Thematic Meeting WG4

Topkapi Palace Harem Imperial Hall 7

This conference integrates the methodological insights and empirical findings developed in the previous workshops. It focuses on bodily movement within court spaces and its relation to multisensory environments. Topics include the regulation of movement and access according to social status; experiences of heat and cold, light and darkness, cleanliness and dirt; as well as sound- and smellscapes. Particular attention is paid to the deliberate use of environmental factors to create sensory effects, such as living animals in festive interiors or sunlight as an element of thermal spatial design. In a second analytical perspective, “moving bodies” also refers to the circulation and handling of newly born and dead bodies within court spaces and their sensory impact. Finally, the conference addresses how sensory stimuli themselves provoked bodily reactions and movements, and how such experiences were described in historical sources.

Date: Spring 2029

Location: Istanbul (tentatively) 

Organizers: WG4

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