Sverker Sörlin tours Arctic Humanities at UiT Tromsø
History Professor Sverker Sörlin visited The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø in September to tour research environments within the Arctic Humanities.
As reported by the Center for arctic Humanities at UiT:
"Renowned history professor Sverker Sörlin visited UiT Tromsø in September. He was particularly satisfied with UiT’s ambitions to collaborate across boundaries of all kinds.
Sverker Sörlin is professor of environmental history at KTH in Stockholm. He has a longstanding career in scholarship, policy advice, academic leadership and as a public intellectual he's part of the team of the just recently inaugurated Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is member of the university board of Umeå University that has an Arctic Centre that serves as a connectivity hub for arctic transdisciplinary research and education.
The purpose of the campus tour was to meet different research environments at UiT that are working within the Arctic humanities.
– The visit gave scholars from the humanities the possibility to present their work and give a brief insight into various ongoing research projects, says Lilli Mittner, scientific coordinator of the newly established Centre for Arctic Humanities."
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