This branch of the project has unfolded in two phases: pre-2024 and post-2024. Prior to 2024 it formed part of the Sensing Atmospheres project, and the events were supported by the Office of Vice-President Research, Innovation and Impact (OVPRII), the Center for Sensory Studies, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC), the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Concordia University, and the Quebec-based legal humanities network, Le Groupe de recherche sur les humanités juridiques. Since 2024, this branch has come under the “Sensing Differently” project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The list of publications also includes books, book chapters and journal articles in sound studies and related fields (via sensory studies) that date from a still earlier period: auguries of things to come.

Publications

Howes, D. (2024). Sensorium: Contextualizing the Senses and Cognition in History and Across Cultures. Cambridge University Press.

Unger, M. P. (2015). Sound, Symbol, Sociality: The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music. Palgrave Pivot.

Howes, D. (2025). Acoustancy: Experiments in sensory museology. The Senses and Society, 20(3), 419–429.

Howes, D. (2018). Embodiment and the Senses. In M. Bull (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (pp. 24–34). Routledge.

Howes, D. (2016). Music to the Eyes: Intersensoriality, Culture, and the Arts. In M. Cobussen, V. Meelberg, & B. Truax (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art (pp. 159–168). Routledge.

Howes, D. (2015). Sensation. In S. B. Plate (Ed.), Key Terms in Material Religion (pp. 193–199). Bloomsbury.

Howes, D. (2011). Hearing Scents, Tasting Sights: Toward a Cross-Cultural Multimodal Theory of Aesthetics. In F. Bacci & D. Mellon (Eds.), Art and the Senses (pp. 161–182). Oxford University Press.

Bull, M., & Howes, D. (2025). Sensory Studies 2026: A state-of-the-art review. The Senses and Society, 1–18.