Higher Seminar Spring 2015
Monday 12 January, 13:15-14:45
Sven Ove Hansson, Division of Philosophy, KTH
“Experiments before science: What science learned from technological experiments”
Monday 26 January, 13:15-14:45
Paul Josephson, Colby College/Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Stalin’s Water Workers: Nature Transformation in the Russian Empire, Continuity and Change,
1900-present”
Monday 16 February, 13:15-14:45
Jan Kunnas, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Changing Valuations of Forest Utilization”
Thursday 26 February, 15:00-17:00, Salongen KTH Library (KTHB), Osquars backe 31
Roundtable Discussion at KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory
“Moving Closer to Nature: A roundtable conversation about researching and thinking about nature, capitalism and situated ways of knowing”
Panel: Michael Adams, Dan Brockington, Bill Adams
Moderator: Henrik Ernstson
Monday 16 March, 13:15-14:45
Peter Stadius, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki
"Arctic Sea Finland: Petsamo and the Finnish modernity project 1920-1944"
Monday 23 March, 13:15-14:45
Martin Collins, National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
“Following a Multinational Corporation through the 1990s: Globalization, Markets, Ideology, Power and Other Travelogue Conundrums”
Monday 30 March, 13:15-14:45
Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University/Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH, and Annika E. Nilsson, SEI/Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Arctic governance and the questions of ‘fit’ in an era of globally transformative change”
Monday 27 April, 13:15-14:45
Dag Avango, Per Högselius and David Nilsson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“Sweden and the Origins of Global Resource Colonialism: Exploring a Small Country’s Natural Resource Interests in Africa, Caucasia and the Arctic, 1870-1930”
Monday 11 May, 13:15-14:45
Rachel P. Maines, Cornell University
“Tools of the Workbasket: Needlework since the Industrial Revolution”
Friday 5 June, 10:00-12:00
Eric Paglia, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
“The Northward Course of the Anthropocene”
Final Seminar in PhD education. Commentator: Aant Elzinga, University of Gothenburg
Monday 8 June, 13:15-14:45
Sebastian Grevsmühl, Pierre et Marie Curie University Paris
“The Space Perspective and the Invention of the Global Environment”
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For more information and readings, contact Sabine Höhler (sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se)