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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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  • Reflections and recording of the Archipelago Lecture 2025

    From left; Kohei Saito talking to Peter Samuelsson, who translated the Swedish edition of Marx in the Anthropocene; Saito during his talk; the stamp he uses for signed copies of his books.
    Published Dec 09, 2025

    In the beginning of November, we had the great pleasure to welcome philosopher and political economist Kohei Saito to Stockholm to give the fourteenth Stockholm Archipelago Lecture. Below you can read...

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  • An anthropocene paradigm shift

    Published Dec 03, 2025

    A symposium on December 1st at the Royal Academy of Sciences celebrates a birthday of sorts, and asks what next for the Anthropocene as a phenomenon and a concept.

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  • Call for papers – new journal Anthropocene History

    Published Nov 28, 2025

    The first issue of the journal will be published in October 2026, after which issues will be published biannually. We now are welcoming contributions for the inaugural and subsequent issues.

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  • Watch video: Susanna Lidström in COP roundtable on Advancing Climate Action in the Deep Ocean

    Published Nov 28, 2025

    Held on 17 November 2025, this roundtable discussion was organized by the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative as part of the COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion.

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  • Sverker Sörlin's book "Snö" reviewed in Nature

    Photo by Denys Nevozhai at Unsplash
    Published Nov 14, 2025

    Sverker Sörlin's book Snö has been reviewed in Nature, with the reviewer describing it as a historian bringing us "icy climate warnings and warm personal memories".

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  • CUSP LECTURE - Entering the Philanthropocene: Planetary Sciences in the Age of Rich Men

    Published Oct 30, 2025

    What does it mean that Earth’s richest men have begun to turn their benificent gaze toward the management of the planet’s critical ecosystemic pressure points? Are their actions an act of altruistic l...

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  • Anthropocene History journal launches with first issue October 2026

    Crawford Lake, proposed as a natural archive of the Anthropocene
    Published Oct 20, 2025

    The Centre for Anthropocene History at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and Duke University Press are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of Anthropocene History, the first scho...

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  • SCAS Workshop – Beyond Crisis: Emerging Temporalities in a Warming World

    Published Oct 08, 2025

    Sverker Sörlin, Sabine Höhler, Nina Wormbs, Eric Paglia and Adam Wickberg will participate in the SCAS Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study's 3 day workshop, 13-15th of October in Uppsala.

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  • New grant for establishing a Swedish Citizen Science Lab for Urban Biodiversity

    miljofondgrant
    Published Sep 25, 2025

    How can we work together with citizens, actors from the public sector, civil society organizations, academia and private sector to develop knowledge about citizen science and urban biodiversity? Sara ...

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  • PhD position in History of Science, Technology & Environment at KTH & WASP-HS: AI Planetary Futures

    Image: Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP-HS)
    Published Sep 23, 2025
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  • First Summer School in Anthropocene Histories held on the island of Utö

    Published Sep 23, 2025
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  • Uncharted Waters: Examining the Risks of Marine Geoengineering at Climate Week NYC

    Image: www.climateweeknyc.org
    Published Sep 15, 2025
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  • KTH joins think tank for humanities

    Portrait of a young man
    Erik Isberg represents KTH in the Humtank think tank.
    Published Aug 27, 2025

    Erik Isberg, researcher at the Division of History, who is KTH's representative in the Humtank think tank, which KTH recently joined. What is Humtank?

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  • Our summer newsletter

    Published Jul 02, 2025
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  • Successful book launch event at SEI for Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance

    eric and sverker and åsa at the launch
    Published Jun 03, 2025

    In a new book published by Cambridge University Press, Sverker Sörlin and Eric Paglia from the KTH Division of History of Science Technology and Environment analyze the rise of global environmental go...

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  • EHL guests hosted workshop on Sensing the Environment

    workshop photos
    Published Jun 03, 2025

    On May 9, two EHL visiting researchers, Noemi Quagliati and Malin Graesse, held a one-day workshop titled Sensing the Environment at KTH. The event brought together an interdisciplinary group of schol...

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  • Video: Sabine Höhler at "The Anthropocene in the Humanities and Social Sciences" roundtable

    Published May 19, 2025

    Sabine Höhler, professor at KTH Division for History of Science, Technology and Environment, and co-director of the Center for Anthropocene History, joined the roundtable at the CEU Democracy Institut...

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  • Susanna Lidström joining UN One Ocean Science

    Image: Nuno Campos
    Published May 12, 2025

    Researcher Susanna Lidström, member of the Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History, to present at the UN One Ocean Science Congress in Nice 3-6 June.

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