Sensible Communities: The senses and community formation in early modern cities and towns

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Philip Hahn (Tübingen), Saúl Martínez Bermejo (Madrid)

Veranstaltungsort

Eberhard Karls Universität, Alte Aula, Münzgasse 30, 72074 Tübingen

Ort

Tübingen

Land

Deutschland

Vom - Bis

06.12.2018 - 07.12.2018

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Philip Hahn

This international workshop aims to discuss sense perception as a both integrative and divisive force in urban societies. The senses and their political and social significance are currently a burgeoning field of research in history as well as in other disciplines. While most recent work has concentrated on the modern era, this workshop focuses on the early modern period.

On the one hand, early modern urban centres were sites of rapid social and cultural and thus also sensorial change, often prefiguring the conditions and problems of modern cities. On the other hand, medium-sized and small market towns had much more in common with their rural surroundings and hence seem more ‘premodern’. Comparing these diverging sensory scenarios, the workshop attempts to chart the dimensions of a specifically early modern urban politics of the senses.

Geographically, contributions will present case studies from across Europe, from Italy to England and from Spain to the Ottoman Empire. They will analyse the creation and contestation of sensory regimes, how individuals and groups tried to shape urban sensible space, and how contemporaries’ habits of perception were developed within these frameworks. The scope of topics covered ranges from heightened attentiveness to sensory disability, from religious practices to industrial pollution, from urban rituals to revolts, all of which affected people’s sensing and hence the way they were integrated sensibly into, or segregated from, the urban community.

Programm

Thursday, 6 December 2018

09:00-09:15 Welcome and introduction

09:15-11:15: Panel 1: The senses in urban rituals and spectacles
Tess Knighton (Barcelona): Sensing the celestial: Multisensory experiences in early modern urban ritual
Simon Kroll (Heidelberg): The auto sacramental and its sensory perception in early modern Spain
David J. Amelang (Berlin): 'For God's Love, Let me Hear': An acoustic re-assessment of early modern European theatres

11:30-12:45 Panel 2: Comparing urban sensory regimes
Amina Nawaz (Tübingen): Seeing and hearing the religious other in Muslim travel accounts of early modern Christian cities
Philip Hahn (Tübingen): Challenging impressions: experiencing alternative urban sensory regimes abroad in the early modern period

14:00-16:00 Panel 3: Religious perception, material culture and the building of communities
Jan-Friedrich Missfelder (Zürich): Money Talks. Engaging with holy matter in the Zurich Reformation
Irene Galandra Cooper (Cambridge): Vedere, sentire e intendere: Testifying matters of domestic devotion in early modern Naples
Bilal Badat (Tübingen): Experiencing the Word: A sensory study of calligraphy and architecture in Ottoman Istanbul and Edirne

16:30-18:00 Panel 4: From impairment to over-sensitiveness
Jacob Baum (Lubbock/TX): Sensory Impairment in the City: Disability as a category of analysis in early modern urban sensory history
Sarah-Maria Schober (Oxford): Masters of the Nose. How early modern physicians staged their sense of smell and acted at the edge

Friday, 7 December 2018

09:00-11:00 Panel 5: A 'Great and Monstrous Thing'? The big city and the senses in the 18th century
Birgit Näther (Berlin): The Eyes, Noses and Ears of the City: Sensory attentiveness in early modern London
Emily Cockayne (Norwich): Henry Longbottom’s Smellscape. Industrial pollution in eighteenth-century London
William Tullett (London): 'Hark! 'tis the twanging' horn!': Rhythm and keynotes in London, 1770-1815

11:30-13:00 Panel 6: Sensing Danger: urban communities under threat
Saúl Martínez Bermejo (Madrid): Sieges, sounds and urban communities in the Southern Netherlands
Aaron Stamper (Princeton): Malsonantes: Dangerous sounds in early modern Granada

14:30-16:00 Panel 7: The soundscapes of urban rebellions
Vincent Challet (Montpellier): Shaping and re-shaping urban soundscapes: Hearing and shouting and the emergence of emotional communities in medieval seditious towns
Héloïse Hermant (Nice): Soundscape and rebel communities in Saragossa (1591-1592). The potential of a sensitive approach to study urban revolts

16:30-17:30 Concluding Commentary and Final Discussion
James Amelang (Madrid): Commentary

Kontakt

Philip Hahn

Seminar für Neuere Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität, Wilhelmstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen

philip.hahn@uni-tuebingen.de

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Sensible Communities: The senses and community formation in early modern cities and towns., In: H-Soz-Kult, 07.11.2018, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-88454>.

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