About the speakers: 

Anne Karpf is a writer, sociologist and award-winning journalist. Her five books of nonfiction include a family memoir, The War After: Living with the Holocaust (Faber), and most recently How Women Can Save the Planet (Hurst). She has a special interest in psychoanalysis; her research into Winnicott’s BBC radio broadcasts was funded by the Winnicott Trust. She is Professor of Life Writing and Culture at London Metropolitan University. 

Sally Weintrobe is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and she chairs the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Climate Committee. She edited and contributed to Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2012) and the New Library of Psychoanalysis, which was short-listed in 2014 for the Gradiva Award for contributions to psychoanalysis. She recently published Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare (Bloomsbury, 2021).