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  • Centre for Anthropocene History Officially Launched at KTH

    Published Oct 22, 2024

    The 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

    Crosscuts logo on image of forests
    Published Oct 11, 2024

    Crosscuts, 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

    Published Sep 30, 2024
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  • The recipient of the 2024 Humtank Prize is Sverker Sörlin

    Published Sep 25, 2024

    The 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, 2024

    Members 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

    Published Aug 22, 2024
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  • KTH looks at support for researchers in Gaza

    Woman in front of a wall.
    Nina Wormbs, responsible for Scholars at Risk at KTH. (Photo: Sara Appelgren)
    Published Jun 18, 2024

    KTH 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 Olay
    Meeting with the minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from Colombia, Yesenia Olaya Requene https://minciencias.gov.co/direccion/ministra
    Published Jun 14, 2024

    Researchers 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, 2024

    Sverker 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

    Sverker Sörlin
    Published May 20, 2024

    Sweden'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

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    Published Apr 22, 2024

    In 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, 2024

    Katarina 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

    A river that has overflowed its banks.
    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, 2024

    A 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, 2024

    Robert 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

    Published Jan 30, 2024
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  • Kati Lindström, new boardmember of the journal Environment and History

    Published Jan 29, 2024
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  • Kati Lindström is the new Liasion Officer for the International Polar Heritage Committee.

    Published Jan 29, 2024
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  • New Report on AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030

    Published Jan 03, 2024

    EHL 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, 2023

    The 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, 2023

    The 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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