Outreach

Silke talks about “Speculative Stinking: On Olfactory Rumors“ at the Conference There´s a Rumor going round, held at the ifk Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Vienna.

OLFAC joins the IFTR Conference Performing Carnival, held at the University of Cologne, with a Panel on “Olfactory Becomings.“ The panel will feature Silke´s paper “Carne Vale – Flesh in Flux: Ludovico Ottavio Burnacini and the Multisensory Carnival”, Julia´s paper “Odopower in Civic Festivities in the City of London, around 1983 and 1613”, and Freda´s paper ”A Geosensoric Binge: […]

Silke talks about “Tracing the Pomander: Aromatic Medicine, Colonial Extraction, and the Becoming of the Body in Early Modern Europe“ at the conference Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives (Venice). The conference is organized jointly by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the Harvard Divinity School, the Ca’ Foscari University Venice, and the HEAL Network for the […]

Freda talks about ”Sensing Empty Stages, Crowded Studios” at the European Association for Taiwan Studies (EATS) Annual Conference Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific, held at the Palacky University Olomouc.

Julia talks about “Soil, Fir Trees, Lavender: Scents of ‘Nature’ in Affective States of Crisis” at the Dance Studies Association (DSA) conference Indeterminate States: Bodies, Fields, Praxis, held at the George Washington University/Washington D.C.

OLFAC joins the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality, held at the University of Maryland, College Park. The conference features Julia´s paper  “Staging Clouds“, and Silke´s paper “Scenting Entwinements: Olfactory Arts and the Politics of Air Inequality.“

Freda talks about ”Artists as Catalysts: Taiwan’s Anti-Nuclear Protests and Environmental Activism” at the ASLE 2025 Virtual Conference Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality, held at the University of Maryland, College Park.