Please join us, Wednesday, October 26 at the Museum of the Rockies in the Hager Auditorium for a presentation by C. Riley Augè titled, "Sensing the Difference: The Historical Association of Sensory Elements with Cultural “Otherness.” 6pm, free and open to the public.

Cultural and social identity is often expressed through distinctive characteristics easily observed by onlookers and include such markers as clothing, food, housing, and social or religious rituals. But the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures associated with these cultural markers have also been used historically to justify social inequality and prejudice against particular class, ethnic, and religious groups. This lecture will explore how the senses have played a major role in the creation of ideas about ‘cultural otherness’ and the consequences of such beliefs.

C. Riley Auge` . Riley holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Heritage Studies and Historical Archaeology from the University of Montana.