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KANARIS THEATRE, FLOOR 2

This represents the culmination of a series of workshops organised The University of Manchester Research Institute funded research project Multifaceted: Interdisciplinary Research Seminars on the Human Face, looking at how and why we engage with the human face.

This series asks:

• What meanings have people attached to the face and the head in the past? What do our iconic ‘faces’ tell us about belief and ideology?

• How have the sciences and humanities used faces to gain insight into past peoples (including problematic concepts relating to race, culture, ethnicity or identity)?

• How have they been used in museum settings to engage the public?

• Can we stimulate a more critical conversation between our contemporary visualisations and ancient representations or embodiments of appearance (such as figurines, portraits, sculpture)? What would we gain here?

• How have techniques of facial imaging and reconstruction changed over the 20th-21st century, and how is medical science currently using them to investigate and improve wellbeing?

• What is the future of facial reconstruction and how can dialogues between medicine, robotics, digital visualisation and AI technologies enable us to work ethically to imagine faces of the future?