Events of Note
This space is devoted to announcing upcoming conferences, panels, lecture series, exhibitions and other events which explore the cultural life of the senses or history and politics of perception.
FUTURE EVENTS
May 15 2013
Sensorium Commune: the senses as the common basis of language
Revue Communications, France
Call for Papers Due: 15 May 2013
23-24 May 2013
Disgust: History, Language, Politics and Aesthetics of a Complex Emotion
University of Liege
29-31 May 2013
Les Cinq Sens au Moyen Age
l’Université de Poitiers
7-8 June 2013
The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: Literature and Language
University of Bern
June 21-22 2013
Sensing the Sacred: Religion and the Senses, 1300-1800
The University of York, UK
19-20 July 2013
The Victorian Tactile Imagination
Birkbeck, University of London
6-7 September 2013
Conflict and the Senses
Imperial War Museum, London
PAST EVENTS
April 26 2013
The Tangible: A One-Day Graduate Conference
McGill Art History and Communication Studies, Montreal
20 April 2013
Ways of Knowing the World: History and the Senses
2013 Hagley Fellows Conference, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
April 18-19, 2013
Law and The Senses Conference
The Westminster Law & Theory Centre
Westminster Law School, London
4-7 April, 2013
Shifting Positions: Writing Materialities of Sound
American Comparative Literature Association, University of Toronto
London, England
April 4-5 2013
Sensing the City: Experience, Emotion and Exploration, C. 1600-2013
University of York, UK
3 April, 2013
Intersections: “Art Out of Sight: The Future of Multisensory Art”
Columbia College, Chicago
27-28 March 2013
Sensing Change: A Two-Day Conference
The Centre for Critical Theory
University of Nottingham, UK
March 13 2013
Radical History Review
Sound Politics: Critically Listening to Local and Global Soundscapes
Number 121
March 13-15 2013
Religious Experience Through the Senses
American Academy of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland
Fifth Annual Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Conference
Class of 1949 Auditorium, Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Auditory memory and sound archives from the late-nineteenth century to the present
Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity, The Netherlands
Sensing the Law
Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture, and Humanities (CILCH)
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
The Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture
Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto
Making Senses: History and the Sensory Past
Carleton University, Ottawa
October-November 2012
Sensory and Experiential Marketing Lecture Series
Concordia University
26-28 October, 2012
Multimodal Approaches to Learning: International Conference
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
27 October 2012
Emotive Cognition and Sensuous Devotion in Catholicism
Connecticut College Seminar
12-13 October 2012
Voices, Spaces, Senses – International Research Symposium on Kaija Saariaho’s Music
Helsinki, Helsinki Music Center, Finland
14 July - 21 October, 2012
The Human Senses and Perception in Contemporary Art
Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
9-12 September 2012
A Sense of Inspiration
5th European Conference on Sensory and Consumer Research
Bern, Switzerland
19-22 September 2012
2nd International Congress on Ambiances
Montréal, Canada
1-4 August 2012
Sensory Scholarship: New Directions in Theory and Methodology
Senses and Society – International Sociological Association Thematic Group TG07
International Sociological Association World Forum, Buenos Aires
1-2 June 2012
Les cinq sens au Moyen Âge: approches croisées et interdisciplinaires
CESCM – Poitiers table-ronde
June 6 2012
The City and the Senses Conference
Drexel University, Philadelphia
8-9 June 2012
Perceptual Tensions, Sensory Resonance: An International Conference on Contemporary Opera and New Music Theatre / Call for Papers
University of Toronto
June 15-16 2012
Sensualising Deformity – Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment
The University of Edinburgh
May 17-20 2012
11th Conceptual, Discourse and Language Conference
Vancouver, British Columbia
11-12 May 2012
Synesthesia with Children. Creativity and Learning
University of Ulm, Meyerhofstrabe
5-6 May 2012
Media and the Senses – Conference and Exhibition
Goldsmith, University of London
20-21 April 2012
The New Sensorium
Bios, Athens
19-23 April 2012
Theatre of the Senses Conference
Maastricht, Netherlands
11 April 2012
I Cinque Sensi e la Realtà – Semplici Canali di Accesso o Porte dell’Anima
(The Five Senses and Reality: Simple Channels of Access or Doors of the Soul)
Spilamberto, Italy
16-17 March 2012
Understanding Atmospheres: Culture, Materiality and the Texture of the In-between
University of Aarhus, The Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, Moesgård Museum
3 February 2012
Staging Sound in the Museum: The Ears-on Experience of History
Symposium, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum
in cooperation with Maastricht University & Amsterdam Museum
7-10 December 2011
Sensory Worlds: Environment, Value & the Multi-Sensory
Edinburgh University
7 December 2011
Hyperaesthetic Culture
Transformations Journal Call for Papers
17 November 2011
Sensing Cultures: Practice, Performance, Display
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Palais des Congrès, Montreal, Canada
16-20 November, 2011
Mediations of Sensation: Threshold/Saturation Performative Environment
American Anthroplogical Association Annual Meeting
Montreal, Canada
15 November 2011
Marketing’s Tidemarks, Legacies from Anthropology: Tracing the Future of Sensory Marketing
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Palais des Congrès, Montreal, Canada
November 1-3, 2011
Sensational Religion: Sense and Contention in Material Practice
Yale University, New Haven, CT
October-November 2011
Shakespeare & The Banquet of the Senses
Shakespeare’s Globe
21-22 October 2011
The Senses in Early Modern England, 1485-1668
London Renaissance Seminar, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Birkbeck, University of London
6-8 October 2011
Senses and Sensibility in Lisbon
6th UNIDCOM/IADE International Conference
30 September 2011
Dissecting the Lower Sensorium: Understanding Smell, Taste, and Touch in Renaissance Literature
29-30 September 2011
The Sensuous Object
Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
23-24 June 2011
Skin Deep: Experiential Knowledge and Multisensory Communication International Conference
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham Castle, UK
May 19-20, 2011
The Five Senses of the City, from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period, Tours (France)
Université François-Rabelais de Tours, France
May 5-6, 2011
Media and the Senses conference
Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmith’s College, London
September 2010 – May 2011
Embodied Values: Bringing the Senses Back to the Environment
Sawyer Seminar Series, Edinburgh University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)
27 May 2011
Image & Object: The Senses
Centre for Visual Studies Annual Workshop, History of Art Department, University of Oxford
13-14 May 2011
Sensual Faiths: Religion and the Senses
Stanford Humanities Center
12-13 May 2011
Pour une Anthropologie des Milieux Sonores
Collectif Milson, Musée du quai Branly
14-15 April 2011
Cognition, Performance and the Senses
Wenner Gren Workshop, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
24-26 March 2011
Sensory Perception in the Early Modern World
A panel organized by David Karmon, and Niall Atkinson,
Renaissance Society of America, Montreal, Canada
September 2010 – April 2011
Sensing the Unseen
Sawyer Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA
2 October 2010
The Place of Taste
William College Museum of Art
27-29 September 2010
Sensory Meetings: The Senses in Social Sciences
University of Liege/Free University of Brussels, Belgium
23-25 September 2010
Sound ACTSs: Conference on Sound Studies
University of Aarhus, Denmark
August 2010
Sound In/As Religion Symposium
Call for Papers, 20th Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Toronto, Canada
June 2010
Symposium on the Senses
Concordia Sensoria Research Team, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
April 21-24, 2010
Sensational Space: Architecture and the Seven Senses
A panel chaired by D. Medina Lasansky,
Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago, IL, USA
21-22 April 2010
Religion for the Senses. Part III: Religious Meanings of Taste, Smell and Touch in Ancient and Medieval Asia and Europe
Käte Hamburger Kolleg (KHK), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
April 8-26, 2010
Academia Through the Senses
University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
March 26, 2010
Headspace: On Scent as Design
Parsons the New School for Design and the Museum of Modern Art, New York
March 26-27, 2010
Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology
27th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference
Center for Archaeological Investigations
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
5-6 March 2010
Material Images, the Senses, and Religious Experience in the West from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern
The Center for Visual Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
December 4, 2009
The Senses in Language and Culture
108th American Anthropological Association meeting, Philadelphia, PALanguage & Cognition Group (MPI for Psycholinguistics)
September – December, 2009
Sculpture and Touch: Reflections on the Art and Science of a Neglected Sense
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
8-9 October 2009
Captive Senses and Aesthetic Habits: A joint graduate conference between English Language & Literature and Art History
Fourth Annual Graduate Conference, The University of Chicago
If there is a conference, lecture series or other event you would like to announce in this space, please send word of it to senses@concordia.ca. Your submission will be reviewed and if the event falls within the mandate of this site, news of it will be posted as soon as possible. Calls for papers are also welcome.
