Segnaliamo una call for papers per la conferenza “Climate, Environment, Psyche and History” che si terrà il 17-18 ottobre 2025 in una sede da definirsi nel Michigan (USA).
This conference aims to foster interdisciplinary conversations between the humanities (history, literature, philosophy), social sciences, geography, culture studies, health sciences and other fields dealing with a variety of themes related to human encounters with natural and human-made catastrophes. We want to explore the different ways in which scholars approach how individuals and societies experience environmental trauma, as well as the varieties of traumatic experiences with material environments. This can include the effects of climate-induced stress on human health, the impact of pathogens (pandemics and other medical disasters), the consequences of environmental degradation (pollution, destruction of resources) for humans and communities, the myriad effects of militarized and technological violence, and other related events. We look forward to sparking discussions between specialists in historical sites of natural and human-made disasters and scholars who are focused on contemporary case studies of environmental disasters, including the complex effects of the COVID pandemic, overpopulation, contamination of resources, and other current challenges.
