Workshop ‘Olfactory knowledge: Learning through smell from the 18th century to the present day’

21 octobre - 17h

Mot de bienvenue / Welcome address
Stéphane Van Damme, directeur de la MFO

Atelier olfactif / Olfactory Workshop: 
Giulio Giorgi, paysagiste / landscape designer
Knowing Plants by Scent: What Smell Reveals about Botany and Ecology

22 octobre : 
9h – 9h30: Introduction - Salon

Objectiver les savoirs olfactifs / Objectifying Olfactory Knowledge - Salon - Chair : Judith Rainhorn, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / CHS

9h30 – 10h : Christelle Lacassain, Sorbonne Université / CeLiSo
The smell of words? From smell constructions to olfactory knowledge

10h-10h30 : Moustafa Bensafi, CNRS / Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon
From subjectivity to instrumentation: contemporary transformations in olfactory knowledge in the context of anosmia 

10h30 – 11h : Pause / Break

11h – 11h30 : Raghad Al Dirani, Université Lyon 3 / Centre d’études linguistiques
The semantic evolution of the senses of the verb stink

11h30 – 12h : Bodo Mrozek, Berlin Center for Cold War / Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History
The Measurement of Smell. Olfactory Events and their Aftermath in the 20th Century

12h00 – 13h30 : Pause déjeuner / Lunch Break

Savoirs médicaux et vernaculaires / Medical and Vernacular Knowledge 
- Auditorium - Chair : Marie Thébaud-Sorger, CNRS / CAK

13h30 – 14h00: Tassanee Alleau, Université de Tours / CESR
Scents of Roots: Remedies, Olfactory Expertise, and Women’s Knowledge in 18th-Century English Cooking 

14h00 – 14h30 : Clément Fabre, Université Paris Est Créteil / CRHEC
Fœtor ex ore: The Medicalisation of Olfactory Knowledge about Bad Breath in Nineteenth-Century France

14h30-15h00 : Clara Granieri, Université Paris Saclay-Versailles / CHCSC
Smell and judge : how the sense of smell enabled French veterinarians to assess livestock farming practices in the 19th century

15h00 – 15h30 : Charlotte Gaudry, Université Grenoble Alpes / LARHRA
Entre persistance des savoirs olfactifs anciens et émergence d’une approche plus physiologique des sens, analyse des travaux de Luigi Martorelli (1760-1831) autour des odeurs.

15h30 – 16h00 : Pause / Break

Atmosphères olfactives / Olfactory Atmospheres – Auditorium - Chair : Martine Drozdz, CNRS / MFO 

16h00 – 16h30 : Lou Sompeirac, ENSA de Montpellier / LIFAM
Micros-savoirs-olfactifs chez un public non-expert à Pékin et Mumbai : d’une transmission domestique à une attention écologique sensorielle

16h30 - 17h00 : Manon Raffard, The University of Manchester
“Best Known by the Smell.” Olfactory Perception and Environmental Knowledge in the Work of Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884)

17h00 – 17h30 : Suzel Balez, ENSA Grenoble / Cresson and Jieling Xiao, Birmingham City University
Olfactory Empirical Knowledge Drawn From Smellwalks in Three Countries

Dîner / Dinner – Cherwell Boathouse

23 octobre : 

Histoire en parfums 1 / History Through Perfume 1 – Salon – Chair : Rémi Digonnet, Université de Saint-Étienne / ECLLA

9h00 – 9h30 : Zara Kesterton, University of Cambridge
Scented illusions: artificial flowers, knowledge, and perfume in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France

9h30 - 10h00 : Léonie Maillard, Université Grenoble Alpes / LARHRA
Rethinking Edmond Roudnitska’s Theory on Olfactory expertise : Intuition, Authority, and the Industrial construction of Sensory Archetypes

10h00 – 10h30 : Virginás Peter, Babes-Bolyai University
The Transitivity of Masculinity: Olfactory Practices and Selfhood in Central and Eastern Europe

10h30 – 11h00 : Pause / Break

Histoire en parfums 2 / History Through Perfume 2 – Salon – Chair : Isabelle Chazot, LARHRA

11h00 – 11h45 : Youness Amharar, ISIPCA and Marie Urban Le Fèbvre, Independant Perfumer
From “Animal” Musk to “Clean” Musk, from Ambergris to “Ambery” Notes:  Semantic Drift and the Emergence of an Olfactory and Linguistic Dichotomy in Modern Perfumery (19th–21st Centuries)

12h30 – 14h00 : Pause déjeuner / Lunch Break

14h00 – 14h30 : Julia Ostwald, Kunstuniversität Linz
Olfactory Forces in 19th-century Ballet and Psychophysiology 

14h30 – 15h00 : Sandra Barré, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / ACTE
Breathable signs: olfactory symbols and embodied knowledge in contemporary art

15h00 – 15h30 : Leah R. Clark, University of Oxford / Kellogg College
Collecting histories, the senses, and museum exhibitions