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  • Ice Humanities: living, working, and thinking in a melting world

    Published May 26, 2026

    Sverker Sörlin & Klaus Dodds edited book 'Ice humanities: Living, working, and thinking in a melting world' has been reviewed in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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  • Jonathan Galka recieves Honorable Mention for Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Prize in Ocean History

    Published May 26, 2026
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  • Ecological Translation symposium in Athens

    Published May 20, 2026
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  • Blog post from Sarah Hamilton on governing groundwater

    Sarah Hamilton
    Published May 18, 2026

    In beginning of May we had the pleasure to invite Sarah Hamilton to hold a lunch seminar co-hosted by the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory and the KTH Water Centre. Her talk was titled "Governi...

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  • Call for Papers - Baltic Conference on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences, Dec 2026

    Published May 08, 2026
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  • Postdoc Tijana Rupcic wins Bader Prize for History of Science

    Published May 06, 2026

    Tijana Rupcic, Post Doctoral Researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, has won the Bader Prize for the History of Science. ​

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  • Podcast recording from talk with Robert Macfarlane and Pella Thiel

    Macfarlane event
    Published Apr 24, 2026

    Last month, author Robert Macfarlane visited Stockholm on the occasion of the release of his book “Is a River Alive?” in Swedish by Oceans Books. We at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory host...

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  • New doctoral school on Time & Sustainability: applications open

    Published Apr 13, 2026

    Time and Sustainability Doctoral course in Stockholm and Uppsala. Deadline to apply extended to May 6th!

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  • Sverker Sörlins book Snö reviewed by American Institute of Physics

    Published Mar 31, 2026
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  • A film festival about the impacts of AI: why you should consider joining

    film festival images
    Published Mar 31, 2026

    This spring, Francesca Larosa, Marie Cure fellow researcher at KTH, is organizing a film festival on AI, urging people to question and discuss what really lies behind it, and how it impacts society an...

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  • Reckoning with the Ocean: The Disconnect Between the Digital Transition and Marine Sustainability

    Published Mar 10, 2026

    A new book chapter from Adam Wickberg and Susanna Lidström identifies a disconnect between the digital transformation affecting all areas of environmental science and policy, including the ocean, and ...

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  • Division Milestone Passed

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    Published Feb 26, 2026
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  • Robert Macfarlane coming to KTH

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    Published Feb 10, 2026

    We are thrilled to welcome acclaimed author and professor Robert Macfarlane to the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, who will be talking at KTH on March 12 about his newest book “Is a River Ali...

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  • The Material Cloud Film Festival

    cloud
    Published Feb 09, 2026

    The Marie Skłodowska-Curie project LIBRA, supported by the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, the Swedish Red Cross, ForumCiv, Digital Futures and the Centre for Anthropocene History proudly ann...

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  • Sabine Höhler: Anthropocene History at Copenhagen Center for Applied Ecological Thinking

    Dietmar Rabich, Wikimedia Commons, “Duisburg, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord -- 2020 -- 7772”
    Published Jan 20, 2026

    "With a perspective of history as an essentially meaning-making and navigational tool for understanding our contemporary world, this lecture presents a novel, integrated approach to past, present, and...

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  • Erik Isberg receives Johan Nordströms and Sten Lindroths prize for his dissertation

    Erik Isberg
    Published Jan 12, 2026

    The "Johan Nordström and Sten Lindroth Prize for Outstanding Scientific Work" in the field of history of ideas and learning for the year 2024, is awarded to Erik Isberg's thesis Planetary Timemaking: ...

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  • KTH Division of History to lead polar humanities training for new national school of excellence

    Published Dec 17, 2025

    The Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH will be leading the polar humanities training for the School of Excellence in Arctic and Antarctic Learning (SEAL), the new nation...

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  • Futures Beyond Transition workshop gathers perspectives from the energy humanities

    Image by Mathew Ashton, KTH
    Published Dec 16, 2025
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  • Three new doctoral students to the Division of History

    Nat, Will, Jakob
    Published Dec 11, 2025

    We are pleased to have a new cohort of doctoral students starting this past year at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment! We welcome Jakob Henningsson, Will Hilliard and Nat ...

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  • Cross-institutional and interdisciplinary symposium on Emotions and the More-Than-Human

    Pictures taken by Anna Heymowska
    Photos: Anna Heymowska
    Published Dec 10, 2025

    On Friday November 28, 2025, PhD student Nike Stolpe Wikström (Stockholm university) with support from the KTH Environment Humanities Laboratory arranged a full-day symposium titled Emotions and the M...

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