Presentations
“Métis Sensuality: Touch, Balance, and Pain in Indigenous Contemporary Creative Practice” at Uncommon Senses V (video recording of the session)
• David Garneau (Visual Arts, University of Regina, Canada)
The Extended Field of Indigenous Traditional and Contemporary Art
• Holly Aubichon (Visual Arts, University of Regina, Canada)
Wahkohtowin senses: ways of knowing as attunement to cultural sensory recognition
• Sara McCreary (Visual Arts, University of Regina, Canada)
Sounding Métis Futurisms in Fashion
“Sensitive Material I: The Production of Tangible Cultural Heritage” at Uncommon Senses V (video recording of the session)
• Audrey Colonel-Coquet (Université Grenoble Alpes/LARHRA, France)
The Smell of Leather, From the Material to Fragrances, in the Light of History: The Example of Russia Leather
• Ningxiang Sun (School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Give Me a Pottery Factory and I Will Split the World
• Sowparnika Balaswaminathan (Religions & Cultures, Concordia University, Canada)
Sensory Labor and Sensible Aesthetic Communities: Traditional Hindu Sculptors and Claims-making in Contemporary India
“Sensitive Material II: The Circulation of Tangible Cultural Heritage” at Uncommon Senses V (video recording of the session)
• Mark Watson (Sociology & Anthropology, Concordia University, Canada)
Voicing Difference, Dancing Objects: an Exploration of Indigenous Ainu Aesthetics as a Means of Effecting Decolonizing Action in North American Museums
• Maureen Anne Matthews (Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Canada)
"Oniibawitaan: Speaking for Ourselves"
• David Howes (Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Canada)
A Preliminary Reconnaissance of the Spiritual, Sensorial and Legal Personality of Indigenous Artifacts
Select Publications
Balaswaminathan, S. (2025). “The Village Hotel: Aesthetic Formations and the Sacred Landscape in Tamilnadu.” Religions of South Asia: Special Issue on Pilgrimage 19(2): 226-244
Balaswaminathan, S. (2025). “Hindu Ethics & Aesthetics” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hindu Ethics. Eds. Pratap Penumala & Arvind Sharma. Bloomsbury. In Press.
Balaswaminathan, S. (2019) "The Real Thing: Craft, caste, and commerce in Late Capitalist India." Journal of Modern Craft 11(2):127-141.
Balaswaminathan, S. (2018). “Consuming Indian-ness: Capitalism, handicrafts and nationhood in India.” (with Thomas Levy) Eds. Lorraine Lim and Hye-Kyung Lee. Handbook on Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia, pp.349-361, Routledge, London & New York.
Fay, A., N. Wilson and D. Garneau (eds.). (2025). Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau. Regina: University of Regina Press.
Howes, D. (2025). “Métis Realism: On the materiality of smoke and relativity of rocks.” In Arin Fay (ed.) Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau. Regina: University of Regina Press.
Howes, D. (2023). Smoke and mirrors : A sensory analysis of Indigenous/settler commerce and covenants in North America. In Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law, 208-223.University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press
Howes, D. (2022a). Performative sensory environments : Alternative orchestrations of the senses in contemporary intermedia art. In The Sensory Studies Manifesto : Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences, 181-204. Toronto : University of Toronto Press.
Howes, D. (2022b). “In Defense of Materiality: Attending to the Sensori-Social Life of Things”, Journal of Material Culture 27(3): 313-335
Howes, D. (2018). ‘Sensing art and artifacts: explorations in sensory museology. The Senses and Society 13(3): 317-34
Howes, D. (ed). (2014). “Introduction to Sensory Museology,” The Senses and Society 9(3): 259-267
Howes, D (ed.) (2005). Introduction: Culture in the Domains of Law. Cross-Cultural Jurisprudence/La jurisprudence transculturelle, The Canadian Journal of Law and Society 20(1) special issue
Howes, D. (1995). Combating Cultural Appropriation in the American Southwest: Lessons from the Hopi Experience Concerning the Uses of Law. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 10(2), 129–154. doi:10.1017/S082932010000435X
Matthews, M. and R. Roulette. (2022). “Giigidootamishin, Speak on My Behalf!” in Anthropology News. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/giigidootamishin-speak-on-my-behalf/
Matthews, M., R. Roulette and JB. Wilson. (2021). “Meshkwajisewin: paradigm shift”. Religions 12, 894.
Matthews, M. and R. Roulette. (2018). "'Are all stones alive?' Anthropological and Anishnaabe approaches to personhood" in Rethinking Relations and Animism: Personhood and Materiality, edited by M. Astor-Aguilera and G. Harvey. New York: Routledge.
Matthews, M. (2016). Naamiwan’s Drum: The Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinnaabe Artefacts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.