[Commlist] CFP for EASA Belfast 2022 panel: Sensory media anthropology, an introduction

Please consider submitting a paper proposal to our EASA Belfast 2022 
panel in July: ”Sensory media anthropology, an introduction”. The panel 
is part of the establishment of a network on sensory media anthropology. 
The aim of the panel is to bring the subfields of media anthropology and 
sensory anthropology into dialogue, facilitating an introductory 
discussion of media and the sensory.


We are interested both in traditional papers presenting ongoing research 
and more exploratory presentations on what sensory media anthropology 
could comprise of and what it could bring to the joint fields of research.


The panel will be organised as hybrid. The deadline for abstracts is 
*March 21*st.


Link for submitting your abstract and info on the Belfast conference can 
be found here: 
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/programme#11221 
<https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/programme#11221>. Please 
see panel abstract P104.


Convenors:


Meri Kytö ((meri.kyto /at/ uef.fi)), Niamh Ní Bhroin ((n.n.bhroin /at/ media.uio.no)) 
and Nina Grønlykke Mollerup ((ninagm /at/ hum.ku.dk))


        Short Abstract:


        The aim of this panel is to bring the subfields of media
        anthropology and sensory anthropology into dialogue,
        facilitating an introductory discussion of media and the sensory.


        Long Abstract:

The past decades have seen an increased mediatization of societies, 
which has engendered growing research interest in media and new 
methodological opportunities. Over this period, media anthropology has 
been established as a significant sub-field within anthropology. 
Simultaneously, there has been a move towards the sensory in disciplines 
across humanities and social sciences, leading to increasing attention 
being given to the visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory, 
in short, embodied experiences in the world. An anthropology of the 
senses has long been well established, yet it is only within the last 
two decades that a sensory anthropology has developed – as ‘a 
"re-thought" anthropology, informed by theories of sensory perception, 
rather than a sub-discipline exclusively or empirically about the 
senses’ (Pink 2010). While media anthropology is closely related to 
sensory anthropology, there is a lack of research on media as 
‘immersive, environmental, or bodily-somatic’ and on ‘the consequences 
of how such media operate on the body and the senses’ (Salter 2018).

As a result, there have been calls for focusing more attention on media 
that de-centres media and meaning-making practices in order to engage 
with sensuous, practical and bodily knowledge related to engagements 
with media. The aim of this panel is to bring the subfields of media 
anthropology and sensory anthropology into dialogue, facilitating an 
introductory discussion of media and the sensory. A network of scholars 
working on media and the senses is being established during 2022–2023 to 
promote further interest in the topic.



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