Conferences, Congresses
Common Scents: Smells and Social Lifein European Literature (1880-1939)
Beginning
22.11.2018
End
23.11.2018
Registration deadline
21.11.2018
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 22 November 2018 (Room 243)
10.15 Registration / Coffee
10.45 Welcome / Introduction
Part 1: The Science of Olfaction
11.00 Barry C. Smith (London): Our Hidden Sense of Smell: Some Recent Revelations from the Science of Olfaction
11.40 Discussion
Part 1: Smell and Deprivation
12.00 Michel Delville (Liège): Smell in Contexts of Hunger and Disgust
12.40 Discussion
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15 Sergej Rickenbacher (Aachen): Literary Halitosis. Bad Breath and Odol in German Literature around 1900
14.40 Priya Wadhera (New York): Beyond Taste: the Smell of Death in Proust’s Tablescapes
15.05 Tag Gronberg (London): Shalimar and Vol de Nuit (Guerlain): Scents of Presence and Loss
15.30 Discussion
15.45 Tea
Part 2: Refined Olfaction and its Complications
16.15 Catherine Maxwell (London): Scent in the Works of Vernon Lee
16.55 Discussion
17.15 Maria Weilandt (Potsdam): Stereotyped Scents and ‘Elegant Reality’ in Edmond de Goncourt’s Chérie (1884)
17.40 Discussion
18.15 Dinner at a Bloomsbury Restaurant (optional)
Friday, 23 November 2018 (Room 243)
Part 2: Refined Olfaction and its Complications [continued]
09.30 Sophie-Valentine Borloz (Lausanne): ‘On commence à en avoir une indigestion des fleurs de
l’innocence’. The Readability Crisis of Floral Perfumes in Late-Nineteenth-Century French
Novels
09.55 Erika Wicky (Liège): The Dandy’s Nose: Aesthetics and Olfactory Sensitivity in French Literature of the fin de siècle
10.20 Discussion
10.35Coffee
Part 3: Scents and Boundary Crossings
11.05 Susanne Schmid (Berlin): ‘... smell of milk pudding’: Hotels and Smell
11.45 Discussion
12.05 Christine Kanz (Linz): Not only fascinating Corpse Stench: towards a new Anthropology of the Senses in the Historical Avantgarde
12.30 Andreas Kramer (London): ‘Dada smells like Nothing’: Sniffing out the Dadaist Corpus
12.55 Discussion
13.10 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Frank Krause (London): Innovative Smell-Sound Synaesthesiae: Diagnoses of Social Life in German Literature (1900-1930)
14.25 Frederike Middelhoff (Würzburg): Making Scents and Sense of Dogs. Canine Olfaction and
Humanimal Society in works by Berend, Kafka, and Woolf
14.50 Jonathan Day (London): James Joyce and the Odours of Modernity
15.15 Discussion
16.00 Tea
16.30 End of Conference
Conference Organisers: Katharina Herold (Oxford), Frank Krause (Goldsmiths, University of London), Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London)
The conference is organised under the auspices of the Institute of Modern Languages Research and Goldsmiths, University of London, and is sponsored by the University of London Cassal Trust
Thursday, 22 November 2018 (Room 243)
10.15 Registration / Coffee
10.45 Welcome / Introduction
Part 1: The Science of Olfaction
11.00 Barry C. Smith (London): Our Hidden Sense of Smell: Some Recent Revelations from the Science of Olfaction
11.40 Discussion
Part 1: Smell and Deprivation
12.00 Michel Delville (Liège): Smell in Contexts of Hunger and Disgust
12.40 Discussion
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15 Sergej Rickenbacher (Aachen): Literary Halitosis. Bad Breath and Odol in German Literature around 1900
14.40 Priya Wadhera (New York): Beyond Taste: the Smell of Death in Proust’s Tablescapes
15.05 Tag Gronberg (London): Shalimar and Vol de Nuit (Guerlain): Scents of Presence and Loss
15.30 Discussion
15.45 Tea
Part 2: Refined Olfaction and its Complications
16.15 Catherine Maxwell (London): Scent in the Works of Vernon Lee
16.55 Discussion
17.15 Maria Weilandt (Potsdam): Stereotyped Scents and ‘Elegant Reality’ in Edmond de Goncourt’s Chérie (1884)
17.40 Discussion
18.15 Dinner at a Bloomsbury Restaurant (optional)
Friday, 23 November 2018 (Room 243)
Part 2: Refined Olfaction and its Complications [continued]
09.30 Sophie-Valentine Borloz (Lausanne): ‘On commence à en avoir une indigestion des fleurs de
l’innocence’. The Readability Crisis of Floral Perfumes in Late-Nineteenth-Century French
Novels
09.55 Erika Wicky (Liège): The Dandy’s Nose: Aesthetics and Olfactory Sensitivity in French Literature of the fin de siècle
10.20 Discussion
10.35Coffee
Part 3: Scents and Boundary Crossings
11.05 Susanne Schmid (Berlin): ‘... smell of milk pudding’: Hotels and Smell
11.45 Discussion
12.05 Christine Kanz (Linz): Not only fascinating Corpse Stench: towards a new Anthropology of the Senses in the Historical Avantgarde
12.30 Andreas Kramer (London): ‘Dada smells like Nothing’: Sniffing out the Dadaist Corpus
12.55 Discussion
13.10 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Frank Krause (London): Innovative Smell-Sound Synaesthesiae: Diagnoses of Social Life in German Literature (1900-1930)
14.25 Frederike Middelhoff (Würzburg): Making Scents and Sense of Dogs. Canine Olfaction and
Humanimal Society in works by Berend, Kafka, and Woolf
14.50 Jonathan Day (London): James Joyce and the Odours of Modernity
15.15 Discussion
16.00 Tea
16.30 End of Conference
Conference Organisers: Katharina Herold (Oxford), Frank Krause (Goldsmiths, University of London), Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London)
The conference is organised under the auspices of the Institute of Modern Languages Research and Goldsmiths, University of London, and is sponsored by the University of London Cassal Trust
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Fields of research
Themes, motifs, thematology, Literature of the 20th century, Literature of the 21st centuryGerüche, Social Life, Europäische Literatur
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Institutions
University of London (UL)