Högre seminarium våren 2016

RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM, SPRING 2016

Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

Colloquia are held in the seminar room at the Division

Visiting address: Teknikringen 74 D

 

Friday January 22, 9:00-12:00. Location: KTH, Lecture Hall V1, Teknikringen 76

Eric Paglia, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“The Northward Course of the Anthropocene: Transformation, Temporality and Telecoupling in a Time of Environmental Crisis”

(PhD Dissertation Defense)

Opponent: John R. McNeill, Department of History, Georgetown University

Monday 8 February, 10:15-11:45

Henrik Ernstson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH/University of Cape Town

"Situated Ecologies: Thinking Sustainable Urbanism in a ‘World of Cities’"

Thursday 25 February, 10:15-12:15

Anne Gough, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“Who is Secure? Trespassing, traversing and bordering fortified landscapes”

Daniele Valisena, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“Claiming the landscape: labor, body, migration and space of belonging in Berlin, Wallonia (and Montreal)”

(Presentations of dissertation PMs in research education)

Friday 26 February, 10:00-12:00

Helen M. Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut, Avery Point

“Legacy of the Blue Frontier: Ocean Science, Metaphor, and Law of the Sea”

Thursday 10 March, 13:15-14:45

Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania

“European Time for the World? The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950”

Wednesday 16 March, 10:15-12:15

Irma Allen, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“Coal culture: Mining Poland’s past, present and future”

Jesse Peterson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“Landscapes of Waste and Water”

(Presentations of dissertation PMs in research education)

Monday 4 April, 13:15-14:45

Olof Hallonsten, Lund University / Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“The Accelerators of the Knowledge Society: European and North American Big Science Transformed”

Monday 18 April, 13:15-14:45

Katharina Cramer, University of Konstanz

"The Science-Politics Interfaces of European Big Science in the late 20th Century"

Monday 2 May, 13:15-14:45

Peter Bennesved, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University

"Sheltered Society: A Century with the Swedish Air-Raid Shelter"

Monday 16 May, 13:15-14:45

Daniel Svensson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH

“Rationell träning: Vetenskapliggörandet av träning för längdskidåkning / Rational training: Scientific methods of exercise in cross-country skiing”

(Final seminar in research education)

Discussant: Jonny Hjelm, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University

Monday 30 May, 13:15-14:45

Steve Woolgar, University of Linköping

"It could be otherwise: the case of Jimmy Savile"

Monday 13 June, 13:15-14:45 - cancelled!

Peder Roberts, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH, and Lizé Marie van der Watt, University of Umeå

“Between Science and Politics: How Arctic Research Survived and Thrived in the Cold War – and Beyond”

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Check for updates on http://www.kth.se/abe/inst/philhist/historia
For more information and readings, contact Sabine Höhler ( sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se )