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OLFAC - Olfactormativity
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An ERC Consolidator Grant Project researching the intervening performativity of smell across time, space, and disciplines.
PI: Prof. Dr. Silke Felber, University of Arts Linz (Austria)
https://olfac.kunstuni-linz.at
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Our Program for the #OLFAC#Symposium is out now!
We warmly welcome all those interested in the multisensory, critical, and imaginative dimensions of #smell to join us in Vienna!
More information on our Website! olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/olfac-sensin...
#sensory#olfactory#sciences#culturalstudies
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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this week, Freda Fiala will talk about
”Entangled Worlds and the Logistics of Chinese Display in the 1873 Wiener Weltausstellung"
at the Habsburg Central Europe in Global History Summer School in Prague! @ikwoeaw.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#GlobalHistory #WorldExpositions #OLFAC
October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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COMING UP!
3 – 5 December 2025 | @ifk-vienna.bsky.social

Join the first #Symposium of #OLFAC, bringing together researchers across the #humanities, #sciences, and #arts to explore the #olfactory dimensions of knowledge and experience.
#InterdisciplinaryStudies #SensoryHumanities #SaveTheDate
October 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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"The scent is unforgettable—sharp and crystalline, like a forest splitting open."
Freda Fiala conducted a fieldwork trip to #Taiwan to research the memory politics of the island’s #camphor 樟腦 trade - a historic global industry.

#Extraction #CulturalMemory #MaterialEcologies #OLFAC
October 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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What can an object the size of a plum reveal about the smellscapes of early modern Europe—and their gendered and racialized afterlives?
Tomorrow @fau.de, Silke will trace the pomander and discuss our #ERC project #OLFAC within the Sensory Lectures series — join via Zoom 👇 #olfactory #sensoryStudies
Pomander with musk ball, cross, and ring (apple of musk). Maker: Anonymous (Kulmbach?), mid-16th century. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.
October 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Julia Ostwald is a postdoctoral researcher for #ERC #OLFAC. In her research, she explores entanglements of aesthetics, sensual perceptions, and (body-)politics, as well as stagings of #breath, air, and #smell in #dance and movement practices in history.
#olfactory#sensorystudies
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Freda Fiala is a cultural researcher whose work explores the entangled relations between Central Europe and East Asia. As a postdoctoral researcher in #ERC #OLFAC, her research focuses on how trans-cultural and trans-modern circuits shape identity and #sensory knowledges.
#olfactory #smellstudies
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Silke Felber is the principal investigator of our #ERC -Project #OLFAC researching the intervening performativity of Smells. Her academic work transcends disciplinary boundaries, integrating Theatre, Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies.
read more about her work on our Website! #olfactory #sensory
Silke Felber: "“Since I can remember, I have feverishly sought out situations and actors capable of making my senses reel. I long for moments when “those precious, experienced eyes” (to borrow Nabokov’s phrase) can no longer be trusted—when the intricate dance of my body’s tacit knowledge falters under the sudden intrusion of reason. I thirst for the fleeting illusion of movement conjured by a passing train, as though I myself were in motion; for objects whose misjudged weight sends my torso lurching upward in eerie haste. But what happens when the nose, too, is drawn into these moments of faltering? And might such stumblings unsettle the ingrained habits that our bodies, through years of socialization, have so deeply internalized?“ OLFAC
September 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM