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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please join us for the inaugural session of "Sensing
the Unseen," a yearlong seminar series of current scholarship on the sensory
and media modes employed to access realms of existence and experience outside
the immediately visible. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/introduction.html"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Sensing the Unseen: Introduction</span></b></a></span></font><b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Friday, September 17, 3:00-5:00 pm </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
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w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType> 56 (<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=56"><font
color="#0000f0"><span style='color:#0000F0'>Whitaker Building</span></font></a>),
Room 114</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Speakers: Constance Classen and David Howes</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Discussants: Noel Jackson (MIT) and Caroline Jones
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Constance Classen, "The History of the
Senses" </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Medieval odours of incense, sounds of church bells ringing
these are not just picturesque details of an earlier era, they are sensory
keys. This talk makes use of such keys to unlock doors to other perceptual
worlds, worlds that often remain unseen and ignored in conventional historical
accounts. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>David Howes, "How Many Senses Are
There?" </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The categorization of the senses is a vexing problem. The
closer science looks at them the more they split and multiply. When we explore
the senses across cultures we find a tremendous variety of perceptual models.
The inquiry seems to break down completely when notions of extrasensory
perception are factored in. Or perhaps that is precisely the place to
start. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please also join us for a wine and cheese <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Opening Reception</span></b> (bldg 16, rm 220)
immediately following the seminar (5-6:15). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures,
"Sensing the Unseen" is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
hosted by MIT Anthropology. For details, including a list of upcoming
seminars, see: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/"><font
color="#0000f0"><span style='color:#0000F0'>http://web.mit.edu/unseen/</span></font></a> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>All seminar meetings are free and open to the public - no
registration is required. We hope you'll be able to attend!</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Follow this link to receive email reminders for upcoming
seminars: <font color="#0000f0"><span style='color:#0000F0'><a
href="https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list">https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list</a></span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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