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Tuesdays 5:30 to 7 p.m. |
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| A History of the Senses: Global and Local, Antiquity to the Present |
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Mark M. Smith Join us for a series of six public lectures on the history of the senses. Drawing on examples from across the globe and throughout time, the lectures examine the ways in which sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch functioned in the past. The lectures include examinations of visual culture in Victorian Britain and South America; sound in nineteenth-century Australia, France, and the American South; touch in Early Modern Europe, among Native Americans, and in antebellum America; "race" and olfaction in the United States and scent in ancient Christianity; and the role of taste in shaping national identity in modern China and Early America.
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Jan. 26 |
Lecture 1: "Seeing... Is Believing. Or Was It?" |
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Feb. 2 |
Lecture 2: "Can You Hear Me Now? A History of Sound and Silence" |
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| Feb. 9 | Lecture 3: "Smellier Pasts? A History of Olfaction" | |
| Feb. 16 | Lecture 4: "Tasting (Re)pasts" | |
| Feb. 23 | Lecture 5: "Touching Moments" | |
| March 2 | Lecture 6: "When the Past Doesn't Make Good Sense" | |
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A Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, Mark Smith is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in the new field of "sensory history." From The New York Times and Times (london) to Science and Brain, Smith's work on the history of the senses has attracted features and reviews and generated discussion. He has delivered lectures on the topic in Australia, in Europe, and throughout the United States. Most recently he lectured on sensory history at Yale University and Columbia University, and he is scheduled to give a keynote address on the subject at the Free University of Berlin. Smith is also the current president of The Historical Society, one of the nation's leading professional societies in history. |
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