Recent Lectures

2019 October. Hoover KC. Prepared comments on modern living and differential sensory impairment. “Turning to the Trigeminal in Trying Times“. Panelist for “Sense and Sense-ability: The history and science of gustation and olfaction’. Institute of Digital Archaeology Annual Conference: Ancient Spice.

2018 November. Hoover KC. Lectio Magistralis: An interdisciplinary perspective on the ecology and epidemiology of West Nile Virus within the context of anthropogenic climate change. “Zanzare: un rischio per la salute. Il Piano regionale arbovirosi: quali miglioramenti alla luce dell’esperienza 2018” A regional government workshop by the multidisciplinary working group for the control and prevention of Vector borne disease. Sponsored by Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Emilia-Romagna and Public Health Department of Emilia-Romagna. [Italy]

2018 July. Hoover KC. A human ecology perspective on sensory dysfunction and sensory inequity. The UK Semiochemistry Network Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, British Workshop XXVI. Cambridge [UK]

2018 June. Hoover KC. SciFoo Lightning Talk: Smelling in the Modern World. Science Foo Camp at Googleplex (#scifoo). Mountain View [USA]

2017 October. Hoover KC. The evolution of olfaction within the genus Homo. Physiology Department Seminar Series, Medical College. University of Kentucky. [USA]

2017 June. Hoover KC. The evolutionary tuning of human olfaction and the sensory inequities of the modern world. Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology. Hosted by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [EU]

2017 February. Hoover KC. Smell of evolution. Bristol University, Anthropology Department [UK]

2016 December. Hoover KC. Evolutionary mismatch and the human senses. Durham University, Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture. [UK]

2016 March. Hoover KC. Olfactory genetics and old noses. Part of Being Human: Arctic Edition. University of Alaska (Fairbanks), Anthropology Department. [USA]

EXHIBITIONS
12-18 Mar 2016. Arctic Perspectives: An art-science collaborative show. UAF Art Gallery. Fairbanks AK
4-30 Mar 2016. First Friday at the Ursa Major Distillery. Fairbanks AK
15-17 Nov 2015. Being Human Festival: Midlands Hubs. Malt Cross Gallery. Nottingham UK.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
2015 Nov Being Human Festival (Midland Hub ‘Creative City’): Consider Smell II, Nottingham
2015 Nov Being Human Festival: Consider Smell III, London