UPCOMING EVENTS

Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences
7-11 May 2025
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
Call for Proposals
CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED: 20 January 2025

Keynote speakers include:

• Indian philosopher and social critic Sundar Sarukkai, co-author (with Gopal Guru) of The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (2012) and Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social (2019) speaking on ‘sensing the social’

• Russian and Comparative Literature scholar Polina Dimova, author of At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism (2024) speaking on ‘the unity of the senses and the arts in the fin de siècle’;

Mapping Resonance: Tracing the Senses Communicating in the Spaces Between Deaf and Hearing People
Paula Bath
12 December 2024
Thesis Defence: 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM, H-1120, Hall Building
Reception: 12:30 PM, H1122.01, Hall Building

 

PAST EVENTS

Talking Sense Seminar: Sensory Baroques: Coloniality and Archival Affect
Speaker: VK Preston
When: Friday, 17 March 2023, 12:00-14:00; Virtual
Registration Link

An Ethnography of Nuit Blanche
Call for Ethnographers
When: Saturday, 25 February 2023 (7 PM) – Sunday, 26 February 2023 (1/2am …or beyond!)
Where: Meeting on-campus (Hall Building, Room H-1120) before venturing out across Montreal
Proposed Itinerary

Talking Sense Seminar: (Dis) placing Affect: Cold War Narratives in Ethnographic Collections at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum
Speaker: Sowparnika Balaswaminathan
When: Friday, 10 February 2023, 12:00-14:00; Virtual

Sensory Studies Book Launch
Speakers: David Howes, Erin Lynch, and William J. Buxton
When: Monday, 12 December 2022, 4:00-5:30 PM EST
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building and Virtual
Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada
Refreshments provided

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

• • Sensitivity Training
    Speaker: Erica Fretwell
    LINK TO VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PRESENTATION
  • 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
  • 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)

Chocolate Soirée: an interactive chocolate tasting and discussion
October 27, 6:30-8:00 PM
John Molson Building 9th Floor, Room EG
RSVP before October 25th by emailing foodstudies@concordia.ca

Air, River, Sea, Soil; A History of an Exploited Land; Artist Round Table
October 21st, 12:00 noon – 1:15 PM
Access in the Making (AIM) Lab, CJ 1.415, Loyola Campus
In-person and online

Islamic Sensory History: Notes on an Emerging Field
Speaker: Christian Lange
When: Monday, 26 September 2022, 11:30-12:50
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building & Virtual
Registration Link

Toward a Sensory Ethnography of the Forest
Part of Orée des bois, presented by MEDIANE
Interventions: 19 June 2022, 14:00-15:30; David Howes, Nuria Alvarez Coll, and Roseline Lambert (in French)
Discussion: 22 June 2022, 14:00-15:30; David Howes and Edith-Anne Pageot (in French and English)
Where: Outdoors at the Cœur des Sciences, UQAM; 175 President-Kennedy Avenue

An Inverse Archaeology on the Turbulence of Silence: mapping the territory of a rumble
Speaker: Catherine Hamel
When: Thursday, 16 June 2022, 11:00-13:00
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building & Virtual

Capturing Spaces: a threefold listening event, presented by Transgressive Sounds and Atmospheres
Featuring performances by Chantale Laplante, ce qui nous traverse, and Rémy Bélanger de Beauport
When: 24 May 2022, 8PM (free entrance, doors at 7:30)
Where: Centre St-Jax, 1439 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest

‘Boys that play with watry Bubbles’: Innoncence and Sensory Experience at the Infancy of Science
Speaker: Elizabeth L. Swann
When: 19 May 2022, 9:30-11:10 AM EDT; Virtual
Registration Link

[FINNISSAGE] In the Middle, a Chimera
When: 18 May 2022
Where: Milieux Institute

SpokenWeb Symposium 2022: The Sound of Literature in Time: A Graduate Student Conference
When: 16-17 May 2022
Where: Hybrid, Concordia University, Montreal

In the Middle, A Chimera: The Milieux Institute End-of-Year Exhibition & Symposium
21 April – 3 May 2022
Where: Various locations in Montreal, see program for event details

2022 CSS Visiting Scholars
Speakers: Nuria Alvarez Coll, Morten Frølund, Solène Froidevaux, and Harald Heinrichs
When: Tuesday, 19 April 2022

The Medium is the Massage: Marshall McLuhan’s Tactile Turn
Speaker: William J. Buxton
When: 24 March 2022

Trauma-Informed Listening in Verbatim Performance Creation
Speaker: Luis C. Sotelo Castro
When: 10 March 2022

From Turtle Island to Palestine: Resistance and Survival
Panelists: Kahérakwas Donna Goodleaf, Turtle Clan, Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, and Razan AlSalah
When: 10 March 2022

“Transgressive Sounds and Atmospheres”
Speaker: Hubert Gendron-Blais and Chantale Laplante
9 December 2021

Ether: an immersive sensory environment
Genevieve Collins
3-8 December 2021

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 and YouTube

“Site-Responsive Sonic Art”
Speaker: Lauren Hayes
When:  21 October 2021 and YouTube

“Animating Artefacts”
Speakers: David Garneau and Maureen Matthews
When:  4 November 2021 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.

 

On “Sensing Nature”: A Discussion with MOMENTA Biennale Curator Stefanie Hessler
Speaker: Stefanie Hessler
When: 3 November 2021, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM

 

Talking Sense Seminar: Fleeting – Scents in Colour
Speaker: Lizzie Marx
When: 7 June 2021, 12-2 p.m.

Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses
Up-to-date information HERE
When: 6-9 May 2021
Where: Zoom video conference

Keynote Lecture I: “Touchy Feely Manifesto: Design for the Senses”
Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses
Speaker: Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA
When: 6 May 2021, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Where: Zoom video conference

Keynote Lecture II: “The Future of Touch”
Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses
Speaker: Constance Classen
When: 7 May 2021, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Where: Zoom video conference

Keynote Lecture III: “Weaving New Ways of Knowing: Decolonizing the Senses, Recovering Legacies”
Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses
Speaker: Diane Roberts
When: 8 May 2021, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Where: Zoom video conference

Talking Sense Seminar: Consuming Painting: Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris
Speaker: Allison Deutsch (Birbeck, University of London)
When: 15 April 2021, 12-2 p.m.
Where: Zoom link

Talking Sense Seminar: “Human Plus – Taste and Smell”
TVO Series “Human Plus”
When: 01 April 2021, 12-2 p.m.
Where: Zoom link

Talking Sense Seminar: “Human Plus – Hearing”
TVO Series “Human Plus”
When: 18 March 2021, 12-2 p.m.
Where: Zoom link

Talking Sense Seminar: “The Wall was like a War: Sensory Politics of Spatial-Temporal Confinement in Jerusalem”
Speaker: Nayrouz Abu Hatoum
When: 15 March 2021, 12-2 p.m.
Where: Zoom link, passcode: 951972

Talking Sense Seminar: “Decolonial Entanglements: Art, Technology, and Critical Genealogies of Immersion“
Speaker: May Chew
When: 19 February 2021, 12-2 p.m.
Where: Zoom link

Talking Sense Seminar: “Human Plus – Orchestra of the Senses”
TVO Series “Human Plus”
When: 11 February 2021, 12-2 p.m.
Where: Zoom link

Sensory Orders
When: 6 November 2020-10 January 2021
Where: Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland

Talking Sense Seminar: “The Secret Language of Food”
Speaker: Geneviève Sicotte
When: 30 November 2020, 12-2 p.m.
Where: Zoom link

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)

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

CFP: The Senses & Interior Design
Deadline 02 October 2020

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

You Are Here / Vous êtes ici
When: 5-28 March 2020
Where: Galerie McClure, Montreal, Canada

Talking Sense Seminar: “Book as Body: An Artist’s Book Workshop”
Speaker: Darian Goldin Stahl
When: 6 February 2020, 2-5 p.m.
Where: Room EV-11.655, EV Building

The Gamblers
When: 14 February 2020, 3-6 p.m.
Where: Black Box, Room EV OS3-845/855

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.

Performance and Conflict II: Listening, Performance and Conflict
When: 04-07 November 2019
Where: Various locations, Concordia University

The Touch of the Present: Education, Becoming and Awakening
Speaker: Sharon Todd, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
When: 24 October 2019, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Room LB-322, Webster Library Building

TextilesTradeTime: A Symposium and Exhibition
When: 18-19 October & 29 November 2019
Where: Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, EV Building

Tactless: Touching Holocaust Memory
When: 03-10 October 2019
Where: Curating and Public Scholarship Lab, Room LB-671, Webster Library Building

Talking Sense Seminar: “Hearing Healthcare: Soundscapes of the Modern Hospital”
Speaker: Victoria Bates, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
When: 02 July 2019, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Talking Sense Seminar: “Just Some Dead Birds in a Drawer: Choroeographic Audiowalks, Lifeliness, and More-than-Human Relational Movement”
Speaker: Susanne Schmitt
When: 13 June 2019, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Writing by Making: Experiments in How to Write a Book on Learning Sensory Knowledge
Speaker: Anna Harris, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
When: 23 May 2019, 3-5 p.m.
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Talking Sense Seminar: “From New Media to New Medicine: Reflections on the Contemporary Life of the Skin”
Speaker: Marc Lafrance
When: 03 May 2019, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Pleasure Consuming Games III
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kishona Gray, University of Illinois, Chicago
Streamers Panel: Tanya DePass, Will Wiggins, Brian Gray
When: 26 April 2019, 1-5 p.m.
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Talking Sense Seminar: “Transmediation in Children’s Virtual Reality (VR) Gaming”
Speaker: Kathy A. Mills, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University
When: 11 April 2019, 1-3 p.m.
Where: Room H-1124, Hall Building

“If We Look Carefully There is More than Meets the Eyes”: An Audio-Visual Exploration of the Sky in Cuba
Speaker: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria
When: 28 January 2019, 6-7:30 p.m.
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Sensing the Anthropocene III: “Listening as Ethic; Walking as Method: Daily Practice and Art/Life Intervention”
Speaker: Natalie S. Loveless
When: 17 January 2019, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Forum: “Research Creation, Photography, and Critical Making”
Speaker: Craig Campbell, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
When: 14 January 2019, 6-8 p.m.
Where: PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION: The Ethnography Lab, EV 10.625

Graduate Seminar: “‘Just because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should’: Tracking Disciplinary Trajectories and Artistic Imaginaries in Practice-Led Anthropology”
Speaker: Rupert Cox, Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at Manchester University, and Editor of Visual Anthropology Review (VAR)
When: 11 December 2018, 10 a.m.
Where: Milieux Seminar Room, EV 11.705

Public Lecture: “The Sound of the Sky Being Torn: Three Experiments in an Anthropology of Noise in Japan”
Speaker: Rupert Cox, Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at Manchester University, and Editor of Visual Anthropology Review (VAR)
When: 10 December 2018, 2 p.m.
Where: Milieux Seminar Room, EV 11.705

Talking Sense Seminar: “WalkingLab: Walking Research-Creation as Queer Temporalities”
Speakers: Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman
When: 3 December 2018, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Milieux Seminar Room, EV 11.705

Sensing the Anthropocene II: “Aesthetic Attunement in an Age of Urgency”
Speaker: Natalie S. Loveless
When: 28 November 2018, 2-4 p.m.
Where: PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Talking Sense Seminar: “Deep Listening, Deep Sounding, Deep Walking: A Workshop”
Speaker: Stephanie Loveless
When: 27 November 2018, 3-5 p.m.
Where: The Ethnography Lab, EV 10.625

Talking Sense Seminar: “Dynamic Perception in Human Vision” 
Speaker: Aaron Johnson, Director of Concordia Vision Labs
When: 23 November 2018, 1-3 p.m.
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building

Sensing the Anthropocene I
Speaker: Natalie S. Loveless
When: 7 November 2018, 2-4 p.m.
Where: Milieux Seminar Room, EV 11.705

4 October 2018
VIBE Workshop Series: VIBRAFY Workshop
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
http://vibrations.participatorymedia.ca/
http://www.together2012.org.uk/

3-5 May 2018
Uncommon Senses II: Art, Technology, Education, Law, Society – and Sensory Diversity
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
http://www.centresensorystudies.org/uncommon-senses-ii/

1-3 May 2018
The Othered Senses: Law Sensorium Regulation Workshop
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
http://lawandthesenses.org/the-othered-senses-workshop/

The Material Turn Exhibition
Curators: WhiteFeather Hunter & Kelly Thompson
When: March 5, 2018 – April 13, 2018, from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Where: Galerie FOFA EV building, 1515 St-Catherine St. W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Agents of Design/ Design as Agency Symposium
When: March 9-10, 2018
Where: EV Building (EV 1.605), 1515 St-Catherine St. W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

“Aesthetic, Anaesthetic, Synesthetic: Making Sense of the Afterlife in 3 Acts”, and film screening of Icaros: A Vision (Followed by Q&A)
Speaker: Abou Farman Farmaian
When: 24 November, 2017 at 12:30 pm and 3:00-4:30pm
Where: Concordia University and McGill University

Grad Seminar: Sensory Histories of Natural Disasters
Speaker: Mark M. Smith
When: 6 October 2017, 12pm
Where: George Rudé Seminar Room (LB- 1014) LB Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Public Lecture: A Sensory History Manifesto
Speaker: Mark M. Smith
When: 5 October 2017, 2pm
Where: Room MB-9A, John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Food Feminism Fermentation
When: 29 September – 1 October 2017
Where: McGill University, Montreal

Intangible Memories of the Senses: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony in Central Australia
Speaker: Jennifer Biddle
When: 21 September 2017, 2pm
Where: Room H-767, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Imagining Iceland: From Concordia to the North
Interdisciplinary Roundtable
When: 20 September, 2017, 18:30-20:30
Where: Room VA-323, Visual Arts Building, 1395 Boulevard René-Lévesque O (Metro Guy-Concordia)

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

Sensory Literacies: The role of the senses in new literacy practices,
Speaker: Kathy A. Mills
When: 24 April 2017, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Where: Room H-1124, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Sensing Mental Illness: Dance and Psychiatry
Performance and Roundtable Discussion
When: 21 April 2017, 2:30 – 4:30pm
Where: Room MB 7.255, Molson Building, 1450 Guy St. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Les rapports entre le Droit et la musique
Speaker: Norbert Rouland
When: 3 February 2017, 2:00 – 3:30pm
Where: Room H-1124, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

CREE WAYS OF KNOWING (NEHIYO ITÂPISINOWIN): Indigenizing University Education
Speaker: Joseph Naytowhow
When: 2 November 2016, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Where: Room H-763, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Seminar with Joseph Naytowhow
When: 3 November 2016, 10:00am
Where: Room EV 11.705 (Milieux Resource Centre), 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Sensory Studies Research Seminar Series
Life of the Senses at International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF), Paris
Speaker: Fiona Carlston
When: 21 October 2016, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Beyond Disciplines
Come to your senses: Sensescapes in research and in life
When: 20 October 2016, 5:00 – 7:00pm
Where: EV Building, Room EV 2. 260, 1515 Ste Catherine Street West, (Engineering side)

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

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

The Spring Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
Gaia Visions: Re/presenting Disability through the Portal of Science Fantasy
Speaker: Naomi Foyle
When: 26 April 2016, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Winter Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
Senses, time and urban change
Speaker: Dr. Monica Degen
When: 1 April 2016, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Where: Room H-1154, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment
Speaker: Dr. David Morgan
When: 17 March 2016, 5:30pm
Where: H-763, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Winter Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
A Sense of Balance: Urban Cycling as Experiential Learning in Emerging Aspirationscapes
Speaker: Raúl Acosta-García
When: 11 March 2016, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Winter Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
David Johnson: Please Do Touch, Sculptures from the Inner Space
Discussion with the Artist: 3 March 2016, 5:30pm
Where: Room EV 11.655, Concordia University, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Fall Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
‘BORN TO INCARNATE MY WOUND’: (Dis)abilities and Haptics in a Modern World (1880-1950)
Speaker: Dr. Piet Devos
When: 11 December 2015, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Where: Room H-1154, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Fall Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
Evangelist of Fragments: Mite-Box Capitalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Speaker: Dr. Hillary Kaell
When: 27 November 2015, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Where: Room H-1124, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Fall Semester Sensory Studies Research Seminar
Scented Colours: the Role of Olfaction in Futurism and Olfactory (Re-)constructions
Speaker: Caro Verbeek, VU University, Amsterdam
When: 23 November 2015, 11:00 – 12:30pm
Where: Room H-1124, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Fall Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
Defining and Subverting the Secular: Latter-day Saint Temples, Undergarments, and the Perforated Borders of the Sacred
Speaker: Dr. David Holland
When: 11 November 2015, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Where: Room LB-1019, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Fall Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
Algorithms for Social Justice? Tracking Population Health in the Sensor Society
Speaker: Dr. Martin French
When: 30 October 2015, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Where: Room H-1124, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

A Seminar with Charles Spence (Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Oxford University)
Crossmodal correspondences and the aesthetic imagination: Looking for links between sound symbolism and synaesthesia
When: 17 October 2015, 11:00am – 12:30pm
Where: Room EV 11.705, Concordia University, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West (Metro Guy-Concordia)

A Seminar with Charles Spence (Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Oxford University)
Gastrophysics: The New Sciences of the Table
When: 16 October 2015, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Where: Room EV 1.605, Concordia University, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West (Metro Guy-Concordia)

A Seminar with Charles Spence (Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Oxford University)
Neuroscience-inspired Multisensory Design
When: 16 October 2015, 1:00 – 2:30pm
Where: Room EV 11.705, Concordia University, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West (Metro Guy-Concordia)

The Fall Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
Towards Making Sense of C21st Tactile Technologies
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Chrystall
When: 9 October 2015, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Where: Room H-1124, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

13 Weeds to Live By
Presented by the SensoriuM
When: 3 October 2015, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Parc Lhasa de Sela, Montreal

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

Midsummer Milestone Picnic
Presented by the SensoriuM
When: 8 August 2015, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Where: Parc Molson, Montreal

Summer Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
BitterSuite: Composing the Multisensory Concert with Steph Singer
Speaker: Stephanie Singer
When: 23 June 2015
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

2014-2015 ACADEMIC YEAR

Gaming the Garden
Presented by: the SensoriuM
When: 26 April 2015
Where: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920 Baile Street, Montreal

Re:Eating Art History / The Cosmic Egg
Presented by: the SensoriuM
When: 13 March 2015
Where: FOFA Gallery Atrium, Concordia University, 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West

The Sensory Interior: Some other rooms you may have missed
Speaker: Dr. David Howes
When: Thursday, February 26, 2014, 6:00pm
Where: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920 Baile Street, Montreal

Winter Semester Sensory Studies Seminar
Picturing Aura: On Visual Media, Esoteric Vision, and the Representation of Radiant Bodies
When: Friday, January 30, 12:00-1:30
Where: Room H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Real-Time Video Exposition
When: November 27, 1:30-3:30pm
Where: 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West, Montreal

Futurist Feast, Encultured Eating
Presented by: the SensoriuM
When: 26 November 2014
Where: 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West, Montreal

The writing is on the wall: haptic presence, interior design and queer identity’
When: November 21, 1pm-2:30pm
Where: H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

« Le Vieux-Montréal: Une expérience sensorielle » Colloque avenir Vieux-Montréal
When : November 12, 1 :30-4 :00 pm
Where : Centre PHI, 407 rue St. Pierre, Vieux-Montréal

Aromatherapy Oils: Commodities, Materials, Essences
When: October 17, 1pm-2:30pm
Where: H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Autumn Equinox Foraging Tour
Presented by: the SensoriuM
When: 20 September 2014
Where:Parc Lhasa De Sela, Montreal

Sensory Economy: Tasting Food in the 1930s US
When: September 19, 1pm-2:30pm
Where: H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Courtyard of the Senses
When: June 21-September 1, 10am-6pm
Where: Montréal Botanical Garden, 4101 Sherbrooke Street East

Hedonistika: The Smorgastic Festival for Culinatronics, Advanced Snackhacks and Nutritional Artistry
When: May 23-June 1, 2014
Where: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

2013-2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

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

Multi-Media: Integrating the arts and the senses
Seminar with Constance Classen
When: March 17, 2014 – 4pm-5pm
Where: A-832, New Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke Street West
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, McGill University

Substance P + Atomic #15
Presented by the SensoriuM, as part of Nuit Blanche & Art Souterrain
When: March 1, 2014 – 8pm/10pm/11pm/12am
Where: Place Bonaventure, Montreal

Book Launch: Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses In Society
Talk by David Howes and Constance Classen
When: January 23, 2014 – 4:30-6pm
Where: H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve blvd West (Metro Guy-Concordia), Montreal

The Map of Maple: Development of a Sensory Research Tool for Vermont Sugarmakers
Dr. Amy Trubek, University of Vermont
When: December 13, 11:00-12:30
Where: MB 6.240, John Molson School of Business, 1450 de Maisonneuve blvd West (Metro Guy-Concordia), Montreal

Tasting in Context: Consumer Sensory Perception and Vermont Artisan Cheese
Talk with Jake Lahne, University of Vermont
When: December 12, 12:00-1:30
Where: H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve blvd West (Metro Guy-Concordia), Montreal

A Guided Mushroom Walk (Through the Climax Forest) with Artist Alexis Williams
When: October 26, 2pm
Where: Morgan Arboretum

Sam Auinger Artist Talk: Towards a Hearing Perspective: Five Sonic Interventions from O+A
When: October 17, 5-7pm
Where: Oboro Gallery, 4001 rue Berri, local 301, Montreal

Sam Auinger Workshop: Thinking with your Ears
When: October 16, 4-7pm
Where: EV Building, 11th Floor, Room 705, 1515 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal

Deus In Machina: Religion, Technology and the Things in Between
When: September 27, 2013
Where: cJ 1.114, cJ Building, 7141 sherbrooke st. W., Loyola campus

Hunter, Gatherer, Purveyor
When: September 14, 2013
Where: La Ruche d’Art St-Henri, 4525 St. Jacques

Midsummer Mile End Foraging Tour + Publication
When: July 20, 2013
Where: Meeting at 5478 St. Laurent Boulevard, Montreal

CEREUS 2012 Philomène Longpré
When: May 4–18, 2013
Opening May 4, 4pm at The PHI Centre
Where: ELEKTRA International Digital Arts Festival, The PHI Centre – Montreal

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Sensory City Workshop
Roundtable and Touch + Taste Tours
When: March 30, 2013, 13h00
Where: Canadian Centre for Architecture,  1920 Baile Street, Montreal

Itérations
Vernissage: Shannon Collis and Shawn Reynar
When: March 15, 5:30pm
Exhibition continues until April 20, 2013
Where: ARPRIM, 372, rue Sainte-Catherine O, # 426, Montreal

Laboratoire Emerge
LabXmodal (Concordia) + IDMIL (McGill) + Moment Factory + gsm_prjct
When: Saturday and Sunday, February 16-17, 2013; 1:00-4:00 both days
Where: Hexagram Black Box
Level S3
EV Building
Corner of Guy and St. Catherine Streets

le/the Sensorium presents Sweet Nothings/Petits Riens
Artist talk + Workshop with vegetable weaver Lene Guezennec
Tickets + Info: www.lesensorium.com

CEREUS 2012 Philomène Longpré
When: March 21-23, 2013
Where: Visualizing Media Futures Symposium, Swarthmore College – Philadelphia

Sensory and Experiential Marketing Lecture Series
Lecture 5: Engaging the Inquisitive Customer: Developing Layered Experiences at the Ontario Science Centre
Guest: Karen Hager, Director, Science Engagement, Ontario Science Centre
When: 20 November 2012, 17:45-20:15pm
Where: MB 6.425, Molson Building, 1450 Guy (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Botanical Animal, a two-part event presented by le/the SensoriuM
Artist Talk: 30 November 2012, 5pm, Concordia Greenhouse
Tomato Canning & Art Installation: 1 December, 2pm
more info…

Sensory and Experiential Marketing Lecture Series
Lecture 4: Communication and Experiential Offerings: Issues and Challenges
Guest: Mr. Mathieu Sirot, Mosaic Experiential Marketing
When: 6 November 2012, 17:45-20:15pm
Where: MB 6.425, Molson Building, 1450 Guy (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Sensory and Experiential Marketing Lecture Series
Lecture 3: Touch-Intensive Sensory Experiences
Guests: Dr. Constance Classen, Centre for Sensory Studies
Mrs. Geneviève Emond, Bota Bota Spa
When: 30 October 2012, 17:45-20:15pm
Where: MB 6.425, Molson Building, 1450 Guy (Metro Guy-Concordia)

How to Paint the Absence of Touch? Comparing Rembrandt’s interiority with the hands-on culture of late medieval piety
Dr. Herman Roodenburg
When: 24 October 2012, 1pm
Where: H-1120, Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd West

Sensory and Experiential Marketing Lecture Series
Lecture 2: Things that Tempt: Experiencing Taste through Objects we Use to Eat
Guest: Dr. Rhona Richman-Kenneally, Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University
When: 23 October 2012, 17:45-20:15pm
Where: MB 6.425, Molson Building, 1450 Guy (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Sensory and Experiential Marketing Lecture Series
Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Perfume-Making and the Use of Scent in Marketing
Guests: Mrs. Isabelle Michaud, Monsillage Perfumes
Mr. Andres Kindfuller & Mr. Ed Burke, Scent Air
When: 16 October 2012, 17:45-20:15pm
Where: MB 6.425, Molson Building, 1450 Guy (Metro Guy-Concordia)

CEREUS 2012 Philomène Longpré
When: October 1-6, 2012
Where: Black Box, Hexagram-Concordia – Montreal

Thermal Aesthetics, Q&A
An interactive Talk with Boon Lay Ong, University of Melbourne
When: 26 September 2012, 18:00
Where: H-1124, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West

Slow Textiles and Hi-Tech Farms a two-part bilingual event, including an artist talk with Johanna Autin and a visit to a modern dairy farm.  ARTIST TALK with Johanna Autin: September 28th, 7:30pm / VISIT TO DALKEITH FARM: September 29th, 2:30-6:30pm more info…

Second International Congress on Ambiances
19-22 September 2012, Montreal
The second International Congress on Ambiances is held under the aegis of the International Ambiances Network. It is co-produced by the International Ambiances Network, lead by the research groups CERMA and CRESSON from the Graduate Schools of Architecture of Nantes and Grenoble (UMR CNRS 1563 Architectural and Urban Ambiances), with the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Centre for Sensory Studies (Concordia University) in Montreal.

Sonic Classifications in Haussmann’s Paris. Dr. Aimée Boutin, Florida State University presents research on the reordering of the sonic environment by cleansing of many of the street sounds that had long been a fixture of the old city in Haussmann’s new Paris.
When: Tuesday, July 24, 4:00 pm
Where: 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W, H-1120
More information…

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Dark Side of the Mushroom a two-part event, including an artist talk with The Chanterelles, and a Mushroom Tour and Tasting on Mont Royal. ARTIST TALK with The Chanterelles: APRIL 20th, 8pm | MUSHROOM TOUR & TASTING APRIL 21st, 7:30pm more info…

Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery presents:
SHANNON COLLIS “At Intervals” York Corridor Vitrines + “Soundlines” Black Box
Exhibition: March 19 – April 20, 2012
Vernissage: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 5 to 7 p.m.

Jon Cohrs (New York artist), The Spice Trade Expedition — In pursuit of artificial flavouring , 6:00 pm, Friday, February 10, 2012, Concordia Greenhouse, 13th floor, Hall Building;  and “Artificial World Tour,” starting at 2:00 pm, Saturday, February 11, 2012, Lobby, Ground Floor, Hall Building.. Le/the SensoriuM Lecture Series

Jean-Sébastien Marcoux (HEC Montreal), The Role of Eye-Witnesses in the Memory Industry , 12:00 noon, Monday February 6, 2012, Room H-1120, Hall Building

Fiona Candlin (Birkbeck College), Art and the Etiquette of Touch 10:00 am, Friday, November 18, 2011, room H-1120, Hall Building

Mara Mills (New York University) “From Alphabet Gloves to Data Gloves: The Cultural History of Tactile Communication for Deaf-Blind Individuals”, 10:15 am, Wednesday, October 12, 2011
room H-1120, Hall Building

Atom Cianfarani (New York artist), “Artist Talk,” 6:00 pm, Friday, November 25, 2011, Concordia Greenhouse, 13th floor, Hall Building, and “Trash Tour,” 2:00 pm, Saturday, November 26, 2011, Lobby, Hall Building

The Lady Cheese Shop 6pm, Saturday, September 10th at Kafein: 1429 Bishop Street, Montreal. The event will be preceded by an artist talk at 4pm, Friday, September 9th at Concordia’s Greenhouse, 1455 de Maisonneuve West.