Part 2: Hesitation
ICA, Thursday 7 September 2006. 7pm Nash Room.

A new series celebrating the continued relevance of phenomenology, a philosophy aimed at making explicit structures of lived experience and modes of human existence in the world: those things that are encountered every day without thought, those actions that are repeated automatically.

Hesitation is an important part of our daily lives. Its causes can be wildly variable and its effects can range from a benign waste of time to the life threatening delay. Yet we often choose to dismiss it as a sign of weakness.

Tonight’s Speakers:

Nicholas Parsons, chairman of Radio 4’s Just A Minute, the popular panel game, which invites guests to talk on subjects for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation.

Gulsen Bal, visual artist and theoretician, she is currently working on the notion of ‘production of subject’ as a form of hesitation in which the possible is ‘engendered’ within representations;

Neil Mullarkey, founder-member of the Comedy Store Players, Britain’s top improvisation troupe, and who has appeared in two Austin Powers movies

Robin Lickley, lecturer in Linguistics specialising in disfluency at the Speech Science Research Centre of Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.

Full Price : £10 / Concession : £9 / ICA Members : £8.
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