{"id":1396,"date":"2023-03-13T16:25:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2023-03-13T16:25:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:25:46","slug":"mark-your-calendars-for-scientific-prediction-in-the-20th-century-and-from-water-to-nuclear-to-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2023\/03\/mark-your-calendars-for-scientific-prediction-in-the-20th-century-and-from-water-to-nuclear-to-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark your Calendars for Scientific Prediction in the 20th Century and From Water to Nuclear to Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Within one week we have two exciting seminars to invite you to! First out is Egl\u0117 Rindzevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 who will give a talk on Scientific Prediction in the 20th Century on Friday March 13. On Monday March 20, Egl\u0117 will visit us in the role as discussion leader and opponent, when Achim Kl\u00fcppelberg has his final seminar in doctoral training.<\/div>\n

Scientific Prediction in the 20th Century: Mapping Ideas, Institutions and Practices Across the Cold War Divide<\/h4>\n

\"atominisIMG_7588\"Egl\u0117 Rindzevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociology, Kingston University London, with an interest in governance, knowledge production and culture. Her Friday talk with us is based on the forthcoming book, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science (Cornell 2023).<\/p>\n

The book questions the established view that in the Cold War era scientific prediction was an expression of a positivist mindset and that scientific predictions were mainly used to enhance top-down control by collecting data, monitoring and influencing people\u2019s behaviour. In contrast, this book shows that the role of scientific prediction is far more diverse than that of a mechanistic, top-down control. The book argues that scientific predictions are human attempts to find an adaptive way to cope with uncertainty, to address the limitation of knowledge and to act collectively through the continuous orchestration of human and non-human actors.<\/p>\n

Welcome to join:<\/p>\n

Friday March 17 @ 14.15 to 16.00<\/strong>
\nin the Big Seminar Room at the Division, Teknikringen 74D level 5, Stockholm.<\/p>\n

From Water to Nuclear to Catastrophe: How Soviet Hydro-nuclear Entanglements Shaped Dangerous Technocratci Safety Culture.<\/h4>\n

\"ProfileAchim Kl\u00fcppelberg started as a doctoral student at the Division in the fall of 2018. He is active in the\u00a0Nuclearwaters-Project<\/a><\/em> (ERC Consolidator Grant, PI Per H\u00f6gselius) where he focus on the nuclear history of Eastern Europe, especially on the territory of the former Soviet Union and its successor states. Achim investigates expert cultures in nuclear discourses, with a special interest in water-related issues in nuclear power plant decision-making.<\/p>\n

Other than focusing on his doctoral studies, Achim has been active in several of the courses at the Division – as assistant and teacher. He also contributes to educate us in metal (music, that is) and has been one of the editors of the Division blog the past years.<\/p>\n

Main supervisor: Per H\u00f6gselius
\nSupervisors: Kati Lindstr\u00f6m, KTH and Anna Storm, Link\u00f6ping University<\/p>\n

Welcome to join:<\/p>\n

Monday March 20 @ 13.15 to 15.00 CET<\/strong>
\nin the Big Seminar Room at the Division, Teknikringen 74D level 5, Stockholm.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within one week we have two exciting seminars to invite you to! First out is Egl\u0117 Rindzevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 who will give a talk on Scientific Prediction in the 20th Century on Friday March 13. On Monday March 20, Egl\u0117 will visit us in the role as discussion leader and opponent, when Achim Kl\u00fcppelberg has his final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[171,3],"tags":[223,167],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-seminar-series","category-the-division","tag-cold-war","tag-nuclearwaters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}