March 21, 2020, 9 a.m.–10 p.m.
CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The interdisciplinary symposium on the topic of “smell” and “smelling” provides a space for exploring the topic from a variety of perspectives and disciplines through lectures, discussions, workshops, and interactions. Guests are artists, scholars, and scientists from the disciplines of philosophy, egyptology, neuroscience, and medicine. The symposium concludes the 2019 theme year on “smell” and is able to build on the insights and questions that have emerged from previous exhibitions and workshop.
PROGRAM
9:00-12:45: Talks and discussion – part 1
Prof. Barry C Smith: “Smell as the Background to Consciousness” (Engl.)
Prof. Maria Larsson: „Memory for odors“ (Engl.)
M.A. Dora Goldsmith: “Die olfaktorische Welt der Liebe und Sexualität im alten Ägypten”, followed by a discussion with Professor Hanns Hatt
Lunch
13:45 – 15:15: Workshops, experience space and interactions
Scent Club Berlin in collaboration with Anna Virnich, Dora Goldsmith, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Sean Raspet, Thomas Hummel
15:15-19:15: Talks and discussion – part 2
Sissel Tolaas (tba)
Sean Raspet: “New Materials, New Scents: Art and Molecular Design“ (Engl.)
Wolfgang Georgsdorf: „Osmodrama und Smeller 2.0. Künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Fragen an eine Kunstform, die den audiovisuellen Raum verlässt”
Prof. Ilona Croy, Wolfgang Georgsdorf and Prof. Thomas Hummel in conversation on collaborations of scientific and artistic research on the human sense of smell
M. Sc. Natalia Filvarova: „Multisensory perception: how smell shapes our senses“ (Engl.)
19:15-20:15 Not your average wine tasting
Angela Loi
Dinner & Get Together
The symposium takes place within the framework of Brain Awareness Week 2020.
Art meets Science
Workshop at the 12th Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin
Telefon: +49 - 30 - 20 62 29 65
Email: info@scheringstiftung.de
Thursday to Monday: 1 pm - 7 pm
Saturday to Sunday: 11 am - 7 pm
free entrance