CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS IS CLOSED

*NOTE: Submission Deadline extended to 15.3.2024*

Climate & Death 2024 is a transdisciplinary seminar that invites participants from different disciplines and fields to discuss the intersections between climate and death. The event provides a platform to discuss emerging issues related to death and climate change, and to present your research, projects, or artistic contributions (or other) in a friendly atmosphere. The seminar will take place on April 8th at Sofia Cultural Center in Vuosaari, Helsinki.

Background

The questions connecting climate and death are emerging from various interdisciplinary fields such as thanatology (death studies), sustainability science, climate change and air quality research, environmental studies, post-humanist, Indigenous and feminist scholarship, and many others. At the same time, several artists and civil society organizations are working with related issues and connecting their work to the themes of loss, grief and other emotions, also through participatory and experiential methods. 

In this seminar, we encourage submissions from researchers from different fields, practitioners, artists and others; you can present for example your research paper, artistic work, civil society project or work that combines multiple approaches.

Topics for discussion and presentations include for example:

  • connections of climate change to human mortality, health and wellbeing, including mental health and psychosocial support

  • multispecies, non-human and environmental perspectives to death, dying and mortality

  • transdisciplinary and artistic methods as ways to understand climate and death related themes

  • inclusive, queer and indigenous perspectives on climate and death

  • dealing with death, loss and grief related to climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental destruction

  • links between climate change and air quality in relation to climate and death

  • security, peace and conflicts in relation to climate and death

  • understanding links between climate change and unsustainable, unjust systems: how to move forward from ‘dying’ systems?

Submission guidelines

Please send a brief description of what you want to present and how, via this form no later than 15.3.2024 (23:59 EET).

Registration

Registration for the event opens in the spring of 2024. The event is free of charge for both presenters and participants.

You can follow updates on the seminar on this website and in social media. The 8.4. event in Sofia Cultural Center is in person only. It is possible that side-program will be organized online.

An evening of art-science

The seminar will be accompanied by an evening with an art-science program, curated by Artists with Evidence, that will take place in the city center of Helsinki on April 9th. The program will focus on multidisciplinary approaches and youth perspectives. More info will follow later.

Organizers

Climate & Death 2024 is collectively organized by the Safer Climate (University of Helsinki), The Finnish Death Studies Association, Tunne ry and Artists with Evidence.

The event is a part of the program of the Atmosphere and Competence Center Impact Week 8-12.4.2024 in Helsinki.