Outreach

Sensing across the Humanities, sciences and Arts From 3–5 December 2025, we, the ERC project OLFAC, held our first international symposium at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (ifk) in Vienna. Over three days, scholars, scientists, and artists came together to investigate how smell intervenes in cultural, aesthetic, and political formations, and how olfactory experience can open new trajectories for research across […]

We are delighted to announce that OLFAC team member Freda Fiala has been awarded the inaugural DocSchool PhilKult Award of the University of Vienna for her doctoral research on Taiwan. Three dissertation prizes were awarded, recognising outstanding scholarly achievement in the doctoral programme.  Freda’s dissertation examines contemporary performing arts infrastructures in Taiwan, with a particular focus on institutional experimentation, […]