Higher Seminar Autumn 2015
Monday 14 September, 13:15-14:45
Maria Isabel Pérez Ramos, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“The quest for sovereignty and survival: Environmental degradation and cultural resistance in Chicano Literature and the US Southwest”
(mid-term seminar in research education)
Discussant: Priscilla Ybarra, University of North Texas
Tuesday 15 September, 13:15-14:45
Suraya Scheba, University of Cape Town
"Overcoming water scarcity for good? Querying the adoption of desalination technology in the Knysna Local Municipality of South Africa"
Monday 28 September, 13:15-14:45
Hanna Vikström, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Scarcity and Strategy: Why Metals Became Scarce and How Actors Responded”
(mid-term seminar in research education)
Discussant: Espen Storli, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Monday 12 October, 13:15-14:45
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, University of Cambridge
“Thin blue lines: Clearblue and the rise of pregnancy testing in British film, television and other media”
Thursday 29 October, 13:15-14:45
John Durham Peters, University of Iowa
“How Do Clouds Mean?”
Monday 2 November, 15:00-17:00: Fourth Stockholm Archipelago Lecture
Noel Castree, University of Wollongong
“The humanities and global change research: relationships necessary, absent and possible”
Monday 9 November, 13:15-14:45
Anna Svensson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Exploring Utopia and Universal Order Through the History of Botanical Collections”
(mid-term seminar in research education)
Discussant: Jenny Beckman, University of Uppsala
Tuesday 24 November, 13:15-14:45
Tuomas Räsänen, University of Turku
“Does the dead wild animal have agency?”
Monday 30 November, 13:15-14:15
Corinna Röver, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Reindeer Husbandry, Demography and Land Use in Historical Perspective”
(presentation of dissertation PM in research education)
Monday 14 December, 13:15-14:45
Radhika Krishnan, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University Växjö
“Encounters with ‘development’: Iron ore and the changing contours of a mining community in Chhattisgarh, Central India”
For more information and readings, contact Sabine Höhler ( sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se )