Senses, Cultures, and Biblical Worlds
Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes
Call For Papers: We invite paper proposals for the following three sessions:(1) Making Sense with the Senses. A joint panel with Mind, Society, and Cognition. We invite papers that investigate the interplay between cognition and the senses in biblical texts and in the material culture of the biblical world. For example, how do the senses contribute to refinement of ideas, creation of new knowledge, or development of practices? We welcome papers that apply a combination of cultural and cognitive theories.(2) Gender, Sexuality, and the Senses. A joint panel with Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible. While gender, sexuality, and the senses have been explored separately, we are excited about the potential overlap between the two, as seen in the research of C. Classen, A. Létourneau, and U. Matic. Papers can address any aspect of gender and/or sexuality and the senses in the Bible. We are particularly interested in the intersections of the fields with masculinity studies, the deconstruction of whiteness, or the less studied senses (see further below).(3) Senses and Material Culture. A joint panel with Archaeology of Religion in the Roman World. We invite proposals on the senses and material culture: how and why did material culture — objects, spaces, built environments — evoke the sensory experience of the inhabitants of the ancient world? We also welcome submissions focusing on methodological issues pertaining to the relationship between material objects and sense perception, as well as to researchers’ sensory engagement with ancient material artefacts. For all three joint panels, we welcome attention to less-studied senses, such as taste, smell, touch, sense of time, sense of pain, kinaesthesia (movement), and proprioception (body in space). All proposals should contain a brief description of the data that will be examined, as well as the theories and methods that will be applied in the presentation. We also invite present to consider non-traditional modes of presentation.
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