The Salon and the Senses in the Long Eighteenth Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Rutgers University, 4–5 March 2021

Abstract

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference was postponed until March 2021, with the intention of holding it in person at that time. [...]Marjanne Elaine Goozé (University of Georgia) addressed the nefarious uses of humour in late eighteenth-century Berlin salons. Ultimately, although the pandemic limited attempts to recreate the experience and the ambience of the eighteenth-century salon, the papers presented offered up a number of new avenues for exploring the manifold sensory worlds of Enlightenment sociability. [...]the interdisciplinary bent of the conference hinted at ways in which musicology, as a discipline, might fruitfully draw from other branches of the humanities in our approach to these worlds.