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  • Occupy Climate Change! Goes Global

    PDF of the event program. To read the program in text, please visit the link to the event below.
    Published Mar 17, 2021

    Occupy 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, 2021

    Postdoc 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

    Photo by Sam McGhee on Unsplash
    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

    Entry to University of Western Cape's North Campus from Modderdam Road
    Entry to University of Western Cape's North Campus from Modderdam Road. Photo by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Danmichaelo
    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

    Photo by Matt Palmer, Unsplash
    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

    Empty Metro station in Stockholm
    Empty Metro station in Stockholm. Photo by Adrian Trinkaus on Unsplash
    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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