A warm welcome to another upcoming final seminar at the division! Doctoral Student: Siegfried Evens, Doctoral Student, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment Supervisor: Per Högselius, Kati Lindström, Anna Storm Opponent: Markku Lehtonen, Social Scientist, University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Time: Tuesday 2023-06-13 13.15 – 15.00 Location: Big seminar room, Teknikringen 74D (floor … Continue reading “Upcoming Final seminar: Streams, Steams, and Steels: A History of Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Risk Governance (1850-1990)”
Mid-Seminar: Universities and innovation in Africa: Contemporary histories of innovation policy and practice in a selection of African universities Doctoral student: Domingos Langa Supervisors: Sverker Sörlin, KTH; Urban Lundberg, Dalarna University College; Erik Arnold, Technopolis; Teboho Moja, New York University Opponent: Charles Edquist, researcher and Holder of the Ruben Rausing Chair in Innovation Research at … Continue reading “Upcoming Mid-Seminar: Domingos Langa on Universities and Innovation in Africa”
Within one week we have two exciting seminars to invite you to! First out is Eglė Rindzevičiūtė who will give a talk on Scientific Prediction in the 20th Century on Friday March 13. On Monday March 20, Eglė will visit us in the role as discussion leader and opponent, when Achim Klüppelberg has his final … Continue reading “Mark your Calendars for Scientific Prediction in the 20th Century and From Water to Nuclear to Catastrophe”
Erik Isberg, doctoral student at the division, will discuss the progress of his dissertation at his final seminar on 13 March 13.15-15:00 (Stockholm time). The title of his seminar is “Planetary Timekeeping: Paleoclimatology and the Temporalities of Environmental Knowledge. 1950-1990”. Dania Acherman, Senior Scientist from the University of Bern, will act as discussant during the … Continue reading “Upcoming! Final Seminar on Planetary Timekeeping”
As part of the division’s Higher Seminar schedule for the upcoming spring term, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at Göteborg University Johan Söderberg will present his new book “Resistance to the Current. The Dialectics of Hacking” (MIT Press, Nov. 2022). Together with his co-author Maxigas, Senior Lecturer in … Continue reading “Upcoming: Söderberg’s “Resistance to the Current”, 30 January”
Our colleague Timos Karpouzoglou, researcher at the division, will be presenting his work in the current project NATURE – Examining Nature-Society Relations Through Urban Infrastructure at the upcoming Higher Seminar on Monday 14 March from 1.15-2.45pm (Stockholm time). His work within the framework of this project is done together with Mary Lawhon, Sumit Vij, Pär … Continue reading “Learning about urban water infrastructure by comparing Northern and Southern cities”
Gott nytt år! – Happy New Year! After snow-induced Christmas and winter holidays, the division is slowly but surely bustling back into busy work mode. Our Higher Seminar Series, the colloquium of our division, starts again in two weeks. We are very glad to announce that Aliaksandr Piahanau, Wenner-Gren postdoc at the division, will be … Continue reading “Coming up: Higher Seminar Series in Spring 2022”
