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Centre for Anthropocene History Officially Launched at KTH
Published Oct 22, 2024The new Centre for Anthropocene History at KTH has been inaugurated at a public event, opened by co-directors Sabine Höhler and Adam Wickberg with special guests including Indian historian Dipesh Chak...
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The film festival Crosscuts is happening again this November at KTH
Published Oct 11, 2024Crosscuts, the environmental humanities film festival at KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, will again occur at KTH on 6-7 November. The festival's fourth edition explores forests and our many d...
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Thomas Schrøder, new visiting researcher in Taiwan
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The recipient of the 2024 Humtank Prize is Sverker Sörlin
Published Sep 25, 2024The society needs humanities knowledge. The humanities need to reach out into society. Therefore, the think tank Humtank annually awards the Humtank Prize to academics who have made significant contri...
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Centre members contribute to article in the journal Nature: "The Meaning of the Anthropocene"
Published Sep 02, 2024Members the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History have contributed to a newly published comment in Nature on how the idea of the Anthropocene is useful across many disciplines, expert areas an...
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Colombia travel journal, by Daniel Hodgson
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KTH looks at support for researchers in Gaza
Nina Wormbs, responsible for Scholars at Risk at KTH. (Photo: Sara Appelgren) Published Jun 18, 2024KTH is a member of the international network Scholars at Risk, SAR, which works to support researchers who are at risk. Nina Wormbs, Vice Dean of Faculty and responsible for SAR at KTH, can KTH do an...
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KTH-researchers meeting with the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from Colombia
Meeting with the minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from Colombia, Yesenia Olaya Requene https://minciencias.gov.co/direccion/ministra Published Jun 14, 2024Researchers at KTH met with the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from Colombia, Yesenia Olaya Requene, during a visit by a delegation from Colombia on the 13th June 2024.
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KTH professor among the world's most quoted
Published May 30, 2024Sverker Sörlin, professor at the department, is on the global top list of most citations from decision makers.
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Citizens' Assembly on Climate presents its results
Published May 20, 2024Sweden's first Citizens' Assembly on Climate, initiated by Fairtrans, a multidisciplinary research programme funded by Mistra, has completed its work. Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental Histor...
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EHL Professor Represented when Nature Revealed Research Papers that Policy Documents Cite Most
KTH Library Published Apr 22, 2024In April, the journal Nature presented an exclusive analysis, that shows that economics and interdisciplinary teams get the most attention of policymakers. Professor of environmental history, Sverker ...
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Science Impact Talks to offer tools, inspiration, writing tips and new insights on impact
Pictures: Unsplash Published Mar 21, 2024Katarina Larsen, researcher at the Department of Philosophy and History, is project manager for the new seminar series Science Impact Talks (SIT), which is aimed at researchers and teaching staff at K...
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The people have their say on climate change
According to research, climate change will lead to more extreme weather events. The image shows the flooding of the river Svartån in Västerås last autumn (Photo: Mostphotos). Published Mar 13, 2024A newly formed citizens' climate assembly will provide new perspectives on the great issue of our time. Sverker Sörlin, professor and one of the citizens' climate assembly's two mentors, believes the ...
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Meet the new Director of the EHL - Robert Gioielli
Published Jan 31, 2024Robert Gioielli joins us as an associate professor in environmental humanities at the Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment and as the new Director of the KTH Environmental Human...
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Call for Papers - Fiction in Learning, Media and Technology Research
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Kati Lindström, new boardmember of the journal Environment and History
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Kati Lindström is the new Liasion Officer for the International Polar Heritage Committee.
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New Report on AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030
Published Jan 03, 2024EHL scholars Sabine Höhler, Erik Ljungberg and Adam Wickberg contribute in the In the newly published WASP-HS report "AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030". Their part focuses on the politics and episte...
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What Happened to Sweden's Leadership on Climate and Nuclear Disarmament?
Published Dec 18, 2023The U.N. recently held two meetings addressing existential threats to much of life on Earth—COP28 in Dubai, and a summit on banning nuclear weapons in New York. Our country, Sweden, has traditionally ...
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An interview with Kati Lindström on Antarctica - and Japanese literature
Picture: Plekktrumm ETV2 Published Dec 06, 2023The fate of Antarctica is becoming one of the most important tests for dealing with climate change. What could speak to people internally so that humanity's impact on nature is reduced?
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