Higher Seminar Fall 2025
The Higher Seminar is the colloquium series of the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH. Invited guests as well as our own researchers presents seminar on themes from our core areas of history. Colloquia are held in the seminar room at the Division (Teknikringen 74 D, level 5) if nothing else is noted.
22 September, 13.15-14.45
Manganese nodules: Deep-sea mining and the creation of a resource between commodity markets, politics, and ecology (1873-2025)
Ole Sparenberg, KIT Karlsruhe
20 October, 13.15-14.45
Material Ecologies of Design
Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo, and Carl Zimring, Pratt Institute
3 November, 13.15-14.45
Public Support for the Green Transition in Europe: The Role of Means-Tested Social Assistance, Energy Support, and Willingness to Accept Higher Energy Prices
Pär Dalén, Stockholm University
17 November, 13.15-14.45
When futures are already past: the material impacts of the immaterial knowledge economy
Francesca Larosa, KTH
1 December, 13.15-14.45
Electric Dreams: Yugoslav Infrastructure Development and Balkan Ambitions (1945-1948)
Tijana Rupcic, KTH
15 December, 13.15-14.45
Historical analysis of biomass/bioenergy” (title tbc)
Francis X. Johnson, Stockholm Environment Institute