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Panels

Digitizing Sensation
Session 1: Friday the 12th, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Panel Chair: Isaac Weiner

The Platformization of Fragrance
Malcolm Ogden (North Carolina State University)

Walking Around as Each Other
Alex Stutter (North Carolina State University)

Engaging Affectively Effectively in Spaces of Online Learning
Katherine Knowles (Michigan State University)

Sensation in Serialized Media
Session 2: Friday the 12th, 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM
Panel Chair: Anita Mannur

Transmitting Aural Borders: Racialized Sounds, Automobility, and Criminality in Calling All Cars
Benjamin Williams (Carnegie Mellon University)

Touching and Reading Gory Comics
Kelly McKisson (Rice University)

Experiencing Nausea
Sam Stoeltje (Rice University)

Practices of Perspective
Session 3: Friday the 12th, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Panel Chair: Nina Cook

Confusion and Dismay at the Side of the Road: From Eudora Welty to Steven Spielberg
Paul Burch (Rice University)

The Stray: A Post-Humanist Approach to Voice and Sound in Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff’s documentary film Los Reyes
Andrea Avidad (New York University, Tisch)

Making Sense’ of Climate Models: Perception and the Politics of Uncertain Futures
Pamela Carralero (Goshen College)

Sensorial impressions in The Handmaid’s Tale
Diána Mosza (University Eötvös Loránd of Budapest)

 

Consciousness, Knowledge, Affect: Sensory Theories of Mind
Session 4: Saturday the 13th, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Panel Chair: Clare Batty

Liminal Unwittification: an exploration of collective phenomenological decay in Bird Box, Khudito Pashan and contemporary COVID-19 afflicted society
Soham Adhikari (Presidency University, Kolkata)

Consciousness and the Ethic of Caring
Satish Kolluri (Pace University)

Extraordinary Sympathy: Telepathy in Early American Religion and Literature
Timothy Grieve-Carlson (Rice University)

Re-centering sensory intuition: Digital community cookbooks as sites of public pedagogy
Carlina Duan (University of Michigan)

Recording Disability Knowledges
Session 5: Saturday the 13th, 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM
Panel Chair: Bren Ram

Silence and Death: An Inherited Archive
Layla Zbinden-Britton (University of Southern California)

Touching the Blind in Passing
YuHao Chen (University of Pittsburgh)

When Crip Time is Chronic; or thoughtfeelings on sensing my bodymind in pain
Sav Schlauderaff (University of Arizona)

Sensing Contemporary Art
Session 6: Saturday the 13th, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Panel Chair: Gordon Hughes

Please Do Touch the Artwork: Making Sense of Modern Sculpture through More Than Sight
Inbal Strauss (University of Oxford)

Racial Tasting: On the Performance of Sugar
Sarah Lewis-Cappellari ((University of California, Los Angeles)

Olfactory Other: Scent and the Politics of Detainment in New Media Art
Devon Baur (University of California, Los Angeles)