{"id":20067,"date":"2017-10-23T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T14:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=20067"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:10","slug":"call-papers-othered-senses-law-regulation-sensorium-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2017\/call-papers-othered-senses-law-regulation-sensorium-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: The Othered Senses: Law, Regulation, Sensorium – Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Call for Papers: The Othered Senses: Law, Regulation, Sensorium – Workshop\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

May 1-2, 2018 – <\/strong>Montreal, Quebec, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Othered Senses: Law, Regulation, Sensorium<\/em> is an intensive scholarly workshop in Montreal, Quebec to take place on May 1-2, 2018, immediately prior to and in affiliation with Uncommon Senses 2: Art, Technology, Education, Law, Society and Sensory Diversity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Othered Senses<\/em> launches from, and seeks to trouble, two premises. The first is that law and legal studies has come lately to the study of the sensual, and when the law has thought about the senses, the story is frequently one of discipline, translation, and the movement of non-rational senses into rational Law, with a capital \u201cl\u201d. The second premise is that inquiry into the senses remains dominated by a focus on the ocular- and aural-centric, leaving the study of the \u2018other\u2019 senses (taste, touch, and smell) understudied, treating the senses in isolation, and reproducing a five-sense understanding of sensation. We suggest the time is right for intellectual and political creativity in the imagined and material spaces where legal regulation and sensorial experience clash, where laws and sensing bodies entangle, and where sensuality and legal institutions flirt. We invite scholars to explore the multi-directional flows of legal-sensory encounter and its multiple modes and registers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this workshop we seek to animate an interdisciplinary discussion that brings together scholars interested in the unlikely, messy, and less studied ways in which sensing bodies and legal(ized) practices interact in powerful ways. We hope to disrupt the normal and normalizing order of senses, to counter law\u2019s attachment to reason, and to de-romanticize the body. We ask: whose senses count and do not count in law\u2019s register? What invisible work do the \u2018lower\u2019 senses do? How can regulatory structures take account of the synaesthetics of embodied experience? How does the hierarchy of the senses intersect with the debilitating structuring dualisms of Western culture: mind\/body; person\/property; human\/animal; adult\/child; abled\/disabled; settler\/savage? And how might we disrupt and dismantle the regulatory apparatuses which invest in these dualisms? In what ways might legal logics and sensorial pleasures productively stimulate each other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We invite questions in the spirit of, but not in any way limited to<\/em>, the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n