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EMSE 2023 Programme
8 June
09:00-9:45 Registration and coffee
09:45-10:00 Welcome (Leah Clark and Helen Coffey)
10:00-11.30 Translocation/Translation
Tin Cugelj (University of Bern), ‘“Wunderlich grausams weter”: Multisensoriality of the Tempestuous Early Modern Adriatic Sea’
Faheem Hussain (The Institute of Ismaili Studies), ‘Citrus Fruits: Making Sense of Sensory Encounters in Al-Andalus’
Olena Morenets (University of Zürich), ‘The Smellscapes of Early Modern Travel Writing’
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-13:00 Health/The Body
Nir Eydan (Johns Hopkins University), ‘Sensory Encounters at the Early Modern Francophone Spa Town’
Kate Luce Mulry and Emma Barnes (California State University, Bakersfield), ‘“Sweet and Stinking Scents”: A Sensory History of Reproduction in the Early Modern English Atlantic’
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Travels/Encounters
Jack Dykstra-McCarthy (University of Cambridge), ‘The Power of the Senses in Late-Seventeenth-Century English Encounters with the Ottoman Empire’
Salih Demirtas (Istanbul Technical University), ‘Sensory Experiences of Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul’
Serra Inan (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), ‘Between Hospitality and Hostility: Sensory Experiences in the Ottoman Diplomatic Court Protocol during the 17th century’
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:30 Making/Reconstruction
Traci Picard (Brown University), ‘Make According to Art: Exploring the Senses in Early Modern Recipe Books’
Christine Walker (Yale-NUS College), ‘Tasting the Caribbean in the Colonial North’
Maria Mendonça (Kenyon College) and Laudan Nooshin (City, University of London), ‘Re-imagining Marginalised Histories: Sounding Domestic Spaces at Ham House’