The following is a list of conference participants as of 12 March 2000.

Joan Acland (Art History, Concordia University)
"Traces of the Body: The Art of Faye Heavyshield"
 

Anna Alexander (Simone de Beauvoir Institute)
"High Sensations: Sense and Sensibility in the Masochism of Saint Catherine of Genoa"
 

Sandra Alfoldy (Art History, Concordia University)
"Rethinking the Gaze: Craft Objects in Gallery Spaces"
 

Pamela Allara (Fine Arts, Brandeis University)
"Do Not Touch: The Modernist Repression of the Tactile and its Return as Kitsch"
 

Asa Andersson (Fine Art and Philosophy, Staffordshire University)
"Intimacy and Site-Oriented Installation Art"
 

Mark Andrejevic (Center for Mass Media Research, University of Colorado at Boulder)
"Digital Aesthetics in the Era of Cyber-Capitalism"
 

Olivier Asselin (Art History, Concordia University)
"`L'âme au bout des doigts': The Reconfiguration of the Body in Diderot's Aesthetics"
 

Philip Auslander (Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Black Plastic with a Hole in the Middle: Looking at Records"
 

Sara-Jane Bailes (Performance Studies, New York University)
"Battling Blood: Harsh Life in a Scene from Ron Athey's Performance"
 

Barbara McGill Balfour (Studio Art, York University)
"The Transference of Absence: Imprint and Imprimatur"
 

Clara Banderall (Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo)
"The Sensible Power of Images"
 

Sally Banes (Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin at Madison)
"Olfactory Performance"
 

Suzanne Barnard (Psychology, Duquesne University)
"Per_Sen_Test: The Fantasy of Weightlessness"
 

Robert Bean (Media Arts, The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design)
"Polyphonic Aurality in the Context of John Cage's Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegan's Wake"
 

Janet Bertsch (German, University College London)
"Sensory Perception and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century Sectarian Literature"
 

Rosemary Betterton (Institute for Women's Studies, Lancaster University)
"A Matter of Paint: The Carnal Subject of Aesthetics"
 

Sam Beway (Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology)
"Topologies of Sensation: Fragmentary Maps of Contemporary Architecture"
 

Laura Biagi (Performance Studies, New York University)
"Sensing the Other/Sensing the Museum"
 

Suzannah Biernoff (Visual Culture and Media, Middlesex University)
"The Eye of the Flesh: Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages"
 

Steven Bleicher (Visual Communications, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale)
"Sense of Touch: Tactile Sensation in a Digital World"
 

Stephen Blundell (Art, University of Central England)
"The Forgotten Sense - Proprioception"
 

Diane Borsato (Fine Arts, Concordia University)
"Sleeping with Cake: A Series of Artist Projects"
 

Oliver I Botar (School of Art, University of Manitoba)
"Perceptual Expansionism"
 

Joanna Bottenberg (Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University)
"`A Fantastic Mutation of Normal Reality': Sensory Experience inDeath in Venice"
 

Galen Brokaw (Foreign Languages and Literature, Lafayette College)
"The Epistemology of the Senses in New World Historiography"
 

Jodi Brooks (Theatre, Film and Dance, University of New South Wales)
"`Worrying the Note': Mapping Time in the Gangsta Film"
 

Sandra Buckley (State University of New York at Albany)
"The Embrace: Encounters of the Ethical Kind"
 

Stephanie Bunn (Independent Scholar)
"What is the Artist's Touch?"
 

Cathy Busby (National Gallery of Canada)
"Bob Flanagan on Pain Management: Alligator clips on my dick ... Demerol on my mind"
 

Hugh Campbell (School of Architecture, University College Dublin)
"Open up the Window (and get some air into this room)"
 

Katherine Carl (Art History, State University of New York at Stony Brook)
"Sensuous Spaces"
 

Annamaria Carusi (St Augustine College of South Africa)
"Bodily Connections: Embodiment Theory and Literature"
 

Jewel Castro (Independent Artist)
"Expressing Samoan Culture in Installation Art"
 

Clive Cazeaux (History and Theory of Art and Design, University of Wales Institute)
"Metaphor and the Categorization of the Senses"
 

Deborah Cherry (History of Art, University of Sussex)
"It Causes a Stink but does It Smell? Contemporary Art, the Senses and `Sensation'"
 

Audrey Churgin (Art educator)
"Collaborative Footprints: Imprints of Psychic Exchange"
 

Constance Classen (Lonergan College, Concordia University)
"The Futurist Sensorium and the Cultural Politics of the Senses"
 

Paula Murray Cole (East Coast Artists)
"Rasa boxes Workshop"
 

Jodi Cranston (Art History, Boston University)
"Touch and Vividness in the Italian Renaissance"
 

Gabor Csepregi (Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology)
"Experiencing Sound Atmospheres"
 

Thomas Csordas (Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University)
"A Navajo Philosophy of Color"
 

Sophie Dalle (Université Toulouse Le Mirail)
"Un débat interdisciplinaire sur la surdité"
 

Mônica Dantas (Etudes et pratiques des arts, UQAM)
"The Dancer's Kinesthetic Sense: Touching from the Inside"
 

Dena Davida (Etudes et pratiques des arts, UQAM)
"The Dancer's Kinesthetic Sense: Touching from the Inside"
 

Bruno Deschênes (Independent Researcher)
"The Influence of Technology on Music"
 

Robert Desjarlais (Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College)
"Uncommon Vision: Sensory Engagements and Disengagements among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists"
 

Nélia Dias (Anthropology, Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Tabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon)
"French Anthropology and the Study of the Senses of the `Primitive'"
 

Kirsche Dickson (Dance History and Theory, University of California at Riverside)
"Liberty Dances: The American Dancing Girl and the Secular National Faith in Progress"
 

Leanne Downing (Arts and Education, LaTrobe University)
"From Wonka Bars to Cheesy Poofs: The Taste(s) of Popular Cinema"
 

Rosalyn Driscoll (Visual/tactile artist)
"The Sense of Connection: Touching Art"
 

Jim Drobnick (Humanities, Concordia University)
"Corrupting the Purity of the White Cube: Olfactory Interventions Into Museum and Gallery Architectures"
 

Nicole Dubreuil (Histoire de l'art, Université de Montréal)
"Old Masters of Modern Art: Aging, Suffering and the Economy of Representation"
 

Olga Duhamel (Université de Montréal)
"De l'absorption des drogues par la bouche, le nez et la peau"
 

Omri Elisha (Anthropology, New York University)
"Sacred Attentiveness: Charismatic Christians and the Indeterminacy of Spiritual Gifts"
 

Bridget Elliott (Visual Arts, The University of Western Ontario)
"A Soft Touch: Women Designers of Deco"
 

Nadia Ferrara (anthropologie, Université de Montréal)
"From Isolation to Reintegration: The Adoption of Different sensory Codes"
 

Valentin Ferdinán (Middlebury College)
"Aesthetics, Materiality and the History of the Senses"
 

Kathleen Ferguson (Centre for Literary and Visual Culture, Monash University)
"Taste and the Production of Pleasure: Melbourne's Queen Victoria Markets"
 

Gary Alan Fine (Sociology, Northwestern University)
"Wittgenstein's Kitchen: Sharing Sense in Restaurant Work"
 

Daniel Fisher (Anthropology, New York University)
"A Sonic Poesis of Place and Person in the Andes"
 

Jennifer Fisher (Communications, McGill University)
"Sense Gestures: From Tableau Vivant to the Soap Opera"
 

Wes Folkerth (English, McGill University)
"Sounding Out Richard: Henry Irving and the Shakespearean Soundscape"
 

Derek S. Foster (Communications, Carleton University)
"The Haptic Self: Senses Gone Awry"
 

Joanna Frueh (Art History, University of Nevada, Reno)
"Vaginal Aesthetics"
 

Greg Garvey (Design Art, Concordia University)
"Avatar Heresies: The King Lives (Virtually)"
 

Louise Gauthier (Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University)
"Riding the Steel Internet: A Look at the North American Freight Writing Culture"
 

Raymond Gervais (Independent Artist)
"Via Helen Keller"
 

Kathryn Geurts (Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago)
"Toward a Cultural Psychology of the Senses: Notes on an Anlo-Ewe Theory of Inner States"
 

Kanishka Goonewardena (Geography, University of Toronto)
"The Urban Sensorium"
 

Elena Gorfinkel (New York University)
"Tactility, History, Sexuality: Peggy Ahwesh's The Color of Love and the Felt Object of Film History"
 

Camilla Griggers (Women's Studies Program, Carlow College)
"Per_Sen_Test: The Fantasy of Weightlessness"
 

Sabine Gross (German, University of Wisconsin at Madison)
"The Sensory Subversion of Reading"
 

Marte Gulliksen (Stavanger College)
"The Creative Meeting: A Theoretical and Practico-Aesthetic Study of the `Meeting' between the Material and the Artist in Creating a Work of Art"
 

Eran Guter (Philosophy, Boston University)
"Through the Glass Brightly: Synaesthesia and the Arts"
 

Minrose Gwin (University of New Mexico)
"The Smell of the Father: Elaine Kraf's Find Him! and the Disassembly of the Feminist Reader"
 

Roger Haden (University of Technology, Sydney)
"Taste and Technology: Count Rumford's `Red Hot Monsters' and `Metaphysical Soup'"
 

Rosemary Drage Hale (Religion, Concordia University)
"Transformative Performances: The Soul's Sensuous Body in Medieval Mystical Narratives"
 

Jennifer Hansen (Philosophy, Gettysburg College)
"Written on the Body, Written by the Senses"
 

Janice Helland (Art History, Queen's University)
"A Sense of Extravagance: Margaret Macdonald's Gesso Panels"
 

Bernard Hibbitts (School of Law, University of Pittsburgh)
"Returning to Our Senses: De-scribing Law through Digital Technology"
 

Charles Hirschkind (Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto)
"Ethical Listening within Contemporary Islamic Egypt"
 

Kahente Horn-Miller (Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University)
"From Paintings to Power: The Artwork of Louis Karoniakatajeh Hall (1917-1993)"
 

David Howes (Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University)
"Sensual Relations, or The Life of the Senses in Society: Melanesian Case Studies"
 

Pamela Ivinski (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
"`No Other Concern than Maternal Caresses': Depicted and Factural Gestures in Mother and Child Images by Mary Cassatt, 1889-92"
 

Michelle Johnson (MFA, York University)
"Pardon Me"
 

May Joseph (Performance Studies, New York University)
"Frugality and Urbanity"
 

Elzbieta Kazmierczak (Art, State University of New York at Buffalo)
"Toward Ideal Harmony: Experiencing Artists' Books as Visual-Tactile-Auditory-Olfactive Diagrams of Semiotic Modelling"
 

Ted Kafala (Cultural Studies in Education, Ohio State University)
"Multisensorial Interactivity and the Construction of Knowledge in 3D Object Cyberspace"
 

Barbara Keifenheim (East Asia Institute of Visual Anthropology, Yunnan University)
"The Shifting Relationships Between Gaze and Image: The Cashinahua Indians of Eastern Peru and their Ornamentalistics"
 

Carol Kiendl (Disability, University of Illinois at Chicago)
"Facilitating Art-making Experiences For Children with Disabilities"
 

Michael Kigel (Philosophy, York University)
"Nailing the Earlobe to the Doorpost"
 

Vicki Kirby (Sociology, University of New South Wales)
"Talking Sense: Merleau-Ponty's Vision"
 

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Performance Studies, New York University)
"Making Sense of Food"
 

Gerry Kisil (Independent Scholar)
"The Furnace: Analysis of an Interactive Digital Installation"
 

Sharon Kivland (Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University)
"Le Bonheur de femmes / The Scent of a woman"
 

Georgina Kleege (Independent Scholar/writer)
"A World of Sense: Helen Keller Represents Blind-Deaf Experience"
 

Kanta Kochar-Lindgren (Central Michigan University)
"At the Edge of Hearing: The Third Ear and the Performance of Difference"
 

Caroline Koebel (Media Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo)
"Per_Sen_Test: Inflorescentia"
 

Carolyn Korsmeyer (Philosophy, University at Buffalo)
"Tasting Symbols, Eating Art"
 

Catherine Kudlick (History, University of California at Davis)
"When French and Americans Look at Helen Keller"
 

Nathalie Lachance (anthropologie, Université de Montréal)
"La culture sourde: Plus qu'une adaptation à la perte auditive"
 

Thomas Lamarre (East Asian Studies, McGill University)
"Haptic Vision and the Intuition of Time"
 

Michael Latham (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
"The Private Life of the Senses: Synesthesia, Eidetic Imagery and the Denigration of Modern Art in National Socialist Germany"
 

Todd Lawson (Independent scholar)
"Islam and the `Lower' Senses"
 

David Le Breton (Université de Strasbourg)
"The Senses and the Racist Representation of the Other"
 

Daniel Leonard (Columbia University)
"For an Experimental Philosophy of the Senses: Condillac's Sensitive Statue and Diderot's Metaphysical Anatomy"
 

Richard Leppert (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota)
"Food for Thought: Representation, Eating and the Imaginary Self"
 

Katherine Liberovskaya (Communication Studies, Concordia University)
"Multimedia of the Machine Age: A Genealogy of Multimedia through Avant Garde Movements in Western Art"
 

Carolina Loyola-García (MFA Program, Carnegie Mellon University)
"Per_Sen_Test: Crossing Borders"
 

Jamie MacDougall (Psychology, McGill University)
"The Senses and Deafness: A New Paradigm"
 

Paige MacDougall (Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University)
"Deafness and Sign Language in a Yucatec Maya Community"
 

Karmen MacKendrick (Philosophy, LeMoyne College)
"The Tactility of Language"
 

Catriona MacLeod (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania)
"Suspense and Sensory Difference in Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs"
 

Erin McCarthy (University of Ottawa)
"Experiencing the Between"
 

Andra McCartney (Communication Studies, Concordia University)
"Soundwalks as a way to understanding environments, and as multimedia practice"
 

Patrick McDonagh (Concordia University)
"Sense to Intelligence: Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard teaches the Wild Boy of Aveyron"
 

John McNorton (Royal College of Art and University of Wales)
"The Consciousness of the body in the act, time and space of a drawing"
 

Sudhir Mahadevan (New York University)
"Apperception: Re-reading Phenomenological Suppositions in Classical Film Theory"
 

Ariane Malikiossis (Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University)
"Experiences Through Clay: Therapeutic Modelling and Ceramics in Two Anthroposophic Communities"
 

Gary Malkowski (Canadian Hearing Society)
"The Senses and Deafness: A New Paradigm"
 

Monica Mak (Communications, McGill University)
"The Pixel Chef: American Television Cooking Shows and the Human Sensorium"
 

Corinne Mandel (Visual Arts, The University of Western Ontario)
"The Five Senses at the Vatican Library"
 

Patricia A. Mannix (Art History, University of California at Los Angeles)
"Feminine Identity Otherwise: Moving through the Latticework of Mary Kelly's Interim"
 

Lista Marcella (Histoire de l'art, Université de Limoges)
"De la médecine à l'art: applications de la synethésie chez Paul, Fort, Alexandre Scriabine, Vassily Kandinsky"
 

Laura Marks (Film Studies, Carleton University)
"Olfactory Montage"
 

Brian Massumi (English, State University of New York at Albany)
"The Parable of the Cave (Blind Version)"
 

Catherine Mavrikakis (Etudes françaises, Concordia University)
"Immateriality of the Senses and Immortality of the Love Object: Hallucinations, Mourning and Hysteria in a Virtual World"
 

Rod Michalko (Sociology, St. Francis Xavier University)
"The Blending of Social Identity and Mobility Devices in Blind People"
 

Christof Migone (Performance Studies, New York University)
"Flatus Vocis: Somatic Winds"
 

Ruth R. Miller (Art and Architecture, University of California at Santa Barbara)
"Pampering Pleasures and Aesthetic Aspirations"
 

Michele Minnick (East Coast Artists)
"Rasa boxes Workshop"
 

Paul Moore (Sociology, York University)
"The Body of the Audience: Marketing to the Entire Body in Movie-Going"
 

Natasha Myers (Environmental Studies, York University)
"Towards a Sensual Science"
 

Sharon Nagy (Anthropology, DePaul University)
"Sweet Incense and Sticky Foods: The House as a Multi-sensory Medium in the Arabian Gulf States"
 

Norie Newmark (Society for the Humanities, Cornell University)
"Listening to the Interface"
 

Kim Nielsen (Social Change and Development, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay)
"Helen Keller and the Senses of Justice"
 

Laurie Palmer (Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
"Sensory Pleasures of the Library"
 

Amy Pederson (Fine Arts, University of British Columbia)
"The Reincarnation of St. Orlan, or the Artist as Charlatan"
 

Robert Penkett (History, Reading University)
"Sensory Phenomena and Experience in the Early Medieval Other World"
 

Pierre Pepin (Multimedia, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale)
"The Virtual Touch"
 

Mireille Perron (Liberal Studies, Alberta College of Art and Design)
"Making Sense of the Self: Remapping Our Bodies"
 

Amanda Phillips and Mark Doyle (both at Leeds City Art Gallery)
"Extrasensory Understandings"
 

Deborah Pike (English, University of Sydney)
"`A Ludicrous Lushness': Sensory Excess and the Body in Process in the Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald"
 

Angela Plohman (Art History, Concordia University)
"Re-thinking the Aesthetic Experience: Diana Thorneycroft and the Sensorial Sublime"
 

George Pollard (Carleton University)
"Interaction and the Senses: Setting the Research Agenda"
 

Chantal Pontbriand (Parachute Magazine)
"The Body Thinks: Kinesthesia in Contemporary Art"
 

Terry Provost (Humanities, Concordia University)
"The Black Venus and Viscerality in Representation"
 

Tanisha Ramachandran (Religion, Concordia University)
"Feeling Sound: The Embodiment of the Goddess in the Srividya Tradition"
 

Charles Reeve (Cornell University)
"Re-embodying Greenberg's Viewer"
 

Simon Richter (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania)
"Metonymies of the Tonue: Hegal, Abraham, and the Food Film"
 

Kenneth Rogers (New York University)
"Tactile Photography"
 

Randal Rogers (Art History, Concordia University)
"A Perfectly Spaced-Out Nation"
 

Noel Salmond (Carleton University)
"Smells and Bells: The Use of the Senses and the Burning of Substances in Christian and Hindu Examples of Ritual Reformulation/Reformation"
 

Ruth Salvaggio (American Studies, University of New Mexico)
"Counting on Poetry: Gardens and Cultural Reghimes"
 

Richard Schechner (Performance Studies, New York University)
"Rasaesthetics"
 

Michael Schiff (Social and Political Thought, York University)
"Semanalytic Synaesthesia: Embodying Critical and Aesthetic Discourse in Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection"
 

Peter Schmunk (Fine Arts, Wofford College)
"What Did Van Gogh Hear? Wagner, Vibrations and Voices"
 

Sandra Seekins (History of Art, University of Michigan)
"Flesh, Meaning and the Augmented Body: The Future of the Human"
 

Gregory Seigworth (Communication and Theatre, Millersville University)
"Fashioning a Stave"
 

Sandra Shapshay (Philosophy, Columbia University)
"Schopenhauer's Un-Savoury Aesthetics: The Case of the Still Life"
 

Lydia Sharman (Design Art, Concordia University)
"An Intrinsic Relationship Between Sound and Image"
 

Sherry Simon (Humanities Doctoral Programme, Concordia University)
"Voice-Morphing: Farinelli and the Cult of the Hybrid Voice"
 

Wendy Simon (Lonergan College)
"Seeing the Invisible"
 

Johanne Sloan (Columbia University)
"Entropic Effects"
 

Tegan Smith (Independent Scholar)
"The Distances Between"
 

Judith Sparks (Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University)
"The Perception of Deception"
 

Lisa Stefanoff (Anthropology, New York University)
"Feeling Fabulous Forever: Hyperaesthesia, Memory and Mundanity in Some Recent Queer Australian Cultural Production"
 

Cindy Stelmackowich (History and Theory of Art, State University of New York at Binghamton)
"Sensing, Speaking Through the Body: The Experiential and Discursive Female Medieval Mystical Sensorium"
 

Charles J. Stivale (Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University)
"Feeling the Event: `Spaces of Affect' and the Cajun Dance Arena"
 

Edyta Supinska-Polit (English Studies, University of Warsaw)
"Fingerprints in Clay or the Haptic Quality in the Work of Teresa Murak"
 

Melanie Swalwell (Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney)
"Hyperaesthesia, Sensory Concurrence and New Technologies"
 

Kevin Sweeney (Philosophy, The University of Tampa)
"Chilies and Beaujolais: John Dewey's Gustatory Aesthetic"
 

Tess Takahashi (Brown University)
"Tactile Spectatorship: Links Between Early Film Theory and Video Art"
 

Tanya Titchkosky (Sociology, St. Francis Xavier University)
"Technology Advertisement: Re-organizing the Senses and Re-constituting a Disabled Identity"
 

David Tomas (Arts plastiques, UQAM)
"The Sensory Envelope of Information Events Generated Between Archaic and New Imaging Technologies"
 

Mary-Louise Totton (History of Art, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
"Surrogate Smells: Virtual Womb"
 

Eleni Tracada (History of Art and Architecture, University of Manchester)
"Tasting, Touching and Smelling Art in Special Seclusion Spaces"
 

Thea Udd (Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University)
"Aged to Imperfection: Consequences of Olfactory Depletion"
 

Francisco Vaz da Silva (Anthropology, Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Tabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon)
"Vision Beyond Eyesight"
 

Astrid Vicas (Philosophy, Saint Leo University)
"Discrepancy"
 

Florence Vinit (Université Laval)
"La notion d'atmosphère dans la relation soignant-soigné: Approche phénoménologique"
 

Steven Wagschal (Franklin and Marshall College)
"I Dream of a Symphony of Smells: On the Origin and Future of Smell Art"
 

Elizabeth Walden (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota)
"Common Senses: Language, Ocularcentrism and the Recovery of the Human Sensorium"
 

Meredith Walsh (Australian National University)
"Making Sense of Stelarc"
 

Alicia Wargo (Art, Rutgers University)
"How Loud is my Voice? Contemporary Artists Practising Silence"
 

Nancie Wight (Humanities, Concordia University)
"Composing the Screen: Possibilities for Performing Letterforms"
 

Isabel Wunsche (Art History, California Institute of Technology)
"Synthesizing Sensory Experience: The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde"
 

Judith Reiter Weissman (Art, New York University)
"Sensory Adventures in Aesthetics: The Art of Helen Chadwick"
 

Shin-Yi Yang (History of Art, Cornell University)
"Marcel Duchamp's Sensory Language: A New Interpretation of Ready-Mades"