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The ESEH Dissertation Prize to Daniele Valisena
Published Jul 16, 2021Between July 8 and 9 the ESEH 2021 Digital Meeting was held. It offered a series of online environmental history events around the 11th ESEH's Ordinary General Meeting. On the Friday The ESEH Disserta...
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Decay Without Mourning: Future-thinking Heritage Practices - New Grant for Lize-Marie van der Watt
Published Jul 08, 2021We are happy to announce that Lize-Marie Hansen van der Watt was granted in the call Global Issues - Integrating Different Perspectives on Heritage and Change. In a joint call for proposals Riksbanken...
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Integrative Humanities - the Division Sums up 2019 and 2020
Published Jun 17, 2021The Division has published reports since the beginning of the 1990s. The first years the reports were annual, basic information on changes in staff, courses offered, seminars held, and activities by i...
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Kati Lindström, new member of the Estonian Polar Research Committee!
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One Table Two Elephants opened the SALT online film festival in Istanbul, Turkey
Published May 20, 2021One Table Two Elephants (84 min, CPH:DOX, 2018) is a cinematic ethnography created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson that deals with race, nature and knowledge politics in the postcolonial city ...
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The DHST Dissertation Prize to Johan Gärdebo
Published May 04, 2021We are happy to announce that Johan Gärdebo was awarded the DHST Dissertation Prize for his doctoral thesis “Environing Technology: Swedish satellite remote sensing in the making of environment, 1969–...
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Per Högselius: Why Historians can and Must Engage in the Public Debate
Published Apr 29, 2021Per Högselius participated in the Environmental History Week in the event "Why historians can and must Engage in the Public Debate" on April 19. This was the first of a series of three events on "Usab...
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Rendering the Earth a Governable Object in the Anthropocene
Published Apr 26, 2021While humans have gained the power to alter the global environment, work within certain scientific disciplines since the Second World War has made it possible to assess the impacts of exponential grow...
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Call for Abstracts: Themed Issue of International Journal of Cultural Studies
Published Apr 20, 2021The Division's Miyase Christensen is guest editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Studies on Mediations and the Environment: Earth in Focus. The journal issue will explore ...
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Tune in for Theories of the pandemic: Six Styles of Covid Conspiracies
Published Apr 13, 2021A new episode is out of the podcast Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic, with Division researcher Eric Paglia. This time on Covid Conspiracies with prof. Andreas Önnerfors, conspiracy theory expert, a...
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The Mediated Planet: Claiming Data for Environmental SDGs
Published Mar 31, 2021What role does the global sustainability goals have in the collection and processing of data on the environment? What are the effects of datafication? What can a framework for trust and participation ...
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New Report from the Swedish Climate Policy Council
Published Mar 30, 2021On March 25, the Climate Policy Council's report for 2020 was published. The Council includes among others Professor Sverker Sörlin from the Division and Cecilia Hermansson, researcher at the Departme...
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New Article on Environmental History of Migration of Italians in Argentina
Published Mar 25, 2021Valisena, D., & Canovi, A. (2021). A tale of two plains: Migrating landscapes between Italy and Argentina 1870–1955. Modern Italy, 1-16. doi:10.1017/mit.2021.8
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AK121V The Climate Crisis as a Societal Problem, new undergraduate course
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New book on universities and their knowledge - Salö (red.)
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Occupy Climate Change! Goes Global
Published Mar 17, 2021Occupy Climate Change! calls up a coalition of researchers and students to explore and foster new social imaginaries to change the system, not the climate. Four workshops to meet, discuss and plan our...
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Language, Citizenship, and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900-1940
Published Mar 08, 2021Postdoc Otso Kortekanga's book was published as book number 100 in the McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies series by McGill-Queen's University Press, with foreword by Marianne Stenbaek, pro...
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The EHL VideoDictionary at the Environment & Society Portal
Published Mar 08, 2021The Environment & Society Portal - an initiative by the Rachel Carson Center - is a gateway to open access resources on the human-environment relationship. The EHL VideoDictionary is a teaching tool c...
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KTH Student? Apply for a Course at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment!
Published Feb 25, 2021Are you interested in the technology and politics that set the frame for how people build and shape the environment? Do you want to explore how science and technology have been used to make sense of t...
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New Scholarships for Books on Crisis
Published Feb 12, 2021In early June, the summer of 2020, Sverker Sörlin published the book "Kris! Från Estonia till Corona" (Crisis! From Estonia to Corona). In this book, Sverker looks on the Corona pandemic from a histor...
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