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This 5th conference in the biennial Uncommon Senses conference series is hosted by the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. It features 4 keynote addresses, 22 panels, 8 roundtables, over 200 individual papers, 26 workshops and much more.
2026 will mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of The Senses and Society and coining of the term 'sensory studies.' In this presentation, the editors reflect on their stewardship of the journal and ever-evolving meaning and scope of 'sensory studies' as a term of art.
This keynote address investigates the aesthetic, cultural, and scientific discourses of synaesthesia that inspired the flourishing exchanges among the modern arts.
In this talk, the keynote speaker will explore some ideas on the ontology of the social and relate it to the metaphysics of the senses in order to make the argument that cultural practices are not only based on an implicit ontology of the social but also on the belief that the social is sensorially accessible.
The keynote speaker argues that sensing entails positioning oneself at the very edge of a phenomenon – inhabiting the liminal – in order to observe a field of rapidly morphing forces. Drawing examples from landscape archaeology to glaciology and environmentally-informed art, she will explore environmental sensing as rhythms, vibrations, bandwidths, resonances, and frequencies that create fluid and liminal sense-impressions of an unresolved natural process, and through it, opportunities for remapping and rephrasing the criss-crossing umwelts of the planetary sensorium.
Join us for an interactive workshop based on the new book Beyond Molotovs. A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies. The workshop will include an exhibition and discussion of how — using images, songs, memes, poems, occupation of spaces, symbols, graffiti, murals, and stickers — people craft aesthetics of resistance that can be used to confront authoritarian tendencies.
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