Air and Environmental Health Project

Tatiana Konrad will talk about “Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19” at the Re-storying the Land: Environmental Justice and Cultural Pathways in Canada and India conference @ Jadavpur University, Feb 5–6, 2026 🌍

📢 Out now! Co-edited by Tatiana Konrad and Savannah Schaufler, the special issue of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities—“The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Environmental Humanities Perspective”—is out now! Read the articles here: ecocene.kapadokya.edu.tr/index.php/ecoc…

🎉👏 Thank you to all contributors & participants! 🌬️ Inspiring talks, great art, and brilliant ideas. Air will continue to matter! #AirMatters @univienna @FWF_at

What a day! 🎉 Great talks & discussions showing that air truly matters. Thanks to all

✨ Hsuan L. Hsu’s keynote talk “Smell, Worldmaking, and Health” was an excellent conclusion to the symposium, revealing linkages between sensory experience and air! 👏#AirMatters @univienna @FWF_at

✨Beautiful reminder from Becky Lyon at today’s symposium: visuals can reveal dimensions of air that words can’t! #AirMatters @univienna @FWF_at

👏What a round of flash talks! Huge thanks to Clare Hickman, Corey Dzenko, @eclecticpneumas & others for exploring air as a medium, metaphor & material reality—opening rich discussions on pandemics, pollution, justice & shared environments. #AirMatters @univienna @FWF_at

🎉 Great start to the symposium! Thank you, Jeff Diamanti, for the inspiring talk “Remembering Air”—a beautiful reflection on how we attend to air as a vital presence shaping our lives and futures. #AirMatters @univienna @FWF_at

✨Join us online on Nov 21, 2025, at 3pm CET for “Air Matters”! Keynotes by @JeffDiamanti & Hsuan L. Hsu; flash talks by @eclecticpneumas, Corey Dzenko, Clare Hickman & and other great scholars and artists! 🔗 More Info: airproject.univie.ac.at/symposium_airm… 🌫️#AirMatters @univienna @FWF_at

📢 Excited to share that the online symposium “Air Matters” will take place on Nov 21, 2025! More information on the keynote presentations, flash talks, and other activities is coming soon. 🎉👏 #AirMatters @univienna @FWF_at

📢Join Tatiana Konrad, Savannah Schaufler, and the colleagues at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico, or online on September 24. This event will be held in a hybrid format, at 10:00 am in Mexico.

Published today! Materiality of Air by Tatiana Konrad 📖 This open access book dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/pt7u3jjp #air #materiality #openaccess

🧵Check out our first book about air—Imagining Air—published earlier with @UExeterPress too!

📢 So excited to share that “Materiality of Air,” edited by Tatiana Konrad, has just been published with @UExeterPress! Huge thanks to @Prof_Sheena, @isagrapefruit, @eclecticpneumas, @DQuinlivanB, and other contributors for their work!👏 👉More info: exeterpress.co.uk/products/mater… 🧵

📢 On Aug 9 (15:15pm IST/16:15pm CEST), Tatiana Konrad joins the #ASLEUKI Online Day to give a talk about air, materiality, and health, using the plane as a lens. Join online: asle.org.uk/events/confere…

🌱 Contribution to the “Environment, Health, and Well-Being” series @MSUPress that welcomes interdisciplinary work on planetary health and justice. 👉More info: msupress.org/environment-he…

📢 We’re thrilled to announce that “Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19,” ed. Tatiana Konrad, has just been published with @MSUPress!📚 Many thanks to the contributors for their hard work on this project!👏 👉More info: msupress.org/9781611865288/…

Join us at #ASLE2025 @asle (July 17, 10:30–12pm EDT)! The panel will include talks by Tatiana Konrad, Jayne Lewis, @sicarrol, and Corey Dzenko. Drawing on chapters from Imagining Air @UExeterPress, it will discuss air as a material, cultural, and affective element.

Thrilled to share that Savannah Schaufler will talk about “Polluted Atmospheres: Environmental and Allegorical Narratives of Decay” at the 2nd International Congress of Ecological Humanities on June 30, 12:00–13:30, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona! 🌿✨

Savannah Schaufler will be presenting “Scented Candles and the Politics of Smell: Mediating Spaces, Senses, and Environmental Harm” at #SWPACASalon25 today at 9pm CEST / 1pm MDT! 🙌 Looking forward to the interesting talks!✨@southwestpca