FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2026

VENDREDI 27 FÉVRIER 2026

Andrews House - 13 Brown St, Providence, RI

8 :30-9 :00 a.m. Registration and breakfast / Accueil et petit déjeuner

9 - 9 :30 a.m. Introduction by Chanelle Dupuis, Jasmine Laraki and Clara May

Introduction par Chanelle Dupuis, Jasmine Laraki et Clara May

9 :30 - 10 :30 a.m. Panel 1 | World Anosmia Awareness Day/ Journée internationale de l’anosmie

Rachel S. Herz (Brown University)

Featured Speaker for World Anosmia Day

Benoît Jobin (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School)

Olfactory Signatures of Brain Health: Early Detection of Alzheimer’s and Other Conditions

Douglas Basford (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)

“Aveugle du nez”: The Nature of Odorous Objects in COVID Anosmia and Olfactory Retraining

10 :30-11 :00 a.m. Coffee break/ Pause café

11 - 12 :00 p.m. Panel 2 | Smell, gender, and marketing / Odeur, genre et marketing

Xiaosong Gao (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

(Dis)quieting Aroma: Qinan Agarwood and Anxieties of Male Elites in Ming China (1368-1644)

Renee Congdon (Princeton University, USA)

“What do clouds smell like?”: Cleanliness, Feminine Hygiene, and the Imperative of Odorlessness in Popular Spanish Advertising

Bob Davidson (University of Toronto, Canada)

Armpit Kisses: Sanex in Spain

12 - 12 :30 p.m. Osmothèque – Conservatoire International des Parfums / The World’s Perfume Archive (Versailles, France)

Ttitle to be determine / Titre à préciser

12 :30 - 2 :00 p.m. Lunch / Pause déjeuner

3 - 4 :00 p.m. Panel 3 | The scent of time, the scent of health / L’odeur du temps, l’odeur de la santé

Silke Felber (University of Arts Linz, Autriche)

Crafting Scent, Governing Bodies. The Pomander and Early Modern Knowledge Regimes

Aaron M. Hyman (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Longevity, or, Scenting Time in Early Modernity

Océane Fontaine Cioffi (Université de Tours, France)

Scented Beads: Materiality, Gesture, Multisensoriality, and Social Dimensions in the Renaissance

4 :00 - 4 :30 p.m. Coffee break / Pause café

4 :30 - 5 :30 p.m. Panel 4 |Mediations of Scent / Médiations olfactives

Léonie Maillard (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France)

Materialising Britishness: Olfactory Anglomania and Cross-Channel Aesthetic Transfers in Diptyque’s Early Creations

Sandra Barré (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)

Anti-matière de l’œuvre olfactive au XXe et XXIe siècle

Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide (Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, USA)

The Sweet Smell of Excess

Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center 

Kasper Multipurpose Room, 75 Waterman St, Providence, RI

5 :30 – 6 :00 pm Break and exposition installation / Pause et mise en place de l’exposition

6 :00 – 7 :30 pm Exposition of olfactory art and design / Exposition des projets artistiques olfactifs

7 :30 - 8 :30 p.m. Reception / Réception

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28, 2026

SAMEDI 28 FÉVRIER 2026

Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center 

Kasper Multipurpose Room, 75 Waterman St, Providence, RI

8 :30 – 9 :00 a.m. Breakfast / Petit déjeuner

9 – 10 :30 a.m. Exposition of olfactory art and design / Exposition des projets artistiques olfactifs

Andrews House - 13 Brown St, Providence, RI

10 :30 – 11 :00 a.m. Coffee break / Pause café

11 - 12 :00 p.m. Panel 5 | Scented Objects: Culture and Religion / Objets parfumés : culture et religion

Prof. Paehwan Seol (Chonnam National University, South Korea)

The Aromatics Network in the Mongol Empire

Joëlle Rollo-Koster (Rhode Island University, USA)

Musk and the Pope : The Golden Rose

Fanny Fréminé Garcia (Université de Tours, France)

Par l’eau et par l’or : les parfums de l’aiguière à la table des rois

12 :00 - 1 :00 p.m. Panel 6 | 18th Century French Perfumery/ La parfumerie française au XVIIIe siècle

Annick Le Guérer (France)

Le triomphe des philosophies sensualistes et l’efflorescence des contenants parfumés au XVIIIe siècle

Bastien Baudy (Université Côte d’Azur, France)

Voir l’odeur : le parfum comme objet économique intersensoriel au XVIIIe siècle

Alyse Muller (Columbia University, USA)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory’s pot-pourri à Vaisseau: A Case Study of Smells, Shipping, and Interior Design

1 :00 - 2 :30 p.m. Lunch / Pause déjeuner

2 :30 - 3 :30 p.m. Panel 7 | Global Aromas of the 19th and 20th century / Normes, discours, et matérialité du parfum en Europe (XIXe et XXe siècles)

Charlotte Gaudry (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France)

Writing the Invisible: Perfume Recipe Manuals and the Material Culture of Perfume in 19th-Century Italy

Samuele Briatore (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Scent and Gender. Italian Etiquette Manuals and the Regulation of Male and Female Olfaction (19th-21th Century)

Tristan Hinschberger (École du Louvre – Université d’Artois, France)

La présentation du parfum de 1882 à 1945 : un art décoratif à part entière

3 :30 - 4 :30 p.m. Panel 8 | Nature, culture, and the digital / Nature, culture, et régimes numériques 

Daniel Bender (University of Toronto, Canada)

Smelling Sustainability: Wine Tasting as Ecocriticism

Emilia Cottignoli (Stanford University, USA)

Clouds as Sheep: Deer Shelter, Dung, and Flies

Jens Schröter (University of Bonn, Germany)

Electronic Nose. Digitizations of Scent

4 :30 - 5 :00 p.m. Coffee break / Pause café

5 :00 - 6 :30 p.m. Keynote address / Conférence Prof. Érika Wicky (Université Grenoble Alpes / LARHRA, France)

Objects and Gestures : Perfuming Practices in Historical Perspective

6 :30 – 8 :00 p.m. Reception / Réception

Exhibiting artists / Artistes exposés :

Anne-Charlotte Baudequin et Mathieu Maldes (France)

Petits gestes olfactifs

Manon Bellet (New Orleans, USA)

Golden Waste / Breathe and Resist in Remembrance of Landscape

Anna Boothe (Pennsylvania, USA)

Cast Crystal Flacons: Scent Reflects Object / Object Reflects Place

Annabel Castro (Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico)

Landmark Castle: Votive candles’ series

Zorica Čolić (New York, USA)

I feel… (Desire… Addict… Lust… Happy… Euphoria…)

Brian Goeltzenleuchter (USA)

Scents of Exile

Julie Granjon (ENSCI – Les Ateliers, France)

Concevoir l’espace domestique par sa dimension olfactive

Shahira Hammad (New York, USA)

Palimpsests II: Residual Scent Interfaces in a Contested Garden

Lucille Lefrang (Université de Grenoble Alpes, France)

Odoriser les archives historiques, archiver les odeurs personnelles

Maarja Merivoo-Parro (Stanford University, USA)

The Smell of Abroad

Bruno Mesz (Aromatorio Collective, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

On Osmosonic Art

Michelle Shuman (Concordia University, Canada)

Belly of the Beast

Lena Trost (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)

Glass Tasting: Imaginig Smell through Artistic Means and Glass

With the participation of/ Et avec la participation de

Osmothèque – Conservatoire International des Parfums (Versailles, France)