Sensory Subjectivities Workshop
Sensory Subjectivities Workshop, Oxford (11-12 June 2025)
This workshop will bring together a group of interdisciplinary scholars to identify new transdisciplinary methodological approaches to address multisensorial experiences, encounters, and subjectivities. The workshop will include short presentations on a specific ‘artefact’ by participants, handling sessions at the Ashmolean, and workshopping ideas on teaching and museum engagement.
Key aims and outcomes:
- To establish a new methodology to address multisensorial experiences, encounters, and subjectivities.
- To bring together a group of interdisciplinary scholars to workshop ideas and approaches.
- To devise a ‘sensory subjectivities artefact toolbox’ through the engagement with objects, which can be used in teaching, museum engagement, and research. This would take social identity mapping tools from the social sciences and consider how these might be adapted for a historical artefact. We will workshop questions and mapping tools that enable beholders to reflect on sensory subjectivities embedded into the artefact itself but also how the positionality of the beholder might alter sensory perceptions of that object.
