Common Scents: Smells and Social Life in European Literature (1880-1939)
When: Thursday, 22 and Friday, 23 November 2018
Where: University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
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Closing date: 21 November 2018
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 22 November 2018 (Room 243)
10.15 Registration / Coffee
10.45 Welcome / Introduction
Introduction: 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 Isabelle Chazot (journalist): Introducing the Work of the Osmothèque
14.30 Sergej Rickenbacher (Aachen): Literary Halitosis. Bad Breath and Odol in German Literature around 1900
14.45 Tag Gronberg (London): Shalimar and Vol de Nuit (Guerlain): Scents of Presence and Loss
15.10 Discussion
15.25 Tea
Part 2: Refined Olfaction and its Complications
16.00 Catherine Maxwell (London): Scent in the Works of Vernon Lee
16.40 Discussion
16.55 Maria Weilandt (Potsdam): Stereotyped Scents and 'Elegant Reality' in Edmond de Goncourt's Chérie (1884)
17.20 Andreas Kramer (London): 'Dada smells like Nothing': Sniffing out the Dadaist Corpus
17.45 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
10.35 Coffee
Part 3: Scents and Boundary Crossings
11.05 Susanne Schmid (Berlin): '... smell of milk pudding': Hotels and Smell
11.45 Discussion
12.05 Frank Krause (London): Innovative Smell-Sound Synaesthesiae: Diagnoses of Social Life in German Literature (1900-1930)
12.30 Discussion
12.45 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Jonathan Day (London): James Joyce and the Odours of Modernity
14.25 Katharina Herold (Oxford): Satirical Scents in Paul Scheerbart's Orient of the 1890s
14.50 Discussion
15.10 Tea
15.45 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
Institute of Modern Languages Research
University of London School of Advanced Study
Senate House, Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk
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