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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.

When
May 7, 2025 – May 10, 2025, 2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building (1450 Guy)

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.

When
May 7, 2025, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex EV-1.605 (1515 St. Catherine W.)
Speaker(s)
Michael Bull (University of Sussex), David Howes (Concordia University)

This keynote address investigates the aesthetic, cultural, and scientific discourses of synaesthesia that inspired the flourishing exchanges among the modern arts.

When
May 8, 2025, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building MB-9.CD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
Polina Dimona (University of Denver)

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.

When
May 9, 2025, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building MB-9.CD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
Sundar Sarukkai

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.

When
May 10, 2025, 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus John Molson Building MB-9.CD (1450 Guy)
Speaker(s)
Saadia Mirza

When
May 29, 2025 – May 30, 2025 (all day)
Where
SGW campus LB - J.W. McConnell Building Conference room (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
Speaker(s)
TBD

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.

When
May 30, 2025, 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Sir George Williams Campus Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex 10.625 (1515 St. Catherine W.)
Speaker(s)
Inés Durán Matute




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