The Concordia Sensoria Research Team (CONSERT) has been carrying out research on the cultural life of the senses since 1988.

CONSERT is based in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8.

Please find below a list of CONSERT's past and present research projects, past and future conferences, research sampler, and information on publications by team members.

1. TEAM MEMBERS:

Investigators, Postdoctoral Students, Doctoral Students.

2. RESEARCH PROJECTS:

- "The Hands-On Museum: Transition Periods" (2011-2014)
- "Mediations of Sensation: Sensory Anthropology and the Creation/Evaluation of Multimodal Interactive Environments" (2010-2013)
- "The Sensory Museum: It's History and Reinvention " (2007-2010)
- "Multi-sensory Marketing: A Quantitative, Qualitative and Historical Appraisal" (2005- 2008)
- "The Sense Lives of Things: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of the Sensory Dimensions of Objects in Practices of Collection and Display" (2002-2005)
-"Beyond the Aesthetic Gaze: For an Aesthetics of the 'Other' Senses" (1997-2001)
-"Anthropology of Odor" (1990-1994)
-"The Varieties of Sensory Experience" (1988-1990)

3. CONFERENCES AND LECTURE SERIES

Explorations in Sensory Anthropology Symposium,
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences
June 1-3, 2010 at Concordia University, Montreal
-- Symposium Abstracts

Sensing the City: Sensuous Explorations of the Urban Landscape.
October-November 2005, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
-- Introduction and Presentations

Sensory Collections and Display Conference
February 10-12, 2005 at Concordia University, Montreal
-- Conference Program
-- Abstracts

Uncommon Senses: An International Conference On the Senses in Art and Culture
April 27-29, 2000 at Concordia University, Montreal.
-- Conference Program
-- Abstracts
-- Related Events:
         Vital Signs: Exhibition
         Sentience
         SenseMachines

4. RESEARCH SAMPLER: A selection of essays by CONSERT members.

5. PUBLICATIONS: A list of books by CONSERT members.

6. SITES OF RELATED INTEREST: Leading scholars and research centres in the field of sensory studies.

7. THE SIXTH SENSE READER AND ABCDERIUM OF EXTRA/SENSORY POWERS: Click here to access the Abcderium.

Contact information: senses@alcor.concordia.ca