Classes


 

Past Public Classes

2023


January 16: Scent Culture Theory 101: Scent Culture & Olfactory Heritage

February 13: Roses: An Aromatic Cultural History

March 2nd: Oud: An Aromatic Cultural History

March 6th: Scent Culture Theory 202: Tools for Aromatic Auto-Ethnography

April 3rd: The Great Stink: How Smell Made the Modern City

May 28th: Precious Vessels: A Brief History of the Perfume Bottle

2022


January 17: Scent Culture Theory 101: Scent Culture & Olfactory Heritage

February 28: The Colonial History of the Fragrance Trade

March 28: Scent Culture Theory 202: Tools for Aromatic Auto-Ethnography

April 18: The Black Death: from Plague Preservative to Perfume

May 30: The Great Stink: How Smell Made the Modern City

June 20: Smells like Xenophobia: An Olfactive History of Otherness

June 27: A Fragrant Bouquet of Art & History: Conversation w Bharti Lalwani 

July 18th: Dangerous Women? Beauty, Perfume, and Poison

August 22nd: Indole: An Aromatic Cultural History

September 12th: The Colonial History of the Fragrance Trade

October 3rd: The Scent of Grief: A Brief Survey of Aromatic Death Rituals 

November 7th: Tapputi-Beletekallim, The First Perfumer?

December 5th: Myrrh: An Aromatic Cultural History

2021


January 11: Scent Culture Theory 101

January 25th: Smells like Xenophobia: An Olfactive History of Otherness

February 15: From Plague Preservative to Perfume

March 22: Smells, Miasma Theory, and Public Health

April 26: The Scent of Gan Eden: Olfaction in Judaism 

May 4: Is Death Positivity a Form of Death Denial?

May 17: Tapputi Belatekallim, The First Perfumer

June 14: From Plague Preservative to Perfume

July 12: The Scent of Gan Eden: Olfaction in Judaism 

July 26: The Babylonian Roots to Early Middle Eastern Perfumery

August 23: The Putrid and the Divine: The Smell of Saints

September 20: Dangerous Women? Beauty, Perfume, and Poison

October 11: The Scent of Grief: A Brief Survey of Aromatic Death Rituals

November 15: Tapputi Badakallim, The First Perfumer

December 13: Smells like Xenophobia: An Olfactive History of Otherness

December 20: Dangerous Women? Beauty, Perfume, and Poison

2020


May 4: Scent and Public Health Part One: From Plague Preservative to Perfume

May 11: Scent and Public Health: Part Two; Smells and Miasma Theory

June 23: The Putrid and the Divine: The Magical Scent of Christian Saints

August 3: Smells Like Xenophobia: An Olfactive History of Otherness

September 15: Xenophobia: An Olfactory History of Otherness

November 16: Scent Culture Theory 101


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