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The All-seeing eye?Vision and Eyesight Across Time and Cultures Workshop, 2018Wed 11 April 2018 - 09:30 – 17:00&#160;A call for papers has been issued for this workshop which will explore medical, social, and cultural meanings of the eye and vision in contemporary and historical perspective. Vision has often provoked fascination within societies and cultures as the most revered sense. In Western Europe, the eye has been viewed scientifically as the most ‘exquisite’ organ, or spiritually as a ‘window to the soul’. These positions have had an influence on how the eye has been perceived, both as a vital organ and, by implication, one that needed to be protected. Whilst the eye could bring delight to its holder, and be symbolic in a variety of ways, it could also, when lost, incur significant impairment. The workshop will explore this vision impairment and correction, and the extent to which sight loss has been stigmatised. It will welcome papers that explore eyesight and its meanings across time and place, to encourage trans-historical and interdisciplinary discussion&#160;Programme :9.30am Registration 10am Panel One Dr Corinne Doria, Paris 1-Pantheon-Sorbonne University; University of Milan, ‘Defining Normal Vision. Eye charts in 19th Century Europe’Dr Andy Flack, University of Bristol, ‘Vision and touch in the depths of the Mammoth Cave’Dr Deborah Ellen Thorpe, Trinity College, Dublin, ‘“Mynde, ye, and hand”: A palaeographical approach to medieval eyesight deterioration’First Break11.45-12.45 KeynoteProfessor Graeme Gooday, ‘Beyond the visual: alternatives to ocularcentric histories of bodies and technologies’Lunch 1.45pm Panel Two  Dr Ben Curtis, University of Wolverhampton, ‘‘The dread now prevailing’: Miners’ Nystagmus in the South Wales Coalfield in the Early Twentieth Century’,Dr Karen Beauchamp-Pyror, Honorary Research Fellow, College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University, ‘Losses and gains: the impact of regaining and restoring vision’Dr Michelle Carr, College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University, ‘Seeing in Your Dreams’Second Break3.30pm Panel Three  Colin Harding, AHRC CDP Candidate, Imperial War Museum and University of Brighton, ‘Repairing War’s Ravages: Horace Nicholls’ photographs of prosthetic masks’Iain Riddell, PhD Student, University of Leicester, School of Media, Communication &#38; Sociology (Member of the Science Advisory Committee for the Childhood Cancer Trust, 2015-2018), ‘Making a beginning Retinoblastoma in adulthood, psycho-social contexts and imperatives’4.45-5pm Wrap up the DayContact Information:Gemma.Almond@sciencemuseum.ac.uk or Gemma.Almond@swansea.ac.ukMore infos on their website