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)”
Right before the Easter holidays, Siegfried Evens, PhD-candidate in the NUCLEARWATERS-project, has written an exciting travelogue about his stay at Virginia Tech in the USA. Enjoy! Looking back on four months in Washington, D.C. By Siegfried Evens It has been a few months since I came back from my stay in the U.S. And … Continue reading “Glad påsk with a new travelogue!”
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”
Alicia Gutting is a PhD candidate in the ERC-project Nuclearwaters at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment. In her thesis „The Nuclear Rhine“ Alicia is researching transnational nuclear risk perception in Austria, Switzerland, France and Germany from the 1960s to 2018. In January Alicia was published in Risk, Hazards & Crisis in … Continue reading “New publication: What is good drinking water?: 41 Years of risk perception on water quality in the vicinity of the Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe, 1956–1997”
Text: Alicia Gutting, doctoral student at the Division The fun thing about writing a PhD thesis on the nuclear Rhine in Sweden is that it is actually necessary for me to visit the nuclear sites on the Rhine as well as local archives. My three supervisors and I therefore decided that it would be an … Continue reading “Breathing Swiss air – A research stay at the University of Bern”
Alicia Gutting is one of three doctoral students, active in the ERC-project Nuclearwaters at the Division and supervised by prof. Per Högselius. In the thesis „The Nuclear Rhine“ she is researching transnational nuclear risk perception in Austria, Switzerland, France and Germany from the 1960s to 2018. In November the Environmental History Now blog published a … Continue reading “Nuclear Power in Times of Climate Change and the Water Risks Around It – Environmental History Now”
This is a short history stroll, from our very own professor of history of technology Per Högselius. If you missed part one, you can read it in last weeks blog post here: The rise and fall of the Nord Stream pipeline: a brief history (part 1: the rise) The rise and fall of the Nord … Continue reading “The rise and fall of the Nord Stream pipeline: a brief history (part 2: the fall)”
Our colleague Anna Storm (now professor of technology and social change at Linköping University) has been involved in an intellectual exchange with the state-owned power company Vattenfall about the future of Ågesta Nuclear Power Plant in the context of its decommissioning in the magazine NyTeknik. In Anna’s first article from 28 July 2022, she displays … Continue reading “What will happen to the Ågesta Nuclear Power Plant?”
The Nuclearwaters project is hosting the third seminar in its Nuclearwaters Seminar Series this term. This time we have the pleasure of welcoming Sonali Huria, who is going to be speaking about the relationship of the Bishnoi community with water in nuclear India. Time: Fri 2022-04-08 13.15 – 15.00 Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/67164895000 Language: English Lecturer: Sonali Huria, associated scholar, … Continue reading “NUCLEARWATERS Seminar: Ecological entanglements, nuclear ruptures, and the affective intimacies of Bishnoi resistance”
Nuclear-historical research at KTH is expanding! We are happy to announce that Melina Antonia Buns has joined us as a visiting post-doc researcher, based on a collaboration between NUCLEARWATERS, KTH’s Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment and The Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger. Melina was recently awarded a major research grant from the Norwegian Research Council, … Continue reading “Melina Antonia Buns joins the Division!”
