You Can't Disappear Anymore
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What this talk is about
The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.
One speaker. One big idea. One good room.
Where · 2700 SWISS Event Space.
Some people walk past their own spouse on the street. Others can pick a stranger's face out of a stadium crowd years after a single glance. Sharrona Pearl opens the floor on the face recognition spectrum, from prosopagnosia to super recognition, and asks why we treat one end as a deficit and the other as a gift with no cost attached. The talk draws on cases at both extremes and the neuroscience in between, and everyone in the room will be able to place themselves somewhere on the line by the end of the evening.
How the night goes
Doors at 6:00 PM. Come early, grab a drink and something to eat, settle in.
Sharrona takes the floor at 7:00 PM.
Questions from the room near 7:45 PM.
Afterward, stay for a glass of wine with Sharrona. The best conversations happen then.
Who's speaking
Sharrona Pearl
Sharrona Pearl is the Andrews Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in The John V. Roach Honors College at TCU. A historian and theorist of the face and body, Pearl’s most recent book is Mask published with Bloomsbury Academic in 2024. She also recently published Do I Know You? From Face Blindness to Super Recognition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) following Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Harvard University Press, 2010). Pearl maintains an active freelance practice, with bylines in The Washington Post, The Conversation, Real Life Magazine, Aeon, Wellcome Collection, Tablet, Lilith, Kveller, and other places available on her website. She is series co-editor of Hopkins Health Humanities (Johns Hopkins University Press). Pearl is currently writing a book on deep fakes and the history of image manipulation.
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2700 SWISS Event Space · Dallas, TX