Hello everyone! Please see below for the full schedule for our symposium, happening just next month – wow! We are so looking forward to seeing you all and being inspired by your exciting work! See the “Panels” page for full panel breakdowns with project titles, and the “Keynotes” page for information on our five fabulous speakers.

Panels, Keynote Presentations, Final Roundtable, and all events will take place in the same Zoom Room, for which you will receive a link when you Register. Time zone is Central Standard Time (CST). Please feel free to log in early and stay late to chat and share ideas in this virtual space!

Friday, March 12th

8:30
Zoom Room opens

8:45
Welcome and Introduction

9:00
Session 1: Digitizing Sensation
Chair: Isaac Weiner

10:45
Keynote 1: Gordon Hughes
The Coxcomb and The Skeptical Critic; Or, Must You Mean What You Say When We See?

11:45
Session 2: Sensation in Serialized Media
Chair: Anita Mannur

1:15
Break for Lunch

2:30
Keynote 2: Clare Batty
Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone: Lessons from COVID-19

3:30
Session 3: Practices of Perspective
Chair: Nina Cook

5:15
Keynote 3: Mark Smith
Fingertipping: Touching Biographies

6:00
Zoom Happy Hour/Social Room

Saturday, March 13th

9:00
Session 4: Consciousness, Knowledge, Affect: Sensory Theories of Mind
Chair: Clare Batty

10:45
Keynote 4: Anita Mannur
Race, Taste, Place

11:45
Session 5: Recording Disability Knowledges
Chair: Bren Ram

1:15
Break for Lunch

2:30
Keynote 5: Isaac Weiner
Sound – and Unsound – Religion

3:30
Session 6: Sensing Contemporary Art

5:15
Final Keynote Roundtable

6:00/6:15
Happy Hour/Goodbye