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Sverker Sörlin is awarded IVA's Great Gold Medal
Published Oct 20, 2021Sverker Sörlin, Professor in Environmental History at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, has been awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' (IVA) Great Go...
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KTH Student? Apply for one of our Courses this Fall!
Published Aug 16, 2021Explore the interdisciplinary field of political ecology, learn about energy and national identity in a global perspective or analyze energy systems as socio-technical systems in a course with us.
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The ESEH Dissertation Prize to Daniele Valisena
Published Jul 16, 2021Between July 8 and 9 the ESEH 2021 Digital Meeting was held. It offered a series of online environmental history events around the 11th ESEH's Ordinary General Meeting. On the Friday The ESEH Disserta...
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One Table Two Elephants opened the SALT online film festival in Istanbul, Turkey
Published May 20, 2021One Table Two Elephants (84 min, CPH:DOX, 2018) is a cinematic ethnography created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson that deals with race, nature and knowledge politics in the postcolonial city ...
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The DHST Dissertation Prize to Johan Gärdebo
Published May 04, 2021We are happy to announce that Johan Gärdebo was awarded the DHST Dissertation Prize for his doctoral thesis “Environing Technology: Swedish satellite remote sensing in the making of environment, 1969–...
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New Article on Environmental History of Migration of Italians in Argentina
Published Mar 25, 2021Valisena, D., & Canovi, A. (2021). A tale of two plains: Migrating landscapes between Italy and Argentina 1870–1955. Modern Italy, 1-16. doi:10.1017/mit.2021.8
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Occupy Climate Change! Goes Global
Published Mar 17, 2021Occupy 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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The EHL VideoDictionary at the Environment & Society Portal
Published Mar 08, 2021The 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, 2021Are 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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Harnessing the Heat Below our Feet - New Grant for Ethemcan Turhan and Marco Armiero
Published Feb 04, 2021Ethemcan 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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The STREAMS are coming!
Published Jan 29, 2021We 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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Letter in Science about China's importance for ocean sustainability
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Political Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation - New Master Thesis Available
Published Dec 16, 2020During 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, 2020We 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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Chapter by Salvatore Paolo De Rosa et al. in Risks and Challenges of Hazardous Waste Management
Published Oct 23, 2020Our own Salvatore Paolo De Rosa together with Lucio Righetti and Annamaria Martuscelli, has written the chapter A Case Study on Grassroots Environmentalism for Health and Sustainability in the Land of...
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Marco Armiero in: Tell the Story. Trauma as an Environmental Issue. Or, The Personal Is Ecopolitical
Published Oct 14, 2020Marco Armiero joined a webinar in Serenella Iovino's course: Entangled Emergencies. Theories (and Stories) to Think with the Virus. An Environmental Humanities Approach at the University of North Caro...
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Roberta Biasillo in the fortcoming Fennia - International Journal of Geography
Published Sep 23, 2020Biasillo's paper explores several conundrums concerning environmental migration in social sciences and demonstrates how historical perspectives can problematize and unsettle various automatisms that a...
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Valentine Gabrielle Huet Publishes Master Thesis Supervised by Ethemcan Turhan
Published Sep 01, 2020The master thesis "Infrastructure Projects and Climate Change Adaption in the Era of Grassrotts Movement Resurgence: Suggestions for Transformational Actions" is now available in DiVA. Key words: c...
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New blogpost up on STREAMS
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Call for abstracts – International Workshop on Walking and Heritage
Published Jul 02, 2020Do you conduct research on walking, trails and heritage? We are planning an anthology on this topic, where we will investigate the role of history in the creation and articulation of walking trails, a...
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