American Synesthesia Association

Upcoming Conference

The Board Members of the ASA are pleased to announce:

The 7th Annual National Conference of the American Synesthesia Association, Inc. will take place on September 26-28, 2008 at McMASTER UNIVERSITY in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

The conference will be hosted by Daphne Maurer of the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour and made possible by the Board Members of the ASA: Sean Day, Peter Grossenbacher, Lawrence E. Marks and Carol Steen.

We are pleased to announce our Keynote Speakers will be

Jamie Ward
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
University of Sussex
United Kingdom

Opening Event:

A lecture by Steven Brown and Daphne Maurer, illustrated by live performers

Friday evening, September 26, 2008

"A Colourful Appetite for Music: How the Brain Connects Music to Colour and Pleasure"


Steven Brown
Assistant Professor Music Cognition
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada

Daphne Maurer
Professor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada

Synesthesia: Art and the Mind

Exhibition at McMaster Museum

September 18 – November 15, 2008

Opening September 27, 2008
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Hamilton, Ontario
Canada


Synesthesia: Art and the Mind was curated by Greta Berman and Carol Steen and made possible by Carol Podedworny, Director McMaster Museum, and Daphne Maurer, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

This groundbreaking exhibition will be the first ever to show the works of known genuine synesthetic artists in context. It will also include paintings and drawings by artists who may have been synesthetic, and examine some commonalities. This show is not intended to be definitive, but, rather, we hope that it will generate further discussion and future exhibitions.



Abstracts for Upcoming Conference

Presentation Schedule

Registration Form

Banquet Dinner

Membership Form

Recent Conferences
The Sixth Annual Conference of the American Synesthesia Association, Inc. 2007 at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Previous Conferences

McMaster University





Photography by Jason Jones