The Cambridge Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group is pleased to invite papers for its inaugural workshop, generously funded by the BSHS and hosted by HPS, Cambridge. This one-day event will explore perception, receptions, and representations of ‘atmosphere/s’ in multiple contexts, and we welcome contributions from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to: history, HPS, geography, literary studies, ecocriticism, earth and atmospheric sciences, and philosophy, as well as interdisciplinary approaches.
Papers might engage with any ‘atmospheric’ issues, but may relate in particular to our three areas of focus:
- Health and the Self – Embodied and sensory reactions to the atmosphere
- The Spectral Atmosphere – The Ghostly, uncanny, and spiritual in the atmosphere
- Atmospheres out of place – Subterranean, underwater, and extraterrestrial atmospheres, and the history of atmospheric analogies
To register, free of charge, for this conference, please click here. If you would like to submit a proposal for a paper, please get in touch directly with Dr Fiona Amery (faa28[at]cam.ac.uk) and/or Thomas Banbury (tjb98[at]cam.ac.uk) with a 200-words abstract and a short biography. The deadline for abstracts is 5 pm, 21st April.
