Medieval History
Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology
27th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, Center for Archaeological
Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.
March 26-27, 2010
Human interaction with the surrounding world is mediated through our
senses. Yet archaeological interpretation has traditionally been
dominated by visual descriptions, thus effectively marginalizing the
senses of smell, taste, hearing, and touch as unmeasurable ways of
engaging with the world. This has led to a silent, odorless,
disembodied, and sense-less past. Recent work, however, has explored
alternative ways to make sense of past societies, investigating
soundscapes, olfactory and haptic analyses, and somatic memory, as
well as other less tangible visual qualities such as shimmer and
color.
This conference will bring together researchers who share an interest
in such sensory modes of approaching the past, and it will cross
boundaries between chronological periods, geographical regions, and
material specializations.
Potential themes for papers include, but are not limited to:
* the presentation of new results of sensory archaeological projects
* * multisensory and synesthetic aspects of the production and
consumption of material culture * * the recognition of sensory
hierarchies in past societies * * embodied practices, including
memory * * the dissemination of sensuous pasts in the present *
Submissions
Please submit a 300 word abstract plus title to Dr. Jo Day (contact
details below). PDF files are preferred. Presentations will be
limited to 25-30 minutes. Deadline for submission: 1st December 2009.
The CAI selection committee will review the abstracts, and authors
will be notified of the decision in mid-December. Papers are eligible
for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume published in the Occasional
Papers series of the Center for Archaeological Investigations.
Conference attendance is open to all. For registration details and
other information see:
www.cai.siuc.edu/vspages/day/vsconf.html
For further information, or with any queries, contact:
Dr. Jo Day, the 2010 CAI Visiting Scholar, at [email protected] (618)
453-5032
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Medieval History
Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology
Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology
27th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, Center for Archaeological
Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.
March 26-27, 2010
Human interaction with the surrounding world is mediated through our
senses. Yet archaeological interpretation has traditionally been
dominated by visual descriptions, thus effectively marginalizing the
senses of smell, taste, hearing, and touch as unmeasurable ways of
engaging with the world. This has led to a silent, odorless,
disembodied, and sense-less past. Recent work, however, has explored
alternative ways to make sense of past societies, investigating
soundscapes, olfactory and haptic analyses, and somatic memory, as
well as other less tangible visual qualities such as shimmer and
color.
This conference will bring together researchers who share an interest
in such sensory modes of approaching the past, and it will cross
boundaries between chronological periods, geographical regions, and
material specializations.
Potential themes for papers include, but are not limited to:
* the presentation of new results of sensory archaeological projects
* * multisensory and synesthetic aspects of the production and
consumption of material culture * * the recognition of sensory
hierarchies in past societies * * embodied practices, including
memory * * the dissemination of sensuous pasts in the present *
Submissions
Please submit a 300 word abstract plus title to Dr. Jo Day (contact
details below). PDF files are preferred. Presentations will be
limited to 25-30 minutes. Deadline for submission: 1st December 2009.
The CAI selection committee will review the abstracts, and authors
will be notified of the decision in mid-December. Papers are eligible
for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume published in the Occasional
Papers series of the Center for Archaeological Investigations.
Conference attendance is open to all. For registration details and
other information see:
www.cai.siuc.edu/vspages/day/vsconf.html
For further information, or with any queries, contact:
Dr. Jo Day, the 2010 CAI Visiting Scholar, at [email protected] (618)
453-5032
- Sensory Reflections: Traces Of Experience In Medieval Artifacts Sponsored By The Stanford University Center For Medieval And Early Modern Studies
51st International Congress on Medieval Studies May 12-15, 2016 Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts Sponsored by the Stanford University Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies...
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Graduate Archaeology at Oxford and the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford invite the submission of proposals for papers and posters to an interdisciplinary conference titled "Death, Disasters, Downturn. The Archaeology of Crises." Oxford,...
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Sensuous Performances: How did medieval plays engage the five senses? International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan 13-16 May 2010 In trying to recapture the ?liveness? of medieval performances, many scholars have analyzed these events? aural...
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Call for Papers: *Digitizing the Senses* a panel for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference in Tempe, AZ, 12-14 February 2009 While digital media have enabled new and innovative access to medieval and Renaissance texts, these...