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SUMMARY:Asian Studies Seminar – Atmo-Orientalism and Olfactory Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hsuan Hsu (Professor of English, University of California, Davis)\nTitle: Atmo-Orientalism and Olfactory Aesthetics\nChair/Discussant: Xuelei Huang, University of Edinburgh\nDate and Time: Wednesday, 24 Nov. 5 – 6:30 pm (GMT)\nRegister HERE ( https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvd-Gprz8rEtEYP-_koI9wSHsQ_L95XiHn )\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nAbstract:\nThis talk will consider the long history of “atmo-orientalism,” a mode of racial thinking and racial sensing that apprehends Asian immigrants as deviant assemblages of bodies and air. Tracing atmo-orientalism back to nineteenth-century public health discourses and the persistence of miasma theory in popular imagination, I focus on accounts of Asiatic odor that frequently associated Asian bodies with the dehumanizing effects of capitalist modernity. I then consider a range of Asian diasporic works that challenge this pattern of olfactory racism, including fiction by Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far) and Larissa Lai, as well as art installations by Anicka Yi and Beatrice Glow.\nSpeaker Bio:\nHsuan L. Hsu is a professor of English at UC Davis and author of The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (NYU, 2020), Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU, 2015), and Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge, 2010). He is currently writing a book about Air Conditioning for Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series.\n
URL:https://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/events/asian-studies-seminar-atmo-orientalism-and-olfactory-aesthetics/
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