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  • Call for papers – new journal Anthropocene History

    Published Nov 28, 2025

    The first issue of the journal will be published in October 2026, after which issues will be published biannually. We now are welcoming contributions for the inaugural and subsequent issues.

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  • Watch video: Susanna Lidström in COP roundtable on Advancing Climate Action in the Deep Ocean

    Published Nov 28, 2025

    Held on 17 November 2025, this roundtable discussion was organized by the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative as part of the COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion.

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  • The race to uncover snow’s many mysteries before it disappears forever

    Photo by Denys Nevozhai at Unsplash
    Published Nov 14, 2025

    Sverker Sörlin's book Snö has been reviewed in Nature, with the reviewer describing it as a historian bringing us "icy climate warnings and warm personal memories".

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  • CUSP LECTURE - Entering the Philanthropocene: Planetary Sciences in the Age of Rich Men

    Published Oct 30, 2025
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  • Anthropocene History journal launches with first issue October 2026

    Crawford Lake, proposed as a natural archive of the Anthropocene
    Published Oct 20, 2025

    The Centre for Anthropocene History at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and Duke University Press are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of Anthropocene History, the first scho...

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  • SCAS Workshop – Beyond Crisis: Emerging Temporalities in a Warming World

    Published Oct 08, 2025

    Sverker Sörlin, Sabine Höhler, Nina Wormbs, Eric Paglia and Adam Wickberg will participate in the SCAS Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study's 3 day workshop, 13-15th of October in Uppsala.

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  • PhD position in History of Science, Technology & Environment at KTH & WASP-HS: AI Planetary Futures

    Image: Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP-HS)
    Published Sep 23, 2025
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  • First Summer School in Anthropocene Histories held on the island of Utö

    Published Sep 23, 2025
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  • Uncharted Waters: Examining the Risks of Marine Geoengineering at Climate Week NYC

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    Published Sep 15, 2025
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  • Our summer newsletter

    Published Jul 02, 2025
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  • Video: Sabine Höhler at "The Anthropocene in the Humanities and Social Sciences" roundtable

    Published May 19, 2025

    Sabine Höhler, professor at KTH Division for History of Science, Technology and Environment, and co-director of the Center for Anthropocene History, joined the roundtable at the CEU Democracy Institut...

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  • Susanna Lidström joining UN One Ocean Science

    Image: Nuno Campos
    Published May 12, 2025

    Researcher Susanna Lidström, member of the Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History, to present at the UN One Ocean Science Congress in Nice 3-6 June.

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  • Read Adam Wickberg's review of "Overshoot: Why the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown"

    Published May 07, 2025
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  • Mining Conversations: The Futurepasts of … Copper

    Published Apr 28, 2025

    Centre for Anthropocene History post-doctoral researcher Gus Lester will be part of a new series, "Mining Conversations", hosted by the Max PIanck Institute for Geoanthropology and Anthropocene Common...

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  • Sverker Sörlin receives the Axel Hirsch Prize 2025

    Published Apr 22, 2025

    Sverker Sörlin, Professor in Environmental History at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, and member of the Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History, has been awarded ...

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  • Centre researcher Oscar Hartman Davies joins 'Out of the Blue' at SciencesPo

    Published Apr 04, 2025
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  • Call for participants: ESEH Summer School in Anthropocene Histories

    Published Dec 19, 2024

    Summer School in Anthropocene Histories, August 25-28, 2025. Organised by the Center for Anthropocene History at KTH, and the European Society for Environmental History.

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  • Centre for Anthropocene History researcher awarded 2024 Rainger Prize by History of Science Society

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    Published Nov 26, 2024
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  • Susanna Lidström and Nina Wormbs' DN Debate article "Don't sacrifice the ocean to save the climate"

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    Published Nov 20, 2024
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  • Sverker Sörlin tours Arctic Humanities at UiT Tromsø

    Published Nov 07, 2024

    History Professor Sverker Sörlin visited The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø in September to tour research environments within the Arctic Humanities.

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