Högre seminarium våren 2014
Avdelningens Högre Seminarium äger rum på måndagar kl. 13.15-14.45 i seminarierummet på Avdelningen för historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö, Teknikringen 74 D, KTH
Special Term Opening Seminar Friday, 10 January, 10:15-11:45
Edmund Russell, Hall Distinguished Professor of US History, University of Kansas
“Fast Dogs and Englishmen: The Coevolution of Greyhounds, Lurcher, and Whippets with Aristocrats, Middle Classes, and Workers in England, 1500-1900”
Monday 13 January, 13:15-14:45
Anna Westerståhl Stenport, Scandinavian Studies, Germanic Studies and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"What are Arctic Cinemas?"
Monday 20 January, 13:15-14:45
Corinna de Guttry, Department of Human Dimensions of Coastal Areas, Institute of Coastal Research – Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
"Aliens in paradise: how migrants might become scapegoats of environmental destruction" (co-authored with Marco Armiero)
Monday 27 January, 13:15-14:45
Donald Worster, Honorary director, Center for Ecological History, Renmin University, China
“Second Earth: Thinking About Environmental History on a Planetary Scale”
Monday 17 February, 13:15-15:00
Eric Paglia, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Constructing Crisis: the Political Performance of Science and Assessing Environmental Limits in the Anthropocene”
(mittseminarium i forskarutbildningen)
Commentator: Matthias Heymann, University of Aarhus
Monday 3 March, 13:15-14:45
Alesia Zuccala, Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Amsterdam
“Digital Humanities – Books, Publishers and Digital Transformations”
Monday 17 March, 13:15-14:45
Andrea Westermann, Department of History, University of Zürich
“Inventories of the earth. Mineral resource appraisals and the establishment of resource economics”
Monday 24 March, 10:30-12:00
James R. Fleming, Colby College
“In Transit: From Meteorology to Atmospheric Science, 1900-1960”
Monday 31 March, 13:15-14:45
Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School
“Conceptualizing Innovations: John William Mauchly and John Prosper Eckert’s innovation of computers 1942-1950”
Monday 14 April, 10:00-12:00
Carlos Cano Viktorsson, CESC Center for Sustainable Communications / Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
"From Vision to Transition: Exploring the Potential for Public Information Services to Facilitate Sustainable Urban Transport"
Licentiate Seminar, Location: Lecture Hall E3, Osquarsbacke 14
Monday 14 April, 13:15-14:45
Gunnel Cederlöf, University of Uppsala / Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
"Founding an Empire on India's Northeastern Frontiers, 1790-1840: Climate, Commerce and Polity"
Monday 12 May, 13:15-14:45
Sarah Bouttier, Department of English, University of Stockholm
"Writing the Nonhuman: Studies in XXth Century Poetry"
Monday 26 May, 13:15-14:45
Lynn Keller, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison / University of Stockholm
“Making Art ‘Under These Apo-Calypso Rays’: Contemporary American Ecopoetics and Apocalyptic Discourse”
Monday 9 June, 13:15-15:00
Daniel Svensson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Rational training. Scientification of training methods in cross-country skiing”
(mittseminarium i forskarutbildningen)
Commentator: Dick Kasperowski, Division of Theory of Science, Gothenburg University
For more information and readings contact
Sabine Höhler