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Beyond Unprepared and Sustainability’s Formative Moment - Formas' Grants two new Projects
Published Nov 29, 2021Division researchers Fredrik Bertilsson and Eric Paglia recieved funding for four years each in the Formas Annual Open Call 2021 – Research projects for early-career researchers. In 2022 the Division ...
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The Thuréus Prize to Sverker Sörlin
Sverker Sörlin. Photo: Frankie Fouganthin Published Nov 23, 2021The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala awards Sverker Sörlin the Thuréus Prize on November 23. He receives the prize in the historical-archeological class for "outstanding contributions as a pioneer...
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Call for Papers: The Nuclear-Water Nexus
Published Nov 22, 2021The team behind the NUCLEARWATERS project is planning for a workshop, to which they invite senior and junior scholars (including PhD students) from all fields – not only history – to present research ...
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A meeting between researchers, artists, an art gallery and the business world.
Published Nov 09, 2021Watch Paul Schrotti from Lindéngruppen in conversation with researcher David Nilsson and artist Åsa Cederqvist about the exhibition Symbios at Färgfabriken. A meeting between researchers, artists, a...
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Sverker Sörlin is awarded IVA's Great Gold Medal
Sverker Sörlin. Photo: Karin Tengby Published Oct 20, 2021Sverker Sörlin, Professor in Environmental History at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, has been awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' (IVA) Great Go...
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70 Climate Scientists Urge Governments in the UK and Europe to act against Climate Change
Climate protesters erected a Boris Johnson statue splattered in oil in Whitehall on Monday (AFP/Getty/the Independent)) Published Oct 19, 2021In a letter published in the leading UK newspaper The Independent, no less than seventy climate scientists argue that the UK and Europe must take “bold political action” on fossil fuels and rule out n...
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Urban Water Imaginaries in Exhibition - Interview with Katarina Larsen
Published Sep 21, 2021The exhibition Symbiosis at Färgfabriken is a place for dialogue and an ongoing experiment created together with artists, researchers, designers and architects to explore new ways of thinking about ou...
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Nina Wormbs Receives Scholarship for new Book on Climate
From top left: Magnus Ivarsson, Mårten Lind, Roland Paulsen, Erika Schagatay, Bo Söderström and Nina Wormbs. All recipients of the popular science scholarship of SEK 100,000. Photo: Natur & Kultur Published Sep 14, 2021Nina Wormbs was awarded Natur & Kultur's scholarship for popular science in September together with five other researchers and authors. The aim with is to convey research to a wider audience, and this...
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Symbiosis - a Collaboration between NATURE and Färgfabriken
Photo: John Jakobsson Published Aug 19, 2021Timos Karpouzoglou, Katarina Larsen and David Nilsson team up in the RJ funded project NATURE. Together with artists from Färgfabriken they have collaborated and developed a theme about water and infr...
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KTH Student? Apply for one of our Courses this Fall!
Photo: Fredrik Persson, KTH Published Aug 16, 2021Explore the interdisciplinary field of political ecology, learn about energy and national identity in a global perspective or analyze energy systems as socio-technical systems in a course with us.
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The ESEH Dissertation Prize to Daniele Valisena
Published Jul 16, 2021Between July 8 and 9 the ESEH 2021 Digital Meeting was held. It offered a series of online environmental history events around the 11th ESEH's Ordinary General Meeting. On the Friday The ESEH Disserta...
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Decay Without Mourning: Future-thinking Heritage Practices - New Grant for Lize-Marie van der Watt
Published Jul 08, 2021We are happy to announce that Lize-Marie Hansen van der Watt was granted in the call Global Issues - Integrating Different Perspectives on Heritage and Change. In a joint call for proposals Riksbanken...
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Integrative Humanities - the Division Sums up 2019 and 2020
Base camp and the remains of the first Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901 – 1903) at Snow Hill island, Antarctica. Photo: Kati Lindström. Published Jun 17, 2021The Division has published reports since the beginning of the 1990s. The first years the reports were annual, basic information on changes in staff, courses offered, seminars held, and activities by i...
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Kati Lindström, new member of the Estonian Polar Research Committee!
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One Table Two Elephants opened the SALT online film festival in Istanbul, Turkey
Published May 20, 2021One Table Two Elephants (84 min, CPH:DOX, 2018) is a cinematic ethnography created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson that deals with race, nature and knowledge politics in the postcolonial city ...
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The DHST Dissertation Prize to Johan Gärdebo
Published May 04, 2021We are happy to announce that Johan Gärdebo was awarded the DHST Dissertation Prize for his doctoral thesis “Environing Technology: Swedish satellite remote sensing in the making of environment, 1969–...
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Per Högselius: Why Historians can and Must Engage in the Public Debate
Published Apr 29, 2021Per Högselius participated in the Environmental History Week in the event "Why historians can and must Engage in the Public Debate" on April 19. This was the first of a series of three events on "Usab...
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Rendering the Earth a Governable Object in the Anthropocene
Photo: Jonathan Farber, Unsplash Published Apr 26, 2021While humans have gained the power to alter the global environment, work within certain scientific disciplines since the Second World War has made it possible to assess the impacts of exponential grow...
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Call for Abstracts: Themed Issue of International Journal of Cultural Studies
Published Apr 20, 2021The Division's Miyase Christensen is guest editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Studies on Mediations and the Environment: Earth in Focus. The journal issue will explore ...
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Tune in for Theories of the pandemic: Six Styles of Covid Conspiracies
Published Apr 13, 2021A new episode is out of the podcast Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic, with Division researcher Eric Paglia. This time on Covid Conspiracies with prof. Andreas Önnerfors, conspiracy theory expert, a...
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