Emotions, climate, and the environment. Historical perspectives (18th - 21st centuries)
24 May 2024'Solastalgia', 'eco-anxiety', 'eco-grief': in the past two decades, neologisms have flourished to describe how climate change and human-induced environmental damages are giving birth to new emotional states. But the idea that climate can drive us mad or sad is not entirely new. By bringing together environmental history, medical history and the history of emotions, this workshop seeks to historicise our emotional relation to climate and the natural environment.
Bringing together scholars from Australia, France, Switzerland, the UK and the US, the workshop will try to map how our emotional perceptions of climate(s), weather and the environment evolved from the 18th to the 21st century, and how climatic and natural elements were related to emotions such as fear, anxiety, or pleasure in specific historical, social, and political contexts. It will offer the opportunity to study how emotions are shaped by personal experiences, collective representations, medical and lay knowledges. It will also allow to identify potential sources for an emotional history of the environment, such as private diaries, weather almanacs, medical treatises, and psychiatric archives.
This workshop is organised by Anatole Le Bras. It is funded by the Centre for History and Economics in Paris and hosted by the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po.
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CHEP WORKSHOP
The CHEP workshop brings together PhD candidates and early-career scholars whose research addresses questions in economic and/or environmental history - broadly defined. The workshop offers a participatory forum where members can discuss works-in-progress, circulate readings, and receive feedback from colleagues on their research agendas. The workshop also aims to provide a collaborative space for exploring methodological and historiographical questions together that arise in our practice of economic and environmental history. The forum welcomes participation in both French and English.
Sessions will be held monthly, on select Mondays of the month from 12:30 to 14:00, at the Centre for History of Sciences Po (CHSP). Upcoming meetings are scheduled for: April 22nd, May 27th and June 17th. The calendar for the next academic year will be announced at a later date.
For all those interested in attending or for further information, please contact: Anatole Le Bras and Liane Hewitt.
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