Proof that part of the Roman Empire smelled of patchouli
A research team at the University of Cordoba has identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in Carmona.
"Smelling Moms’ Scent May Help Infants Bond With Strangers
Even if the mother isn’t around, traces of her body odor on clothing may increase a child’s trust and comfort with others"
#smells #sensorystudies https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/smelling-moms-scent-may-help-infants-bond-with-strangers-180979200/Smelling Moms' Scent May Help Infants Bond With Strangers
Even if the mother isn’t around, traces of her body odor on clothing may increase a child’s trust and comfort with others
Drei Journals auf der Duftspur: Geruchsgeschichtlicher Schwerpunkt in der AHR, Themenheft WerkstattGeschichte und Aufsatz über den "Katzendreckgestank" in den VfZ (free access bis 30.6.:
https://www.degruyter.com/.../10.1515/vfzg-2023-0016/html)
#SinnesGeschichte #GeruchsGeschichte #HistorikerInnen #HistodonsDE #SensoryStudies #SensoryHistoryThe hottest event of the year is taking place soon! 🔥
Making Sense of Sensory Studies at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) - Aarhus University
https://aias.au.dk/events/making-sense-of-sensory-studies
Unlimited spaces for online participants and a couple of seats for in-person audience (ask for the sign-up link via email)!
See you soon!
#event #university #sensorystudies
Making sense of sensory studies
The workshop Making sense of sensory studies aims to bring together the trailblazers of sensory studies in social sciences, archaeology, and history, for sharing the best methodological developments in recent sensory scholarship.
(1/) My new book 'Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives' isn't out in hardback until May but the open access ebook has now been published online!
https://bloomsburycollections.com/book/smell-and-the-past-noses-archives-narratives/ so please download, share, and read! It's part of my work on
the Odeuropa project and its open access publication was funded by our EU Horizon 2020 grant. It's split into three parts, as the title suggests: noses, archives, narratives.
#sensorystudies #sensoryhistory #smellhistory #smellstudies #bodyhist #envhistBloomsbury Collections - Smell and the Past - Noses, Archives, Narratives
‘What if researchers interested in ‘the past’ used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginatively interdisciplinary approach to sensory heritage and history, arguing that we can and should engage our noses as a research tool for articulating the past.’ Assessing how both we and our ancestors approach, understand and conceptualise smell, Tullett shows how archives can be ‘re-odorized’ to uncover narratives that are only implicit in or obscured by the historical record. From perfume libraries to organic compounds emitted by historical objects, this book acts as a guide for employing our olfactory senses when researching and studying history in order to understand and communicate the past more fully. Employing ‘olfactory figures’ examples, Smell and the Past shows how historical narratives and arguments can be found through a structured olfactory experience, and demonstrates how our understanding of the past and its relationship with the present
"Bislang läuft das Metaverse nur schleppend an, vielleicht weil [...] nicht zu viele, sondern zu wenige Sinne angesprochen werden, [...] weil der Geruchssinn darin eben nicht stimuliert wird."
Essay über die Digitalisierung der Wahrnehmung: https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/2023/01/31/neue-sinne-die-digitalisierung-der-wahrnehmung-sinneskolumne/ @merkurzeitschrift #dh #sensoryStudies #sensoryHistory #sinnesgeschichte #DigitalHistory #histodons #histodonsDE #HistorikerInnen
Neue Sinne: Die Digitalisierung der Wahrnehmung. Sinneskolumne - Merkur
Die Revolution aus der Flasche heißt »air up«, besteht aus BPA-freiem Tritan ohne Weichmacher und hat ein Mundstück aus lebensmittelechtem Silikon, wie es auch in Babyschnullern verwendet wird. Den »No-Brainer unter den Geschenkbundles für air up® Newbies« gibt es zum Einstiegspreis von 39,95 Euro. Enthalten sind eine Trinkflasche für pures Wasser, eine Reinigungsbürste und sechs […]
Ewa Novaks analogous face mask "Incognito" (2019) makes you unidentifiable for digital facial algorithms used in public surveillance cameras. On display in Wellcome Library's exhibition "In Plain Sight".
https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/Yv95yBAAAILuCNv6 #WellcomeCollection #SurveillanceStudies #SensoryStudies #VisualHistory #DigitalHistory #CCTV
In Plain Sight
‘In Plain Sight’ examines the many ways we see and are seen by others and explores what happens when we open ourselves up to seeing differently.
WerkstattGeschichte
Tiedetäti (Dr. Laura Nissin)
Bodo Mrozek
William Tullett
