Programme

24 May 2024
9:00am - 5:45pm

Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po
Room K.008
1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin
Paris

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

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

9:15 - 10:45    Emotional perceptions of the weather

Anouchka Vasak
"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 - 2:00pm    lunch break

Afternoon chair: Giacomo Parrinello (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 Paris-Cité)
"Eco-anxiety: the significance of a new emotion, between psychology and politics"

Sandrine Aumercier
"Psychanalyse, mélancolie environnementale et crise du capitalisme"
[Psychoanalysis, environmental melancholia, and the crisis of capitalism]

5:15 - 5:45pm    General discussion