Sensory Studies

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

Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences
Concordia University, Montreal
7-11 May 2025
Call for Proposals
CFP Deadline: 15 November 2024

The Political Aesthetics of Light
Brian Larkin
4 November 2024, 5:30 PM EST
Raah Lab, Montreal

SOCIETY. SPACES. SCREENS
11-13 December 2024
Arizona State University, Phoenix AZ, USA and VIRTUAL

SENSORIAL workshop: architecture put to the test of uses and senses
2024, dates TBD
Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon

CfP: Sensory Histories of Water
2-4 April 2025
Museu Marítim de Barcelona, Spain
sensorywaters.wordpress.com/
CfP Deadline: 15 November 2024

Democratization of the Senses – Senses of Democracy: Emancipation as Experience of Equality in Hierarchical Otherwise Sensorial Spaces
4-6 April 2025
University of Marburg, Germany

Scaling Sensing – Sensing Publics: Landscapes and Borders, Homes and Bodies
13-15 November 2024
University of Siegen, Germany

IMS Auditory History Fall Study Group
Reading Change: Transformations of Spaces, Sounds, and Identities
16-18 CET, 25 November 2024

IMS Auditory History Fall Study Group
Colloquium: The Past, Present, and Future of Early Modern Sound Studies
Niall Atkinson (Chicago)
16-18 CET, 17 December 2024

Espacios Resonantes: II Festival of Architecture, Sound and Listening
Santiago, Chile, March 15 – April 27, 2025
Open Call for Artist Residencies: October 31

 

PAST EVENTS

More-Than-Human-Wellbeing exhibition
22 May – 18 August, UNSW
dlupton.com

Emotion, Sense, Experience in British Art and Architecture
22-24 June 2023
Online, The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion

Early Modern Sensory Encounters Conference
8-9 June 2023
Kellogg College, Oxford, UK

The Aura of Objects
24 May 2023
UCL SENSOR, University College London, UK

Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics: Plenary Lectures

Multisensory Storytelling, Disability, and Research Ethics
Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 17h00-18h30
Kathleen Sitter, (Social Work, University of Calgary)
Ground Floor, EV Building, room EV-1.605 (and online)

Sensitive Ecology
Thursday, 4 May 2023, 14h00-15h30
Constance Classen (Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University)
9th Floor, Molson Building, room MB 9A-B (and online)

Who’s In Control of Your Sensorium?
Friday, 5 May 2023, 18h00-19h30
Charles Spence (Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
9th Floor, Molson Building, room MB 9A-B (and online)

Smellscape, Distributed Memory, and Social Justice
Saturday, 6 May 2023, 14h00-15h30
Hsuan Hsu (English, University of California at Davis)
9th Floor, Molson Building, room MB 9A-B (and online)

Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics
3-6 May 2023
Concordia University, Montreal
The biennial international, cross-disciplinary, multimodal sensory studies conference sponsored by the Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal – in-person and/or on-line

Uncommon Senses IV Conference Site
Abbreviated Schedule-all presentations grouped by sessions
Virtual Book of Abstracts and Full Schedule
MultiSensory and Virtual Art Gallery Book of Abstracts
Virtual Art Gallery
Book of Biographies
Virtual Book Exhibition

Numesthésie. L’écran pour saisir le sensible?
13 January – 12 May 2023
Strasbourg, Rouen, Colmar, Mulhouse, and Utrecht (All Hybrid)

The Senses: Present Issues, Past Perspectives
24-27 April 2023
Congressi Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Switzerland

Making Sense of Sensory Studies
27-28 April 2023
Aarhus University, Denmark

NeMLA Panel “The Senses and Memory”
23-26 March 2023
University at Buffalo, Niagara Falls, NY
Questions can be directed to chanelle_dupuis@brown.edu

Bringing the Senses to Academia, and the Academy to Its Senses
Wednesday 8 March 2023, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (UK)
Speaker: David Howes
Virtual, University of Bristol, UK, Senses and Sensations Research Group
Webinar Registration Link

How Archaeologists Have Come to Their Senses
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 3:30 PM Pacific
Speaker: David Howes
Virtual, Simon Fraser University, BC, Department of Archaeology
Webinar Registration Link

Smell and Heritage: Nose-on Perspectives
6 January 2023
Monell Center, Philadelphia, USA

Colour Matters: Exploring Colour and Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914)
6-8 December 2023
Trinity College, Oxford, UK

SENSATION LECTURE SERIES
4 November – 2 December 2022
Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada (Online)

• • Sensitivity Training
    Speaker: Erica Fretwell
    YouTube Link
  • Learning to Smell — a pragmatist view on perception
    Speaker: Geneviève Teil
  • Cripping Storytelling: Disability, Accessibility, and the Senses
    Speaker: Kathleen Sitter
    When: 24 November 2022, 1:00 – 2:40 PM
    Registration Link
  • Feeling Alive with the Far Right: Fight Club Culture and Fascist Vitalism
    Speaker: Christopher E. Forth
    When: 2 December 2021, 11:00 AM – 12:40 PM (Virtual and Room H-1120, Hall Building)
    Registration Link

27 May – 4 December 2022
Sensational Books
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK

14 -26 November 2022
Resonant Spaces Festival
I. Municipalidad de Recoleta and Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago

15-16 December 2022
Seminaires Sensibilia
la MACI, campus St Martin d’Heres
Université Grenoble-Alpes

24-28 October 2022
24th International Congress on Acoustics, Gyeongju, Korea
The Acoustical Society of Korea, ICA
Call for Abstracts deadline: 15 March 2022

Materiality, Rituals and Senses: The Dynamic World of Lived Shi‘i Islam
19 October 2022
Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey

2-4 November 2022
Africa and the World: Reclaiming the Past, Crafting the Future
Worlds of Flavour International Conference and Festival
Napa Valley, USA

The Role of the Senses in Medieval Liturgies and Ritual
21-23 September 2022
Università di Padova

Multimodality & Society Special Issue: Race and Multimodality
Edited by Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown

Registration Deadline: 1 October 2022
Smell Studies Graduate Student Virtual Working Group
Convenor: Chanelle Dupuis, PhD Candidate, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Brown University

Extended Senses and Embodying Technology
8-10 September 2022
University for the Creative Arts, London, UK

19-20 September 2022
Foregrounding the Senses in Ethnographies of Crime, Harm and Social Control
5th Annual Ethnographies of Crime and Control Symposium
King’s College, University of Cambridge

Steven Feld at McGill University
Listening Session: Exploring Field Recording Practice; September 13, 12:30-3:30 PM
Lecture: Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene Acoustemology; September 14, 1:00-2:30 PM
Screening + Q&A: Voices of the Rainforest; September 14, 6:00-8:00 PM

CFP Deadline: 16 September 2022
SpokenWeb Symposium 2023
REVERB: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space
May 1-3, 2023; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

1 September 2022: Manuscript Deadline
Global Food History
SPECIAL ISSUE: Empires of Disgust

26-29 July 2022
P104: Sensory Media Anthropology, an Introduction
Panel at the European Association of Social Anthropology Biennial Conference
Queen’s University, Belfast

4-5 June 2022
Die Sinne und Die Sinnlichkeit: Mittelalterliche Texte und der Sensual Turn (The Senses and Sensualism: Medieval Texts and the Sensual Turn)
Universität Paderborn, Germany

1-3 June 2022
Altered Taste International Symposium & International Conference on Culinary Arts and Sciences
European Sensory Science Society
Lyon, France

27-28 June 2022
Pratiques urbaines, experiences sensibles
DFK Paris, France

CFP: 1 July 2022
The Routledge History of the Senses
Co-edited by Andrew Kettler and William Tullett

13-16 July 2022
KISMIF 2022: DIY Cultures, Sustainability, and Artistic Ecosystems
Hybrid, University of Porto, Portugal

12 February – 5 June 2022
Living with Scents
Museum of Craft and Design

1-2 July 2022
The Senses on Edge Overstrained and Fading Sensory Perception in Ancient Literature
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Germany

CFP: 31 May 2022
International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media
SPECIAL ISSUE: Hybrid Futures: post/pandemic theatre and performance in the Anthropocene

26-27 May 2022
“Dialogue with the Senses” – Estonian Literary Museum Spring School 2022
Toila Spa Hotel, Ida-Virumaa, Estonia

31 January – 2 May 2022
Penn Anthropology Colloquium 2021-2022 – “Sense”
University of Pennsylvania, Department Of Anthropology

28-29 April 2022
The Sense(s) of Athletics in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Virtual, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

17 February – 15 May 2022
Living Sound presents: The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski
PHI Centre, Montreal

17 February – 15 May 2022
Lashing Skies
PHI Centre, Montreal

8 April 2022
Colloques de Sociologie: Le monde des émotions
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France

CFP: 8 April 2022
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training
SPECIAL ISSUE: Touch and Training

7 April 2022
Colloques de Sociologie: Ambiances, atmosphères, émotions
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France

4 April 2022
Approches Sensorielles et Sensibles des Patrimoines
Journée d’Etudes des Élèves Conservateurs et Conservatrices du Patrimoine; À La Cité De La Musique, Paris, France

28 February 2022
Atmospheres and Mood: Two Sides of the Same Phenomenon
Call for Contributions: Art Style: Art & Culture International Magazine

15 October 2021 – 7 March 2022
The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400-1750)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

8 October 2021 – 28 February 2022
Ophelia in Exile
Vitrínka Gallery, Czech Centre London, UK

SENTIENCE LECTURE SERIES
23 September – 2 December 2021
Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada (Online)

• • • “Animal Sentience from Fishes to Flies”:
      Speaker: Jonathan Balcombe
      When:  23 September 2021, 1-2:40 p.m. and YouTube
    • “Site-Responsive Sonic Art”
      Speaker: Lauren Hayes
      When:  21 October 2021, 1-2:40 p.m. and YouTube
    • “Animating Artefacts”
      Speakers: David Garneau and Maureen Matthews
      When:  4 November 2021, 1-2:40 p.m. and YouTube
    • “Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life”
      Speaker: Chris Salter
      When: 19 November 2021, 1:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. and YouTube
    • “Sensing Smart Forests”
      Speaker: Jennifer Gabrys
      When: 2 December 2021, 11:00 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.

9-11 December 2021
Senses and Sensibility: 11th International Conference; DESIGNING NEXT GENERA(C)T!ONS
Universidade Europeia and Politécnico di Bari, Bari, Italy

1-3 December 2021
2nd International Conference on the History and Culture of Perfume
Grupo de Investigación CAPIRE, Museo del Perfume de Buenos Aires, and Academia del Perfume
Video Recording of the Proceedings

18-19 November 2021
L’expérience sensorielle dans les expositions d’art au XVIIe siècle
L’expérience de la visite: du spectateur au critique
Musée du Louvre; Université de Lille

5-7 November 2021
Meaning in Perception and the Senses: XII Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies
Vilnius University Faculty of Philology, Lithuania

Topical Collection: Venustas – The Architecture of Delight (VAD)
Call for Contributions: SN Applied Sciences

July 2020 – December 2021
Call for Contributions: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles
Deadline: July 2020-December 2021

16 November 2019 – 28 November 2021
Resetting the Table: Food and Our Changing Tastes
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University

Fall 2021
“Senses”: Special Issue of VENTI Journal: Air—Experience—Aesthetics
CFP: Deadline 16 August 2021

30 September 2021
CFP: Special Issue: Multisensory Research and Design for Health and Wellbeing in Architectural Environments
IJERPH – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Deadline: 30 September 2021

19 October 2021
Mini-Symposium: The Five Senses Pilot Opportunity
Virtual, Harvard Catalyst

7-9 October 2021
Sensing the Past: A Workshop in Applied Sensory Archaeology and Heritage Assessment
University of Amsterdam (Online and Onsite)

8 October, 19 November, 3 December 2021
Goûter, toucher, sentir : les autres sens de la critique d’art (1747-1939)
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France; Université Lyon 2, Lyon, France; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

21–23 October 2021
Transnational Perspectives on Music, Sound and (War) Propaganda (1914–1945)
Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) and University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)

31 October 2021
CFP: Oral History Performance, Listening and Transitional Justice
Special Issue of RiDE – Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
CFP: Deadline 31 October 2021

8 September – 24 October 2021
Momenta Biennale “Sensing Nature”
Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada

27 October – 30 October, 2021
unheard landscapes: listening | resonating | inhabiting
AAU Cresson, International Ambiances Network, the Klanglandschaft Forum, and the Higher School for Nature and Landscape
Blois, France

20-22 October 2021
Research-Creation in Urgent Times
Sound Studies Institute, SPAR2C, Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLAB, and Just Powers
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

20 September 2021
more-than-sound: exploring contemporary themes in sound studies
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

8-9 September 2021
CFP: Senses in Modern Health/Care Environments: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
CFP: Deadline 31 January 2021

20 August – 5 September 2021
Struer Tracks: 3rd International Biennal of Sound Art “Landscapes of Sound”
Struer, Denmark

1 September 2021
CFP: Gender and the Material and Sensory Dimensions of Sacred Texts
Special Issue of Postscripts
CFP: Deadline 1 September 2021

11 February – 29 August 2021
Fleeting  — Scents in Colour
Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands

1-2 July 2021
Food – Media – Senses
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

30 June 2021
Call for Papers: Picturing Sensory Experiences
Special Issue of Images Re-vues
CFP: Deadline 30 June 2021

30 June 2021
Touched: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, 19th-21st Centuries
Maison de la Recherche, Paris, France & Online

Autumn 2020/Spring 2021
The Sensory Experience in 18th Century Art Exhibitions
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

17-19 June 2021
8th STS Italia Conference – Dis/Entangling Technoscience: Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justice
TRACK 5: Disentangling Technoscience and Sensory Experience
Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies / Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste

10-11 June 2021
L’expérience sensorielle dans les expositions d’at au XVIIIe siècle
Online / Musée du Louvre Lens

26 May 2021
Odeuropa Smellinar 1: David Howes, ‘Follow Your Nose: Thirty Years Researching Smell’
Odeuropa Project

6-9 May 2021
Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
More information here

Keynote Lecture I: “Touchy Feely Manifesto: Design for the Senses”
Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA
Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses

Keynote Lecture II: “The Future of Touch”
Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses

Keynote Lecture III: “Weaving New Ways of Knowing: Decolonizing the Senses, Recovering Legacies”
Diane Roberts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses

6 January – 3 May 2021
The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

CFP: 20 April 2021
Roadsides
Special Issue on sensory dimensions of infrastructure

28-29 April 2021
Negotiating Quotidian: Performing the Everyday
DTSA Graduate Student Virtual Conference, Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance, The Graduate Center, CUNY
CFP: Deadline 15 February 2021

13 April 2021
Savoirs Sensibles : esthétique et anthropologie
Journée d’étude de la Plateforme « Art, design et société »
EnsadLab, École des arts décoratifs, Paris

8-10 April 2021
Fifth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art: “Touch, Taste, Turn: Unleashing the Senses in the Art of the Americas”
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art

End of March 2021
Call for Contributions: “Dissonant Loves: The Conviviality of Contemporary Sound Diasporas”
Edited by Malcolm Bull and Malcolm James
Routledge

31 March 2021
Food in Art
Harvard Art Museums in partnership with the Food Literacy Project at Harvard University Dining Services

15 January – 28 March 2021
Out of Sight, Beyond Touch
Center for Book Arts, New York City, USA

17 March 2021
Tobacco and the ‘War of the Senses’
William Tullett
Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600-1850, Seminar Series

28 February 2021
Alternative Perception-Driven and Multi-Sensorial Approaches to Urbanism, Age-Friendly and Health-Supportive Design
Special Issue of Sustainability
CFP: Deadline 28 February 2021

25 February 2021
NOSE Symposium
Netherlands Olfactory Science Exchange

28-29 January 2021
The Perfumer: The Evolution of a Figure since the Renaissance
Palace of Versailles Research Centre, Paris, France
CFP: Deadline 15 June 2020

27-29 January 2021
On Experience: Techne Student Congress
Techne (AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership) & Brunel University, London, UK

6 November 2020 – 10 January 2021
Sensory Orders
Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland

31 December 2020
Special Issue: Gastrophysics – International Journal of Food Design
CFP: Deadline 31 December 2020

14 December 2020
Conflict and the Senses in the Global Cold War: From Propaganda to Sensory Warfare
Berlin Center for Cold War Studies of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), Centre for Digital and Contemporary History (C2DH) of Université du Luxembourg, the Stiftung Ernst‐Reuter‐Archiv Berlin, and the Stiftung Luftbrückendank

2-4 December 2020
4th International Congress on Ambiances: “Ambiances, Alloaesthesia. Senses, Inventions, Worlds”
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, USA
CFP: Deadline 15 April 2020

30 November 2020
Call for Contributions: Smells, Well-being, and the Built Environment
Frontiers Research Topics
CFP: Deadline 30 November 2020

10 September-26 November 2020
ATMOSPHERES
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (via Zoom)

• • • 10 September at 13H
      “Outlining a General Theory of Athmosphere: Implications from Everyday Life” by Mikkel Bille (Roskilde University, Denmark)
    • 17 September at 13H
      “Spectacular and Domestic Atmospheres: India, London and 1930s Senses” by Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham, UK)
    • 25 September at 13h
      “Atmospheric Pressures: On Race and Affect” by Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia, Canada)
    • 15 October at 13h
      “A Touch of Luck and a ‘Real Taste of Vegas’: A Sensory Ethnography of the Montreal Casino” by Erin Lynch (Concordia University, Canada)
    • 23 October at 11h
      “Conspiracies: an ethereal/etymological Zoom performance for uncertain times (and plants)” by Şifâ Doğuştan, Loup Rivière and Stella Faelli (dance for plants)
    • 29 October at 13h
      “Imaging the Air We Breathe” by Kari Norgaard (University of Oregon, US)
    • 12 November at 13h
      “Stimmung: Atmosphere and its Origins in Western Architectural Theory” by Alberto Pérez-Gómez (McGill University, Canada)
    • 20 November at 11h
      “Atmosphere and Circumstance” by Derek P. McCormack (Oxford University, UK)
    • 26 November at 13h
      “A Question of Taste? On the Meaning of taste Judgments in the Sphere of Morality” by Gernot Böhme (Institute for Practical Philosophy, Darmstadt, Germany)

5-6 November 2020
Capitalism and the Senses
Hagley’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society

13-18 October 2020
ISEA 2020: 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art “Why Sentience?”
Montreal, Canada

15-16 October 2020
Conflict and the Senses in the Global Cold War: From Propaganda to Sensory Warfare
Berlin Center for Cold War Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), Berlin, Germany

15-16 October 2020
Sensorial in the Theatre: On the Scent Trail in and beyond the Everyday
Maribor Theatre Festival, Maribor, Slovenia

1 September-15 October 2020
Crafting Medicine: A Sensory Exploration of Three Medical Schools
Making Clinical Sense

02 October 2020
CFP: The Senses & Interior Design
Deadline 02 October 2020

19 September 2020
Extispicy in the Everyday: An Exploration of Human-Environment Binaries through the Gut
Amanda Couch, Royal College of Physicians: Open House artist’s workshop, London, UK

6 September 2020
Environmental Identities #3 – Dinner in the Forest Garden
Niina Tervo and Youngeun Sohn, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands

31 August-3 September 2020
9th ESHS Conference “Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science”
Bologna, Italy (Online)

1-2 September 2020
7 Experiences – Aalto Experience Summit
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland (Online)

26-28 August 2020
Seeing and the Other Senses: Making Sense of the Senses through Language
University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
CFP: Deadline 20 April 2020

13 August 2020
Sensate Memories: A Multimedia Conversation
Centre for Imaginative Ethnography & The Jack Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities

17 July 2020
Creative Methods in Health Research: A Virtual Workshop
Sensing Spaces of Healthcare

1-3 July 2020
IMPEC 2020 Conference: Interactions Multimodales Par ECran
Lyon, France

30 June 2020
Call for Papers: “The Senses of Smell: Scents, Odors and Aromatic Spaces”
Rivista di Estetica

10-12 June 2020
Urban-Related Sensoria
University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

28-29 May 2020
Décoration intérieure et plaisir des sens, 1700-1850
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

26 November 2019-26 April 2020
Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

24-25 April 2020 – Postponed
The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Hearing and Auditory Perception
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

24 April 2020
Special Issue: Staging Atmospheres: Theatre and the Atmospheric Turn
Ambiances: International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space

24 April 2020
CFP: Pour une histoire sensorielle de Lyon
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Lyon / Saint-Étienne, Lyon, France

2-4 April 2020 – Postponed
Touch, Taste, Turn: Unleashing the Senses in the Art of the Americas
New York City, USA

6-7 March 2020
Power, Society, and the Senses: A Workshop
Arizona State University, Arizona, USA

28-29 February 2020
Close at Hand: Touch and Tactility in Art
Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, USA

13-19 February 2020
Sensual Texts, Material Histories: Language in the Long Eighteenth Century
College Art Association, Chicago, IL, USA

10-12 February 2020
Dreaming with all Senses: Sensory Perception in Aesthetic Dream Representations
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

31 January 2020
Call for Applications “The Second Sense: Sound, Hearing and Nature in the Czech Modernity”
Centre for Theoretical Study, Charles University & the Tech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

31 January 2020
Aromatic Religion: Eliciting the Olfactory in the Everyday
Series: Religion and the Senses, Equinox Press

27-31 January 2020
Pièces d’écoute : expérimentation, exposition, interactions sensorielles
ENSAG, Grenoble, France

13 December 2019
Carnivore: Dance Performance and Panel Discussion
King’s College London, London, UK

23 November 2019
‘Make Passionate my Sense of Hearing’: Shakespeare North, Voice and Sound
Prescot Parish Church, Prescot, UK

21-22 November 2019
Entendre l’image. Sons, bruits et murmures dans l’art
Académie de France à Rome — Villa Médicis Viale Trinità dei Monti 1, Rome, Italy

21 November 2019
Ethnographic Terminalia: Sensing Cultures and Environments
The Hangar, Center for Digital Media, Vancouver, Canada

8 November 2019
Troubling Law’s Sensorium: Explorations in Sensational Jurisprudence
Concordia Centre for Sensory Studies & McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
Thompson House Ballroom, 3650 Mc Tavish St.

1 November 2019
Call for Submissions: “Translating Ambience: Embodiment, Practice, Listening”
Unlikely – Journal for Creative Arts
Deadline: 1 November 2019

31 October-2 November 2019
Music, Sound, Space and Place: Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies
Department of Music, City, University of London, London, UK
CFP: Deadline 1 July 2019

31 October 2019
CFP Law Text Culture, Special Issue “The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound”
Deadline: 31 October 2019

17-20 October 2019
2nd Synaesthesia Symposium: Synaesthesia: Cross-sensory Aspects of Cognition across Science and Art
International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS), Moscow, Russia

16 October 2019
Technologies of Listening: Roundtable
CRASSH, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

4 & 11 October 2019
Gaia Rising @ Sonic Somatic Festival & Bienal Internacional de Arte Amazónico/ICPNA
Florence, Italy & Pucallpa, Peru

2-5 October 2019
Resensitizing Cities: Urban Ambiances and Senses
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1 October 2019
Call for Contributions: Apprendre des sens, apprendre par les sens: anthropologie des perceptions sensorielles
Edited by Vincent Battesti & Joël Candau
Deadline: 1 October 2019

Fall 2019
Sensefactory
Various Locations

19-20 September 2019
Global Skins in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700
King’s College London, London, UK

5-7 September 2019
Food Art Film Festival
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2-6 September 2019
A Feast of the Senses: European Food and History 17-20th Centuries
International Commission for Research into European Food History, Albi, France

23 May – 6 September 2019
Please Touch the Art
The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, Waterton, MA, USA

1 September 2019
Request for Proposals: American Religious Sounds Project
The Ohio State University and Michigan State University
Deadline: 1 September 2019

27-31 August 2019
Sensory Anthropology and New Urban Commons
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress “World Solidarities”
Poznan, Poland

30 August 2019
Cognitive Sensations: Call for Submissions “A Season of Perception”
Cognitive Sensations, Arts Council England
Deadline: 30 August 2019

27-30 August 2019
Sense and Nonsense
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

August 2019
Food Art Week
Berlin, Germany

14-18 July 2020
ISA Forum of Sociology
Porto Alegre, Brazil
CFP: 25 April–30 Sept 2019

1-4 July 2019
Materialities & the Senses
Leeds, UK

28-29 June 2019
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe
Centro Internazionale di Studi Umanistici Umerto Eco, Bologna, Italy

1-10 June 2019
Food Art Week
Paris, France

7 June 2019
Pilgrimage and the Senses
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

3-6 June 2019
Workshop Art & Medicine: Skilling the Senses
Make – Utrecht Centre for Making, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

30 May 2019
Special Issue: The Senses in Social Interaction
Journal: Symbolic Interaction

24-26 May 2019
Aesthetics of Healing: Working with the Senses in Therapeutic Contexts
Arbeitsemeinschaft Ethnologie un Medizin e.V. and the Institute of Ethnology of the University of Münster

14 May 2019
Thinking with the Senses: Humanitarian Sentiment and Practice
University of Liverpool

Spring 2019
Training the Senses
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands

14 April 2019
Phenomenographies: Describing urban and architectural atmospheres
Ambiances: International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space

11-12 April 2019
Métropole sensible #7: « Ambiances, image, numérique »
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France

Designing for Human Health: (Multi)-Sensory Approaches
Journal of Biourbanism, International Society of Biourbanism

1-29 March 2019
Smelly Remedy: Womb Fumigation Illustrated in 17th Century Print
Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

31 January 2019
Sensoriality, Affect and Aesthetics in Qualitative Research
Association pour la recherche qualitative (ARQ), Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada

6-7 December 2018
Sensible Communities: The Senses and Community Formation in Early Modern Cities and Towns
Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany

7, 28 November 2018 & 17 January 2019
Sensing the Anthropocene
Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

23-30 November 2018
Food Art Week
Mexico City, Mexico

16-17 November 2018
We Are All Able Bodies: From Sensory Deprivation to Sensory Augmentation
Institute of Technolgy Faculty of Architecture, San Pablo CEU University, Madrid, Spain

14-17 November 2018
Senses and Sensibility in the Near East
American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), Denver, CO
CFP: Deadline 15 February 2018

9 November 2018
Sensorial Collections: Research-Museum-Art
IDEMEC-CNRS-AMU, Mucem, Université Paris-Descartes/IUF-Canthel, France
CFP: Deadline 9 November 2018

31 October–2 November 2018
Le sens et le lieu
Université de Montréal, Canada

13 April – October 28 2018
The Senses: Design Beyond Vision
Cooper Hewitt, New York

18-20 October 2018
The Fragrant and the Foul: the Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination
Toulouse, France

24 July-18 October 2018
Eavesdropping
Ian Potter Museum of Art Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

11 October 2018
David Parisi, To flood an empty channel: Haptic technologies and the search for new languages of touch
Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

4-5 October 2018
3rd Taste of City Conference 2018: Food and Place Marketing
Antalya, Turkey

27-29 September 2018
Cybercorporealities: nomadic subjectivities in the digital context
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada

6-7 September 2018
ICSPSFM 2018: 20th International Conference on Sensation, Perception and Synesthesia in Film and Media
Istanbul, Turkey

14-22 September 2018
London Design Festival 2018: 5 Multi-Sensory Design Exhibitions
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

15-21 July 2018
XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology: The Politics of Sensation: Technology, Measurement, Quantification
Toronto, Canada

2-7 July 2018
IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing
San Francisco, CA

24-26 June 2018
Mediality of smells
Maison française d’Oxford and Jesus College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

19 June 2018
Capitalism and the Senses
Harvard Business School, Boston, MA

18–19 June 2018
The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body
King’s College London, UK

5 June 2018
Sweetness and Bitterness. The Sense of Taste in and around Anglo-Saxon England
University of Durham, UK

30 January- 29 May 2018
Synesthesia: Inspiration + Creation + Relation
University of Edinburgh, Scotland

18-22 May 2018
VI International Congress Synesthesia, Science & Art
Alcalá la Real (Jaén), Spain

3-5 May 2018
Uncommon Senses II: Art, Technology, Education, Law, Society – and Sensory Diversity
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

1-3 May 2018
The Othered Senses: Law Sensorium Regulation Workshop
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

14 April 2018
Geographies of the Sensory II
New Orleans, LA

13 April 2018
Carnival of the Senses with Kettle’s Yard
University of Cambridge, UK

22-23 February 2018
The sensory body in leisure and entertainment.
International Meeting of the Canadian Research Chair in History of Leisure and Entertainment
The University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, Quebec

January-March 2018
Art and the Senses, Graduate Research Seminar Series
UniversityofCambridge,Cambridge,UK

16 January 2018
Nina Macaraig: Islam and the Arts Lecture
Stanford University, Stanford, CA

15 November 2017
Cultivating Taste at the Late Medieval Court
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

2-4 November 2017
Matters of Sensation
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

18-20 October 2017
The Entangled Gaze: Indigenous and European Views of Each Other
OCAD University and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada

20 September – 11 November 2017
Snoosphere at The Big Anxiety
Sydney, Australia

4-5 September 2017
Creative Tastebuds: Exploring How Brain and Culture Collaborate on Taste
Aarhus University, Denmark

13-14 July 2017
Feeling in Music and Sound: Atmosphere, Stimmung, Mood
Kings College, London

29 June – 1 July 2017
NECS Conference 2017: Sensibility and the Senses
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
CFP: Deadline 31 January 2017

26-29 June 2017
Senses, Emotions and the Affective Turn – Recent Perspectives and New Challenges in Cultural History
International Society for Cultural History, Umeå, Sweden

23-24 June 2017
Sensing Divinity: Incense, religion and the ancient sensorium
British School at Rome and the École française de Rome

19-22 June 2017
“The Senses in Everyday Life” at Framing/Reframing: Visual Sociology, Goffman and the Everyday 35th Annual Meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association
Concordia University, Montreal

June-July 2017
Smells Like Fieldwork: Methods in Sensory AnthropologyOff the Beaten Track Summer Field School
Gozo, Malta

18-21 May, 2017
OPEN SENSES
London, England

7-9 April 2017
Invisible Places 2017 – Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place
Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal

5-7 April 2017
“Texts and Contexts”: sensory approaches of medieval world
Universidad de Mar del Plata, Argentina

3-8 April 2017
Rethinking the Senses Spring School 2017
Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

23-24 March 2017
Between Data and Senses: Architecture, Neuroscience and the Digital Worlds International Conference
University of East London, London, UK

23-25 March 2017
Sounding Sensory Profiles in Antiquity
Vienna, Austria

10 March 2017
London-Paris Romanticism Seminar: Literature and the Senses
Senate House, London, UK

10 March 2017
Stop Making Sense: A conversation between sensory and social science about food and drink
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Between Data and Senses: Architecture, Neuroscience and the Digital Worlds
Conference Proceedings, March 2017
University of East London

15 December 2016
Sense and Sensation Seminar Series: Why Photography and Pain are Natural Partners
University College London, London, UK

8-10 December 2016
A Body of Knowledge: Embodied Cognition and the Arts
Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine

17-18 November 2016
Law and the Senses II: human, posthuman, inhuman sensings
Westminster Law & Theory Lab, London, UK

4-5 November 2016
Sensory Theory, Methodology & Experience: Contemporary & Classical Perspectives
A Multi-disciplinary Workshop
Digital Crit Space, Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent, Canterbury

20 October 2016
Beyond Disciplines: Sensescapes in Research and in Life
Concordia University, Montreal

14-16 October 2016
11^th International Conference on Semiotics: The Fugue of the Five Senses: Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium
Hellenic Semiotic Society and the School of Journalism & Mass Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

12-13 October 2016
Perception Metaphor Workshop
Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

6 October 2016 – 20 January 2017
A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

7 October 2016
The Senses and Digital Health: Sociocultural Perspectives
Special issue of Digital Health, edited by Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra
CFP: Deadline 7 October 2016

5-8 October 2016
Engaging the Senses: The 48th Annual International Visual Literacy Association Conference
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

29 September-1 October 2016
Synesthesia of Law Conference
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

26 September 2016
Coming to Our Senses: The Sensory Turn in Contemporary Art and Ethnographic Museums
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London

9 July – 4 September 2016
Chris Salter: Haptic Field
Chronus Art Center
Shanghai, China

14 June – 21 August 2016
Embodied Narrative: Sensory Stories of the Digital Age
Phi Centre, Montreal, Canada

10-14 July 2016
Pleasing Possibilities: New Perspectives on Pleasure, 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology
Vienna, Austria

13-14 June 2016
Le théâtre et les cinq sens: Théories, esthétiques, dramaturgies
Maison de l’Italie Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CiuP)

10-12 June 2016
The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition
Göteborg, Sweden

24 March – 5 June 2016
Walking with Senses, Merano Spring Festival
Curated by BAU, South Tyrol, Italy

12 February – 16 May 2016
Prière de Toucher — The Touch of Art
Museum Tinguely, Basel, Germany

4 May 2016
Empirical: embodiment in architecture & neuroscience
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, France

14-15 April 2016
The Senses and Sensation, Altman Symposium
The Humanities Center, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

6-9 April 2016
Senses at the Classical Association Conference
Edinburgh, UK

4-5 February 2016
4-5 February 2016On Atmospheres: Spaces of Embodiment symposium
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA

8-9 January 2016
Breaking Through: Impaired/heightened Senses
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France

5-6 November 2015
The Body in the Contemporary City
UOC University, Barcelona

11 August-27 September 2015
Sensory Stories
Phi Centre, Montreal, Canada

8 September 2015
Rethinking the Senses: AHRC Science in Culture
Perception and Cognition Workshop: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience
Glasgow, UK

7-8 September 2015
Material Culture in Action: Practices of making, collecting and re-enacting art and design
Glasgow School of Art, UK

Listening to Public Space
When: 21-23 September 2015
Where: Goethe-Institut, 1626 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montreal
Oboro, 4001 rue Berri, Montreal

9-15 August 2015
Bodies and Senses in the Scandinavian Middle Ages, 16th International Saga Conference
University of Basel and University of Zurich, Switzerland

29-31 July 2015
The Other Senses in Literature and Medicine
University of Constance, Germany

22-25 July 2015
Cultures of Sense: Approaches to the Sensuality of the Social World
University of Zurich, Switzerland

17 July 2015
Ways of Seeing
Royal Museums Greenwich, London, UK

8-10 July 2015
Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics
University of Cambridge, UK

28-30 June 2015
BLIND CREATIONS: An International Colloquium on Blindness and the Arts
Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, UK

4-28 June 2015
Jo Burzynska: Mishearings
The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

12 June 2015
Ancient Noise: Religious Movement & Sensory Experience in Antiquity
King’s College London, UK

8-9 June 2015
The Senses and Visual Culture from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Bristol, UK

1-3 June 2015
Euronoise 2015: Science and technology for a quiet Europe
www.euronoise2015.eu/program.html
Maastricht University, Netherlands

16 May 2015
Princeton Conference: Sound of Sense: Orality/Aurality in Byzantine Texts and Contexts
Columbia University, Princeton, NJ

1-3 May 2015
Sense and the Senses Seminar
Midwest Victorian Studies Association, University of Iowa, Iowa City

1-3 May 2015
Victorian Sense and the Senses
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Conference Review: blogs.tandf.co.uk/jvc/2015/08/03/ann-gagne-making-sense-of-senses-in-victorian-studies-the-mvsa-2015-conference/

1-2 May 2015
Senses and Spaces. II International Conference in Transatlantic Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Sensorial Objects
6 March—2 May 2015
Craft Ontario Gallery, Toronto

29 April – 2 May 2015
Synesthetic Legalities: Sensory Dimensions of Law and Jurisprudence
University of Hawai’i Hilo

23-25 April 2015
Framing, Compiling, Sampling: Sensory Practices in Cultural Analysis
Swiss Society for Folklore Studies and Swiss Society for Ethnology, Basel, CH

10-13 April 2015
Sensory Panels, Classical Association Conference
University of Bristol, UK

27 March 2015
Fashion and the Senses
Rootstein Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion, London, UK

25 March 2015
Touch of Light. Tactility and Mood of Illumination
Lombardini22, Milan, Italy

19-21 March 2015
The aesthetics of crossing: experiencing the beyond in Abrahamic traditions
Utrecht University, Netherlands

19-21 March 2015
Challenge the Past/ Diversify the Future: A Critical Approach to Visual and Multi-Sensory Representations for History and Culture
Gothenburg, Sweden

26 February 2015
The Sensory Interior: Some Other Rooms You May Have Missed
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal

11 February – 17 May 2015
Belle Haleine — The Scent of Art
Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

11 October 2014 – 22 February 2015
The Sensory War 1914-2014
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

23-28 January 2015
Sonic Science Festival
Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

14-16 January 2015
Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place and the Spaces of Sound
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

7 December 2014
Panel: Sensory Politics
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA

25-28 November 2014
Third International Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines: Sensual Landscapes of Ethnography
University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

20-21 November 2014
Le son pris aux mots
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris

14-15 November 2014
Sound, Vision, Action: Media@McGill International Colloquium
McCord Museum, Montreal

17-18 October 2014
Orality, Sounds and Sensations in the Translation of Poetry
Centre for Research in Translation and Transcultural Communication, Paris, France

17-18 October 2014
Screen Textures: Haptics, Tactility, and the Moving Image
University of Pittsburgh

15-17 October 2014
The Early Modern Villa: The Senses and Perceptions versus Materiality
The Wilanów Palace Museum and the Institute of Art History, Warsaw University

3 October 2014
Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century
DeLuca Forum: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

3 October 2014
A Sensory History Experiment
Old City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

26-27 September 2014
Seeing / Sounding / Sensing
MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, Massachusetts

September 2014
Sensation
Society for the Humanities, Cornell Universty

19-20 September 2014
The Night of the Senses: Dreams and Sensory Illusion in Early-Modern England and France
Line Cottegnies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3

7-10 September 2014
Herder: From Cognition to Cultural Science
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

3-4 September 2014
Architecture, Law and The Senses Symposium
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

31 August-7 September 2014
Food and the Senses: Summer University
Tours, France

18-22 August 2014
Sound Signatures: Summer School
NYU Berlin and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

24-25 July 2014
Sound, Memory and the Senses
The University of Melbourne, Australia

13-19 July 2014
Thematic Group on Senses and Society
ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan

10-12 July 2014
History and the Senses
The Society for the Study of French History, St. John’s College, Durham, UK

3 July 2014
Taking ‘Turns’- Material, Affective and Sensory ‘Turns’ in the Academy
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

26-27 June 2014
Twice Upon a Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses
The Centre for Fine Art Research based at the School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design

21 June 2014
Computational Making: 6th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition
University College London

16-26 June 2014
Stimulating the Senses
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

13 June 2014
Enlightenment Senses?Eighteenth-Century Sensorium(s), Theory and Experience
King’s College London, London

12-13 June 2014
Sensing War: war, violence, militarism, bodies, sensation
International Interdisciplinary Conference, London, UK
Conference Review: sensingwar.org/events/

12-14 June 2014
From Cacophony to Music: Sound Perception in Ancient Societies
École française, Athens

2-3 June 2014
Texture Matters: the Haptical and Optical in Media
Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Gegenwartskunst

18-20 May 2014
Defining the Sensory Society Conference
Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room
The University of Queensland

11-13 May 2014
SenseAsia 2014
The Asian Sensory and Consumer Research Symposium
Singex, Singapore

12-13 April 2014
Sensory Perception and the Medieval World
University College London

10-11 April 2014
Decadence and the Senses: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Goldsmith’s, University of London

April 2014
Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, USA

29 March 2014
Sensing Architecture: A Multidisciplinary Symposium
Royal Academy of Arts, London

28 March 2014
Home Atmospheres: Sensing and Feeling at Home
Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network
Geffrye Museum of the Home, London, UK

21 March 2014
Immersion and Synaesthesia as Ways of Knowing: A Sensory Ethnography of the OpenMind Transformational Festival
La Cenne, 7755 boul. St-Laurent, Montréal

13 March 2014
Sense and Sentiment in the Early Modern World
Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute, Fiesole

3-4 February 2014
Cultures of Sense, Cultures of Movement, Australian National University
University of Wollongong, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, Australia

25 January-6 April 2014
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
Royal Academy of Arts, London

19-22 February 2014
ARCHAEOACOUSTICS: The Archaeology of Sound
University of Malta, Malta

7 February 2014
Mirror-touch: Synaesthesia and the social
Tate Modern, London, UK

3-4 February 2014
Cultures of Sense, Cultures of Movement
The Australian National University School of Sociology and the Institute of Australian Geographers
Conference Report

27-28 January 2014
International Conference on Multisensory Law
University of Zurich, Switzerland

17 January 2014
Sonic Skills Project
Maastricht University

13-17 January 2014
Sound Signatures: Sound Studies Winter School
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Review by Anna Kvíčalová

2-5 January 2014
Aisthesis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine
American Philological Association, Chicago

30 November 2013
Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Rome
The Open University, London
Conference Review

6-7 September 2013
Conflict and the Senses
Imperial War Museum, London

5 September 2013
2013 CHORD Conference: Retailing and the Senses: Historical Perspectives
Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Leeds, UK

29 August – 1 September 2013
Anthropology of the Senses
Baltic Summer School of Anthropology
Zvartava Castle, Latvia

31 August 2013
Visualising Atmospheres: Digital Placemaking in the 21st Century
The Building Centre, London, UK

June 21-22 2013
Sensing the Sacred:Religion and the Senses, 1300-1800
The University of York, UK

7-8 June 2013
The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: Literature and Language
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

19-20 July 2013
The Victorian Tactile Imagination
Birkbeck, University of London

12 July 2013
The Six Senses of Art: A Making Sense Colloquium
Metropolitan Museum of Art

6 June 2012
The City and the Senses Conference
Drexel University, Philadelphia

29-31 May 2013
Les Cinq Sens au Moyen Age
l’Université de Poitiers

23-24 May 2013
Disgust: History, Language, Politics and Aesthetics of a Complex Emotion
University of Liege

May 15 2013
Sensorium Commune: the senses as the common basis of language

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

26-28 March 2013
Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference
University of Glasgow
The British Academy, London

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

March 2 2013
Fifth Annual Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Conference
Class of 1949 Auditorium, Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, USA

February 18 2013
Auditory memory and sound archives from the late-nineteenth century to the present
Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

February 2013
Sensing the Law
Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture, and Humanities (CILCH)
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

25 January 2013
The Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture
Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto

12-18 January 2013
Sensory Archaeology
7^th World Congress of Archaeology
Jordan

September-November 2012
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’sMusic
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, Poitiers, France

June 6 2012
The City and the Senses Conference
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

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

17 April – 25 October 2012
The Sensual Universe: Astrophysics for the Five Senses
Imperial College, 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, Edinburgh, Scotland

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, USA

October-November 2011
Shakespeare & The Banquet of the Senses
Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK

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
6^th 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, Tours, France

May 5-6, 2011
Media and the Senses conference
Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmith’s College, London, UK

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
Call for Papers, 20^th 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, Madison, USA

17-19 June, 2010
Hearing Modern History Colloquium
Free University, Berlin

December 4, 2009
The Senses in Language and Culture
108th American Anthropological Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Language & 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

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