Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, in collaboration with the Center for Cosmopolitan Culture, invites papers for the conference “Atmospheres of the Spiritual,” to be held December 4–5, 2025, at FAU’s Boca Raton campus. Building on last year’s “Somaesthetics of Atmosphere” event, the conference explores how spiritual atmospheres—experienced through ritual, art, nature, and human connection—affect body, mind, and environment. Scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and arts are welcome to contribute, with selected papers considered for publication in The Journal of Somaesthetics or the Brill series Studies in Somaesthetics.

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Laura Fretwell: Assistant Professor of History
Title: Commemoration versus Community: The Establishment of the National Park Service’s Chimborazo Medical Museum in Richmond, Virginia in the 1950s

Stacey Balkan: Associate Professor of English
Title: Bicycling in Paradise: On Radical Cadence and Just Futures in the End Times

David Medina: Assistant Professor of English
Title: Branded: Books, Bodies, and The Metonymic Marca De Fuego

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