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Opinion: ”Earth aligned” AI development contribute to planetary stability
Image by Anirudh, Unsplash Published Apr 01, 2025A newly published opinion piece addresses AI’s role in sustainability amid global crises. The authors propose ”The Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence”, encompassing controlled growt...
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Sverker Sörlin receives the Axel Hirsch Prize 2025
Image by Erik Abel, Volante Published Mar 31, 2025Sverker Sörlin, Professor in Environmental History at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, has been awarded the Axel Hirsch Prize 2025, together with Anders Burman and Danie...
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Global interest for Snö
Image: Erik Abel Published Mar 13, 2025Snö: en historia(Snow: a history) by EHL co-founder and KTH professor of environmental history Sverker Sörlin, is a book about what we are losing. On a warming planet there is less snow every year. We...
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EHL hosted workshop on environments in games
Published Mar 13, 2025This February EHL invited two researchers from Lund University to hold an interactive workshop on how different games, specifically video games, shape our understanding of environments, as part of EHL...
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Reflections and recording of the Archipelago lecture 2024
Published Dec 17, 2024Last week, Timothy Mitchell from Columbia University joined us at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory to give the thirteenth annual Archipelago Lecture. Below you can read EHL’s director Rob ...
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Humanioras roll i framtidens professionsutbildningar
Published Nov 26, 2024Välkommen till en eftermiddag om humanioras betydelse för samhällsutvecklingen i allmänhet och professionsutbildningar i synnerhet!
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Join this year’s Archipelago Lecture with Timothy Mitchell
Published Nov 25, 2024On the 11th of December, we gather in the F building at KTH Campus for a lecture by Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University and author of "Carbon Democracy". Mitch...
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The film festival Crosscuts is happening again this November at KTH
Published Oct 11, 2024Crosscuts, the environmental humanities film festival at KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, will again occur at KTH on 6-7 November. The festival's fourth edition explores forests and our many d...
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Join us at the Occupy Climate Change! online school this Autumn
Published Aug 27, 2024The OCC! school is an online interdisciplinary school inviting early career researchers (master's students in their advanced thesis phase, doctoral students, and postdocs) to explore climate change an...
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EHL's postdoc Nuno Marques shares about some of his collaborations on ecopoetics
Published Jul 03, 2024Nuno Marques, a postdoc at the EHL working on ecopoetics, explores connections between poetics and sciences, particularly ecology, climatology, and meteorology in the environmental humanities. As part...
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Workshops on climate futures creative writing co-hosted by EHL and Students for Sustainability
Published Jul 03, 2024This Spring the KTH Students for Sustainability and researchers from the EHL & Div. of History of Science, Technology, and Environment co-hosted a creative writing workshop series on climate futures. ...
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KTH looks at support for researchers in Gaza
Nina Wormbs, responsible for Scholars at Risk at KTH. (Photo: Sara Appelgren) Published Jun 18, 2024KTH is a member of the international network Scholars at Risk, SAR, which works to support researchers who are at risk. Nina Wormbs, Vice Dean of Faculty and responsible for SAR at KTH, can KTH do an...
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Citizens' Assembly on Climate presents its results
Published May 20, 2024Sweden's first Citizens' Assembly on Climate, initiated by Fairtrans, a multidisciplinary research programme funded by Mistra, has completed its work. Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental Histor...
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EHL Professor Represented when Nature Revealed Research Papers that Policy Documents Cite Most
KTH Library Published Apr 22, 2024In April, the journal Nature presented an exclusive analysis, that shows that economics and interdisciplinary teams get the most attention of policymakers. Professor of environmental history, Sverker ...
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The people have their say on climate change
According to research, climate change will lead to more extreme weather events. The image shows the flooding of the river Svartån in Västerås last autumn (Photo: Mostphotos). Published Mar 13, 2024A newly formed citizens' climate assembly will provide new perspectives on the great issue of our time. Sverker Sörlin, professor and one of the citizens' climate assembly's two mentors, believes the ...
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Meet the new Director of the EHL - Robert Gioielli
Published Jan 31, 2024Robert Gioielli joins us as an associate professor in environmental humanities at the Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment and as the new Director of the KTH Environmental Human...
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New Report on AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030
Published Jan 03, 2024EHL scholars Sabine Höhler, Erik Ljungberg and Adam Wickberg contribute in the In the newly published WASP-HS report "AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030". Their part focuses on the politics and episte...
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First Stockholm Archipelago Lecture on-site since 2019- given by Michelle Bastian on 7th December
Published Nov 21, 2023The Stockholm Archipelago Lectures are part of the public activities of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory and have been since David Lowenthal gave the inspiring inaugural lectures in 2012, t...
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Doomsday in culture – now and then
Published Nov 21, 2023Hear Sverker Sörlin etc. talk about how the judgment day has been portrayed in art, literature and music throughout the ages, and what does a modern judgment day look like? With music and conversation...
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“How sustainable is the Green Transition in Northern Sweden?: Past visions and future prospects”
Published Nov 14, 2023New seminar series Advancing Sustainability in the Arctic and Beyond launched with a lecture by Prof. Sverker Sörlin
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