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Sensory
Studies

“The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge" 

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— Maria Montessori

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"WE LIVE sensual lives. Regardless of how one organizes, conceptualizes, or otherwise constructs meaning, human beings gain knowledge through their senses. As noted in the call for this issue, where a given sound, smell, or touch may indeed share some universally understood qualities, the meanings ascribed to the sensory are social constructions. The ways in which one interprets sensual perceptions are therefore political acts, choices of meanings from a sea of possibilities. Yet, simultaneously, what one senses is ultimately unique unto one’s self, dependent on the singular contours of anatomy, personal predilections, and the ways in which sociocultural contexts are interpreted" — Walter S. Gershon.

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Examples: sensory

Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press): Mark M. Smith, author of The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege, on the study of sensory history, critical to understanding the true environments of the past. http://global.oup.com/academic/produc...

 

 

Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and author or editor of a dozen books, including Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History and How Race Is Made: Slavery, the Senses, and Segregation.

Katharine Young is an independent scholar/writer, visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley, and author of Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine and Taleworlds and Storyrealms: The Phenomenology of Narrative. She is studying gestures and narrative, body image, space, interiority, consciousness, volition, thought, emotion, memory, and time in somatic psychology.

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Each sense conjures up its own reality: the rarified, shifting, impalpable world of smell; the solidified, palpable, obtrusive world of touch; the light, colored, voluminous visual world; the tangible, textured, flavored world of taste; the layered, modulating, episodic auditory world. Melding aesthetics, anthropology, history, folklore, and philosophy, this course will explore the senses across individual perceptions, cultures, and historical periods.

Sensory Ethnography by Sarah Pink

IAI (Institute of Art and Ideas): From bats to beetles, animals sense the world differently in order to survive. Yet we think seeing and feeling tell us how things really are. Might our senses be radically limited? Are science and logic routes to escape our sensory limitations, or is feeling the rain on our skin the closest we get to truth?

 

See the full debate at www.iai.tv/video/the-illusion-of-sense.

Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press): Mark M. Smith, author of The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege, on the study of sensory history, critical to understanding the true environments of the past. http://global.oup.com/academic/produc...

 

 

Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and author or editor of a dozen books, including Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History and How Race Is Made: Slavery, the Senses, and Segregation.

Note: Classroom etiquette

Students

In order for you to get the best out of our tutorials, workshops and lectures, digital media objects such as mobiles and computers can be included, because the lessons are designed to integrate these devices as it can be useful for your learning.

 

However, students must be responsible in how they utilise these devices in tutorials, workshops and lectures. Would like to discuss this further?

 

Go to the contact page and use the contact form to arrange a tutorial.

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