Newsletter from KTH Division of History of Science, Technology & Environment and its two Centres, the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL), and the Center for Anthropocene History. |
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Enjoy your summer! We are happy to bring you upcoming events and the
latest news from the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology
& Environment and
its two centres, the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) and
the Centre for Anthropocene History. Each has a section below. |
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Per Högselius in documentary "The Nuclear Power Game" Professor Per Högselius is featured in Spelet om kärnkraften, a three part documentary series on nuclear power in Sweden that talks to opponents and proponents of nuclear power, along with several experts. The documentary series is a new entry in the science program Vetenskapens värld on Swedish channel SVT.
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Book Launch for "Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance"Sverker Sörlin & Eric Paglia launched their new book this May at Stockholm Environment Institute, an ideal setting to talk about the history of Stockholm as a major international hub for environmental politics and science since the 1950s. Available in hard copy and as a free Open Access digital download.
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Lina Rahm's new project and a "critical eye" on AI
"Critical research exists, but it often has very little power over technological development," says Assistant Professor Lina Rahm, who studies how AI is used in practice. Lina and colleagues were recently granted the project Intersectional Feminist AI for Visibility, Justice, and Sustainability, examining systemic erasures embedded in AI's design, deployment and evaluation.
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Sverker Sörlin recieves Axel Hirsch Prize and Arne Næss ChairSverker Sörlin has received the Axel Hirsch Prize 2025, awarded to three authors who have published a biography of high artistic and cultural-historical value or a significant historical work in recent years. Sverker will also be the Chair of the Arne Næss Symposium taking place in September, an annual high-point in the Norwegian intellectual calendar that brings the world’s leading international thinkers to Oslo to address the most pressing socio-environmental challenges of our time. | | | |
Sonali Huria on "Nuclear Energy Cultures"Sonali Huria, postdoctoral researcher at the Division, was invited to speak in April at Nuclear Energy Cultures in Berlin, about how contending pasts and futures are entangled in uranium extraction in central India. Sonali has a chapter on nuclear energy in India in the forthcoming new book The-Nuclear Water Nexus, co-edited by Per Högselius. |
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Travelling north to Svalbard with summer course Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic
Our two-week summer course covers contemporary and long- term processes
of environmental, political, economic and social change transforming the Arctic. It includes field-based learning in Svalbard, an archipelago
belonging to Norway at 78° North in the High Arctic
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ESEH Environmental History Conference 2025 in SwedenAugust 18th – 22nd, 2025
Co-organised by the Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment an Uppsala University. To be held in Uppsala, Sweden. Registration still open. |
| | | 7th Nordic STS Conference co-organised by the Division in June
A successful conference! Thanks to great efforts by Nina Wormbs, Moa Ekbom, Jakob Henningson, Carolina Barierra and others. The conference was co-organised with SCORE Center for Organizational Research at Stockholm University. | | | |
EHL’s Intervention podcast with Kevin AndersonListen to climate scientist Kevin Anderson and Rob Gioielli discuss climate justice, the role of scientists, and structural factors that continue to impede efforts to reduce emissions despite the Paris Agreement’s adoption a decade ago. |
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EHL guests host workshop on Sensing the Environment
On May 9, two EHL visiting researchers, Noemi Quagliati and Malin Graesse, held a one-day workshop titled Sensing the Environment at KTH. The event brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, practitioners, curators, and artists to explore modes of sensing beyond the ocular. Participants examined a range of practices and traditions in which tools, technologies, or the activation of different senses offer new ways of engaging with and understanding the environment.
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Save the Date: The
Stockholm Archipelago Lecture 8th of November with Kohei Saito
For
this year’s Archipelago lecture, we gladly welcome Kohei Saito, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo and author of Slow Down and Capital in the Anthropocene. Mark your calendars for Saturday, the 8th of November 2025!
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Oceans research at the centre
Susanna Lidström and Oscar Hartman Davies contributed to the UN One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, France in June. Susanna has recently published on deep seabed mining and on the development of policy for sea level rise (in press). Oscar has recently published work on imaginaries in ocean governance.
Susanna will also join Sverker Sörlin at 'Maritime Modernities' in Oslo on 18-19 June, which includes a public event on the past and present of deep-seabed mining, a timely topic in Norway.
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'The Great Dispersal: The fall and rise of global environmental governance' (2025) in AMBIOCenter co-director Sabine Höhler and Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde, Isobel Akerman, Jasmin Höglund Hellgren, Erik Isberg, Eric Paglia, Gloria Samosír & Thomas Harbøll Schrøder, all researchers in the multi-year SPHERE project at KTH Division of History, are co-authors of a new article in AMBIO that presents a new way of understanding Global Environmental Governance, historically and functionally.
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Review of 'Overshoot: Why the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown' (2025) in Critical InquiryRead centre co-director Adam Wickberg's review of the book Overshoot by Andreas Malm and co-author Wim Carton, who visited the center as a guest in April to present the new book.
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New summer school in Anthropocene Histories to be held in the Archipelago
August, 2025The Centre for Anthropocene History will run a new summer school in Anthropocene Histories to be held at KTH in the southern Stockholm Archipelago at the island of Utö. In connection with the European Society for Environmental History conference.
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Workshop "Infrastructures in, of, and for the Anthropocene" 2nd-3rd October 2025
For scholars in Anthropocene History, infrastructures offer a compelling analytic for approaching the
ideas, politics, economic systems, and science and technologies involved in bringing about the Earth
system changes currently underway. Contact: oscarhd@kth.se | | | |
Centre members at Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference 2025Centre members made several contributions at the recent Nordic STS conference co-organised by the Division. Sabine Höhler spoke at the roundtable "The Humanities and STS - Where did history go?", Megan Eardley and Lakin Anderson presented respective papers in the panel "Futuring in the Anthropocene", and Oscar Hartman Davies presented in the panel "Digital Environments". Abstracts listed here. |
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Method-focused online seminar series 'Doing Anthropocene History' to continue in AutumnIn spring we welcomed Gabrielle Dürbeck, Jo Guldi, and Claas Kirchhelle for seminars. Check the series page in August/September for more information on upcoming seminars.
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In the media (a selection)Forskning: Kritisk syn kan göra AI bättre, Lina Rahm, Chef
De dyrbara orden, Sverker Sörlin, Sveriges Radio
Här är svenskarna som gillar kärnkraft, Per Högselius, SVT Vetenskap
”Vår forskning kan inte viftas bort som åsikter”, Lina Rahm m.fl, Dagens Nyheter
Metamorfoser eller Den gyllene åsnan – En snuskig åsnas färd mot idévärlden, Moa Ekbom, Svenska Dagbladet
Kruxet med den gröna omställningen, Per Högselius, Svenska Dagbladet
Tre länder vill driva enorma kärnkraftverket – återstart skulle ta många år, Per Högselius, Dagens Nyheter
Trump hatar forskningen för att den hindrar hans korståg, Sverker Sörlin, Dagens Nyheter
”Om kärnkraftens historia med Per Högselius”, Allt du velat veta, 10 April 2025
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