Smell Studies Group

The edited volume The Senses and Memory is now available in paperback format!

For a limited time, use the code HOJV30 for a 30% discount.

Find out more here: champ.ly/P62PxziE

Image credits: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, "Artes textiles mexicanos", 14/02/2017, CC 4.0

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#workshop: "Textiles de résistances. Approches contemporaines du textile comme art du sensible et geste critique" (France, 24/04/2026), org. Valérie Dupont & Servin Bergeret

Deadline: 28/11/2025

Info: champ.ly/QQ9FJ8y8

#cfp #smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #arthistory #art

New preprint from the very talented Bob Pellegrino! 🧪

NeuroHumanities Network - Upcoming Events Photo Credit: Priya Rama & Kate March

We've partnered with @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social! The NeuroHumanities Network is a virtual community of clinicians, neuroscientists, artists, humanists, and patients who explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and neuroscience. Check the link in the comments for upcoming seminars! 🧠🎨🤓

Olfactory Research Notes: Terapixel Panorama and Olfactory Art (online) Lausanne-based researcher Tonia Ramogida from the EPFL Laboratory for Experimental Museology’s (eM+) Terapixel Panorama team joins the IAO for a talk about her work, in the latest lecture in …

Upcoming #onlinelecture by SSG member Tonia Ramogida: "Olfactory Research Notes: Terapixel Panorama and Olfactory Art" at the Institute for Art and Olfaction (Oct. 17th, 10 AM PT).

Info: champ.ly/NS0eIzis

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #research #art

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #sensoryhistory #perfumery

Image credits: zh:北角 香花徑, Aroma Walk, North Point, Hong Kong, Taode3namry, 17 December 2013, CC3.0

After a summer break, the SSG is back in business!
To mark off our 4th year together (yay!), we're having a 1-hour Zoom meeting on September 24th 2025 at 4pm CET / 10 AM EDT. Everyone is welcome; we'll chat, share news, and discuss the year ahead!
And it's never too late to join: champ.ly/9Yaemozj

Image: "Vue sur la ferme Marcel Dhénin, dans le parc des Dondaines, à Lille", 16 July 2022, CC Velvet, Creative Commons.
Link: champ.ly/X0XCIgSE

#CFP: "Food and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Farming, Food Security, and Cultures of Eating" (NYU, July 27-28, 2026).

Deadline: 1 December 2025

Info: champ.ly/fop5LFap

#smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #callforpapers #callforsubmissions #foodstudies

This week's odious interview is now on BBC Sounds:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Why our sense of smell matters

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#newbook: "Materiality of Air" (ed. Tatiana Konrad, Exeter Press)

Full OA access and info: champ.ly/EwXPsOzw

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #atmospheres

👃✨ The Smell Studies Group (SSG) is back for its 4th year! ✨👃

Are you curious about smell and its connections to culture, research, art, and everyday life? 🌍 Join our welcoming, interdisciplinary community of smell-enthusiasts, researchers, and creatives. 💫

👉 Sign up here: champ.ly/98oJub-x

Lots of nice sensory stuff here!

Due to many requests, we extended the deadline for the special issue 'Philosophy and the Chemosenses' to 1st November! Any philosophical issue related to smell / taste / flavour welcome, so submit away: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Power point slide for Sound & Environment Research Group inaugural symposium at Newcastle University.

Talking at this very exciting symposium on @draflint.bsky.social & my (hopefully - revisions dependent) forthcoming Element in the Histories of Emotions & Senses series: Sensory & Emotional Histories of Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain 🎶🥾🌳

Sensory Criminology Exploring sensory experience of the criminological

#sensorycriminology: "Getting into the purple drank: An aesthetic and sensory perspective on lean culture" by Cosimo Sidoti.

Access: champ.ly/Lc_5ng3Z

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #research

#newbook: "Exhibiting for Multiple Senses. Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies" (ed. Eva Fotiadi).

Info: champ.ly/Yb4sBlrf

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #neurodiversity #arts #museums

Another full day of experimental testing ahead at the Multisensory Maze @kidspacemuseum.bsky.social with @opheliaderoy.bsky.social for the Centre for the Study of the Senses

We’re excited to introduce ourselves: OLFAC (Olfactormativity: Exploring The Intervening Performativity Of Smell), is a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant project (2024–2029), hosted at the University of Arts Linz (Austria).
#ERC #OLFAC #UniversityofArtsLinz #research

#NewBook: "«L’odorat a ses monstres». Olfaction et perversion dans l’imaginaire fin-de-siècle (1880-1905)" by S.-V. Borloz (in French), published Open Access!

Info: www.peeters-leuven.b...

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #hstm #findesiècle #lithub

Check out this super cool learning toolkit out in October. www.nai010.com/en/product/c.... It's been put together by the leaders of the Dutch 'Senses-Based-Learning' network (sensesbasedlearning.org) to try and get more sensory learning into education inside and outside academia #sensorystudies

#newpublication: Special issue of the journal "Renaissance and Reformation" titled "Death and the Senses in the Early Modern World" (ed. McIlvenna, Christ & Brunner).

Info: champ.ly/yl2ImwIE

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #sensoryhistory #academia

#CFP: "Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia" Book chapters.

Deadline for abstracts: February 28, 2026

Info: champ.ly/plmJsBPL

#smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #callforpapers #callforsubmissions #FoodStudies

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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...