Higher Seminar Spring 2013
The colloquium series of the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH, is held in the seminar room at Brinellvägen 32.
Monday 21 January, 13:15-14:45
Anna Storm, Södertörns Högskola
“Ignalina. A closed down nuclear power plant and its heritage potential”
Monday 4 February, 13:15-14:45
Tom McGovern, CUNY
“Long Term Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: Cases of Sustainability and Extinction”
Monday 18 February, 13:15-14:45
Francesca Bray, The University of Edinburgh
“Technology, gender and history: the case of imperial China”
Monday 4 March, 13:15-14:45
Olof Hallonsten, University of Gothenburg, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
“Big science in the knowledge society”
Monday 18 March, 13:15-14:45
Peder Roberts, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Bathyscaphes and Big Science: Observers, Remote Sensing, and Deep Sea Exploration 1945-1960”
Monday 22 April, 13:15-14:45
Arne Kaijser, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“The Logistics of War: Infrastructure and military system-building in Europe”
Monday 29 April, 13:15-14:45
Miyase Christensen, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Media and Arctic Climate Change”
Monday 13 May, 13:15-14:45
Per Axelsson, Centre for Sami Research, Umeå University
“Erosion of ethnic enumeration – Swedish official statistics of the Sami population after World War II”
Monday 27 May, 13:15-14:45
Lize-Marié van der Watt, International Project Office ISAC International Study of Arctic Change, Stockholm
“Science, wilderness and the killer cats of Marion Island, 1972-1995”
Friday 31 May, 13:15
Anna Åberg, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“A Gap in the Grid: Natural Gas in Sweden, 1967-1991” (PhD thesis defense)
För mer information, kontakta Sabine Höhler (sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se) eller Maja Fjaestad (maja.fjaestad@abe.kth.se).