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Higher Seminar Spring 2017

RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM, SPRING 2017

Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

Colloquia are held in the seminar room at the Division (Teknikringen 74 D)

Monday 16 January, 13:15-14:45

Karl Bruno, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“Whose Business? Swedish Foreign Policy and Commercial Natural Resource Interests in Liberia, 1955-80”

Monday 23 January, 13:15-14:45

Ben Singleton, School of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, Örebro University

“Ownership, Sustainability, and Conflict: Political Ecological Reflections on Faroese Pilot Whaling”

Monday 6 February, 13:15-14:45

Don Mitchell, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University

“Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Have Shaped a City”

Monday 20 February, 13:00-15:00

Jesper Meijling, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“Marknadisering: Studier i en idés konstruktion och tillämpning 1940-2015.”

(Final seminar in research education)

Discussant: Per Lundin, Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology

Monday 6 March, 13:15-14:45

Lisa Brady, Department of History, Boise State University

“Capitalist Pigs: International Aid Agencies and the Agricultural Development of Korea, 1945-1961”

Monday 20 March, 13:15-14:45

Martina Tazzioli, Department of Geography, Swansea University

“Migrants’ Visibilities: Counter-Mapping the Borders of Europe”

Monday 10 April, 13:15-14:45

Eugenia Perez Vico, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“The Impact of Societal Interaction on the Direction and Conduct of Materials Science in Sweden”

Monday 8 May, 13:15-14:45

Luis de Miranda, University of Edinburgh

“We, Anthrobot: Learning From Human Forms of Interaction and Esprit de Corps to Develop More Plural Social Robotics”

Monday 15 May, 13:15-15:15

Anna Svensson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

(Final seminar in research education)

Discussant: Jim Endersby, School of History, Art History and Philosophy, University of Sussex

Wednesday 24 May, 13:15-15:15

Hanna Vikström, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“The Specter of Scarcity: Constructing and Managing Rare Metals, 1870-2015.”

(Final seminar in research education)

Discussant: Thomas Kaiserfeld, Division of History of Ideas and Sciences, Lund University

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