Smell Studies Group

I'm putting together a panel on smell & change during the 19thc. for @incsa.bsky.social 2026 conference!

The #CFP is available here:
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This will be of interest to #smellstudies, #envhum and #hstm people!

SOAS Shit Studies Conference abstracts are due TOMORROW, July 31, 2025.
Check out the CFP below.
The conference is taking place November 18-19, 2025.

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Embodied Experience, Emotions, & Creativity Interfaceing 2025 Call For Papers The 2025 INTERFACEing conference at Doğuş University focuses on the relationship between embodied experience, emotions, and creativity. Scholars, practitioners, and artists are invited to contribut…

#CFP: "Embodied Experience, Emotions, and Creativity" Conference. Org. Barış ÇOBAN & Charlène CLONTS, 17-19 Sept. 2025, at Doğuş University, Istanbul.

Deadline soon approaching: July 30, 2025!

More info here: champ.ly/Tm-TOxU1

#smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #embodiment

Dying Before Germ Theory As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo…

While I would prefer that my historical research have less relevance, please read and consider what it was like to fall ill and die before germ theory. #histmed 🗃️ nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...

Between Feast and Famine Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uniform, repercussions for the determinants of good and bad nutrition. All across this new and uneven polity, food production, domestic reproduction, gender relations, and food cultures underwent radical and […]

#newbook in #foodstudies: "Between Feast and Famine. Food, health, and the history of Ghana’s long twentieth century" by John Nott.

PDF available in OA here: bit.ly/41YLrSg

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia

Dying Before Germ Theory As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo…

Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know.

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Michael and Joanne delivered a wonderful presentation on this research to the Bristol Senses and Sensations group earlier this year, so I hugely recommend reading their new article!

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#CFP for ##IMCLEEDS 2026. Looking for scholars who are interested in the relationship between bodies and time.

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Sensory archaeology ‘helps researchers understand how past societies interacted with their worlds through sight, touch, taste, smell and sound, [so] we can imagine how people encountering the Bayeux tapestry would have connected with and understood it.’

Alexandra Makin on the Bayeux Tapestry

Next Friday, 7:30-9 PM (CEST), I'll be hosting an online panel titled 'Air, Smell and Socio-Environmental Inequality' for #ASLE2025!
I'm suuuper pleased with the team assembled: A. Kettler, J. Sriram and N. Sriram-Uzundal, @allylouks.bsky.social and C. Grapa! Plz come, we smell people r a deligtht!

Journal issue: "Taste and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Thought", L'Esprit Créateur, Volume 65, Number 1, Spring 2025 (Guest Editors: P. Bray and A. Aloisi).

OA access here: champ.ly/2g5XQxoD

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #tastestudies

#newarticle: "Pschitt!: A Cultural History of the Perfume Vaporizer" by Erika Wicky for Dix-Neuf Journal!

Read article through your institution here: champ.ly/hfu1xCOo
#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #sensoryhistory #academia
@erikawicky.bsky.social

"I watched a boy who couldn’t have been older than 16 chat about cologne with an assistant twice his age with a genuinely inspiring level of passion and sophistication, beaming through his braces as he discussed smoky notes." More of this please, you love to see it.

Miasma Theory: A Primer I recently received an unusual request—could I explain miasma theory to an NPR reporter? Miasma theory is suddenly newsworthy, roughly 150 years after germ theory displaced this explanation for the…

In case you'd like to know what miasma theory is (to understand, for example, how it might change public health policy), I published a brief primer with @nursingclio.bsky.social And there is more to come, so stay tuned! #histmed nursingclio.org/2025/06/30/m...

SSG Summer Newsletter COMING JULY 1ST!

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#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #cfp #callforpapers #callforsubmissions

AromaPrime created an historical vinaigrette scent, among others, for an exhibition at the Science and Industry Museum!

'Operation Ouch! Brains, Bogies and You' features totally unique, interactive smell stations!

Good to see my work on Glasgow's smell history and much else covered in this piece in City AM!

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What did London smell like in 1923?

I'm often asked how it's possible to know what the past smelt like.

It helps a great deal when people have written it down, and this is why it is important for us to keep making records of today's smellscapes—before they disappear!

Thanks for the boost Keith!

The Smell Studies Group now has new ways to stay in touch!
You can find us on Bluesky, LI or IG @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social
We post on smell and the senses in all disciplines; feel free to tag or DM us with upcoming events, CFPs and publications.
#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies

AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise" YouTube video by SSN Info

Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...

Smellscapes, Smellscapes, Smellscapes (to the tune of Pulp: Mis-Shapes). @willtullett.bsky.social today at the @ihrscb.bsky.social Thanks Will! #earlymodern

So grateful to @rad-institute.bsky.social for supporting our Exploratory Workshop on The Lost Odors of Nature: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Olfactory Experience

Eight Arms to Taste Your Microbiome

The scientists are catching up to this historians analysis that taste is the most complex of our sense. We don't think it is because it has been under studied. #foodhis #foodstudies #chemosenses #envhist

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/s...

I once handled a medieval manuscript that smelled unusually of horses, which contributed to my discovery that it was a traveling notebook of sorts. Digital surrogates are wonderful but you can miss a lot if you don’t experience the manuscript in person.