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Étiqueté : senses

Journée d’études : Early Modern Sensory Encounters, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, 8-9 juin 2023

Interest in sensory experiences of the past has grown in recent years, with scholars engaging with interdisciplinary and anthropological approaches in order to better understand historical lived experiences. This annual conference explores the visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and/or olfactory elements of particular experiences across the globe between c.1400 and c.1700. This year’s conference, ‘Sensory Encounters’, will consider sensory experiences as instances or reflections of cultural exchange and will discuss possible methodologies and approaches to this...

Colloque en ligne : Touching Visions: Gender and the Potency of Visual Artefacts”, 29-30 janvier 2021

Screens – and so many of them. In recent months, under lockdown and social distancing, images of friends and family on our monitors have come to replace immediate corporeal intimacy. From haptic bonds of ‘skinship’ (Tahhan, 2014), connections are now forged by ‘screenship’; time spent face-to-face has become FaceTime. The problem then arises: how do visual artefacts touch us, and allow us to touch one another? This is the motivating question behind our seminar “Touching Visions.” Combining recent insights...

Parution : Barbara Baert, Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, Leyde, Brill, 2019

Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture is an anthology of the most recent works by Barbara Baert, discussing the connection between the experiences of the senses in the medieval and early modern visual culture, the hermeneutics of imagery, and the limits and possibilities of contemporary Art Sciences. The six chapters include Pentecost, Noli me tangere, the woman with an issue of blood, the Johannesschüssel, the dancing Salome,...