Collected Item: “Sensory history and the pandemic”
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Sensory history and the pandemic
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Screenshot
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I've been thinking about sensory history and how often it's left out of historical records. We often don't stop to comment on observations we make every day like noise of a busy street corner or the smell of muffins baking in the kitchen. I'm teaching HST643 Global history during Fall B with a module on sensory history. I'd like to ask students to add a perspective on the sensory history of the pandemic. I posted this thought in the JOTPY Slack workspace and Shanna replied with a really interesting observation about sound: “…there is an odd tension of noise inside my home and silence the second I step outside. I find myself needing a quiet space when I’m in my house. Yet the second I walk outside, it’s way too quiet that I start to feel uncomfortably lonely and in need of human connection.”
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sound, sensory history, shelter-in-place, noise, quiet, Clinton Roberts, Shanna Gagnon
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Katy Kole de Peralta
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2020-08-20