#newarticle: "Olfactory interruptions. Malodor, atmospheric invasion, and eco-Gothic in A. S. Byatt’s “The Thing in the Forest” and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away" by Li-Hsin Hsu Link: champ.ly/yjigoaSl#newarticle #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #gothicliterature #ecocriticism #envhum

#newarticle: "Sweet Bags as Embodied Artifacts of Olfactory Heritage" by Olena Morets for the journal Arts. OA link: champ.ly/2BfBfVdq #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #sensoryheritage #HeritageAwning Source for image: commons.wikimedia.or...

New event for smell + digital culture enthusiasts! “Wikimedia projects and smell-related content” 📅 10 Dec 2025 🕕 18:00–19:30 UTC 🎙️ Lucy Moore 📍 Zoom 🔗 Register: champ.ly/2HnDcRPj #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #digitalculture #academia

Etude importante sur la proximité entre industrie et risque de pathologies respiratoires ⬇️ www.santepubliquefrance.fr/docs/bassins... A lire aussi l'HDR de C. Gramaglia : "Habiter la pollution industrielle" (www.pressesdesmines.com/produit/habi...)

#researchnotes: spotlight on Jieling Xiao's article for The Conversation on smell and marine environments! Link: champ.ly/0NGbLMJL#researchnotes #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #envhist

My paper on spatial segregation, class, air and smell in 19th c Paris has been published OA by the amazing team at Venti Journal! And here it is: www.venti-journal.com/manon-raffard #smellstudies #sensoryhistory #classinequality #envhum #envhist #urbanhistory

Germany's Spotlight magazine has featured a 'day in my life' article about my job at @aromaprime.bsky.social 😊

#newbook: Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds, edited by Barbara Huber and Arnulf Hausleiter Book available #openaccess here: champ.ly/rycqV09_#newbook#openaccess#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #archeologynews #archeology #sensoryhistory

#academicjob: 2 postdoctoral fellowships in Ottoman History and Digital Literary and Linguistic Studies (Belgium), with a focus on taste, touch & smell. Deadline for application: November 14, 2025 Info: champ.ly/nQZriZCg#academicjob #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia

🌿✨ New Book Out! ✨🌿 Our new volume #Scents_of_Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds is now published with @archaeopress.bsky.social Thank you to all contributors who made this book possible! @dai-weltweit.bsky.social 🏺🧪👩‍🔬👃 #PastScents #Heritage #Archaeology

I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!

New article alert: read all about SSG member Camille Grapa's research on olfactory clues in German museums! Link: champ.ly/48CDjVwG #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia

Arts/Humanities PhDs in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, go work with @sgsah.bsky.social if you can. One of the kindest, most generous institutions I've encountered, staffed with warm and wonderful people. They want you to think your research big - get in touch and see what they can do for you! Love, a former SGSAH-funded PhD.

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

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

New preprint from the very talented Bob Pellegrino! 🧪

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! 🧠🎨🤓

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

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

#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#CFP #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 www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

#newbook: "Materiality of Air" (ed. Tatiana Konrad, Exeter Press) Full OA access and info: champ.ly/EwXPsOzw#newbook #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...

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 🎶🥾🌳

#sensorycriminology: "Getting into the purple drank: An aesthetic and sensory perspective on lean culture" by Cosimo Sidoti. Access: champ.ly/Lc_5ng3Z#sensorycriminology #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#newbook #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...#NewBook #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#newpublication #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 Image source: champ.ly/2fbm25EC

I'm putting together a panel on smell & change during the 19thc. for @incsa.bsky.social 2026 conference! The #CFP is available here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 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.

Forum Basiliense Junior Fellow – University of Basel, Switzerland Fully Funded Fellowship Eligibility: PhD in relevant discipline Deadline: 31 July 2025 higherjobz.com/junior-fello... #AcademicJobs #HumanitiesResearch #EuropeJobs #PostdocFellowship #JuniorFellowship #SocialSciences

#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#CFP #smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #embodiment

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...

#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#newbook#foodstudies #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia

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. nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...

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!

University Assistant (Postdoc) – TU Wien, Austria Remote Sensing & Hydrology Eligibility: PhD in hydrology, geosciences, or related fields Deadline: 24 July 2025 Details: higherjobz.com/postdoc-remo... #HigherJobz #PostdocJobs #Hydrology #EuropeJobs #EarlyCareer #AcademicJobs #RemoteSensing

#CFP for ##IMCLEEDS 2026. Looking for scholars who are interested in the relationship between bodies and time. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #IMC2026 #IMC2025

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#newarticle#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.