This Directory is a compendium of the names of scholars who are actively engaged in social scientific or humanities-based research on the senses and perception. Each entry gives the person’s name, institutional affiliation, and up to seven keywords describing their research interests, as well as a link to their home page. Use this directory to explore the riches of “sensuous scholarship” (Stoller).
This space is dedicated to highlighting the top books in sensory studies published each year. Many of these books you will find reviewed in the pages of The Senses and Society.
September 2010 – April 2011
Sensing the Unseen, Sawyer Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA
The Timeline provides short encyclopaedia style entries by a team of multidisciplinary specialists. They cover key events, publications and scientific and technological innovations that have marked the history of the senses. The entries cover human history from the earliest periods studied by archaeologists to the modern day. Its layered structure allows searches by category.
The iconography of the senses is an extremely rich and fascinating topic. This space is devoted to building up a gallery of such representations with commentary.
Sensorial Investigations is a research forum supporting advanced inquiry in sensory studies. It features occasional essays and exchanges on selected topics.
Somatic Work: Toward A Sociology of the Senses
Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, and Simon Gottschalk
Introduction: The Senses as Social Construction
Updated April 20th, 2010
This space is devoted to opening up the possibilities of sound art practice as a
critical means of engaging the senses with the sonic energies of the world around us.
The Senses and Society is a journal founded in 2006 by Michael Bull and David Howes, together with Doug Kahn and Paul Gilroy. It is published three times a year. The journal carries full-length articles and a range of reviews (sensory design, book, conference and exhibition).
This space will contain a vast miscellany of lists and links which take you to sites of related interest. For example, there will be an index of theses in sensory studies; there will be a list of research teams, centres, labs and institutes; there will be links to breaking stories about the senses; and much more
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