Tamás Solymosi √ & Daishi Wakizono (Heritage Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan)Sensory Cartographies: Multisensory Mapping as a Tool for Understanding Urban SpacesThis paper introduces a methodological approach to interpreting urban distinctiveness through multi-sensory experiences, addressing the challenges in an era of increasing placelessness and global homogenisation. Our study investigates how distinct sensory experiences give rise to place-specific networks...

Gail Kehan Liu (American Studies, University of Nottingham, UK)Disabled Norms, Disaffected Us: Disaffection and Unfeeling in Salt Fish GirlThis paper examines Chinese Canadian writer Larissa Lai’s 2002 speculative novel Salt Fish Girl through the lens of Xine Yao's theorization of disaffection. This paper argues that the disaffection in Salt Fish Girl, which is marked as the characters' stench, reconfigures notions of agency, challenges dominant affective norms and opens ...

Organizer: Michele Granzotto ∆ (University of Naples "Federico II", Department of Social Science)I propose a workshop on ‘Performing Arts Oriented Social Research’. The focus will be on the capacity for self-perception in relation to the Other and the relevance of this Art-Based methodology. After a short theoretical introduction to theatre as a method of social research, we will explore some exercises taken from theatre training and creative writing to observe how a PAOSR workshop pro...

Organizer: Carsten Stabenow ∆This proposal is a data sensing and sonification approach focused on monitoring and comparing water qualities with a modular and lightweight field-kit. A sensor-data-input/CV-output module on Arduino base can monitor basic water quality parameters – pH-value, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Dissolved oxygen (DO), Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) and temperature. The CV outputs can be patched to a VCLFO/VCO circuit and filter banks to generate an audio and ...

Organizer: Akihisa Iwaki ∆ (Kindai University, Japan)Scented Acrylic Colors (https://camp-fire.jp/projects/777431/view) is a scented acrylic paint released at the end of 2024.This innovative product is a collaboration between @aroma’s "100% pure natural essential oils" and Holbein’s high-quality acrylic paints, Acrylic Color (Heavy Body). The project began with a meeting between Masaki Taniguchi (affectionately known as Maa-chan), a visually impaired painter, and scenting design...

Organizer: Maxime MichaudThis 15-minutes original performance, titled [HYPER]aesthesilatio, engages with the concepts of Umwelt (von Uexküll, 1934), enaction (Varela, Thompson, Rosch, 1991) and habituation (Thompson & Spencer, 1966; Rankin et al., 2009). Also drawing on Schwab’s notion of “transposition” (2018), it aims to transpose and isolate “harmonic” sensory characteristics – both musical and spatial frequencies – captured through field recordings in environments with/without...

Silvina Katz (Open University, UK)Sensing to Translate: A Reading of Silvina Ocampo’s Short Story “La Calle Sarandi”Literary translators need to be able to sense or ‘feel’ a text in order to generate an emotionally resonant target text in translation, however, the ineffable nature of atmospheres in short stories can make this task difficult. This study explores the complex process of identifying sensory cues in literary works, focusing on Silvina Ocampo’s unsettling short...

Brian Glenney ∆ (Philosophy, Norwich University, UK)Animal Senses in the AnthropoceneThe mass of human-made things now exceeds the mass of natural things, a sign of our new Anthropocene age. This has introduced an array of sensory changes in animals’ perception of their natural climes. Human made structures now disrupt numerous animals’ flying behaviors, adding to the already disruptive human made light sources. Underwater boat motor sounds and radar pings interfere with ...

Organizer: Rennie Tang ∆ (California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA) • Eleni-Ira Panourgia ∆ (Gustave Eiffel University, France);• Lisa Sandlos ∆ (Brock University, Canada)• Jackie Martin ∆ (Biodiversity Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, Concordia University, Canada)• Rebecca Tittler ∆ (Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Concordia University, Canada)• Maya Lach-Aidelbaum ∆ (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)• Li...

Rosalin Benedict ∆ (Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Canada)Interembodied Attentiveness: Vibrational Encounters between Clinical Herbalists and Medicinal PlantsI intend to present a chapter on my ongoing thesis that explores how clinical herbalists cultivate, experience and express their felt, synergetic relationships with medicinal plants; and how the interconnectedness of humans and plants contributes to a more ecological and embodied approach to wellbe...

Organizer: Jayanthan Sriram ∆ (Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Canada)How do you experience light and sound in accordance to smell? If you think this question is asked backwards, with smell having to follow your sense of sound and light, you are in for a treat. Born out of a collaboration with the ITHQ (Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec) and ExperiSens, Modal Olfactory Atmosphere finds its second iteration as an interactive and collaborative workshop. W...

ONLINE ONLYOrganizer: Jieling Xiao ∆ (School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University, UK)Design whose research explores place-based learning and design through sounds and smells. Her doctoral research explored smellscape pleasantness in transit spaces from a cross-cultural perspective. She is the lead editor for the Frontiers research topic 'Smell, wellbeing and the built environment'. She is currently working on two projects: Multi-modal Hong Kong project documen...

Organizers: Tim Horvath ∆ with Matthew Kirtkpatrick ∆ (Warren Wilson MFA Program in Writing/Phillips Exeter English Department, Stratham, USA)In this creative writing workshop, the leaders–writers whose recent projects push the boundaries of how language can be used to describe and evoke the non–visual (sound, scent, and texture)--will share writing activities designed to guide participants into fresh linguistic and conceptual zones. After reading from their own work, workshop leaders ...

Room LB-207Organizer: Stephanie Grey ∆ with Christine Gallagher ∆ (Stir Copenhagen, USA) Invigorate your body and mind and participate in an experiential and creative workshop. Your point ofview is found through your senses as you focus on taste, texture, smell, sight and sound as a means toconnect with your surroundings. A sensory-focused methodology will guide you. We aim to expand yourpersonal awareness, as well as to help broaden and strength...

Constance Classen ∆ (Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Canada)Green Museums: Narratives of Nature in English MuseumsIn recent years, growing attention has been paid to the interconnections between environmental issues and museums in England. Initially, much of this attention came from groups protesting the links between certain museums and the fossil fuel industry, most notably, the British Museum’s sponsorship by British Petroleum. The ‘Green Museums’ mov...

Clara Muller (Independent scholar)A Sense of Connection: Reclaiming Smell as a Medium for Multispecies Encounters in Contemporary ArtWithin “naturalist ontology” (Descola 2005), modern Westerners have lost touch with the knowledge and relationships that smell enables—not only with other humans but also with other- than-humans. Yet, given that smell constitutes a shared biological ground for almost all life on Earth, learning to make a conscious, informed and de-centered u...

Rumela Chatterjee (Sociology, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNIoE), India)Smelling with the Experts: An Ethnography of a Fragrance Laboratory in KannaujThis paper explores laboratory as a critical node in the fragrance commodity chain where flowers and essential oils are transformed into attar and perfume. In my ethnography, the laboratory emerges as a space not only for the transformation of a natural product into a bottled commodity but also for the external valid...

Sohail Kajal (Interdisciplinary Humanities, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC), Concordia University, Canada)Outlines of the Non-sensuous Perception of UntouchabilityRecent scholarship on caste in India has opened inquiries on the sensorial dimensions of the perception of untouchability and their effects on the production of a caste-based sociality. The inquiries however limit their understanding of perception as mediated via the senses and i...

Organizer: Warsame Isse ∆ (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)Black technopoetics is a term coined by Louis Chude-Sokei that refers to the intersection between creative expression, technology and Blackness according to Louise Chude-Sokei. I am implementing this concept as I utilize guitar pedals and haptic transducers to hear, feel and distort the sonic media that is a part of my Somali intangible cultural heritage. Intangible cultural heritage (here after referred to ...

Organizer: Dona nham ∆ (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)Just as the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words," embodied practice reveals a thousand senses. How do we articulate the visceral experience of living under white supremacy, colonialism, and neoliberalism? These forces evoke profound sensations and emotions such as loss, grief, confusion and fragmentation—of being everywhere yet nowhere. For those in the diaspora, like myself, whose families were d...