Högre seminarium hösten 2015
Högre Seminarium äger rum i seminarierummet på Avdelningen för historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö, Teknikringen 74 D, KTH.
Monday 14 September, 13:15-14:45
Maria Isabel Pérez Ramos, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“The quest for sovereignty and survival: Environmental degradation and cultural resistance in Chicano Literature and the US Southwest”
(mittseminarium i forskarutbildningen)
Discussant: Priscilla Ybarra, University of North Texas
Tuesday 15 September, 13:15-14:45
Suraya Scheba, University of Cape Town
"Overcoming water scarcity for good? Querying the adoption of desalination technology in the Knysna Local Municipality of South Africa"
Monday 28 September, 13:15-14:45
Hanna Vikström, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Scarcity and Strategy: Why Metals Became Scarce and How Actors Responded”
(mitt-seminarium i forskarutbildningen)
Discussant: Espen Storli, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Monday 12 October, 13:15-14:45
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, University of Cambridge
“Thin blue lines: Clearblue and the rise of pregnancy testing in British film, television and other media”
Thursday 29 October, 13:15-14:45
John Durham Peters, University of Iowa
“How Do Clouds Mean?”
Monday 2 November, 15:00-17:00: Fourth Stockholm Archipelago Lecture
Noel Castree, University of Wollongong
“The humanities and global change research: relationships necessary, absent and possible”
Monday 9 November, 13:15-14:45
Anna Svensson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Exploring Utopia and Universal Order Through the History of Botanical Collections”
(mitt-seminarium i forskarutbildningen)
Discussant: Jenny Beckman, University of Uppsala
Tuesday 24 November, 13:15-14:45
Tuomas Räsänen, University of Turku
“Does the dead wild animal have agency?”
Monday 30 November, 13:15-14:15
Corinna Röver, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Reindeer Husbandry, Demography and Land Use in Historical Perspective”
(Presentation av avhandlings-pm i forskarutbildningen)
Monday 14 December, 13:15-14:45
Radhika Krishnan, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University Växjö
“Encounters with ‘development’: Iron ore and the changing contours of a mining community in Chhattisgarh, Central India”
För mer information, kontakta Sabine Höhler ( sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se )