Schedule

SESSION 1.1.2 Wayfinding: Meaning Gleaned in Motion

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 1.1.3 Education of the Senses

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 1.1.4 Panel. Sensing Triggers: Trauma, Therapy, and Ethics in Education

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 1.1.1 Sensing Atmospheres

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.8 Panel. Terror from the Atmosphere: Sensing and Controlling Air and Light in the Interiors of the Nineteenth Century

SESSION 1.1.5 Artwork-Performance. In Pink Light

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour

Concordia University EV Building - EV 10.785

SESSION 1.1.6 Artwork-Performance. Inescapable Contradictions in Creative Encounters Across Ethnography, Art, and Technology

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Concordia University EV Building - Room EV 11.725

SESSION 1.2.2 Workshop. Learning(with)plants

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 1.2.1 Keynote. Sensory Studies 2026: A State-of-the-Art Review

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Concordia University EV Building - EV 1.605

SESSION 1.3.1 Insipid Banquet – to purify your senses

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 2 hours

Concordia University EV Building - Room EV 11.725

SESSION 1.4.1 Nous sommes au cinema / Going to the cinema

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Thursday 8 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.9 Panel. Mixed Methods for Investigating and Communicating Heritage Scents

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.7 Sensory Heritage

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.1 Literature and the Senses I

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Caroline Pollentier (Speaker)

SESSION 2.1.2 Sensing Space I: Architecture

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.3 Sensitive Material I: The Production of Tangible Cultural Heritage

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.4 Haptic Aurality

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.5 Tools as Sensory Instruments

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.6 Panel. Making Sense of Reproductive Politics - Sensory Approaches to the Study of Abortion Regulation, Contestation, and Access I: Sensory Approaches to Abortion Activisms

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.1.0 MULTISENSORY ART GALLERY

10:30 AM - 1:30 PM | 3 hours

SESSION 2.2.7 Sensory Alterity/Inclusivity

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.2.4 Worlds of Sense

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.2.1 Literature and the Senses II

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.2.2 Sensing Space III: Multisensory Cartography

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.2.3 Sensitive Material II: The Circulation of Tangible Cultural Heritage

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.2.8 Panel. Pedagogy of the Otherwise Insensible: Affect, Senses, and Emotions in Intercultural Learning

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.2.5 Protactile

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.2.6 Panel. Making Sense of Reproductive Politics - Sensory Approaches to the Study of Abortion Regulation, Contestation, and Access II: Sensory Encounters with Reproductive Rights

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Artist's Talk

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour

Artist's Talk

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour

SESSION 2.3.7 Panel. Inhuman Smell: Olfaction and Interspecies Histories

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.3.6 Workshop. Field Harp

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Concordia University EV Building - EV 6.270

SESSION 2.3.3 Intimate Sensing

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.3.5 Workshop. Listening to Water: Exploring Marine Pollution Through Sound

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.3.1 Sensory Design

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.3.2 Sensory Symbolization

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.3.4 Workshop. The Actor as Researcher. Performing Arts Workshop

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Virtual - MB 7.255

SESSION 2.4.2 Workshop. Experiential On-line Warm Data Lab: “People Need People”

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.4.5 Panel. The Insensate Body

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.4.4 Workshop. [HYPER]aesthesilatio

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.4.6 Workshop. Scented Acrylic Colors: Painting with 100% Natural Aromas for a New Sensory Experience

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.4.3 Workshop. From Ecological Concern to Embodied Agency: Using Sound Art and Performance to Explore the Ethics of Engagement with Climate Narratives

SESSION 2.4.1 Keynote: On Synaesthesia and the Unity of the Senses Across Modern Art and Science

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Virtual - Room CD

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.9 Sensing the Self

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.8 Workshop. Digesting Culture(s)

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.7 Panel. Making Not Taking Culture: Practice, Purpose, Politics I

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.1 Literature and the Senses III

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.2 Sensing Space II: Emplacing the Public

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.3 Panel. Métis Sensuality: Touch, Balance, & Pain in Indigenous Contemporary Creative Practice

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.4 Perspectives on Materiality

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.6 Roundtable. From Vibration to Visualization: Sensemaking within Multimodal Technologies

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.5.5 Sensory Decline, Decay, and Not Dying

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.6.4 Reception at Innovobot (special off-site event)

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.6.3 Panel. Making Not Taking Culture: Practice, Purpose, Politics II

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.6.1 Sensing Space IV: Ambiances

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 2.6.2 Sensitive Material III: Intangible Cultural Heritage

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Friday 9 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

SESSION 3.0.0 Panel/Workshop. The Smell of Morning Walkshop I: A Live Experiment in Urban Olfaction [off-site event]

6:00 AM - 7:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.6 Panel. Sounds, Cities, Art, and Ecology

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.1 Sensing Space V: Mobilities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.7 Panel. Enabling Sensory Access through Technology in Professional and Artistic Contexts I

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.5 Panel. Ecologies of Enjoyment: Psychoanalysis and the Environment I

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.8 Roundtable. Sensory Abilities and Imaginative Capacities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.4 Animal Sensing

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.2 Reading/Writing/Translating the Senses

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.3 The Senses in Illness and in Health I

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.9 Sensing the Environmental: Role of Public Art

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.1.0 Panel/Workshop. The Smell of Morning Walkshop II: Plenary Discussion

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Virtual - MB 7.255

3.1.10 MULTISENSORY ART GALLERY

10:30 AM - 1:30 PM | 3 hours

SESSION 3.2.5 Roundtable. Meet the Author: Crosstalk of the Senses

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

4th Space

SESSION 3.2.10 Workshop. Infusing Sensory Knowledge into Tree Literacy [special off-site event]

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.2.6 Sensory Legal Studies

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.2.9 Panel. Enabling Sensory Access through Technology in Professional and Artistic Contexts II

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.2.1 Roundtable. Sensing the Intangible in the Field: The Potentiality of Immersive Media for Understanding Across the Inter I

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.2.2 Sensing Space VI: Transformations

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.2.7 Plant Sensing

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.2.4 The Senses in Illness and in Health II

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.2.8 Elevating Low Vision

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.2.3 Dance of the Senses

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Virtual - MB 7.255

SESSION 3.3.4 Workshop. Designing Indoor Smellscapes for Wellbeing

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.3.6 Workshop. Modal Olfactory Atmospheres: Experiential Design of Olfactive Environments

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

4th Space

Artist's Talk

12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 50 minutes

SESSION 3.3.5 Workshop. Cards Against Patriarchy: The Abortion Edition

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.3.1 Roundtable. Sensing the Intangible in the Field: The Potentiality of Immersive Media for Understanding Across the Inter II

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.3.2 Somaesthetics and Anthropology

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.3.3 Derangement of the Senses

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.4.2 Workshop. Atmo-poiesis

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.4.4 Workshop. Stir: A Guided Experience for Creativity and the Senses

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.4.5 Workshop. Estranged Language: A Workshop on Synesthesia and Writing

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.4.3 Workshop. Community Portal at Uncommon Senses V

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.4.1 Keynote. Sensing the Social

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Virtual - Room CD

SESSION 3.5.6 Sensing the Past II

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

4th Space

SESSION 3.5.5 Sensing the Past III

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.5.9 Panel. Making Not Taking Culture: Practice, Purpose, Politics III

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.5.1 Sensory Museology

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.5.4 The Senses in Illness and in Health III

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.5.3 Remote Sensing

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.5.2 Multispecies Ethnography

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.5.8 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.5.7 Bodies of Water

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 3.6.1 Gala Banquet – to satisfy your senses

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 2 hours

Concordia University EV Building - Room EV 11.725

Saturday 10 May, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

SESSION 4.1.6 Decolonizing the Senses

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.8 Panel. Multisensory Perception and Social Change in Museums and Heritage Sites: 18th Century vs. 21st Century Perspectives I

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.5 Sensing the Past IV

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.1 Sensory Expertise I: Training the Senses

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.2 Sensing Outer Space: The Final Frontier

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.7 Roundtable. In Memory of Piet Devos: Poetry, Perception, and the Senses

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.4 The Senses in Illness and in Health IV

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.9 Panel. Ecologies of Enjoyment: Psychoanalysis, and the Environment II

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.3 Sensory Ethnography I

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.1.10 MULTISENSORY ART GALLERY

10:30 AM - 1:30 PM | 3 hours

SESSION 4.2.8 Sensing Citizenship and Society

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.2.9 Panel. Multisensory Perception and Social Change in Museums and Heritage Sites: 18th Century vs. 21st Century Perspectives II

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.2.6 Research-Creation I

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.2.1 Sensory Expertise II: Oenology/Osmology/Dyeing

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.2.2 The Kitchen as Multisensory Laboratory

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.2.3 Sensory Ethnography II

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.2.4 Decolonizing/Reconstituting the Senses

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.2.5 Sensing the Past I

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.2.7 Roundtable. Media and Hierarchies of the Senses

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.3.3 Workshop. Reweaving Relationalities: Entanglements in Sensory-Story Methods with/across Multi-Species/Intelligences

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Artist's Talk

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour

SESSION 4.3.6 Home and Away: Migration Studies

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.3.4 Workshop. Changed and Changing: A Participatory Soundtracking of the Site

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.3.1 Projective Perception

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.3.2 Artwork-Performance. Through Materialities, Bodies and Words

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Virtual - MB 7.265

SESSION 4.3.5 Workshop. Skin, Somas and Scores: An Experiential Movement Workshop and Installation

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Virtual - MB-7.270

SESSION 4.4.3 Workshop. Sensing Intangible Cultural Heritage

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.4.2 Workshop. (SENSE)ITIVITIES

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.4.1 Keynote. The Liminality of Sensing

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Virtual - Room CD

SESSION 4.4.4 Workshop. Sensing Life After Death

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.5.4 Conflict and the Senses

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.5.6 Research-Creation II

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.5.1 Sensory Expertise III: Attunement

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.5.3 Roundtable. Sensing the Climate Crisis: Bridging Science, Sensors, the Social, and the Senses

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.5.2 Panel. Multisensorial Consumption Across Place, Time and Space

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.5.8 Meditation: Minding the Senses

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.5.5 Queering the Senses

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

SESSION 4.5.7 Sensing the Environmental: Forests, Rivers, and Sea Creatures

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes