Making Sense: History and the Sensory Past, Sep-Nov

Making Sense: History and the Sensory Past Shannon Lecture Series, Fall 2012 Carleton University, Ottawa

All lectures are free and open to the public. No registration is required.
The lectures are held on Friday afternoons 3:00-4:30 in 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University, with a reception to follow.

Please visit the Shannons website for full details, including lecture descriptions and speaker bios:
http://www2.carleton.ca/history/events/shannon-lecture/shannon-lectures-...

Making Sense: History and the Sensory Past

September 28
"Writing Sensuous Histories"
Constance Classen

October 12
"Tasting the Past"
Carolyn Korsmeyer, University at Buffalo, SUNY

October 19
"Renumbering the Sensorium: How the Blind Man Lost a Cane and Regained His Senses"
Georgina Kleege, University of California, Berkeley

October 26
"Medical Sensations: Building an Exhibition about Medicine Through the Five Senses"
David Pantalony, Canada Science and Technology Museum

November 2
"Sensing War: Children's Memories of Wartime Atlantic Canada, 1939-1945"
Barbara Lorenzkowski, Concordia University

November 9
"Sensory History and the American Civil War"
Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina