The Department of Anthropology’s annual Seminar Series is organized this year under the title Sensorium: Anthropology and the Senses. We are excited to present a roster of guest scholars from across the sub-disciplines.
Guest lecturers include:
Autumn 2011
- Neill Hadder, Sept. 19, 2011
- Chris Kirk, Sept. 26, 2011
- David Howes, Oct. 17, 2011
- Lesley Stern, Oct. 24, 2011
- Audra Simpson, Nov. 7, 2011
- Brenda Bradley, Nov. 28, 2011
Spring 2012
- Stephen Houston, Feb. 6, 2012
- Paul Stoller, Feb. 27 2012
- Jonathan Sterne, March 19, 2012
- Enrique Rodriguez, April 2, 2012
- Elizabeth Keating, April 16, 2012
Series lectures will be held in SAC 5.118 on Mondays at noon
- Email: Craig Campbell for more information.
“We think we know perfectly well what ‘seeing’, ‘hearing’, ‘sensing’ are, because perception has long provided us with objects which are coloured or which emit sounds. When we try to analyse it, we transpose these objects into consciousness. We commit what psychologists call ‘the experience error’, which means that what we know to be in things themselves we immediately take as being in our consciousness of them. We make perception out of things perceived.”
