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KTH and Professors from the Division and the EHL cited by the Pope
Vatican City: Photo Jae Park, Unsplash Published Oct 06, 2023On the third and fourth of October, the Pope has issued his Laudate Deum on the climate issue in a number of languages. Of three contemporary academics he cites, two are professors at the Division and...
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The Division co-organizes ESEH 2025
Published Sep 28, 2023We are happy to share that the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, co-organize the Europen Society for Environmental History conference in 2025 with the proposed theme Climate ...
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The disaster in Libya shows how the climate crisis and its costs have been exported
Published Sep 18, 2023Adam Wickberg writes in DN about how the floods in Eastern Libya underline the discussion on the driving forces of climate change, arguing it is not capitalism itself but rather the rapidly growing un...
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Piped drinking water regimes beyond the state: insights from peri-urban Delhi
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Centre of Anthropocene History at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
John Martin (1789-1854) ‘The Great Day of His Wrath’ c. 1853 (detail) Public domain Published Aug 08, 2023We are beyond proud to share the news that Sabine Höhler and the Division has been rewarded nearly 30 million Swedish kronor by VR (the Swedish Research Council) to establish a Centre of Excellence in...
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New PhD Course: Emotions, environment, and climate: Affects and the environmental humanities
Published Jun 27, 2023Welcome to apply for a course that explores issues concerning sustainability through analysing the societal, political, and affective dimensions of the climate crisis. The course combines two lively r...
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New episode of the SPHERE-podcast
Published Jun 22, 2023Paul Ehrlich on Environment, Population and a Lifetime Journey through Science and Politics
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The threat of a hostile AI turns into a PR stunt
Published Jun 19, 2023The only ones who profit from the image of a dangerous super intelligence are the tech companies
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Johan Fredrikzon will write a history of the ideas of artificial intelligence (AI)
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Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling Workshop in June
Published May 26, 2023Together with the Max Planck institute the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) is co-organising a three day workshop with the help of the Spore Initiative Berlin. This event brings together ...
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Towards erasure studies: Excavating the material conditions of memory and forgetting
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Sverker Sörlin Awarded the Birger Norman prize, 2023
Published May 22, 2023Birger Norman (1914-1995) was a Swedish author, journalist and sociologist. The prize is given to a recipient who has "worked in the spirit of Birger Norman"
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The Ocean – a contemporary history
A "gummy squirrel" sea cucumber, Psychropotes longicauda, living at a depth of 5,000 meters. Image courtesy of the DeepCCZ expedition/NOAA Published May 02, 2023Tirza Meyer is a contemporary historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and History, who has come to devote her work to the ocean. After studying how the United Nations C...
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Sverker Sörlin Corresponding Member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Source: https://www.royalacademy.dk/da/Aktuelt/Nye-medlemmer Published Apr 24, 2023The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letter, founded in 1742, is a learned society composed of elected members. In March the Academy elected Sverker as corresponding member of the Humanities and S...
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Kitchen talk 19 April 2023
Published Apr 20, 2023"New actors' perspectives with the municipality as a catalyst: third place dilemmas and digital infrastructure to meet climate challenges"
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Meet Nuno Marques - Postdoc at the EHL
Picture of Nuno Marques. Private photography. Published Apr 03, 2023In a "get to know"-interview series here at the EHL web where we highlight our co-workers, Nuna Marques is the first to be presented! Nuno has been with the EHL since the start of his project in June ...
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Sport, Performance and Sustainability - Available now
Photo by Thomas Dils, Unsplash Published Mar 28, 2023Is the strive for increasing performance and an ever-growing sports sector compatible with sustainable development? This is the key issue that the authors investigates in a new book: Sport, Performanc...
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Upcoming Summer School: Multiple Lives of Subsurface in Decarbonization
Published Mar 24, 2023The political geology/ecology of the subterranean in energy transition
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New PhD Course: The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, 1940s to 2020s
Picture: Elena Mozhvilo, Unsplash Published Mar 15, 2023This new PhD course focus on research on the rise and development of global environmental governance since 1945. Starting on March 30, the students will be introduced to the concept of governance and ...
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Per Högselius Most Read in Hopkins Press 2022
Published Mar 08, 2023Per Högseluis article "Atomic Shocks of the Old: Putting Water at the Center of Nuclear Energy History" was published in the first 2022 issue of Technology and Culture. When Hopkins Press is summarizi...
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