Mark Smith Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies, University of South Carolina Mark Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History and Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he is also Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Smith specializes in the history of the senses and is author of a Sensory History Manifesto and editor of Smell and History: A Reader. Participant In: Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility April 13th, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » As the first sense to engage the world “remotely”, beyond the boundary of an organism’s body, olfaction delivers news from “over there”. But whereas it adumbrates a space beyond, what kind of space, what sort of world does it proffer? Smell engages the world as a series of pathways laid out on gradients. What is… read more »
Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility April 13th, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » As the first sense to engage the world “remotely”, beyond the boundary of an organism’s body, olfaction delivers news from “over there”. But whereas it adumbrates a space beyond, what kind of space, what sort of world does it proffer? Smell engages the world as a series of pathways laid out on gradients. What is… read more »