Upcoming: Climate & Death 2.0
Join us in planning a transdisciplinary seminar on the links between climate and death on spring 2024
The connections between climate change and death were explored earlier this year in the Climate & Death session at the Sustainability Science Days 2023 that gathered 70 participants from various disciplines. Since then, the theme has also been discussed one of the 2-day workshops at the Climate Security Festival, where we also utilized some artistic methods and art as our inspiration. In addition to increased mortality rates and decreased wellbeing caused by climate change, we are looking into themes of loss, grief and other eco-emotions. There are also many other approaches that link climate and death, such as climate security and mortality, related health & wellbeing aspects (air quality, environmental change, biodiversity loss, planetary health), creating safer discussion spaces for talking about death, loss & other ‘difficult’ questions, cultural and social losses, non-human death due to climate change, the effects of inequality and colonialism to climate change & death, and so on.
Since the topic has sparked a lot of interest, we will continue organizing events on it and starting to do further research on it . Currently there is a plan to organize a transdisciplinary seminar on climate and death in the spring of 2024 in collaboration with Tunne ry, the Finnish Death Studies Association and Artists with Evidence. If you have expertise in related matters, a motivation to learn or if your organization has interest/resources to take part in the planning and organization of the seminar, please contact rosa.rantanen@helsinki.fi / +358 50 3360785.
