The Unread Lectures: Epistemological Foundations of War Pollution Research

The Unread Lectures is a special pre-conference series dedicated to the epistemological foundations of war pollution research.

The purpose of this initiative is to explore the conceptual, methodological, and philosophical challenges that shape the production of knowledge about environmental contamination caused by military activities and armed conflicts. The series serves as a space for preliminary reflection before empirical research, encouraging contributors to examine how evidence is generated, interpreted, validated, and communicated within the field of war pollution studies.

Rather than presenting finalized conclusions, these lectures function as intellectual working papers and exploratory preprints. They address fundamental questions concerning causality, uncertainty, data gaps, attribution, interdisciplinary integration, environmental justice, and the limits of scientific knowledge in conflict-affected environments.

The category welcomes contributions from environmental sciences, public health, ecology, toxicology, epidemiology, philosophy of science, science and technology studies (STS), history of science, and related disciplines.

The Unread Lectures are intended to stimulate discussion, identify research blind spots, and contribute to the development of a coherent epistemological framework for the emerging field of war pollution research.

These lectures are called unread not because they should remain unread, but because they are intended to be read before the conference rather than presented during it.