Smell experts from different disciplines will provide short (15 minute presentations), followed by time for discussion between panel members and the audience.The first week's panel will be:
Katelynn Robinson is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern New Mexico University. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of smell in medieval Europe and her most recent book is The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty (London: Routledge, 2020). She received her PhD in medieval European history at the University of Missouri, Columbia in 2017.
Adam Bursi is a researcher studying early Islam in dialogue with other late antique religions. His work has appeared in numerous academic journals, including an article in a recent special issue of The Senses and Society on the sensory history of the Islamic world. His paper will examine early Islamic practices of, and debates about, using pleasant scent to venerate sites associated with the Prophet Muhammad in Mecca and Medina.
Flavia Xi Fang (方希) is Teaching Associate of Middle-Period China at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her current research investigates the cultural history of olfaction in medieval China.
To register, please submit your name and email address below. We will send a Zoom a few days before the event.
For any questions, please contact: will.tullett@york.ac.uk.
