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The EHL VideoDictionary at the Environment & Society Portal

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Published Mar 08, 2021

The 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, 2021

Are 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, 2021

In 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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New Episode of 'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' with Eric Paglia out now!

Published Feb 10, 2021

'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and maki...
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Ricardo Covele Published in Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Published Feb 08, 2021

Ricardo Covele is an admitted doctoral student in CHEPIS - a Higher Education Organization Studies programme where KTH collaborate with University of Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique and University of Wes...
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Harnessing the Heat Below our Feet - New Grant for Ethemcan Turhan and Marco Armiero

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Published Feb 04, 2021

Ethemcan Turhan was granted 3 million Swedish kronor, for a three year project with focus on socio-technical pathways to geothermal energy, from Formas/the Swedish Research Council. The project is a c...
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Miyase Christensen in new SU Project on Covid 19, Media and Trust in Stockholm

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Published Feb 02, 2021

Together with Christian Christensen (prof. of journalism, Stockholm University), Miyase Christensen received funding from the Swedish Research Council/Formas and The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency...
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The STREAMS are coming!

Published Jan 29, 2021

We are happy to announce that STREAMS will come back this August as an online event. STREAMS is an international conference for the Environmental Humanities (EH) that gathers researchers from a wide r...
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SPHERE podcast featuring Sabine Höhler part 2

Published Jan 21, 2021
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Letter in Science about China's importance for ocean sustainability

Published Jan 14, 2021
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Schedule for Higher Seminar 2021

Published Jan 04, 2021

Coordinated by researcher Katarin Larsen, the Division's spring colloquium scheduel offers mid seminars by our own doctoral students from Rexsac, GRETPOL and NUCLEAR WATERS, and presentations such as ...
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R-QUEST Midterm Evaluation Report

Published Dec 18, 2020

Recently the Midterm Panel Evaluation was completed for the Research Quality and Policy Impaxtstudies Centre R-QUEST. The Division is one of five partners in the Centre, represented mainly by Sverker ...
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Projects on AI and digital twins in water management: Open Water and Scorewater

Published Dec 17, 2020
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SPHERE podcast featuring Sabine Höhler

Published Dec 17, 2020
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Political Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation - New Master Thesis Available

Published Dec 16, 2020

During the fall, master student Anusha Batool Sherazi, under the supervision of Division researcher Ethemcan Turhan, finished the thesis "Political Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation - Framing Fi...
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The 9th Archipelago Lecture in Recording

Published Nov 27, 2020

We were honored to have Achille Mbembe as the lecturer for our 9th Archipelago Lecture. With the title "Reflections on Planetary Habitability" Achille revisited the concept of “planetary habitability...
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Synchronizing Earthly Timescales - New Article by Sörlin and Isberg

North Atlantic. Cropped version of original photo taken by Kevin Gill from Los Angeles, CA, United States Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Atlantic_(34021581276).jpg

Published Nov 24, 2020

Sverker Sörlin and Erik Isberg, both members of the SPHERE project, recently published the article "Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the...
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Petrocultures Reading Course at Chalmers

Published Nov 23, 2020

Any MA and PhD student with an interest for petroculture literatur is welcome to join this PhD reading course at Chalmers University of Technology. The course will give a first orientation into the gr...
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New Podcast on the Evolution of Global Environmental Governance

Published Nov 16, 2020

The newely launched podcast SPHERE investigates the historical evolution of global environmental governance through in-depth discussions with a wide array of scholars, scientists, and practitioners—in...
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The Division's Miyase Christensen on Media, Power and the Issues Facing the Arctic Today

Professor Miyase Christensen said she was deeply concerned about the fact that "we hit a record low Arctic sea-ice minimum this year". Photo: Avstraliavasin/Mostphotos

Published Nov 13, 2020

In the first Global Arctic Mission Council Broadcast, Miyase Christensen affiliated at the Division and Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Stockholm University, discuss media, power and t...
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