Excursions in Sensory Studies: Teaching, Doing, Writing

In the field of sensory scholarship, scholars have been scrutinising and analysing sensory experience, sensory models and symbolism in relation to social actors of particular groups or cultures, and their sensory ways of being. In the process, we also consider our own sensory knowhow and learning as scholars and teachers. How are sensory data procured and articulated through various means and modes of communication and writing? How can we teach about the deployment of the fieldworker's and teacher's senses and body as a living, physical, sensing and experiencing agent that is deeply enmeshed in everyday and intimate encounters? How can we attend to the question of sensory experience by accounting for the relationships between bodies, minds and the sensory of in the context of the classroom? How do we carry out and teach sensory ethnographic research that accounts for the manifold ways where multisensoriality is integral both to the lives of people who participate in our research and to how we ethnographers practise our craft? The panel invites papers that deliberate upon the craft, writing, teaching and doing of sensory research to encompass debates on researcher and teacher positionality, pedagogy, curriculum design, ethics and writing.