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) «Psychanalyse, 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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