Higher Seminar Spring 2021
The higher seminar - the colloquium series of the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH will also in the spring be held on zoom. More information will be updated for these dates and some additional dates for dissertations will also be updated in the beginning of 2021.
Higher seminar schedule, dates and time (CET) below:
22 February, 16.15-17.45
Dmitry Arzyutov, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
"Reassembling the Environmental Archives of the Cold War: Perspectives from the Russian North"
Opponent Andy Bruno, University of Northern Illinois
Final seminar in doctoral education
8 March, 13.15-14.45
Andrei Stsiapanau, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and Linköping University
"Nuclear Clay"
22 March, 13.15-14.45
Adam Wickberg and Sabine Höhler, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH "The mediated planet - Data and the realization of environmental SDGs"
19 April, 13.15-14.45
Marta Musso, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
"Oil will set us free? On OPEC and the New International Economic Order"
3 May, 16.15-17.45 (Please note the starting time!)
Jean-Sébastien Boutet, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
"Ideas and politics of Indigenous labour and northern development in postwar Canada."
Opponent Heather Green, St Mary’s University
Mid-seminar in doctoral education
17 May, 13.15-14.45
Achim Klüppelberg, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
"Nuclear Decision-making in the Soviet Union. Investigating Water in Expert Cultures Concerned with the Siting of Nuclear Power Plants"
Opponent: Stefan Guth, University of Tübingen
Mid-seminar in doctoral education
2 June, 14.00 KTH Dissertation defense
Corinna Röver, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH.
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Making Reindeer: Negotiating an animal in modern Swedish Sápmi 1920-2020
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Opponent: Professor David Anderson, University of Aberdeen
7 June, 13.15-14.45
Liubov Timonina, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
"Reordering Nature: friluftsliv, women's emancipation and welfare planning in Sweden, 1920-1970s"
Presentation of PhD-PM
14 June, 16.15-17.45 (Please note the starting time!)
Siegfried Evens, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
"Streams, Steams, and Steels: A History of Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Risk Governance (1850-1990)"
Opponent: Aditi Verma, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. Mid-seminar in doctoral education
