Sentience Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Sensory Studies and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC)
Guest speaker - Lauren Hayes: Site-Responsive Sonic Art
This virtual lecture series will probe the bounds and varieties of sentience. The aim is to arrive at a general theory of sentience, in all its multiplicity. All lectures are held via Zoom. Follow the links to the individual events to learn more and register.
Questions include:
What is sentience?
Is it contingent on the possession of a nervous system?
How is sentience distributed beyond the human?
How does sentience differ from intelligence (including Artificial Intelligence)?
Topics include:
Plant-sensing
Animal senses
Human sentience
Environmental-sensing
Animate artefacts
Machine-sensing
New media art
Sentience is organized by David Howes, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Sponsored by the Centre for Sensory Studies and co-sponsored by the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) and two CISSC Working Groups: Colonial, Racial and Indigenous Ecologies (CRIE) and Sensing Atmospheres.
