Emotions, climate, and the environment.
Historical perspectives (18th-21st centuries)

Friday May 24, 2024
Sciences Po, Campus de Paris
1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin

Morning chair: Anatole Le Bras (Centre for History and Economics in Paris)

9:00-9:15 | Anatole Le Bras, Introduction 

9:15-10:45 | Emotional perceptions of the weather - Anouchka Vasak (Université de Poitiers/EHESS), «Où sont les neiges d’antan ? Brève histoire de la perception du froid» [A brief attempt to historicise the perception of the cold] 

- Clare Hickman (Newcastle University), «Air, weather and multispecies encounters: An exploration of patients’ environmental experiences of British modern medical institutions» 

10:45-11:00 | coffee break 

11:00-12:30 | Medical inquiries 

- Eva Yampolsky (Université de Genève) «Climate and seasonality as factors of suicidality in 19th-century French psychiatric discourse» 

- Léo Bernard (IFRIS) «Une science enchantée. S’émerveiller de l’influence du cosmos sur la vie humaine (première moitié du XXe siècle)» [Enchanted science. Studies on the cosmos’ influence on human life in the first half of the 20th century] 

12:30-2 pm | lunch break

Afternoon chair: Giacomo Parrinello (Centre for History at Sciences Po)

 2:00-3:30 | Deadly and crazy emotions - Thomas Dodman (Columbia University), «From nostalgia to solastalgia: the history and nature of an emotion» 

- Rebecca Jones (La Trobe University), «Navigating crazy weather in arid Australia. 1900s-1950s» 

3:30-3:45 | coffee break 

3:45-5:15 | Psychopathology of the environmental crisis 

- Maïa Fansten (Université (Université Paris-Cité) «Eco-anxiety: the significance of a new emotion, between psychology and politics» 

- Sandrine Aumercier (Psychanalyste, Berlin) «Psychanayse, mélancolie environnementale et crise du capitalisme» [Psychoanalysis, environmental melancholia, and the crisis of capitalism] 

5:15-5:45 pm | General discussion

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