Stanford faculty, staff and students are warmly invited to an interdisciplinary symposium to cross-fertilize ideas about the body, place and memory across performance studies and biological sciences. Food and informal socializing will be a key part of the event.

The guest speaker is Professor Gretchen Schiller from Université de Grenoble, France, who will present her research on kinaesthetic mapping and ‘body memory' and her investigation on how place bares its marks on the muscular fibers of our bodies.

Professor Schiller will be joined by Stanford Faculty:

• Sakti Srivastava, Stanford School of Medicine
• Andrew Endy, Bioengineering / Synthetic Aesthetics
• Alexandre Ribeiro, Stanford Microsystems Laboratory (Post-Doc)
• Leslie Hill, Drama
• Helen Paris, Drama

This event will be chaired by Professor Jisha Menon, Drama.

“…the human being is above all, a place of passage and the essential part of life is held by the movement that is transmitted.”
- L’evolution Créatrice, Henry Bergson.