# Event Details

- **Event Name**: NEPA – Neuroscience of Performative Arts International Seminar
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 am – Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: NEPA – Neuroscience of Performative Arts International Seminar
5-6 December 2025 | Hybrid Seminar

UNATC is organizing the NEPA – Neuroscience of Performative Arts International Seminar on 5-6 December 2025, in a hybrid format (UNATC CINETic + Online).

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The seminar has the objective to facilitate collaborations between performing arts practitioners, neuroscience researchers, psychologists and art therapists from performing arts fields to develop research aimed at increasing the understanding  of the processes underlying performative representations.

In recent decades, there has been growing interest in using neuroscientific methods to explore art creation, practice, and participation at a biological level. In response to this, NEPA sets out to encourage knowledge exchange and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research teams that bridge science and the performing arts.

Understanding core processes at the basis of performative representations at biophysiological levels will contribute to the development of performative practices and the efficacity of theatre, dance and music approaches for health, therapy and the development of more efficient teaching practices, as well as the understanding of their contribution to the development of the human society.

Building on the MET Project – Developing a Methodology of Therapy Through Theatre with Effects at the Neurochemical and Neurocognitive Levels, led by Ioana Carcea, UNATC has dedicated significant research to exploring fundamental aspects of theatre practice such as imitation, synchrony, autobiographical memory, role-play, and more recently, presence. Using the perspective of social neuroscience towards art practice brought fascinating data and results  for theatre practices and its use in applied settings.

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All time slots are listed as Bucharest time — EET.
Please always refer to the conference website for the latest version of the program: https://cinetic.arts.ro/en/evenimente/nepa-neuroscience-of-performative-arts-international-seminar/

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10.00 — Opening of the NEPA – Neuroscience of Performative Arts International Seminar

10.30 — Andrei C. Miu, PhD, Professor at the Department of Psychology, “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca (RO)

11.00 — Roxana Octavia Carare, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Neuroanatomy at the University of Southampton (UK); — TALK: Facilitation of drainage of toxins from the brain as a therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer’s disease

12.00 — Vladimir Mirodan, PhD, Professor Emeritus at University of the Arts London (UK); — TALK: Repetition and the Actor’s Transformation: Towards a Cognitive Understanding of the Long-Run “Qualitative Jump”

12.30 — Andrea Markovits, Director of the International School Puppet Therapy BCN (SP); — TALK: Thinking and Feeling Through Animated Forms

13.00 — Maiya Murphy, PhD, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore (SG); — TALK: Role-playing and beyond

13.30 — Miralena Tomescu, PhD Neuroscience, Senior Lecturer at Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava; researcher at UNATC Bucharest (RO)

15.00 — Lunch break

15.00 — Matthias Sperling, PhD, choreographer, performer, researcher, Director of the EU-funded project NEUROLIVE (UK) & — Guido Orgs, PhD, Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Movement & Performance Group Leader at University College London (UK); — TALK: NEUROLIVE: an interdisciplinary investigation of what makes live experiences special

15.30-17.00 — ROUND TABLE: Challenges and Opportunities of Interdisciplinary Research in Performing Arts – Psychology – Neuroscience; — Richard Kemp, MA, MFA, PhD Professor of Theatre at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA); — Dwaynica Greaves, Neuroscientist, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UK); — Dragos Cirneci, PhD, Professor at Spiru Haret University Bucharest (RO); — Ioana R. Podina, PhD, Director of the Laboratory of Clinical Cognitive Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest (RO); — Shoshi Keisari, PhD, Associate Professor at the School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa (IS); — Alexandru I. Berceanu, PhD, Associate Professor and Researcher at the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest (RO)

17.00 — Daniela Schiller, PhD Professor, Psychiatry, Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York (USA); — TALK: Emotional memories and social spaces in the human brain

18.00 — Manuel Flurin Hendry, Researcher at Zurich University of the Arts (CH) & — Yoshua E. Lima-Carmona, Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston and a Graduate Research Assistant at the NSF IUCRC BRAIN Center (USA); — TALK: Shared Neural Dynamics of Actor–Actress Dyads During an Acted Scene

18.30 — Shoshi Keisari, PhD, Associate Professor at the School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa (IS)

19.00 — Ioana Carcea, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (USA); — Justin S Riceberg, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (USA); — TALK: STAD – Social Transmission of Cognitive and Emotional States in the Care of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

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11.00 — Richard Kemp, MA, MFA, PhD Professor of Theatre at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA); — TALK: Theatre and Embodied Cognition

12.00 — Gianluca Esposito, PhD, Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology and Director of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Trento (IT)

12.30 — Dwaynica Greaves, Neuroscientist, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UK); — TALK: Theatre-Neuroscience: investigating an actor’s sense of self whilst in character 

13.00 — Simina Pițur, PhD, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca (RO)

13.30 — Cristiana-Manuela Cojocaru, PhD, Lecturer at the George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș (RO); — TALK: Process-based cognitive-behavioral approaches for modulating emotional response in chronic pain

14.00 — Lunch break

16.00 — ROLE PLAYING BRAIN — Nisha Sajnani, Dr., Professor and Director of the NYU Steinhardt Graduate Program in Drama Therapy, Chair of the NYU Creative Arts Therapies Consortium, and Founder of Arts & Health @ NYU (USA); — Alexandru I. Berceanu, PhD, Associate Professor and Researcher at the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest (RO); — Steven Brown, PhD, Director of the NeuroArts Lab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (CA); — Sanjna Banerjee, PhD, neuroscience researcher at Jameel Arts & Health Lab (USA); — Elisabeth Bahr, PhD, Research Associate at Jameel Arts & Health Lab (USA); — Mihaela Onu, Phd, Medical Physicist, Associate Lecturer at University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” Bucharest (RO)

17.30 — Daisy Fancourt, PhD, Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology at University College London and Head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group (UK); — TALK: Why the Arts are the Forgotten Fifth Pillar of Health

Full program, speakers, registration and details about the event, on the conference page: https://cinetic.arts.ro/en/evenimente/nepa-neuroscience-of-performative-arts-international-seminar/
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bucharest
- **state**: BU
- **country**: Romania
- **location**: Str. Tudor Arghezi 3-B, sector 2, 020941 Bucharest, Romania
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