In May, Rebecca was invited to Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden to join the wonderful Energy Lives project to talk about energy, emotion and sensation. Rebecca presented some work on the intersection between energy and emotion, focusing predominantly on how fear was central in determining people’s relationship with their heating systems. Rebecca looks forward to continuing the discussion about energy and sensation with the Energy Lives folk, and hopefully something further will come of it soon.
While in Sweden Rebecca also sat on the ESEH UK and Ireland regional panel on “New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago” where she presented alongside Chris Pearson (Liverpool) and Erika Hanna (Bristol). With extreme heat, coldness, and rain, on the agenda, it was great to see how the body and the senses are taking up new space in environmental history work right now.
