Thinking and Doing the Integrative Humanities: Environment, Governance, Arctic
A public lecture with Sverker Sörlin
After decades of marginalization, the Humanities have entered a new and more assertive phase. Professor of Environmental History Sverker Sörlin (KTH Stockholm) observes the emergence of the ‘Integrative Humanities’ – Humanities which, through transdisciplinary research and teaching, contribute to the transformation agenda that societies need to go to through if they are to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Time: Thu 2024-02-01 13.30 - 15.00
Location: Snijzaal Anatomiegebouw, Bekkerstraat 141, 3572 SG Utrecht
Language: Engelska
Participating: Sverker Sörlin
This is particularly visible when it comes to environment and climate and their relations to issues such as environmental justice and political ecology. Although the sciences did and do a tremendous job in finding out the causes and workings of climate and environmental change, they do not necessarily hold the strings to what we need to make directional change happen.
Sverker Sörlin
On 1 February, 13.30-15.00, Professor Sörlin will discuss these tendencies and the potential they hold in his talk ‘Thinking and Doing the Integrative Humanities: Environment, Governance, Arctic’. The talk will be based on his recent work on the history of resource extraction, environmental governance, and Arctic communities. Sverker Sörlin is Professor of Environmental History at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and co-founder in 2011 (with Nina Wormbs) of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. He is an award-winning writer of narrative non-fiction, a long standing government advisor on research policy and climate policy, and an active voice on the Swedish media scene.
Recent books in English include Ice Humanities: Living, Thinking and Working in a Melting World (Manchester UP, 2022); Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm (ed., Cambridge UP, 2022); The Human Environment: Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance (with Eric Paglia, forthcoming Cambridge UP, 2024).
NEH international networking event
This public lecture forms part of an international networking event organized by the Network for Environmental Humanities (funded by Pathways to Sustainability and the Faculty of Humanities). It brings together representatives from major initiatives and centres for Environmental Humanities research throughout Europe and beyond.
See the organizers webpage for more information and any possible changes.