Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences

IN PERSON OR ONLINE

Online: multimodal Grenadine platform (see QR code)

In-person: MB-9, 9th Floor, John Molson Building, Concordia University, 1600 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., (Metro Guy-Concordia)

This 5th conference in the biennial Uncommon Senses conference series is hosted by the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. Featuring:

• 4 keynote addresses
• 22 panels
• 8 roundtables
• over 200 individual papers and 26 workshops arranged
  in 90-minute sessions
• a Virtual Art Gallery composed of 12 artworks
• a Multisensory Art Gallery consisting of 24 installations
  and/or performances
• 2 receptions – an Insipid Banquet on the opening night
  (to purify your senses) and a Gala Banquet on the Friday evening (to satisfy your senses)

The highly enthusiastic response to the Call for Proposals for this conference is a testimony to the extraordinary momentum of the “sensorial revolution” in the arts, humanities and social sciences – and beyond (e.g., the more-than-human).

With 124 concurrent 90-minute sessions distributed over the four days of the conference, this event is shaping up to be an 8-ring circus.

Keynote addresses:

• Sensory Studies 2026: A State-of-the-Art Review
• On Synaesthesia and the Unity of the Senses Across Modern Art and Science
• Sensing the Social
• The Liminality of Sensing
   

To find out more, please visit the conference webpage.