While sound can access or augment the out-of-sight, it can also — through echoes, fade-outs and subaudible vibrations — generate uncertainties or new possibilities for individuals or collectivities.

Whether at the nanoscale, the atomic scale, the molecular scale, or even the scale of global accounting practices, measurement is one way to bring unseen phenomena into discourse.

If governance depends upon making social relations legible, what of realms of sociality — uncanny, ghostly, ensorcelled, marginalized, subaltern — out of view of state, national, and international institutions?

Feeling exemplifies many epistemological problems connected to the unseen, with respect both to unseen actions (inside the body) and to their meaning for the experiencer.

Taste is at once a subjective aesthetic experience and also subject to normative judgment.

From spirit photography to microcinematography to strobed high-speed snapshots to heat cameras, photography and film have been enlisted to bring into visibility — or to create — phenomena not apprehensible by the so-called naked eye.

A round-robin of screenings and discussion of works-in-progress by Cambridge-based, ethnographically minded filmmakers, including Chris Boebel and Christine Walley, Emily Zeamer, Hanna Rose Shell, and Ernst Karel.

All seminar meetings are free and open to the public — no registration is required.

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