Extreme weather conditions, induced and intensified by a global climate emergency, increasingly impact societies across the world. In the face of unprecedented climatic threats, researchers advance methodological approaches to understand the role of emotions in how individuals and societies experience climatic impacts and reshape their surrounding environments (social, cultural, material) in response to climate change.

Individual disciplinary contributions focus, for example, on how embodied experiences and sensorial responses influence top-down and bottom-up decision-making, shape resistance movements, and catalyze transformational change; how emotions and social meaning shape engagement with environmental change; and how affective responses influence meaning-making, knowledge sharing, and attitudes and behaviors to avert or adapt to new climates.

Yet, more work is needed to bridge these bodies of knowledge and examine how diverse methodologies can reveal situated lessons of feeling, being, and becoming with climate to offer new insights for living with exacerbated yet uncertain climate futures.

This symposium aims to address this gap by bringing together scholars working within and across disciplinary divides to explore how diverse and creative methods can inform a more holistic understanding of preparing for, addressing, and living with climate change. Specifically, and following disciplinary traditions from across the social sciences and allied fields, the symposium will bring together scholars working at one or more intersections between emotion – space – weather to explore linkages across the experiential, material, and environmental dimensions of inhabiting changing climates.

The symposium will be an opportunity for participants to receive feedback on manuscripts shared in advance of the event. Selected participants will be invited to submit contributions for a publication.