Higher Seminar Autumn 2017
RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM, AUTUMN 2017
Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
Colloquia are held in the seminar room at the Division (Teknikringen 74 D, floor 5)
Monday 28 August, 13:15-14:45
Justiina Dahl, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH “Epistemic Authority Structure and the Territorial Expansion of International Society”
Monday 11 September, 13:15-14:45
Till Grüne-Yanoff, Division of Philosophy, KTH
“Why History and Philosophy of Science Should Be Intimate, But Often Aren’t”
Monday 25 September, 13:15-14:45
Rosalind Williams, Department of Science and Technology Studies, MIT
“Globalization and Mobility From the Inside Out”
Thursday 5 October, 15:00-17:00
Archipelago Lecture 2017 by Dan Fagin, Environmental journalist
Venue: Conference room, Circus school (DOCH), Brinellvägen 58, Stockholm
Monday 23 October, 13:15-14:45
Ethemcan Turhan, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Can the Real Rebel City Please Stand Up? An Inquiry on Progressive Municipal Responses to Climate Change and Migration”
Monday 6 November, 13:15-14:45
Corinna Röver, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Reindeer Husbandry in Sweden Since 1945”
(Mid-seminar in research education)
Discussant: Ulf Mörkenstam, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
Monday 13 November, 13:15-14:45
Camilla Winqvist, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Re-Use of Mining Legacies – A Comparative Study in the Arctic”
(Presentation of dissertation plan)
Monday 20 November, 13:15-14:45
Jacob von Heland, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Towards a Visual Green Humanities in a Digital Era”
Monday 27 November, 13:15-14:45
Andrew Stirling, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
"Transitions, transformations and transdisciplinarity in responding to nexus challenges"
Friday 8 December
Anna Svensson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“A Utopian Quest for Universal Knowledge: Diachronic Histories of Botanical Collections Between the Sixteenth Century and the Present”
(Doctoral dissertation defence, venue and time to be announced)
Opponent: Dániel Margócsy, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge