If you would like to hear Nuri natter on about smelly things this page will house all of your opportunities to do so. Nuri conducts online (and hopefully one day) in-person talks on a variety of subjects related to scent and death. If you would like to book Nuri, contact her here.
May 2022
The Great Stink: How Smell Made the Modern City
[Online] Monday, 30th May 2022
Past Public Classes
2022
April 18: The Black Death: from Plague Preservative to Perfume
March 28: Scent Culture Theory 202: Tools for Aromatic Auto-Ethnography
February 28: The Colonial History of the Fragrance Trade
January 17: Scent Culture Theory 101: Scent Culture & Olfactory Heritage
2021
December 20: Dangerous Women? Beauty, Perfume, and Poison
December 13: Smells like Xenophobia: An Olfactive History of Otherness
November 15: Tapputi Badakallim, The First Perfumer
October 11: The Scent of Grief: A Brief Survey of Aromatic Death Rituals
September 20: Dangerous Women? Beauty, Perfume, and Poison
August 23: The Putrid and the Divine: The Smell of Saints
July 26: The Babylonian Roots to Early Middle Eastern Perfumery
July 12: The Scent of Gan Eden: Olfaction in Judaism
June 14: From Plague Preservative to Perfume
May 17: Tapputi Belatekallim, The First Perfumer
May 4: Is Death Positivity a Form of Death Denial?
April 26: The Scent of Gan Eden: Olfaction in Judaism
March 22: Smells, Miasma Theory, and Public Health
February 15: From Plague Preservative to Perfume
January 25th: Smells like Xenophobia: An Olfactive History of Otherness
January 11: Scent Culture Theory 101
2020
November 16: Scent Culture Theory 101
September 15: Xenophobia: An Olfactory History of Otherness
August 3: Smells Like Xenophobia: An Olfactive History of Otherness
June 23: The Putrid and the Divine: The Magical Scent of Christian Saints
May 11: Scent and Public Health: Part Two; Smells and Miasma Theory
May 4: Scent and Public Health Part One: From Plague Preservative to Perfume
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