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New PhD Course: The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, 1940s to 2020s
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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New projects on Social Engagement in the Climate Transition, and Future Humanities
Published Feb 21, 2023We are happy to share the news that the Division and the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) has been granted funds from Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg foundation for two new projects.
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Environing Media - One of Those Smart Books
Published Feb 07, 2023The book Environing Media, edited by Division researcher Adam Wickberg and former colleague Johan Gärdebo, was published in the early fall of 2022. It interrogates the role of media technologies in th...
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What are the Contributions of the Environmental Humanities
Published Jan 16, 2023In November 2022 - postdoctor Nuno Marques was invited to do a presentation at a conference at Campus Villarrica UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile answering the question of “What are the c...
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Nina Wormb's new Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)
Published Dec 20, 2022On Tuesday it was announce that Nina Wormbs has been elected as one of 39 new fellows of IVA. Among the inductees are researchers and experts at companies and within the public sector, both national a...
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Per Högselius Receives Funding from The Swedish Research Council
Published Dec 14, 2022The Swedish Research Council announced in November that they will fund the project “Carbon Transnationalism: Cooperation and Conflict around Coal in Interwar Europe” with 4.8 million SEK. Per Högseliu...
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New Head of Division from first of January 2023
Published Dec 05, 2022We are very glad to announce that Lize-Marié Hansen van der Watt will be the next Head of the Division History of Science, Technology and Environment as Sabine Höhler steps down at the end of the year...
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New urban waterfront solutions for resilient Stockholm and digital exhibition
Published Nov 29, 2022Earlier this spring, the EU-initiative SOS Climate Waterfront gathered a group of scholars from Greece, The Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and Poland to develop new ideas for urban waterfront areas in S...
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CFP: Book in EU-initiative SOS Climate Waterfront
Published Oct 24, 2022Linking Research and Innovation on Waterfront through Technology for Excellence of Resilience to face Climate Change
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Marco Armiero awarded the Mediterranean Culture Award 2022 with Wasteocene
Published Oct 13, 2022We are happy to announce that Marco Armiero, director of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, has been awarded the the Mediterranean Culture Award 2022 in the section for Human Sciences with t...
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Take a course with us this spring!
Published Oct 13, 2022Do you want or need more education? Take a lifelong learning course with us! This spring, we give you the opportunity to learn more about gender and technology, water systems in society and science fi...
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CFP: European Energy Shortages during the Short Coal Age (1860-1960)
Published Oct 05, 2022The winter of 2022-2023 in Europe may become the harshest since 1944 due to fuel and electricity scarcity. This is an obvious moment for revisiting historical energy shortages. The Division is now org...
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CFP: Arctic Dreams – Histories Uncovering the Imagined, the Forgotten and the Hidden Arctic
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New research projects and a new house for KTH Climate Action Centre
Published Sep 15, 2022On September 14, all faculty affiliated to KTH Climate Action Centre was gathering for the first time for a workshop and mingle. At the same time, the centre’s new venue at Teknikringen 43 was inaugur...
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Per Högselius Receives Scholarship from Natur & Kultur
Published Sep 14, 2022Per Högselius, professor of History of Technology at the division of History of science, technology and environment, together with eight other researchers, has been awarded Natur & Kultur's popular sc...
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Decision on establishment of competence centre formation KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, EHL
Published Sep 06, 2022The President has decided to establish the competence centre formation KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, EHL, with the term of office 01-01-2023 – 12-31-2027. The ABE school is appointed as the host s...
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"Enough is enough, politicians - take the climate crisis seriously"
Published Aug 25, 2022In a debate article, published in the Swedish daily news paper Aftonbladet, 1944 researchers from 45 Swedish universities urges the politicians to take the climate crisis seriously and asks: What is i...
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Ice humanities - new book edited by Sverker Sörlin and Klaus Dodds
Published Aug 17, 2022The book "Ice humanities - Living, working, and thinking in a melting world", edited by Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin was published in August. "A pioneering collection of essays that tackles the exis...
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Reflection on UTA-Do: African Cities Workshop
Published Jul 13, 2022In May, around thirty scholars, artists and activists joined together for a week of discussion and reflection in Nairobi at UTA-Do: African Cities Workshop. The project NATURE with researcher Timos K...
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