Bard Graduate Center is excited to announce the full program for the upcoming student-organized graduate symposium, Sensing Matters: Bodies, Experiences, and Objects. Doors will open at 9am on May 1st for coffee and light refreshments with the symposium officially starting at 9:30am. There will be two morning sessions and two afternoon sessions with a lunch break in between and a reception in the evening.

Please register for the event here: Registration for Sensing Matters

Please feel free to contact [email protected] with questions or concerns.

9 AM - Doors Open with Coffee and Light Refreshments

9:20 AM - Opening Remarks

9:30 - 10:45 AM: Session 1: Bodily Norms and Hierarchies (Moderated by Angela Crenshaw)

Speakers:
Jude Pettit (BGC)
Remembering Colonization: The Bodily Experience of Monuments

Joyce Gayo (Parsons)
Bijou Kreyol - (Creole Jewelry): The 19th and 20th Century Material Culture Of The French Caribbean

Corey Loftus (IFA)
“The Origin of Life”: Sex, Gestation, and Frederick Hollick’s Papier-mâché Uterine Models in the Antebellum Period

10:45 AM - 11 AM: Short Break

11 AM - 12:15 PM: Session 2: From Ephemeral to Accumulated (Moderated by Theodora Brown)

Speakers:
Ellie Botoman (CUNY)
Earthly Delights: Multisensory Contaminations of Queer Ecological Materiality In The Sculptural Installations of Precious Okoyomon and Daniel Lie

Emily Hayflick (Cornell)
One Whole Eagle: Assembling Eagle Bodies at the National Eagle Repository

Aisha Servia (Parsons)
Potentials of the Digital Hoard

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM: Session 3: Mapping Data, Mapping Archives (Moderated by Alex Calloway and Olivia Kormos)

Speakers:
Sydney Nguyen (NYU)
Indigenous Survivance and the Sensorial Life of Objects

Yvonne Mpwo (Columbia)
Men of Memory

Ellie Madsen (Columbia, MS)
Sonifying Pinna nobilis: Transcoding Tidalectic Measurement and Myth

2:45 PM - 3 PM: Short Break

3 PM - 4:15 PM: Session 4: Reception, Perception, and Multiplicity (Moderated by Lexi McKelvy)

Speakers:
Rebecca Miralrio (Hunter)
Malodorous Strategies: Disgust and Antagonism in Feminist Olfactory Art

Andy Salzer (FIT)
The Genderful Agency of Chromat

Sam Simons (BGC)
Sensing the Erotic City: The Cinematic Staging of ‘White Slavery’ in Progressive Era New York

4:30 PM - Closing Remarks

4:30 - 6 PM Reception