anna Mandel, Karsten Greth (cs)

Documentation

Nanna Heitmann (nh), Anna Katharina Rowedder (akr), Klaus Schmidtke (ks), Dr. Jasmin Rani Sinha (js) and Christine Söffing (cs)

Anna Katharina Rowedder (cs)