Higher Seminar Spring 2026
The Higher Seminar is the colloquium series of the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH. Invited guests as well as our own researchers presents seminar on themes from our core areas of history. Colloquia are held in the seminar room at the Division (Teknikringen 74 D, level 5) if nothing else is noted.
12 January, 13.15-14.45
Futures of Expected Growth: A History of Nordic Forest Thought in the Long Twentieth Century.
Juha Haavisto, KTH
26 January, 13.15-14.45
Psychotic Computing: Kenneth Colby’s PARRY in the AI experiments of the 1960s and 70s
Johan Fredikzon, KTH
9 February, 13.15-14.45
Living with toxic development: shipbreaking in coastal Bangladesh
Camelia Dewan, Uppsala University
16 February, 13.15-15.00
Final seminar: Infrastructuring the Swedish Outdoors: Transformation of Sámi Lands into Swedish Recreational Commons, 1880-1980
Liuba Timonina, KTH
2 March, 13.15-14.45
Governance Post Coronavirus Crisis: Practices, Politics, and Future Imaginaries
Aysem Mert, Stockholm University
16 March , 13.15-14.45
Beyond Fossils: Two Refineries, Path Dependencies, and Community-Engaged Scholarship
Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania
30 March, 13.15-14.45
Globalizing Diné (Navajo) Histories of Radioactive Injustice: Uranium Mining, Indigenous Health, and Transnational Activist Networks in the Late 1970s to Early 1980s
Jacob Tropp, Middelbury College
13 April, 13.15-14.45
Engineering ideology: Taylorism and industrial economics at KTH 1912--1930
Jakob Henningsson, KTH
27 April, 13.15-14.45
Building a Corpus of UNFCCC COP High Level Segment Statements: Analyzing Thirty Years of Climate Diplomacy
Charles Parker, Uppsala University
11 May, 13.15-14.45
PM- Seminar
William Hilliard, KTH
25 May, 13.15-14.45
PM- Seminar
Nat Arslan, KTH
8 June, 13.15-14.45
Microbial Temporalities in Fermentation and Anthropocene Research
Maya Hey, KTH