Please find here the dates for Sensorium meetings and attached readings

Fall 2019

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Location: Prof. Mary Favret’s House, 5:00 pm. See email for further instructions.

Readings:

• Text and Textile, James, Moe, and Trumpener. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Special Exhibition, Yale University.

• Altschuler and Weimer, “Texturing the Digital Humanities: A Manifesto.” PMLA 131.5 (2020).

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Location: The Ambassador, 5:00 pm. See email for further instructions.

Readings:

• J.G. Herder, from Sculpture (c.1770),trans. Jason Gaiger [12 pp.]

• J.G. Herder, from “On Image, Poetry, and Fable” (c.1787), trans. Gregory Moore [4 pp.]

• OPTIONAL: Helen Slaney, “In the Body of the Beholder: Herder’s Aesthetics and Classical Sculpture,” in Touch and the Ancient Senses, ed. Alex Purves (Routledge, 2018).

Fall 2018

Monday, October 15, 2018

Location: Gilman Hall 130D, 4:15 pm

Readings:

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “The Intertwining—The Chiasm.”

• R. Murray Schaffer, “The Soundscape.”