The Concordia Sensoria Research Team (CONSERT) has been carrying out research on the cultural construction 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 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

Planning is under way for a major international, interdisciplinary conference on the senses. It will be held in the spring of 2010, as a sequel to the Uncommon Senses I conference (see below).

During the fall of 2005, in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, CONSERT presented a lecture series entitled "Sensing the City: Sensuous Explorations of the Urban Landscape." The series included talks by the renowned Canadian composer (and soundscape theorist) R. Murray Schafer, sensory historian Constance Classen and art critic Jim Drobnick, among others. Click here to find out more about the series and/or read the papers that were presented.


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

Contact information: senses@alcor.concordia.ca