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, Gerold Noerenberg,.

Dr. Dagmar Engels (vh Ulm), Dr. Jamie Ward (England) and Sabine Fratzke (Radio free FM Ulm) (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The film by Alexandra Kirschner and Christine Söffing (cs)

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

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)

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

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 (akr)

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

Documentation

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