Program
(Updated June 11, 2020)
All times in EEST
Conference abstract book (June 4th):
Update JUNE 10: (10am) Zoom link for Stream A has changed. Please check you email!
Update June 10: All registered participants have been sent the conference Zoom links from the address congress@elen.fi. If you cannot find the posts in your inbox please first check your junk mail box and then contact congress@elen.fi. If you are not registered you can still follow the keynote lectures of Paul Stoller and Jean-Paul Thibaud in Facebook Live at Sensotra's FB-page: https://www.facebook.com/sensotra/
WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE
10:00 WELCOME RECEPTION WITH MORNING COFFEE
10:30 SESSIONS 1
| A Body, walk, paths, and remembering I | B Mediations of sensory experience at the level of the everyday I |
1 | Laure Brayer: Walking in Space and Time: Inhabitants Sensory Perceptions, Memories and Participations in a changing landscape | Milla Tiainen: Immediations in the making: Studying the emergent relationality of environmental sensory experiences |
2 | Helmi Järviluoma: Transgenerational sensobiography as mobile and embodied life writing |
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3 | Laura Forment & Silvia Luraschi: Walking-with refugees and natives | Bonnie Tilland: Parenting While Sensing "Bad Air" in South Korea |
4 | Natalie Bourdon: Body Poetics and Body Politics: Sensory Autoethnography and Ethnographic Poetry as Method | Two poster presentations: |
12:30 Lunch
13:30 SESSIONS 2
| A Boundaries of perception | B Mediations of sensory experience at the level of the everyday II |
1 | Sarah Vollmer, Rachelar Ho & Marco Pesce: Boundaries of perception – Virtual vs Reality | Heikki Uimonen: Bodies and Narratives Constructing Urban Spaces |
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3 | Bethan Prosser: Sounding out the sensorium: understanding sound methods within a multisensory approach | Lucia Aramayo: Riding a bus in Guatemala City: The representation of Mobility experiences and practices in Julio Serrano's stories |
15:00 Virtual coffee rooms for discussions
15:15 SESSIONS 3
| A Sensory Commons I | B Senses, hierarchies, and multisensoriality I |
1 | Lesley Murray: Senso-generational rhythms of urban mobile spaces |
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2 | Juhana Venäläinen: Senses on/of the move: mobilities, place-making and the urban sensory commons | Gözde Cöbek: All that is solid turns into ruins: the aesthetics of urban deformation in Istanbul, Turkey |
3 | Sandi Abram: Sharing of the Sensible in Common: Remembering the Tastes and the Smells of Wartime Ljubljana and Early Socialist Yugoslavia through Sensobiographic Walks | Cordula Weisskoeppel: Step by step: multisensual walking as an instrument for decolonizations
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4 | Sonja Pöllänen: The sensation of likeness in sensobiographic walks | John D’Arcy: Do You Hear What I Hear? A walk about stepping into someone else’s ears |
17:15 Virtual coffee rooms for discussions
17:30 KEYNOTE Paul Stoller: Sensing Spirit Possession: Evoking the Sensorium in Slow Anthropology. Chair: Helmi Järviluoma
18:15 End of day 1
THURSDAY 11 JUNE
10:30 KEYNOTE Jean-Paul Thibaud: The Hypothesis of Ambient Sensitivity. Chair: Rajko Mursic
11:15 Coffee break with virtual coffee rooms for discussion
11:30 SESSIONS 4
| A Body, walk, paths, and remembering II | B Mediations of sensory experience at the level of the everyday III |
1 | Eeva Berglund: On how to meander through modern landscapes, immersed in the digital: a sympathetic critique pf walking research | Chris Cook: Sensitivity and sociality: co-composing with Trevor, who has mild cognitive impairment |
2 | Eeva Pärjälä: Transgenerational place attachement | Guy Julier: What is 60 Minutes in Smart Kalasatama?: experimenting with performance as method |
3 | Noora Vikman: Spaces and places of silence | Pekka Tuominen: Guided by Absurdity: Fragile Affinity between Imagination and Materiality in the Finnish Urban Periphery |
4 | Ari Koivumäki: Sonic garden | Joel Ong: The Participatory Microbial Mise en Scene |
13:30 Lunch
14:30 WORKSHOPS 1
A John D’Arcy: Do You Hear What I Hear? Soundwalk | B Janine Uprichard: Experiments in Deep Smelling |
16:00 Virtual coffee rooms for discussions
16:15 SESSIONS 5
| A Mediations of sensory experience at the level of the everyday IV | B Sensory Commons II |
1 | Hilda Kozari: From the smell of Helsinki | Meri Kytö: 'Tis the season to do listening walks: A methodological approach to seasonal music and urban environment |
2 | Inkeri Aula: Experiences of urban nature and digital media technologies entangled: sensobiographies of young people in Turku, Finland | Arba Bekteshi: Sensorial Investigations of Tirana Garden(s): Commoning through Embodiment Practices and Thick Present |
3 | Karla Berrens: Sensing place amidst fire and sound, correfocs in Barcelona | Andrea Tremblay: mind.heart.mouth.: Nature Connectedness through Sensory Experiences |
4 | Elina Hytönen-Ng: Sound and technology in the soundscape of schools | Vaiva Aglinskas: Stairwell Sensorium: reclaiming post-Soviet stigmatized space through art |
18:15 End of day 2
FRIDAY 12 JUNE
10:00 WORKSHOPS 2
A Anna-Maija Raikamo: Sensory Words | B Interactive Talks on Art |
11:15 Short break
11:20 Sessions 6
| A Sensory methodologies I | B Senses, hierarchies, and multisensoriality II |
1 | Helena Karhu: Urban Shamanism and Personal Power Places: Visual Anthropological and Autoethnographic Study in Helsinki | Ana Svetel: Hygge atmospheres: Sensations and anticipations |
2 | Jacqueline Waldock: Drawing together, Recording together: the complexities of inscribing self in urban space | Blaž Bajič: Hierarchizing senses, sensing hierarchies |
3 | Rajko Mursic: Sensorial narrations on music and dance: extrapolating affect from sensobiographic walks | Elina Seye: The corporeality of sound and movement in performance: an alternative approach to analyzing dance-music interrelations |
12:50 Short break
13:00 KEYNOTE Johanna Sumiala: Mediations of Death: Sensing (Im)Mortality in Contemporary Media City. Chair: Milla Tiainen
13:45 SUMMING UP – THE CONCLUDING PANEL (Stream C)
Impromptu Panel: Sensing the Conference
Chair: Helmi Järviluoma Participants: Docent Taina Kinnunen (UEF); Dr Virpi Kaukio (UEF); and MA, artist, director of Senzorium institute Barbara Pia Jenič
Live Music (Eero Lehtimäki) Conductor and Clarinettist Artistic director and chief conductor of Joensuu City Orchestra https://www.eerolehtimaki.com/
Free chatting
15:00 The End of the Conference with Live Music (Eero Lehtimäki) Stream C ends directly after the last music performance at 15:00 EEST.
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Online Art Work:
Ghost Light by Mark Niskanen, Jani-Matti Salo in collaboration with Inkeri Aula & SENSOTRA research project
https://www.niskanensalo.com/ghost-light
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Technical hosts for Zoom venues:
- Keynotes: Juhana Venäläinen
- Sessions A: Salli Anttonen
- Sessions B: Meri Kytö
- Coffee breaks and Conference party: Anu Koponen and Anna-Maija Raikamo
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