Biennial Report 2019 – 2020 Integrative Humanities
Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment with KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment with KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory postal address KTH Royal Institute of Technology SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden visiting address Teknikringen 74 D, 5th floor, Stockholm Internet address https://www.kth.se/philhist/historia e-mail address [email protected] editors Sofia Jonsson and Sverker Sörlin design Matilda Lindqvist, Prime Remains of the first Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901 – 1903) at Snow Hill island, Antarctica, documented by Swedish-Argentine research expedition CHAQ 2020. cover photo Division researchers Kati Lindström and Dag Avango (also at LTU) took part of the Base camp and the remains of the first Swedish Antarctic expedition. Photo: Kati Lindström. Expedition (1901 – 1903) at Snow Hill island, Antarctica, documented by Swedish-Argentine research expedition CHAQ 2020. Division researchers Kati Lindström and Dag Avango (also at LTU) took part of the expedition. Photo: Kati Lindström. print US-AB June 2021 TRITA-ABE-RPT-2116 ISBN: 978-91-7873-939-4 Contents
Foreword 6 Three Years with the Posthumanities Hub...... 62 Life as a Humanities PhD Student ...... 64 CHAQ2020: Expedition to the Key Information 8 Continent of Ice and Science...... 66 The Division...... 9 Environmental Humanities Integrative Humanities 68 Laboratory ...... 12 Our Work Environment...... 14 Integrative Humanities Crisis Research...... 69 Undergraduate Teaching...... 16 Digital Teaching in Times of Crises...... 71 PhD Training...... 18 Water Infrastructure in Times of Crisis: Defenses...... 20 Time to Rethink the Narrative?...... 72 Research...... 22 A Journey Towards Internationalization Funding – and the Integrative Vision...... 24 with Reduced Mobility...... 74 Trends in Publishing ...... 28 Organizing my Doctoral Defense Diversity, Concentration, Continuity...... 36 During the COVID19 Pandemic...... 76 Communicating the Division Archives ...... 77 in the Digital Sphere...... 38 Travelogue: Visiting Ignalina Nuclear Faculty, Staff, and PhD Students Power Plant During the Pandemic...... 79 2019 to 2020...... 39 Change of Plans...... 81 Ending up in Lockdown ...... 82 General 46 Writing an International PhD Thesis During a Pandemic...... 84 Higher Seminars at the Division ...... 47 Postdoc in Crisis (or not?)...... 86 SPHERE – a Podcast on the Evolution Strategic Collaboration on User of Global Environmental Governance ...... 49 Perspectives and Co-creation in Streaming STREAMS – Conversations Future Green Cities...... 88 on the Environmental Humanities, Experiencing the Pandemic, First Hand ...... 89 August 5 – 7, 2020...... 50 Archipelago Lectures no 8 and 9: The Division – a Short History 90 Two Ways to go Public...... 52 Crosscuts – Ruptured Times...... 54 Annals of Crosscuts...... 56 Backlists 98 How to Occupy Climate Change Research?.....57 The Chinese Connection...... 58 Visiting scholars 2019 – 2020...... 99 Understanding Local Innovation for Commissions of Trust, Prizes and Awards..... 102 the Global Water Goals...... 59 Events...... 106 Large Humanities Projects Projects...... 118 at a Technical University...... 61 Publications...... 136 Foreword
The Division of History at KTH has published transitions. We will continue to combine building reports since the beginning of the 1990s. Until strength in our core areas of history – history of 2011 they were annual and contained primarily science, of technology, and of environment. But basic information on changes in staff, courses we will also continue to populate our research offered, seminars held, and activities by individual groups and projects with specialists in fields such as members of the Division: publications, conference anthropology, ecology, film, linguistics, education, presentations, PhD degrees. As the Division grew and STS, literary scholarship, media studies and many diversified, we decided to make the reporting present others, as our research needs and our innovativeness more dimensions and include some reflexivity on our require. This also applies to our broad networks and ongoing evolution. We decided that it could be a way collaborations, which reach around the world and of enhancing the collective learning experience: what include scholars from all sorts of backgrounds, as it means to be part of a scholarly environment and well as practitioners, stakeholders, and activists. think about how it works and why. It could also help We also think this is the way to build humanities improve the quality of our academic performance, knowledge at a large technical university: not by and of the Division as a work place and a community. cultivating a multitude of small disciplinary units, It took some time to develop the new concept, so but as a set of issue-oriented knowledge areas where the first report of the new series did not appear until multiple humanities can thrive. 2015 and covered the years 2012 to 2014. The reports This report follows our tradition to open up for that followed have been biennial, and this one for as many voices as possible. We wish to reflect the 2019 – 2020 is the fourth in this new series. The diversity of our activities – and the conviviality and biennial reports have also been thematized: Defining satisfaction we find in working on urgent issues in a Humanities (2015 – 2016), Transformative Humanities spirit of responsibility and humanism. (2017 – 2018), and now Integrative Humanities We would like to thank all contributors – of (2019 – 2020). texts, visuals, ideas, editorial assistance, and for The theme of the current report reflects our sharing updated information. Special thanks go to thinking around how humanities knowledge is the members of our editorial support group, Fredrik gaining in significance, which is increasingly by Bertilsson, Achim Klüppelberg and Klara Müller, and engaging in broad and complex problems that to Klara Müller and Linus Salö for their efforts to require multiple competencies. In the previous assemble and analyze publishing data. decade we started the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, a truly integrative effort which has successfully addressed themes such as Sofia Jonsson and Sverker Sörlin urban climate crises, ecologies of waste, and just Editors
6 7 The Division
— SABINE HÖHLER
Key Reporting on a two-year time period is hard when one year so utterly clogs our memories. In retrospect, Information 2019 was just another busy and successful year for our Division, while 2020 was exceptional. The year 2020 was extremely noisy and incredibly still. Covid colonized not only our lives, it also unsettled the Division’s buoyant optimism and familiar work modes. Now, in early 2021, we still have not fully adjusted to the social distance that comes with physical distancing. I read this as a good sign. As humanities and social science scholars, we should be attentive to changing forms and formats of sociality, to our social commons, to possibilities of participation and agency. In 2020, like other work places in the world, we complied with new rules and directives. We tried to attune to makeshift solutions as much as we could. Many of us still feel the burden of the extra work in their bones. But I dare say we were also curious and creative in transitioning to online meeting formats and familiarizing ourselves with new teaching and learning tools. We experimented successfully with online PhD defenses. And we welcomed the unexpected advantages of connecting to people who had seemed distant but suddenly appeared in our on-distance meetings. Those were not international colleagues only. The Division’s colloquium series was never as frequented by visitors from the greater
8 9 Stockholm region as in 2020. Our to redefine what “on-site” should mean perceptions of proximity were turned for us in the future. And we should upside down. Our traveling went down never get used to a situation which to zero, as conferences were called off, forces us to welcome new colleagues national borders closed and traveling to in an online setting. We want to be places which had seemed near became able again to say farewell to coworkers as elaborate as a nineteenth-century leaving the Division with a proper fika. stagecoach journey. Our carbon debts We found out that there is no virtual decreased. This trend aligned well with substitute for cake. our conscious work on global climate All in all, we were lucky. We were change but had long been foreclosed by even productive. The Division’s our unconscious flying habits. publication numbers went up to an all-time high. And for the first time “In retrospect, 2019 was just in half a decade we could announce another busy and successful a new faculty position. The assistant professorship in the History of media year for our Division, while and environment will contribute to a 2020 was exceptional.” novel field of research at the Division that builds on our core competencies in With a heavy heart we moved the history of science, technology and our own international conference environment and extends them into online. “Streams”, our programmatic media history and theory with a focus conference for the Environmental on environmental data. We expect Humanities, took place as a “Streaming this new field to expand our long- Streams”, a short series of online standing work on the generation and events in August 2020, and I underline visualization of environmental data by short. As digital formats encroached exploring questions of data access and on our analog lives, also our habitual data ownership that come with new notions of time capsized. While days technological infrastructures and actors dragged into months of home office, in the field of environmental AI. It has online meetings requested brevity – already attracted quite some attention not exactly academia’s strength. We and possibilities of collaboration in the might want to use the opportunity to growing area of digital environmental reconsider how we want to work, and media. There is a lot to look forward to. Kick off 2019 Falun Mines. Photo: Sabine Höhler.
10 11 Environmental Humanities Laboratory
— MARCO ARMIERO
he EHL is turning ten at the end of always so many new initiatives; academia 2021. As we know, age is mostly a is by definition a place for innovations but T matter of attitude, although biology and sometimes innovations can also fade away, experience do actually make a difference. easily replaced by new fashionable trends. Is this a time for balance? If balance means Academia can be a quite consumerist to reflect on our history, to thank all the place where new ideas are bought and friends we have met, to realize how much we consumed with great voracity. This has Researcher and coordinator Roberta Biasillo in preparation for a panel on migration at have learned, indeed, this is time for such a not been our case. The EHL has become a the Crosscuts Filmfestival, 2019. balance. But to be ten means also to continue structured presence in our division and in growing, playing, having fun, and looking at the environmental humanities community the world with curiosity and hope. Turning worldwide. In ten years, we have built our ten we look at our past with joy and continue profile as an experimental space dedicated to to imagine our future. co-research and outreaching activities, with First of all, we survived. It might seem a clear inclination towards a socially engaged trivial, after all being alive is not generally scholarship. At the EHL sustainability rimes seen as a big achievement, but perhaps with justice; environmental problems are we should revisit this idea. There are never only environmental and cannot be solved only through technology or expertise; power matters, indeed, and race, class, gender, and histories are not erased under the white blanket of a simplified human and nature narrative. This is what we have accomplished in ten years; indeed, we do have our list of funded projects, publications, events, visiting scholars, but that list cannot offer a sense of ten years of life. What we have accomplished is to build a community of inquiry that goes across any kind of borders. As someone said, what really matters is not where we arrive but the trip to get there. Those ten years have been an exciting trip. The best of my life. Esther Zamboni Rossi, PhD student at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis and guest at the EHL in 2019, with director Marco Armiero.
12 13 “To work towards a balance of playfully joining and actively resisting cartoon- motion academia is our aim for the next two years.” Annual Report 2017 – 2018
Home office in Älvsjö, Ziggy Stardust the Cat. Home office at Södermalm, Sabine Höhler. Home office in Dehli, Jacob von Heland.
Our Work Environment
— SABINE HÖHLER SOFIA JONSSON
rom two hectic but very exciting years and we continued with Marco Armiero’s Being such a social work place, with Was it all that bad? No, we did manage to with numerous new projects, employees Docent lecture. Per Högselius held his a spirit built on collegiality, food, and a create some great memories together after all. Fand events, the pace indeed slowed down inaugural lecture as a new professor in friendly atmosphere on site, the pandemic In June we had an open-air party to celebrate somewhat during 2019 at the Division. We history of technology. These events were and the new restrictions it entailed were a Daniele Valisena’s PhD defense. In August continued to fill our calendars with both likely framed by cake in the kitchen. We also huge adjustment and a struggle for many we had a “hub” kick off, where we met in bigger and smaller events. We also ordered initiated a Thursday afternoon fika, a regular of us. In March 2020, new regulations sent smaller groups spread out over Stockholm in noise-cancelling earphones and started a coffee break for the intake of cake and other us all into home office and our guests were colleagues’ gardens, discussing teaching and subscription to plants for our corridors. We sweets. Our work environment was very forced to return to their home countries. work environment both in smaller groups stopped expanding and instead settled on much stomach-steered. Work place meetings Our workplace meetings moved to Zoom on site and over Zoom. We had a small and a number of around 50 employees, which would always involve the traditional “fralla” and the archives around the world were left spread-out mingle for Jesse Peterson when remained steady through the end of 2020. or bun. Our two corridors were filled with unexplored. The spontaneous chat over a he defended his PhD thesis in October, with During this period, we also hired our third employees and guests, we met over a lunch, coffee in the kitchen seemed impossible to cheese, songs and tears in the kitchen. Not to administrator, making the admin team a coffee and a chat in the kitchen most every replace in the digital space. Some of us ended forget that at long last we could welcome our complete. workday. Our families joined us for the up in complete lockdown with kids at home, overseas colleagues to our online Division Trying to think back to 2019 during an annual picnic to kick off the summer break. adding Teletubbies to their workday. On top meetings. In addition, we got to enjoy the ongoing pandemic is slightly challenging. To kick off the fall term, we travelled to Falun of this, we experienced Zoom fatigue from unexpected delivery of a piano to the Division We remember that it was the usual busy year and climbed down into the old copper mines. all our online meetings and we developed a in Real Time during a work place meeting! full of events and full of the small things we A happy crowd decorated for Christmas vulture neck after sitting crouched in a bad all took for granted then. We started the year before we all sang carols to a nice cup of working position at a temporary desk for far with an on-site Higher Seminar with our “glögg” before the Holidays. too many hours. doctoral student Jean-Sebastién Boutet,
14 15 he Division of History does not run largest course was AK2207 Energy Systems Undergraduate Teaching any educational programme of its own. in Society, which is mandatory in KTH’s T Our teaching mainly takes the form of Energy and Environment programme. This courses that are either part of engineering course continued to be given with similar — PER HÖGSELIUS programmes or constitute elective or number of students after the onset of the conditionally elective courses. Roughly half of pandemic. our students are exchange students or foreign With the outbreak of the corona pandemic master students. in spring 2020, the division’s teaching During 2019 and 2020 the Division offered activities changed radically from one day to four first-cycle (basic) and five second-cycle the next, as all planned physical activities had (advanced) courses: to be moved online. Three factors helped us to come to grips with the new situation: In contrast to most other KTH First-cycle course: departments, we have, for pedagogical • AK1202 History of Science and reasons, long ago abandoned the classical Technology class-room exam for summative assessment. • AK1204 Environmental History Summative assessment has, instead, taken • AK1205 Science Goes Fiction the form of essays and online exams, which • AK1213 Swedish Society, Industry made us well-prepared for the digital and Culture in Historical Perspective transition. Our teachers have gone through Second-cycle courses: pedagogical courses and many are since • AK2201 Energy and Geopolitics long familiar with various forms of “blended • AK2202 Gender and Technology learning” and online teaching. These • AK2207/AK2209 Energy Systems in competencies could now be exploited in full in Society a new setting. • AK2210 Political Ecology The teaching staff worked as a coherent collective, everyone helping out wherever possible and generously sharing knowledge Seven of the courses were taught in and experiences. Teachers showed great English and two in Swedish. Most of our flexibility and frequently stepped in to replace staff – senior scholars and PhD students colleagues who had fallen ill. alike – were involved in teaching and course- Needless to say, however, the immense work in one way or the other. Since 2014 Per efforts needed to keep our courses afloat Högselius serves as the Division’s director of during the pandemic have also had severely undergraduate studies. negative effects, notably in the form of By far our largest course, in terms of elevated levels of stress and inability of revenue and student numbers, was AK1213 teachers to fulfil other obligations – not Swedish Society, Culture and Industry least research – when teaching had to be in Historical Perspective, a thematically prioritized. It is thus fair to say that we have broad course that plays an important KTH- so far managed to ride out the storm, but only wide role in introducing foreign students at the price of great personal and collective to Sweden and Swedish history. Since the sacrifices and suffering. autumn term 2020, however, we have lost Teaching. Energy systems in society course held in the reactor hall of the first experimental nuclear reactor R1 at the KTH campus. almost all students in this course as student Photo: Kati Lindström. exchange has come to a halt. Our second-
16 17 PhD Training
— NINA WORMBS
he number of PhD students in our Eutrophication (October 2020), and Jesper Dissertations 2010 – 2020 Division is still high with 16 active Meijling, Marknadisering: En idé och dess T students at the end of 2020. The large former inom sjukvård och järnväg, 1970 – 2000 cohort accepted in 2018 is making progress as (November 2020). are those already moving towards finalizing Even though we might accept students Type of dissertation, Dissertation language, their education. It is with great satisfaction in cohorts, they do not finish at the same 2010 – 2020 2010 – 2020 that we can count a 50/50 balance in gender. time. The monograph is still an important During 2020 two new students were accepted, publication outlet for our PhD training, much Liubov Timonina in the Mistra Sport and like in most humanities disciplines, but we Outdoors program, and Klara Müller in the have seen some compilation theses in the last Vinnova-funded Making Universities Matter decade. English is increasingly common, not platform. only because of the international character During 2019 and 2020 no less than four of our training; also Swedish students more students defended their theses: and more often write their dissertations Johan Gärdebo, Environing Technology: in English. This tendency is most likely 6 Swedish Satellite Remote Sensing in the connected to the choice of dissertation topics 7 Making of Environment 1969 – 2001 and the ambition to early on be part of an (April 2019), Daniele Valisena, Coal Lives: international discussion. Italians and the Metabolism of Coal in Wallonia, The defenses during 2020 were mainly 10 Belgium, 1945 – 1980 (June 2020), Jesse digital, which was a change for all. To 11 Peterson, Excessive Seas: Waste Ecologies of no one’s surprise, it turned out that our traditional defenses were dense with small things that were hard to translate to a digital environment. Singing for the new doctor also turned out to be a challenge online. The gain of not having to fly in an opponent and members of the committee is substantial and will most likely remain. We look forward, however, to celebrate our PhDs Monograph thesis Compilation thesis Swedish English in a more traditional fashion once the pandemic is over. Jesse Peterson, Jasmin Höglund Hellgren, Camilla Winqvist, Johan Gärdebo, Between 2010 and 2020, the Division has published 17 English has been the dominant language with 11 Gloria Samosir, Roman Khandozhko and Arne Kaijser. dissertations – ten monographs and seven compilation theses. dissertations. The remaining 6 were written in Swedish.
18 19 Defenses
Environing Technology: Swedish Satellite Remote Excessive Seas: Sensing in the Making of Environment 1969 – 2001 Waste Ecologies of Eutrophication
Doctoral student: Members of the Grading Board: Doctoral student: Opponent: Johan Gärdebo Prof. Deborah Fitzgerald, MIT, Jesse Peterson Prof. Catherine (Kate) Rigby, Bath Cambridge, Massachusetts, Spa University, Bath, UK Supervisor: USA. Assoc. Prof. Eva Jakobsson, Supervisor: Nina Wormbs University of Stavanger, Norway. Sabine Höhler Members of the Grading Board: PHD, Curator Martin Collins, Assoc. Prof. Etienne Benson, Time: Smithsonian Institution, Air and Time: University of Pennsylvania, Fri 2019-04-05, 13:00 Space Museum, Washington DC, Fri 2020-10-16, 13:00 Philadelphia, USA. Assoc. USA. Ersättare: Prof. Per Högselius, Prof. Heather Anne Swanson, Location: KTH. Location: Aarhus University, Århus, Denmark. F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26, KTH Zoom Prof. Leif Dahlberg, KTH. Ersättare: Prof. Cecilia Åsberg, KTH. Opponent: Assoc. Prof. Edward Jones-Imhotep, York University, Kanada
Coal Lives: Italians and the Metabolism of Coal Marknadisering En idé och dess former inom in Wallonia, Belgium, 1945 – 1980 sjukvård och järnväg, 1970 – 2000
Doctoral student: Opponent: Doctoral student: Opponent: Daniele Valisena Prof. Don Mitchell, Uppsala Jesper Meijling Assoc. Prof. Per Wisselgren, University, Department of Social Umeå universitet Supervisor: and Economic Geography Supervisor: Marco Armiero Sverker Sörlin Members of the Grading Board: Members of the Grading Board: Prof. Lena Andersson-Skog, Umeå Time: Prof. May-Brith Ohman Nielsen, Time: Universitet. Prof. Göran Sundström, Tue 2020-06-02, 13:00 – 16:00 University of Agder, Kristiansand, Fri 2020-11-20, 13:00 Stockholm University. Prof. Jenny Norge. Prof. Patrizia Dogliani, Andersson, Uppsala University. Location: University of Bologna, Bologna, Location: Ersättare: Prof. Hans Westlund, Zoom Italien. Assoc. prof. Andrew Zoom and Kollegiesalen, KTH. Karvonen, KTH. Ersättare: PhD Kati Brinellvägen 8, KTH. Lindström, KTH.
20 21 “We work with research quality and see it Research as an issue of common concern and not just a matter of individual responsibility.” — SVERKER SÖRLIN
esearch in the Division and the Despite the diversity there is an The largest projects are still led by men, a Environmental Humanities Lab is Environmental Humanities, unmistakable coherence and identity to our pattern strongly related to career seniority. R mostly carried out in projects and Environmental History and Political work that may even seem surprising. It is Generally, it is our impression that the programs funded by competitive grants from Ecologies likely linked to the project based funding division fares well – in research volume, sources in Sweden and internationally. In Geographies of Heritage and Landscapes pattern. In order to stay competitive the visibility, and impact from research. We also 2019 and 2020 we conducted fifty research Geopolitics of Science and Resource Division needs to cultivate research areas pay attention to patterns and strategies of projects of different size and duration (all Extraction in the Polar Regions of cutting edge expertise and change these publishing to enhance circulation and impact. listed in the Projects section of this report). History of Science, Technology and Energy only organically and with caution. Still, some We work with research quality and see it as The largest projects have budgets of more Knowledge in Society and Policy change is necessary to stay in the relevance an issue of common concern and not just a than 3 million Euro and a duration of up to six Urban Social Ecologies and Infrastructures game. The balance is of course delicate. matter of individual responsibility. years. The Division runs no less than three We know that we can produce high quality Research output is covered in the ERC grants (one Advanced, one Consolidator, These rubrics capture our rich diversity, research under current circumstances. A publication section of this report. Here one Starting), and hosts a Centre of but we could also talk of long-standing larger share of core funding would allow for it suffices to note that the publishing Excellence funded by Nordforsk (Oslo). research lines where we would find energy more individual freedom, and certainly less performance trend has been positive for Research at the Division and EHL history and the history of infrastructures, vulnerability. But it would still probably be many years, both in volume and quality addresses scientific, technological and media history, and the history of natural a good idea to maintain substantial external and this is also true for 2019 – 2020. (In environmental developments in their social resource use and extractive industries. flows of income to spread risk and conduct addition, projected publications for 2021 and and cultural contexts and impacts in the Cultural/industrial heritage studies and continuous experimentation. 2022, in press, under contract, etc. suggest a modern period, with a focus on the 20th and industrial archaeology also have a long Leadership of research projects is continuation of this trend.) The Division did 21st centuries. With a unique combination tradition. Long continuities can also be distributed on many of our scholars. very well in the KTH Research Assessment of strong research cores arranged around noted for research on the polar regions, cities Typically, in academia it used to be the Exercise in 2008 and in 2012 it was among the broad contemporary questions of human- and landscapes, and research policy and more senior scholars, in the past mostly highest ranked Divisions in KTH with a triple environment relationships the Division innovation. Other areas have shown strong men, that received grants and hired PhD AAA rating. During 2019 and 2020 we have has furthered a broad humanities research growth in the last five to ten years, most students and postdocs. That was the pattern prepared a new self-evaluation for the next agenda for sustainable development. prominently the environmental humanities. in the Division as well, but it has changed as RAE which was postponed due to Covid-19 Research approaches are integrative, Research on Anthropocene history, the volume of external research funds has from 2020 to 2021. This document provides informed by Science and Technology Studies environmental governance, and the science grown. During 2019 and 2020, no less than 24 a lot of detail on the research profile and (STS), political ecology, cultural theory and history and politics of climate change have members of the Division – 62 % of all scholars performance of the Division and the EHL. media studies. Research is cross-disciplinary also grown considerably in the last decade. with PhD degrees – held leadership of one You can find our self-evaluation under the with a transnational or global historical Vital emerging areas are political ecology, or more research projects, from individual about section at our homepage at perspective. post-humanities, AI and data processing, and postdoctoral grants over two or three years https://www.kth.se/philhist/historia. Our research areas change with time visual environmental studies. to large multi-year programs. This share has Our PhDs and former postdocs tend to and with shifts in funding sources and with Geographically the traditional focus on gone up consistently over a period of many get academic positions to a high degree. research interests in the Division. Still, there Sweden, the Nordic countries and the Polar years. Gender balance has improved, too. Individual researchers rank high, too, for is a lot of continuity. Currently we use this regions have increasingly given way to an Of women with PhDs 59 % had PI positions, example in the Stanford standardized citation ‘taxonomy’ below: interest in regions beyond Europe. Gender among men with PhDs the share was metrics ranking (Ioannides et al 2020, and minorities have grown in importance. 64 %. The average number of projects per https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). Migration and cities have been prominent researcher was slightly higher for women research topics in the EHL. (1,35) than for men (1,27).
22 23 Funding – and the Integrative Vision
— SVERKER SÖRLIN
he Division, including the EHL, is side a sign of research strength, creativity, Dealing with a dilemma propose courses and master programs that heavily research oriented. This has and innovativeness. On the other side, it For many years, the Division has worked very we could teach. KTH has been recommended T always been the case but with the is an obvious source of vulnerability and a actively to deal with this dilemma. Because twice in international evaluations (2008 continuous growth of our research activities potential lack of internal control of strategic it is really a dilemma, when you see that and 2012) to engage the Division more in the over many years this emphasis has been direction. you can develop research that is apparently university’s teaching obligations. So far, this even more pronounced. The situation is well competitive and attractive to funders and recommendation is unheeded and Division illustrated by the adjacent circle diagrams. to society and can build a vibrant research efforts continue on both fronts. Not only is the share of the Division’s total community with the funding – and when Another approach that we have taken is income that goes to undergraduate teaching Internal funding from KTH for research and you on the other hand can’t do that without to do whatever we can to remain strategic and very low, only 5 % – the Division’s core PhD training (FoFu) 2019 – 2020 increasing vulnerability because core funding directional despite the short term-ness of most funding for research and research training does not follow research performance (other research grants. To that end, we have tried from KTH is also very low. than marginally). to cluster research projects and initiatives. Nominally, core funding stands for around The three major ‘pillars’ we stand on in our 23 % of total income during 2019 – 2020, but “The three major ‘pillars’ we version of History – Science, Technology, more than half of this income is performance and Environment – is one way of securing based. In reality, therefore, this income comes stand on in our version of critical mass. Building the Environmental to the Division as a reward directly linked 48 History – Science, Technology, Humanities is another. to the competitive external grants that we 52 earn ourselves, especially the EU grants, and Environment – is one Integrative humanities and to what these grants do when they fund way of securing critical mass. We have also identified research clusters our PhD students and the research that goes Building the Environmental around themes such as heritage studies, into our publications. Competitive research critical polar research, political ecology, grants make up 70 % of our nominal income Humanities is another.” history of knowledge and research policy, but when the performance reward funding is critical media and AI studies, Science included they represent well above 80 %. Matching funds (52 percent of total) One approach has been to look for more and Technology Studies, and energy and This extreme income situation – more stable income streams, and the large private infrastructures, to mention a few. These Core funding (48 percent of total) like that of a research institute than that of a donation that made it possible to found the always overlap in interesting ways with the university with teaching faculty – is on one EHL was one such element. Another is to three pillars and with the EHL, but they
24 25 can also lead a life partly on their own in because we can see how this approach leads emerging knowledge communities. to productive and innovative research. Funding 2019 and 2020 This does not take away the fundamental It is also, we believe, a way to position uncertainty that an 80 % competition-based ourselves in relation to a future KTH where income stream creates in an academic the humanities, social sciences and arts environment, but it has so far helped a lot. will figure more prominently, according to We also follow careful and democratically the 2018 to 2023 KTH Development Plan. It anchored hiring processes, and always doesn’t seem feasible, nor does it seem very think strategically of the Division’s needs attractive, to build a range of disciplinary, by and completely avoid the favoring of internal necessity sub-critical units in the humanities candidates. at KTH. What we have built at the Division In reality, this means that we can build is of course only a humble beginning but, we interdisciplinary clusters of research that think, is already useful and could any day can pursue integrative humanities. First and be put to use should KTH wish to make new Undergraduate education foremost in the environmental humanities, offers to its students. Core KTH funding but to some extent in climate humanities and External funding and matching KTH funds digital & media humanities as well. This is Miscellaneous
Funding Patterns 2005 – 2020 (mSEK) Undergraduate education Funders Core KTH funding International • SSHRC – Social Sciences • Sida – Swedish External funding and matching KTH funds • Brock University (CA) and Humanities Research International Development Miscellaneous • European Commission/ Council Canada (CA) Agency H2020 • Stockholm University • European Research Council Swedish • Swedish Arts Grants (ERC) • Formas – Swedish Research Committee • EU Marie Curie PhD Training Council for Environment, • Swedish Energy Agency 40 Network Agricultural Sciences and (Energimyndigheten) • Fondazione Lerici (IT) Spatial Planning • Swedish Environmental • MSCA-RISE – Marie • KTH Sustainability Protection Agency 30 Skłodowska-Curie Research • KK Foundation (Naturvårdsverket) and Innovation Staff • Linköping University • Vinnova – Swedish Exchange (RISE) • MISTRA – Foundation for Innovation Agency • NIFU— Nordic Institute Strategic Environmental • VR – Swedish Research 20 for Studies in Innovation, Research Council Research and Education • RAÄ – Swedish National • Knut och Alice Wallenberg • Nordforsk – Nordic Council Heritage Board Foundation (KAW) 10 of Ministers for Education • J. Gustaf Richert Foundation • Marcus och Marianne and Research (NO) • RJ – The Swedish Wallenberg Foundation • Osher Foundation (US) Foundation for Humanities (MMW) • Rachel Carson Centre, and Social Sciences • Wenner-Gren Foundations 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 Ludwig Maximilians • Swedish Space Agency Universität, Munich (DE) (Rymdstyrelsen)
26 27 Overall trends 2010 – 2020 Overall, the Division’s Scientific publications 2010–2020, total number Trends in Publishing publications have seen 100 a stable increase during 80 — KLARA MÜLLER, the last decade. The most prominent category is LINUS SALÖ 60 refereed journal articles, SVERKER SÖRLIN while the output of the 40 other categories (refereed book chapters, books, 20
dissertations, other academic 0 publication types) have been 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 fairly stable. To put this Refereed journal articles Books in context, the Division’s Refereed book chapters Other academic publication types research output has grown Dissertations in a period when such output has in a general decreased in Sweden. According to the he following section is dedicated to an Why should we analyze publication data? latest UKÄ report (February Total number of publications and number of peer-reviewed analysis of the Division’s publication Scholars from a wide range of subjects 2021), total publications publications 2010 – 2020 T patterns and is based on information have criticized the usage of metrics to dropped by 17 %, and in Total number of publications Refereed collected from Digitala Vetenskapliga evaluate research, and this critique has been Humanities and Art the Arkivet, DiVA. The information in DiVA is particularly forceful from scholars active decrease has been no less 100 uploaded by the researchers themselves. in humanities disciplines. We hope that than 23 %. The total number 80 “Scientific publications”, as defined by compiling publication data from DiVA, of peer-reviewed articles in here, are publications registered in DiVA as we can identify patterns that would not the latter category was 1164 60 “refereed” or “other academic”. The category be possible to determine otherwise. This in Sweden during 2020. 40 does not include the content-type “other analysis acknowledges certain aspects of The 2017 – 2018 Division (popular science, discussion, etc.)”. For this the Division’s publication output mediated report identified a salient 20 year’s report, we have also excluded the through visualizations, numbers and charts. rise in peer-reviewed 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 subcategories “oral presentation only”, “oral We can use the data to identify trends, publications and publications presentation with published abstract”, and strengths and weaknesses in publication published in English. These posters. patterns. But it is, of course, only possible to trends are persisting. In Thus defined, the output of scientific reflect certain aspects of what the members 2010, the largest content Share of content types 2010 and 2020 (percent) publications in 2019 and 2020 combined is of the Division have been working on the last type was “other”, followed 212. The two dominant publication types are couple of years. It also brings up important by “other academic” and 40 article in journal (102) and chapter in book questions about what we should measure, “refereed”. A decade later, (61). Together, these two publication types what this type of analysis of this type of in 2020, the proportions 30 amount to 77 % of all scientific publications. data can tell us, and what research output were reversed, with refereed The remaining publication types consist of we should focus on. How much can the publications being the 20 book reviews (14) and books (9) along with Division publish, while maintaining high- most numerous and the doctoral theses (4), reports (7) and edited quality publications? What is high-quality proportionally largest 10 collections (8). research, and what can we do to produce content type: 0 that? This analysis will not answer these 2010 2020 broad questions, but might instead provoke Refereed Other academic Other (non-scientific) new insights on what we can use metrics for.
28 29 Peer-reviewed journals • Landscape Research Books with the following • Ab Imperio: Theory and History • Language in Society publishing houses: of Nationalities and Nationalism • Leonardo Music Journal • KK-stiftelsen (Stockholm) in the Post-Soviet Realm • Media Theory • Routledge (3) • Ambio: A Journal of Environment • Minerva: A Review of Science, • Natur & Kultur (Stockholm) and Society Learning and Policy • Baggrund.com (Copenhagen) • Annals of the American • Mobilities Journal • Ellerströms förlag (Lund, SE) Association of Geographers • Multilingua: Journal of Cross- • Campus Verlag (Frankfurt) Publishing languages 2005–2020, percent of total scientific publications • Body & Society cultural and Interlanguage • Bokförlaget Atlas (Stockholm) • Cahiers du Monde Russe Communication • MIT Press (Cambridge, MA) SwedishSwedish EnglishEnglish FinnisFinnish h NorwegianNorwegianGermanGerman • Cogent Arts and Humanities • Nature ChineseChinese EstonianEstonian FrenchFrench ItalianItalian Dutch/FlemishDutch/Flemish Chapters in books with the JapaneseJapanese SpanishSpanish DanishDanish RussianRussian • Current Anthropology • Nature Climate Change • Current Opinion in • Niin & Näin: filosofinen following publishing houses: Environmental Sustainability aikakauslehti • Aalto ARTS Books (Helsinki) (2) 80 • Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of • NTM: International Journal of • Arche Press (Gothenburg) 80 Environmental Humanities History and Ethics of Natural • Arkiv förlag & tidskrift (Lund) (3) • Ecology & Society Sciences, Technology and • Art and Theory Publishing 60 • Ecology and Evolution Medicine (Stockholm) 60 • Energy Policy • Polar Geography • Bentham eBooks • Energy Research & Social Science • Polar Record • De Gruyter (Berlin) 40 • Environment and History • Popular Communication • Deutsches Museum Verlag 40 • Environmental History • Progress in Planning (Munich) • Environmental humanities • Public History Weekly • Dialogos Förlag (Stockholm) (2) 20 • Environmental Justice • Resilience: A Journal of the • Föreningen för 20 • Environmental Science and Environmental Humanities folkbildningsforskning Policy • Scandinavian Economic History (Stockholm) 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 • Ė tnograficheskoe Obozrenie Review • Gnasso Editore (Aversa, IT) • Fennia: International Journal of • Scandinavian Journal of History • John Wiley & Sons 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Geography • Scientia Canadiensis: Canadian • Jovis Verlag GmbH (Berlin) • Fish and Fisheries Journal of the History of Science, • Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskap- • Frontiers in Energy Research Technology and Medicine sakademien (Stockholm) (3) Publishing languages Refereed journals 2019 – 2020 a hint of the areas of interest • Geographical Journal • Sibirskie Istoricheskie • MIT Press (3) Because Swedish is by far The larger the word, the of members of the Division. • Global Environment Issledovaniia • Natur & Kultur (Stockholm) the most common language more frequent it is in the During the past • Green Letters: Studies in • Sport in Society: Cultures, Media, • Nordiska museets förlag used in output categorized titles of the refereed journals two years, members of Ecocriticism Politics, Commerce (Stockholm) (3) as “other”, the relative that members of the Division the Division have been • H-Environment Roundtable • Studies in History and • Open Book Publishers share of Swedish-language have been publishing in over publishing in the following Reviews Philosophy of Science (Cambridge, UK) (5) publications in the Division the last two years. This gives outlets: • Historiallinen Aikakauskirja • Sustainability • Open Humanities Press (London) has dropped from 55 % in [Historical Journal] • Sustainability Science • Palgrave Macmillan (4) 2010 to 39 % in 2020 when all • History and Anthropology • Technology and Culture • PM edizioni (Varazze, IT) content types are considered. • Humanities • Technology in Society • Polaris (Stockholm) It follows that this tendency • Industry & Higher Education • Tertiary Education and • Regeringskansliet (Stockholm) is even stronger when only • International Journal of Urban Management • Routledge (22) scientific publications are and Regional Research • The Extractive Industries and • Sage Publications (Los Angeles & examined. In 2010, a third • Journal of Archaeological Society London) of the scientific publications Method and Theory • Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis • SISU Idrottsböcker (Stockholm) were published in Swedish; • Journal of Environmental Policy • Trace: Journal of Writing, Media, • Springer Nature (2) in 2020, we are down & Planning Ecology • Tartu University Press (Tartu, FI) to a fifth. That said, the • Journal of Historical Geography • Turkish Studies • Taylor & Francis (7) trend does not point to a • Journal of Northern Studies • Urban Geography • The University of Alabama Press continuous decrease in • Journal of Transport History • WIREs [Wiley Interdisciplinary Swedish-language scientific • Land Use Policy Reviews] Water publications. • Landscape and Urban Planning
30 31 Topics Keywords corroborate the impression from Authorship, scientific publications (percent) journal titles that environment is a cross cutting theme in much of the Division’s research. The strong social concern is also visible (words such as political, justice, 100 human, labour), along with an interest in urban issues, infrastructures, and energy in Single-authored various forms. Science and technology also 80 loom large as do gender/feminist, heritage, climate, and the Anthropocene. A significant category is “earth objects” such as sea, 60 earth, air, water. As for geographical spread 48.5 many regions appear, from the Philippines to the Baltic, but Sweden and Polar/Arctic 40 are the most frequent ones, reflecting major Co-authored research efforts in these areas. Our two 38 special hubs are reflected in a strong presence of “Environmental Humanities”, and 20 25.5 “Posthumanities”. 14.5
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Collaboration Collaboration in academic publishing than a decade. According to a report from is a strong trend. On page 35 we have the research council VR (The Research listed the Division’s unique collaboration Barometer 2019, p. 62), the share of Arts partners during 2019 and 2020, through and Humanities publications co-authored co-authorships registered in DiVA. It is internationally grew from 18 to 30 % from possible to identify certain clusters – outside 2007 to 2017. As the figure illustrates the of Sweden, universities in the US and the UK Division has moved in the same direction, are frequent collaboration partners in our only somewhat earlier and in a more publishing. There are also many collaboration pronounced way. In 2020 such publications partners in the north – Norway, Iceland, made up around 50 % of our total publications Russia, Canada and Finland. (taking into account that a small handfulof The rise of our co-authorships reflects, the co-authorships are within Sweden). Part above all, continued internationalization, of the explanation is probably the relatively both of research collaboration and research high proportion of non-Swedes among our content. This is in line with a general trend researchers, but our collaboration networks The visualization reflects the keywords of the Division’s publications 2019 – 2020. in humanities research in Sweden for more are also important.
32 33 Publishing for other • Stefansson Arctic Institute (SAI), audiences Number of other (popular science, discussion, etc.) publications, Publishing languages, other audiences Iceland 2010 – 2020 2019 and 2020 (total number) The following category of • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden publications is not included N
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s g 60 h t a publications, since it is based i • Swedish Polar Research o lia / a F n le n i n on what is defined as “other m a Secretariat, Sweden n is (popular science, discussion, h • The University of Manchester, 50 etc.)” in DiVA. This review 2 2 UK En 2 61 was made to get a better glis 2 • The University of Massachusetts, h understanding of how 40 Boston, USA the Division’s publishing 10 • The University of Notre Dame, engages with audiences USA outside academia. In 2019 30 • The University of Wisconsin, USA and 2020, members of the • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain • University of Aberdeen, UK Division’s most frequent 20 “non-scientific” publications, • University of Akureyri, Iceland were in the newspapers • University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Dagens Nyheter (16) and 10 USA
S Svenska Dagbladet (9). w • University of Alberta, Canada e d The web-based magazine is • University of California, Berkeley, h Curie, issued by the 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 USA Swedish Research Council • University of California, Davis, (Vetenskapsrådet), has also USA been a dominant outlet for • University of Cambridge, UK non-scientific publications. • University of Cape Town, South As the word cloud Africa indicates, with newspapers Collaboration partners • Institució Catalana de Recerca i • University of Coimbra, Portugal as the dominant outlet, in scientific publishing Estudis Avançats (ICREA) • University of Edinburgh, UK “article in journal” is the 2019 – 2020 • Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia • University of Helsinki, Finland most common outlet in • Aalborg University, Denmark Ambientals (ICTA – Universitat, • University of Hong Kong, HK the category “other”, with • Arctic Centre, University of Autònoma de Barcelona), Spain • University of Leeds, UK 54 posts. But it is not the Lapland, Finland • John Hopkins University, USA • University of Oulu, Finland only one. There are also • Bjerknes Centre for Climate • Linköping University, Sweden • University of Saskatchewan, “chapter in book” (6) and, Research, University of Bergen, • Lund University, Sweden Canada again, “other” (16). In this Norway • Makerere University, Uganda • University of Tartu, Estonia category, we find a mixture • Centre for Arctic Research and • Nordic Institute for Studies • University of Turku, Finland of blog posts and other online articles and book chapters. least 10 texts reflecting on the Northern Economies, Russia in Innovation, Research and • University of Umeå, Sweden discussion outlets. We can also identify a crisis. • Chalmers University of Education (NIFU), Norway • University of Vienna, Austria The category “other” notable rise in publications in In the category Technology, Sweden • Nordregio, Sweden • Uppsala University, Sweden has been fairly stable the the category “other” during “other”, Swedish is the • Consortium Sustainable Dev • Norsk institutt for • Wageningen University, last decade, except for a dip 2020. A possible explanation dominant language with 61 Andean Ecoreg CONDESAN, Peru kulturminneforskning, Norway Netherlands in 2013 and a rise in 2020. of this rise in publications publications, followed by • Coventry University, UK • Peter the Great Museum of • Yale University, USA The stability indicates that during 2020 might be the English with 10 publications. • Finnish Meteorological Institute, Anthropology and Ethnography, members of the Division Covid-19 pandemic and This can be compared to Finland Russia have not published less in the need for researchers to the Division’s scientific • Gothenburg University, Sweden • Scientific Center of Arctic non-peer-reviewed outlets, engage in public debates, publications, where English • Grantham Institute of Climate Studies, Russia for example, newspapers, which members of the has been the dominant Change and Environment, UK • Seton Hall University, USA due to the rise in refereed Division have done with at language of use since 2006. • Imperial College London, UK • Södertörn University, Sweden
34 35 Diversity, Concentration, Continuity
— SVERKER SÖRLIN
he publishing pattern of the Division is humanities, along with journals in landscape, readership, especially with an environmental marked by at the same time diversity, urban studies, human geography, and polar Continuity – journals with multiple and sustainability profile. T concentration, and continuity. humanities. publications in multiple years, 2012 – 2020 Could it be that our wide dispersion across Diversity has increased for many years. fields makes us less visible in our traditional In 2019 – 2020 members of the Division Concentration – journals with 3 or more • Environment and History core communities of historians? Should we published articles in no less than 72 peer Division articles 2017 – 2020 • International Journal of Environmental target certain history journals more? These reviewed journals (for titles, se the table on Humanities are questions to take seriously. We should page 31). This is by far the highest number • Ab Imperio: Theory and History of • Journal of Historical Geography remember, though, that historians are eclectic ever. The majority of these have not been Nationalities and Nationalism in the • Nature/Nature Climate Change/Nature and read widely, so many of them will likely Division outlets before. The long-term Post-Soviet Regime (3) Ecology and Evolution find their way to journals in other fields. We growth in diversity is explained chiefly by • Environmental Communication (3) • Polar Record do also publish actively in history journals the Division’s increased membership with • Geschichte und Gesellschaft (3) • Research Evaluation – of the 18 journals cited above as either a more diverse background, nationally and • Landscape and Urban Planning (3) • Technology and Culture “concentration” or “continuity”, seven are intellectually, and by our interdisciplinary • Polar Record (3) within some strand of history, and another approach and certainly by a higher number of • Progress in Planning (3) two are in environmental humanities. articles published. • Resilience: A Journal of the A note on impact Another way of looking at this issue is to Environmental Humanities (4) What is the scientific impact of our consider absolute numbers. A decade ago, • Scandinavian Economic History Review publishing? This is hard to say. The citation the annual number of peer reviewed journal Diversity – number of peer reviewed (3) data we have from the KTH Library’s articles was only about 20 % of today’s. So, journals where Division members publish • Scandinavian Journal of History (3) bibliometric unit is based on Web of Science although there is a diverse publication pattern and Scopus. These data cover the humanities in 2020, we reach many more historians 2019 – 2020 74 poorly, and publications in book format, – plus a lot of other scholars across a wide 2017 – 2018 54 Some journals attract continuous interest either monographs, collections or chapters in range of disciplines that read our history in the sense that Division scholars repeatedly books hardly at all. Google Scholar data cover articles in other journals where we publish. return to them over many years. They are the humanities much better and we know We also reach our history colleagues through At the same time, there is a certain favored outlets, not least because they reach from those data that individual members our books and book chapters. concentration in some journals that have out to relevant communities. These journals of the Division get a lot of attention for their attracted several articles from Division co- below have been used over the entire period work. The fact that our publications appear workers. Among these are history journals, since our new Division Biennial Report series in interdisciplinary journals, some with high but also generalist journals in environmental started, with publications in most years and impact factor, makes it likely that our work studies, sustainability, and environmental sometimes several times per year. reaches out to a broad and possibly scientific
36 37 Communicating the Division Faculty, Staff, and PhD Students in the Digital Sphere 2019 to 2020
— SOFIA JONSSON
ow does one communicate a humanities The blog “Transformative humanities” research environment in a university tells our story with texts from both employees Hof technology? Well, first of all you are and guests, as well as contributions from left to your own power of communication. Achim Klüppelberg and myself. We took over While there are central communicators at the as editors in 2020 when former editor Jesse university, they seldom have the possibility Peterson successfully defended his PhD and to cater to all requests of visibility from the left the Division for a postdoc at the Swedish research environment. Much is left to each University of Agricultural Sciences. department to handle – which we do. The year 2020 was the start of many I recently compiled the Division’s different new digital communication initiatives at the communication channels and found that Division. Researcher and radio host Eric we during 2020 communicate externally on Paglia started up two podcasts “SPHERE nineteen different platforms in the digital – a Podcast on the Evolution of Global tayana arakchaa marco armiero erik arnold sphere. A slight growth since 2019. Environmental Governance” and “Corona PhD Anthropology, University PhD Economic History, University PhD Science Policy and The main channel is our webpage at Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic”. of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA, 2018. of Bari, Italy, 1996. Director of Microeconomics, University of kth.se, which serves as both a source of basic In 2020 we also launched our newsletter, Postdoc in Environmental KTH Environmental Humanities Sussex, 1983. Adjunct Professor information about us, as well as a regularly “The Division in brief”, issued four times a Humanities. From Oct 2019. Laboratory Associated Professor in of Research Policy. updated news section on a roll. However, year to a growing number of subscribers. Just Environmental History. Until December 2019. strict rules and regulations and a not so in its first year, 250 persons signed up to get transparent, jungle-like structure makes the latest updates from what’s going on in our our possibilities for full creativity narrow corridors, in the field, and at the home office. and the web addresses very long. This is In addition, we have our strongest the main reason why several projects and marketing channels: the growing events end up with external solutions and Environmental Humanities Laboratory on their own catchy domains. Here we have, Facebook and Twitter, which both serve as an to mention a few, the official STREAMS open window for anyone to peek into the Lab conference page: meetstreams.com, the and the Division. Thanks to these spaces, the CHAQ2020 Antarctic expedition blog and flexibility that comes with a digital event and homepage: meltinghistory.org, the home of the invention of algorithms, we could reach an dmitry arzyutov dag avango fredrik bertilsson Crosscuts film festival: crosscuts.se, the ERC amazing 93,000 people with the news of the PhD Student. GRETPOL. PhD History of Technology, KTH, PhD History of Ideas, Södertörn project NUCLEARWATERS web space: 2020 Archipelago Lecture, making it into one 2005. Researcher in History of University College, 2017. nuclearwaters.eu, and the SPHERE project’s of our most visited single events so far, with Technology. Researcher in Research Policy. website: spheregovernance.org. over 500 people streaming it in real time.
38 39 FACULTY, STAFF, AND PHD STUDENTS FACULTY, STAFF, AND PHD STUDENTS
roberta biasillo ulrika bjare jean-sébastien boutet johan gärdebo jacob von heland janna holmstedt PhD Early Modern and Modern PhD Student. PhD Student. REXSAC. PhD Student. PhD Natural Resource PhD Fine Arts in Visual Arts Umeå European History, University of Making Universities Matter. Defended April 5 2019. Management Stockholm University and Lund University, Bari, Italy, 2015. Research Engineer. University, 2012. Visual 2004. Research Engineer. Until Sept 2020. Environmental Humanities.
karl bruno miyase christensen araujo domingos jasmine höglund hellgren per högselius sabine höhler PhD Agrarian History, Swedish PhD Media and Communication, PhD Student. Also enrolled at PhD Student. SPHERE. PhD Innovation Studies, Lund PhD History of Science, University of Agricultural University of Texas, Austin, Universidad Eduardo Mondlane, University, 2005. Professor Braunschweig University of Sciences, 2016. Postdoc. in History 2003. Professor in Media and Maputo, Mozambique. in History of Technology and Technology, Germany, 1999. of Science, Technology and Communication Studies at International Relations. Head of Associate Professor in STS. Head of Environment. Stockholm University. Researcher. Undergraduate Studies. Division; Head of Department.
henrik ernstson siegfried evens alicia gutting erik isberg sof ia jonsson arne kaijser PhD Systems Ecology, Stockholm PhD Student. NUCLEAR WATERS. PhD Student. NUCLEAR WATERS. PhD Student. SPHERE. Administrative Coordinator/ PhD History of Technology, University, 2008. Researcher in Communicator. Linköping University, 1986. Urban Political Ecology. Until 2020. Professor Emeritus in History of Technology.
40 41 FACULTY, STAFF, AND PHD STUDENTS FACULTY, STAFF, AND PHD STUDENTS
roman kandozhko timos karpouzoglou achim klüppelberg jesper meijling klara müller annika nilsson PhD History, South Federal PhD Research Policy, SPRU at PhD Student. NUCLEAR WATERS. PhD Student. PhD Student. From 2021. PhD Environmental Science, University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, University of Sussex, UK, 2014. Defended Nov 20, 2020. Making Universities Matter. Linköping University, 2007. 2010. Researcher in History of Researcher in Resource / Water Researcher in Environmental Science and Technology. From 2019. Management. politics.
otso kortekangas domingos langa katarina larsen david nilsson eric paglia salvatore paolo de rosa PhD History, Stockholm University, PhD Student. Also enrolled at PhD Urban Planning, KTH 2005. PhD History of Technology, KTH, PhD History of Science, Technology PhD Human Geography, 2017. International Postdoc. Universidad Eduardo Mondlane, Researcher in Innovation and 2011. Researcher in History of and Environment, KTH, 2016. Lund University, 2017. Postdoc From 2019 Maputo, Mozambique. Sustainability Studies. Technology and Development Postdoc in Global Environmental in Environmental Humanities. Studies. Governance. From 2019.
susanna lidström kati lindström marta musso lina rahm peder roberts emilia rolander PhD Comparative Literature, King’s PhD Semiotics, University of Tartu, PhD Economic History, University PhD Didactics, Linköping PhD History of Science, Stanford Administrator. College, London, 2013. Researcher Estonia, 2011. Environmental of Cambridge, UK, 2016. STAND UP University, 2017. Ragnar Holm University, 2010. Researcher in Historical Studies in Science, History and Industrial Heritage. Postdoc in Energy History. Postdoc. From 2020. History of Science. Technology and Environment. From 2020.
42 43 FACULTY, STAFF, AND PHD STUDENTS FACULTY, STAFF, AND PHD STUDENTS
corinna röver linus salö gloria samosir lize-marié van der watt paul warde adam wickberg PhD Student. Mistra Sustainable PhD Linguistics, Stockholm PhD student. SPHERE. PhD History, University of PhD History, University of PhD Literature, Stockholm Arctic Futures, Wallenberg University. Postdoc until Jan 2020. Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2012. Cambridge, Guest Professor in University, 2016. Postdoc in Foundations. Researcher in Research Policy from Researcher in Environmental Environmental History, from 2020. Media History. Jan 2021. History and Industrial Heritage.
thomas schröder anna storm sverker sörlin eugenia pérez vico camilla winqvist nina wormbs PhD student. SPHERE. PhD History of Technology, KTH, PhD History of Ideas, Umeå PhD Innovation and Research PhD Student. REXSAC. PhD History of Technology, KTH, 2008. Researcher in Environmental University, 1988. Professor in Policy, Chalmers University of 2003. Head of Graduate Studies. History and Industrial Heritage Environmental History. Technology, Göteborg, 2013. Professor in History of Technology. until June 2020. Postdoc in Research Policy. Until 2019.
irma allen PhD Student. ITN Marie Curie. mats benner PhD Sociology, Lund University, 1997. Guest Professor in Research Policy. Until Jan 2020. miia Jylkkä Administrator. From 2020. tae hoon kim PhD History, Cambridge University, UK, 2016. STAND UP Postdoc in Energy History. Until 2020. jesse don peterson PhD Student. ITN Marie Curie. Defended October 15 2020. urban lundberg PhD History, Stockholm University, 2003. Researcher in Research Policy. liubov timonina ethemcan turhan daniele valisena cecilia åsberg PhD student. Mistra SPOOR. PhD Environmental Studies, PhD Student. ITN Marie Curie. PhD Gender Studies, Linköping From 2020. Universitat Autonoma de Defended June 2, 2020. University, 2005. Guest Professor Co-Workers at the ABE School’s Office during 2019 – 2020 Barcelona (UAB), Spain, 2014. in Gender History. Researcher in Environmental marina botros metry Economist, ABE School’s office Humanities until November 2020. sanna dafteke HR Officer, ABE School’s office
44 45 Higher Seminars at the Division
— KATARINA LARSEN
The higher seminar series at the division reflects the broad range of exciting topics of research. From “A sea change in Environmental humanities” to General studies of history of indigenous communities in the Arctic context, nuclear technology, educational imaginaries, science policy studies, health development projects and innovation in Mozambique, and urban water management. These were just a few of the topics that we had the chance to and discuss during 2019 and 2020. Usually, we have between eight to ten seminars per semester. Adding up the numbers for the past two years, we had about 34 presentations, in addition to a handful of doctoral dissertations and the annual Archipelago lectures. The higher seminar has a longstanding history at the Division. A text is circulated about a week before the seminar, the author presents for 45 minutes and the next 45 minutes are devoted to discussion. The regular schedule is Mondays 13.15 – 14.45. The seminar is an institution allowing for scholars at the division to present their ongoing work and also for us all to hear invited speakers. Among presentations we also follow the process that graduate students go through in the program, from presenting the from doctoral plan (the “PhD PM”), through mid-seminar (at 50 %) and the final seminar (80 to 90 %). Both the mid-seminars and final seminar have invited discussants. Moreover, these presentations give a
46 47 SPHERE – a Podcast on the Evolution of Global Environmental Governance
— ERIC PAGLIA
PHERE – a podcast on the evolution of first-hand accounts and analyses from of global environmental governance participants as well as historians and S serves as a platform to communicate other scholars specializing in issues of the Photo: Petter Karlberg. research from within the SPHERE project, environment and sustainable development. and as a free and widely accessible resource Alongside the SPHERE podcast, I am for anyone—academic peers as well as the the host of two other podcasts visited by chance for doctoral students in early More scholars from universities general public—interested in learning about researchers from the Division on several stages of their PhD-project to “open a abroad, and in Sweden, have found the historical development of environmental occasions. During my doctoral studies, I window” to see how the final stages their way to our higher seminar series. politics and the scientific concepts that became interested in Arctic issues, and with of the doctoral projects take shape and This is reinforcing the idea that the structure our understanding of global no other podcasts focused on the politics and environmental change. Produced by me, science of the polar regions, I launched the allowing for cross-cohort learning for series should be a place to meet and SPHERE researcher Eric Paglia, the podcast Polar Geopolitics podcast. Then when the doctoral students. exchange ideas, present arguments, is available on most major services such as coronavirus struck Sweden in March 2020, The seminar series is an open to discuss virtues and limitations of Spotify and Apple Podcasts. I started the podcast Corona Crisis: Once anyone. The schedule is published different research methods, and Each episode centers around in-depth Upon a Pandemic as a way to make sense online and we frequently have quests constitute a space for scholars to discussions with members of the project team of and engage in real time with what was and other experts on various aspects of global certain to be a world-changing event. That in the audience. As organizer of the learn across scientific disciplines and environmental governance, ranging from podcast draws on my previous background higher seminars during 2019 – 2020, thematic areas. the intellectual history of the environment in crisis management studies, and centers I often get comments like “it seems So, we hope to see you, too at the and sustainability to concepts like Spaceship around interviews with leading scholars and like your colleagues really do show up next higher seminar, starting Monday Earth and Earth system science, and practitioners ranging from political scientists, at your seminars” and “you have some 13.15, Stockholm time! pursuits such as climate negotiations and medical experts and others. environmental diplomacy. An additional really interesting topics so I would component of the SPHERE podcast are the like to hear more about the upcoming Warmly, oral histories of key actors who contributed seminars”. Katarina Larsen, to the scientific, social and political processes tune me in on: During spring 2020, the pandemic Coordinator of the Higher seminar that have rendered the Earth a governable https://podcasts.apple.com/se/ object and the environment a major podcast/sphere-podcast-on-evolution- turned the higher seminars into an series, 2019 – 2020 international issue over the past half century. global-environmental-governance/ online event, which provided both Div. History of Science, Technology and Thus, the podcast further represents a kind id1539916264 limitations and opportunities. Environment of living, oral history archive consisting
48 49 Streaming STREAMS – Conversations on the Environmental Humanities, August 5 – 7, 2020
— JOHAN GÄRDEBO
n recognition of the critical moment be spelled out. When COVID-19 hit, the of moving on to a new phase that Division rescheduled the main conference to IEnvironmental Humanities have arrived 2021 while also launching a smaller, digital, at after a decade of growth, the Division version of the conference for August 2020 embarked on hosting the global conference called Streaming STREAMS. STREAMS. The aim with STREAMS has Attended by over three hundred been to both display ongoing work as well participants from all over the world, as facilitate conversations where future Streaming STREAMS maintained directions for research and teaching could momentum for plans on a global conference of the Environmental Humanities. It included a series of presentations by keynote speakers, such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, James Ogude, and Julie Sze, along with ‘trailers’ to conversations of the main conference, featuring artists, academics and activists. Streaming STREAMS served as a stress test for digitally migrating conferences in general, and proved the resilience of the Environmental Humanities community in particular, proving the willingness and ability of its practitioners to meet during these trying times. The picture of STREAMS. Siberia’s Lena Delta, NASA, Wikicommons.
50 51 Archipelago Lectures no 8 and 9: Two Ways to go Public
— ROBERTA BIASILLO
eflecting on the formats in which the next to each other and shook our hands. 2019 and 2020 archipelago lectures were One year later, on 25 November 2020, R arranged, it is surprising that there we found ourselves online and it was no has only been a year between them. It is no coincidence that the talk was on ideas and Nancy Fraiser and Marco Armiero at the Archipelago Lecture 2019. surprise that when thinking of these events, practices of care, repair and restitution as Photo: Jacob von Heland. they are yet another observation on the extant ways to ensure just living conditions on material aspects of our lives have been deeply Earth. Philosopher and political theorist reshaped during the last months. Achille Mbembe’s “Reflections on Planetary On 7 October, 2019, US scholar and Habitability” framed timely and theoretically public intellectual Nancy Fraser opened the the fragility of our modern-day human- academic year of the EH Lab in a crowded natural relationships. It addressed the and overbooked auditorium of the ABF Huset unescapable theme of the pandemic by in downtown Stockholm with a talk entitled debating “life futures” and the conditions “What should socialism mean in the 21st under which life ends. Mbembe explored the century? An ecofeminist view”. She expanded possibilities of a new planetary configuration on her most relevant essay, Feminism for of the human and the humanities, in light of the 99 Percent: A Manifesto (Verso 2019, the resistance to decolonize knowledge or, to co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi quote his recent book, the Critique of Black Bhattacharya) and articulated an inclusive, Reason (Duke University Press, 2017). transformative, and global social shift. Environmentalism, feminism and From unaffordable housing, poverty wages, decolonizing actions are three major poor healthcare systems, climate change, emerging trends cutting across academia border policing to a new society based on and civil society, challenging their borders Audience at ABF, waiting for the Archipelago Lecture 2019. eco-feminism able to acknowledge the role of and enhancing new systems of knowledge Photo: Jacob von Heland. non-human nature and the gendered work production. Although in different formats, of social reproduction. She engaged with the the EH Lab has been honored to participate audience and with us well beyond the time of in those trends and will act in order to “walk the talk: we all sat and stood together, we ate those two talks”.
52 53 Crosscuts – Ruptured Times
— SOFIA JONSSON
e were a bit exhausted, but “We framed the festival still high enough on the great Sofia Jonsson in discussion with Damir Arsenijevi, University success of Crosscuts 2018, to together with poetry, of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, before an event at Crosscuts W 2019. Photo: Jacob von Heland. already in January set up a plan for a starting with a reading by second run of our festival in December 2019. This time we chose to explore the our very own Jesse Peterson, small cracks in time, in-between the past and ending the Sunday with and what is yet to come. With films and discussion on the Anthropocene, social Swedish poet and literature movements and decolonization, post critic Athena Farrokhzad, colonialism, gentrification and much more, we investigated these “Ruptured Times” – and her famous poem unaware of that we ourselves were just in the ‘Letter to Europe’.” crack of time before a pandemic. Over the three festival days, some five hundred visitors enjoyed a carefully curated Logo made by Carlos Carmonamedina. program with films, debates and discussions. We framed the festival together with poetry, Honorary guest Trinh T. Minh-ha, filmmaker and professor at starting with a reading by our very own films co-organized with Cinemateket and the University of California, Berkeley, during a master class at Crosscuts 2019. Photo: Jacob von Heland. Jesse Peterson, and ending the Sunday with Filmhuset between 24 – 29 November 2019. Swedish poet and literature critic Athena In the festival team this year was festival Farrokhzad, and her famous poem “Letter to director Sofia Jonsson, head of programming Europe”. Jacob von Heland, co-founders and program This year two honorary guests planners Marco Armiero and Miyase were invited. Filmmaker and Professor Christensen, and festival coordinator Roberta Trinh T Minh-ha presented a keynote Biasillo. The festival was made possible on decolonization and environmental with the support of Division PhD student’s knowledge. Saskia Sassen, professor at Erik Isberg and Alicia Gutting, and Greta Columbia University, presented a session on Gober from Stockholm University. Thanks gentrification with a screening of Push - the to financial support from the ABE School at Film, by Fredrik Gertten, followed by a panel. KTH and the Leading Research Environment The program included a PhD course on Global Media Studies and the Politics of Democratic Practices co-organized by the Mediated Communication at Stockholm Situated Ecologies Platform, and the first University, we could make this a great event Festival co-founders Sofia Jonsson and Marco Armiero at the Swedish retrospective of Trinh T. Minh-ha´s enjoyed by a diverse crowd of visitors. opening of Crosscuts 2019.
54 55 Annals of Crosscuts How to Occupy Climate — JACOB VON HELAND Change Research?
— ETHEMCAN TURHAN
n 2018 Crosscuts organised a short film peered up around filmmaking in academia, eing an early career researcher trying “A happy marriage of political competition with a jury of scholars but that went beyond the dualistic frames to balance stable job prospects and I and filmmakers. For the 2019 edition of film and text towards the promise of Bproducing high-quality and interesting ecology with environmental of Crosscuts, we felt ready to take our transmodal scholarship. research outputs is no small feat. There humanities yielded far more engagement with the research film of the The first issue of Annals of Crosscuts are numerous pitfalls and risks out there environmental humanities one step further on the theme “Ruptured Times” included especially when one engages in academia not than we could have imagined by launching Annals of Crosscuts. This 11 published films, from 10 countries and 4 for namesake but in scholar-activism based at the beginning of the project.” festival section would empower and support continents crossing between anthropology, in critical social science for solid, societal research-based films by providing blind peer- geography, artistic research, architecture, reasons. After all, for those of us in academia journals, from numerous talks on occupying review, a curated window for public cinema activism, history, film studies, and science beyond titles and ranks, ‘the point is to the mainstream climate politics for social screenings, and a digital publication to allow and technology studies. The issue was change it’. This was what I had in mind when justice to a solid, open access contribution for sustained visibility, circulation and access published as a digital publication on the I developed the Occupy Climate Change! to the field of urban climate movements to these films as knowledge artifacts. Crosscuts webpage in March 2021. Project (generously funded by FORMAS, forthcoming from Amsterdam University We launched a call inviting film thanks to its open-minded reviewers) Press. At the end of it all, academic outputs submissions on the festival´s general theme together with Marco Armiero, Sverker Sörlin, are the ones that will be remembered less. “Ruptured Times”. In parallel we began and our partners from three continents. After What will remain with us, however, are the reaching out to the international community three full years with many ups and downs, support, solidarity, and kindness of those to create the editorial board necessary to meet now l can confidently say that in hindsight, who crossed our ways during these years. the vision the initiative. The response was taking the critical perspective was worth all This, in essence, is what we need most to better than we had anticipated with more the risk. occupy climate change. than 30 top abstract submissions for films Our project, nurtured by the critical on the one side, and instant commitments edge of KTH Environmental Humanities from the invited editors on the other. It was Laboratory and its collaborators around a challenge, but I believe the collaborative the world, engaged with multiple societal process of peer-reviewing the films became actors, moved beyond the initial game plan, an effort true to the set ambitions of the and led us to new careers. A happy marriage environmental humanities to serve as an of political ecology with environmental integrative, undisciplined and experimental humanities yielded far more than we could space for intellectual collaboration and have imagined at the beginning of the project. advances across media and practices. It Conversation between filmmaker Daniel Oxenhandler from CPH: All the way from cli-fi essays by hundreds of was a process between editors, anonymous DOX Academy and Jacob von Heland, cheif editor of Crosscuts. students around the world to a very exciting Photo: Henrik Ernstson. reviewers, and filmmakers that not only special issue in one of the top humanities
56 57 The Chinese Connection Understanding Local Innovation — PER HÖGSELIUS for the Global Water Goals
— DAVID NILSSON
cademia is slow business. It’s been Survey and in collections held by the Renmin nearly a decade since I spent a year University Library. These sources did A in Beijing as a guest researcher, but indicate that Andersson along with several to some extent that stay is not yet over. One other Swedish geologists, who served as thing that repeatedly struck me in China “advisors” to the Chinese government, were was that numerous Chinese historians eagerly looking for ways to use geological were so interested in Sweden. In particular, knowledge as a basis for large-scale resource they were fascinated by the great scientific extraction. Yunwei and I felt encouraged achievements of a certain Johan Gunnar to continue our emerging cooperation, and Andersson – “Kina-Gunnar”, as he is widely in autumn 2015 she officially joined the known among Swedes. At that time, I was SWECOL project and spent several months at working together with three colleagues at the Division. the Division – Dag Avango, David Nilsson While in Stockholm we followed up our and Hanna Vikström – on a project called Chinese archival finds by looking into the “Sweden and the Origins of Global Resource Archives of the Swedish Legation in Beijing. Colonialism” (SWECOL). Together we had To our surprise, these sources indicated already identified a plethora of Swedish that the influential Wallenberg industrial resource-colonial activities in different sphere were connected to the Swedish parts of the world, but we had never thought geological activities. Granted permission to about addressing Swedish colonial-style use the Wallenberg archives, we were then activities in China. Working on the project, finally able to show that the Wallenbergs however, while at the same time hearing my had actually funded Andersson’s Chinese Chinese colleagues talk about Andersson, I research, and that Swedish industrialists, couldn’t help hypothesizing that Andersson’s geologists and diplomats had cooperated in a supposedly “pure scientific” contributions breathtaking – but ultimately failed – effort to to Chinese geology were somehow linked to take control over Chinese iron ore extraction. other, less innocent ambitions. This was definitely not “pure science”! Then One of my Chinese colleagues in Beijing, other things came in between, but when Song Yunwei at Renmin University, Yunwei once again got the opportunity suggested that we might actually test the to visit our Division on a scholarship in hypothesis by looking into Chinese archival 2018 – 2019, we managed to write up the sources. Yunwei, with incredible efficiency, story. In autumn 2020 it was published in the quickly located a number of valuable sources Scandinavian Economic History Review. Prepaid water dispensers often malfunction due to misalignment with local conditions. Mathare Valley, Nairobi, Kenya. in the Archives of the Chinese Geological A slow, but rewarding cooperation! Photo: Technical University of Kenya.
58 59 frican cities are developing rapidly but still millions of people lack safe Publications from this project: Large Humanities Projects A and adequate water and sanitation • Nilsson, D and P. Blomkvist (2021). Is services. During 2016 – 2019 we explored the self-read water meter a pro-poor how this could change, in a research project innovation? Evidence from a low- called “The role of Local Innovation for a income settlement in Nairobi. Utilities at a Technical University Transformative Shift towards Sustainable Policy (68), https://doi.org/10.1016/j. Water and Sanitation in African Cities”, jup.2020.101143. — PER HÖGSELIUS funded by the Swedish Research Council • Blomkvist, P., Nilsson D., Juma B. and FORMAS. The project was led by Associate Sitoki L. (2020). Bridging the critical Professor David Nilsson in close collaboration interface: Ambidextrous innovation with researchers at Mälardalen University, for water provision in Nairobi’s ne of the main trends at the Division More intriguingly, the thematic focus Technical University of Kenya, Makerere informal settlements. Technology in has in recent years been a growth of some of our larger projects have profited University in Uganda and the Stockholm Society (60), https://doi.org/10.1016/j. O in the number of larger research from and stimulated interaction with International Water Institute. techsoc.2019.101221. projects. EU funding, in particular, has other KTH schools. Research within Provision models based on the historical • Blomkvist, Pär, and David Nilsson allowed us to quickly and radically scale NUCLEARWATERS, for example, an ERC experience of industrial countries tend to (2017). “On the Need for System up our research efforts in some of our core project led by Per Högselius, has evolved in neglect low-income areas as these segments Alignment in Large Water areas. In just three years – from 2016 to 2018 parallel with the emergence of KTH’s Water are poorly aligned with dominant design Infrastructure: Understanding – the Division was awarded three large and Centre, which offers immediate opportunities criteria and ideals. Based on case studies Infrastructure Dynamics in Nairobi, prestigious ERC grants in (see 2017 – 2018 to compare – without leaving campus! – the in East Africa we suggest that large-scale Kenya”, Water Alternatives, 10:2, biannual report) with a total budget of around critically important water supply of nuclear water utilities can improve provision to 283 – 302. 75 million SEK. The years 2019 and 2020 has power plants, including the complexity of low-income marginalised users if they adopt • Nilsson, David. (2016) “The Unseeing been a period where these three projects have thermal hydraulic engineering arrangements, “ambidextrous strategies”, harnessing local State: How ideals of modernity have gained momentum in earnest. The projects with hydraulic engineering and water safety innovations and embracing heterogeneity undermined innovation in Africa’s also allowed us to admit eight new doctoral issues as they are being studied in various in technology, business models and socio- urban water systems”, NTM Journal for students, seven of whom started at roughly non-nuclear settings. In the same vein, political conditions. The project also resulted the History of Science, Technology and the same time, thus revitalizing our doctoral KTH also boasts leading research in nuclear in theoretical contributions. We identify a Medicine. 2016: 24, pp 481 – 510. education more broadly. engineering and reactor physics, whereby locus of innovation between infrastructure • SIWI Policy brief (2020) “Paving the The transition to larger projects brings us NUCLEARWATERS researchers have been service providers and users that we call way for pro-poor and sustainable closer, or so it might seem, to the traditions of able to profit from comments and advice by “the critical interface” which needs to be WASH: The role of local Innovation”. KTH as a technical university, where large- our “local” KTH nuclear engineers, while understood to meet the global goals on https://www.siwi.org/publications/ scale funding has often been an important at the same time challenging the latter’s drinking water and sanitation (SDG6). paving-the-way-for-pro-poor-and- component in various fields of engineering perception of their scientific-engineering sustainable-wash-the-role-of-local- and the natural sciences. Although our field. Another aspect that puts our research innovation/. historical research does not as a rule require apart from that carried out at non-technical expensive laboratory equipment or the like, universities is that we are able to discuss and our larger projects reinforce and stimulate “test” our tentative research findings through a trend towards collective efforts and co- interaction with engineering students. authorship on a scale that has earlier been Although we do see it as a big problem exploited to a very limited extent in the that we don’t have many students from humanities, but which has long dominated humanities or social science programmes – research at other KTH departments. Large such programmes are non-existent at KTH projects have also markedly boosted our – this opportunity to interact with students visibility at KTH at large and we see a from engineering and natural sciences can The electronic tokens used for payment on prepaid water growing demand for our expertise far beyond stimulate radical new ways of thinking. meters in Nairobi. Photo: David Nilsson. the humanities as such.
60 61 Three Years with the Posthumanities Hub
— JANNA HOLMBERG, MARIETTA RADOMSKA CECILIA ÅSBERG
LIAF, Kelp Curing research strand, foraging excursion med Marietta Radomska at /Mis/communiction/s/ at the Reactor Øyvind Novak Jenssen. Photo by Michael Miller. Hall, KTH, 16 August 2019, curated by Janna Holmstedt. Photo: Jacek Smolicki.
irst of all, it has been a fantastic time at with Bonniers Konsthall and Färgfabriken • Open Humanities Lab Symposium: in engineering. In 2020 we started up the KTH with new and old collaborations in Stockholm, the Rachel Carson Centre for New Humanities and Anthropocene we new PhD course Gender and Sustainability: F across disciplines, paving the way for Environment and Society in Munich, Lofoten organized at KTH, with 25 extra-ordinary Introducing Feminist Environmental the reinvented, new humanities of societal Art Festival in Norway, the International speakers (2019) Humanities with Meike Schalk at KTH relevance. The Posthumanities Hub (PH) Science Festival in Göteborg, The Public Art • a mixed and postdisciplinary gathering School of Architecture, with over 30 has since March 2018 until February 2021 Agency Sweden, the Finnish Bioart Society, of artists and researchers on the theme participants from many corners of the world. had its main institutional home at KTH, and UNESCO World Humanities: Europe, to of /Mis/communication/s/ in KTH’s Both courses were very highly rated and where our founding director Cecilia Åsberg mention a few. Reaktorhallen, curated by Janna appreciated, to the degree of forming new worked as Guest Professor in Science and We have been giving talks, PhD Holmstedt on invitation by The Public Art lively phd-networks (Genderation for Future Technology Studies focusing on Gender and responses, and keynotes, at Swedish and Agency Sweden (2019); Sustainability Network). Environment. Dr. Janna Holmstedt, artistic international universities, art events, research • PH has been a proud partner and director and coordinator, has worked at KTH conferences, and at the Swedish Radio. We participant in The Kelp Congress, Read more about the research group, as research engineer since May 2019, and have hosted more than 20 seminars at KTH Lofoten International Festival (LIAF), our companions, seminars, projects co-director Dr. Marietta Radomska has been as part of The Posthumanities Hub Seminar NO (2019) and the State of the Art and events here: based at Linköping University and Helsinki Series, which since 2020 have been taking Network, a Nordic-Baltic network http://posthumanities.net/ University. place online, with the number of participants of artists, practitioners, researchers, http://www.facebook.com/ As a research group and network of skyrocketing from 30 to 150. and organizations exploring the role, posthumanitieshub/ networks for philosophy, arts, and sciences Marietta Radomska has set up a sub- responsibility, and potential of art and informed by advanced cultural critique group of the Posthumanities Hub, focusing culture in the Anthropocene (2018 – director and founder: and creativity, we host visiting researchers, on Eco- and Bioart research. Janna Holmstedt present). Cecilia Åsberg, KTH/LiU. public events, seminars and symposia. has initiated the Humus Economicus • We’ve initiated two Formas Communication co-director: From such collaborative vantage points, Collaboratory, focusing on human-soil Projects involving students, in collaboration Marietta Radomska, LiU. we bring science and nonhumans to the relations. Cecilia Åsberg and Hub-researcher with Bromma gymnasium, Färgfabriken in artistic director and coordinator: humanities, and transformational humanities Christina Fredengren are finalizing the Stockholm and Art Lab Gnesta. Janna Holmstedt, KTH. to the people. The Posthumanities Hub project Checking in with Deep Time, and senior strategic advisor: collaborates with other institutions through Åsberg will explore AI and the Artistic Our teaching focuses on gender, Christina Fredengren, SU. our research group, visiting scholars, Imaginary with André Holzapfel and Bob environment and sustainability. We were ragnar holm postdoc: affiliated researchers, advisory board, Sturm, KTH. proud to inherit Gender and Technology, Lina Rahm, KTH. and international networks. For instance, Among the varied activities we have a flagship course of the Division that we during these three years we have worked engaged in besides research are: ran 2019 – 2020 with students doing MAs
62 63 Life as a Humanities PhD Student
— ERIK ISBERG
“So you are doing a PhD in history? At KTH? present in Sweden than in other countries, I had no idea you could do that.” Since I is an ingrained notion hard to get rid of. began my PhD education at the Division two years ago, this response has been the most “A challenge as a humanities common when I tell people about what I do. In a Swedish context, KTH is well known for PhD student at a technical technical research and engineering education, university is, I find, to widely regarded as an excellent institution, yet a bit foreign for those outside the balance between keeping domain of engineering and technology. The one’s own identity as a Bodleian Library, Oxfor. Wikimedia commons. humanities, and history specifically, is not often imagined as part of this domain, and humanist and historian while would be assumed to belong at Stockholm simultaneously remain open to University, a twenty-minute walk, and one other disciplines and ways of the work conducted at KTH. This becomes as a humanities PhD student at a technical single subway station, north of the KTH particularly evident when I discuss these university is, I find, to balance between campus. At least this was my impression making sense of the world.” matters with engineering students, who are keeping one’s own identity as a humanist and before I got to know the Division and began often very engaged and curious about how historian while simultaneously remain open my PhD. And judging from the response I But during my years at KTH, I have grown their work can be understood in a larger to other disciplines and ways of making sense get from other people when I tell them about increasingly convinced in the arbitrariness context. Even though we have a long way to of the world. This will never be easy, but what I do, I was not the only one who thought of this distinction, and how much that could go before the humanities is a fully integrated considering the interdisciplinary nature of the humanities and KTH did not belong be gained if we let go of the assumption part of research and education at KTH, these what we study, staying with the trouble and together. that the humanities are not a natural part two years, and the interactions I have had challenge the boundaries between humanities After two years at KTH, the surprised of the research environment at a technical with students, have convinced me that this is and the natural sciences will remain a vital reactions are making less and less sense university. The questions we, in broad a goal worthy of aspiring to. task. I hope that the next generation of to me. “Of course you can be a humanities terms, deal with at the Division – What There are of course large differences too. humanities PhD students at KTH will meet a PhD student at KTH”, I want to answer, is the relationship between societal and The Division can at times seem like a tiny less surprised response when they tell people “the strange thing is rather the assumption technological change? How do humans and humanist satellite floating around in the what they do. Perhaps it could go something that you cannot.” The insistence on the environments relate to one another? How KTH universe, and the way historians do like this: “How exciting that you are getting fundamental difference between humanities does scientific knowledge operate in society? research is obviously very different from a PhD in history! You are at KTH then, I and the natural sciences, perhaps more – are questions that concern the very core of how physicists do their work. A challenge assume?”
64 65 CHAQ2020: Expedition to the Continent of Ice and Science
— KATI LINDSTRÖM
t is seldom that a humanities department conserving, the erosion from meltwaters was of the Swedish-Argentine organizes a research expedition to slowly chipping away the moraine mounds heritage sites in Antarctica, IAntarctica, the continent of hard science that the heritage stands on. Next stops – a under the auspices of the and ice. In fact, the last time a division stone hut at Esperanza Base, remains of a Antarctic Treaty. However, researcher pulled it off was in 2010 when depot in Penguin Bay and Larsen’s Cairn on the expedition has even Dag Avango took a sailing boat down to old Seymour/Marambio island offered similar had a wider societal impact Antarctic whaling and sealing sites. In 2020, experiences of warming climate with two with a series of media the time was ripe for a new expedition – and new heat records beaten during our stay. coverage featuring the team CHAQ 2020 was organized by Dag and Lize- Curious readers can check out our website at members, not the least Dag’s Marié van der Watt, the PI for the Swedish www.meltinghistory.org for more stories. appearances on Swedish Research Council financed project To Create national television and radio, Cultural Heritage in Antarctica (CHAQ). “CHAQ2020 expedition is Gunnar Almevik’s talks The purpose of CHAQ2020 was to observe a prime example of how in the Swedish Heritage the heritage-making processes around Board’s podcasts and Members of CHAQ 2020, Swedish-Argentine expedition to their joint Antarctic the Antarctic Treaty Historic Sites and humanities can make a larger Kati’s broadcasting from heritage sites, hand over display panels to the Antarctic Museum at Esperanza Base, written and designed by division researchers Kati Lindström and Lize-Marié van der Monuments, to document the conservation transformative impact in the the world’s most austral Watt, in collaboration with Pablo Fontana, Andrés Zakrajsek, Matías Belinco and status of the Swedish-Argentinian heritage public radio station at the Cristian Ortiz-Villalón. Photo: Daniel Mansilla. sites, and make them remotely accessible society.” Esperanza Base. Kati and through digital representations. Lize-Marié contributed In the end of December 2019, Dag Avango CHAQ2020 expedition is a prime with several placards to the and Kati Lindström commenced their example of how humanities can make a larger permanent exhibition of the journey to the remains of the 1901 – 1903 transformative impact in the society. Sweden Museum at Esperanza Base, Swedish Antarctic expedition, led by Otto is a consultative member of the Antarctic raising awareness about Nordenskjöld. The flight down from Buenos Treaty and has an obligation to maintain the Nordenskjöld’s expedition Aires was delayed for a week by high Nordenskjöld sites together with Argentina. and Antarctic Treaty temperatures and a muddy landing strip at The expedition that was led by Pablo Fontana historical monuments among the Argentine Marambio base. Relatively from the Argentine Antarctic Institute the visiting tourists and warm temperatures followed the expedition (AAI-DNA) and Dag Avango, materialised base personnel. The portal team throughout – at the same time clearly as a result of high-level cooperation built by Jonathan Westin showcasing the dangers that climate change between Argentine National Antarctic at https://antarctica.dh.gu. poses to heritage sites in Antarctica. The Directorate, KTH, Swedish Polar Research se/ makes it possible for first two weeks were spent camping at Snow Secretariat, Swedish National Heritage all aficionados to visit the Remains of the first Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901 – 1903) at Snow Hill island, Hill island where Nordenskjöld’s wooden Board, Luleå Technical University and Nordenskjöld sites with a Antarctica, documented by Swedish-Argentine research expedition CHAQ 2020. Division researchers Kati Lindström and Dag Avango (also at LTU) took part of the overwintering station stands. While the Gothenburg University. Thus, CHAQ2020 mouse click. expedition. Photo: Kati Lindström. team was busy measuring, documenting and contributes directly to future preservation
66 67 Integrative Humanities Crisis Research Integrative — FREDRIK BERTILSSON The humanities are becoming an increasingly influential actor in academic research, public Humanities policy and expertise that seek new and innovative ways of responding to contemporary challenges and civil contingencies. Humanities scholarship is significant in explaining present developments and for informing expertise and policy for the future. This change in the recent decades emphasized the lack of public influence and funding for research and education. In many parts of the world, extreme weather such as drought, floods, forest fires and wildfires, sometimes reaching the scale of mega-fires, are serious threats. They are commonly viewed as extreme occurrences that go far beyond normal experience and human control. Recent extreme weather events have pointed out insufficiencies in a largely dominating “success story” of modern Sweden and its institutions. This story included adequate protection of humans, animals and property, purposeful insurance, and a fair distribution of responsibility between the public and government. According to one line of inquiry, these events have become “extreme” in Sweden in relation to a “modernist” narrative that is stressing improved human control and risk management. This modernist ideal of domesticated or sharply reduced risk is based on the notion of continuous
68 69 “This modernist ideal of domesticated or sharply reduced risk is based on the notion Digital Teaching in of continuous progress and the benefits of modern technology and cumulative Times of Crises knowledge.” — KATI LINDSTRÖM
any manuals on digital teaching By autumn, we were better prepared. progress and the benefits of modern technology start with a warning: do not expect The teaching teams for the Division’s two and cumulative knowledge. Above all, it implies a M to save time. Bringing your courses biggest courses did not share the school’s general marginalization of weather-related crises online will give you new possibilities, but optimism and decided to take our courses it will also take more time and effort. Crisis online proactively. Because, you see, where and disasters as ‘things of the past’. It seems editions would need to add: if you need to there is digital teaching, there should questionable if this modernist narrative can serve as take your course online overnight because of ideally also be digital learning. Attending a a guide for the future. Indeed, historical explorations a pandemic, do not expect to sleep, eat or do 90-minutes Zoom lecture is not exactly good of emergency services and the focus in many research until the course is over. learning: there are no learning communities, countries on eliminating and suppressing – “fighting” When COVID-19 swept over Stockholm no reciprocity, no check-points, no dynamics in March 2020, KTH took its time to digest that would keep the students awake. I did one – wildfire has showed that these strategies have the consequences for teaching. The decision live Zoom-lecture to my Energy Systems and instead led to increased damage. to allow the courses go online was taken Society students and speaking to 90 muted The present experiences and future prognoses on the afternoon before the first class of my black boxes is one of my weirdest teaching motivate further explorations about what History of Science and Technology course. experiences. knowledge base is needed for building safe, resilient Luckily, I was familiar with digital learning Thus, the courses had to be restructured and after a night of work, the first video keeping in mind the digital attention span; and sustainable societies for the future. In turn, this lectures were uploaded. The new course assignments and learning activities needed requires a clear view of the knowledge structures memo was packed with technical solutions to to provide quick feedback, the contents that are now a ctive and how they have emerged all imaginable problems that may ensue when and activities could not be monotonous, – a task for historical inquiry. Historical and in all Scandinavian universities start to use the discussion groups needed to create safe broader terms humanities research on crisis sheds same platforms simultaneously. We were interaction spaces, and the teachers had to fortunate not to need any of these – Canvas survive. The last one was a challenge. The light on the processes through which concepts and Zoom delivered; but technical issues more assignments, the better you can follow such as extreme weather-related occurrences are abounded nevertheless. I was struggling to the learning process, but the more work for becoming part of the contemporary discourse. This render my voiced Powerpoints into videos the teacher. We used external tools such as includes the political, epistemological, and existential and running screen capture softwares. The Nearpod for variation, which brought extra computer was short of memory and sounded administration. By autumn, the students had uncertainty that is permeating the discourse of the like a military airplane but I had no time to become used to online learning and were environment and climate change. This integrative empty the disk when frantically preparing less forgiving, while many of them were at humanities research may inform the efforts of for the next class. Only teaching mothers can the same time more anxious and in need of developing innovative research infrastructures, understand the depths of my despair when reassurance. protocols for knowledge transfer and research I had been recording a 30-minute lecture The good news: both us and the students for the third time and kids decided to break survived! The grades were good. And when application, policy making, problem formulation, in through the door as zombies. I managed resting my aching shoulder and wrist after all goal setting and ways of conceptualizing results and to get a different type of technical error for clicking, I could even eat and sleep. impact in dealing with present concerns. every class!
70 71 Water Infrastructure in Times of Crisis: Time to Rethink the Narrative?
— TIMOS KARPOUZOGLOU DAVID NILSSON KATARINA LARSEN
ritical water infrastructures around have been scarcely explored until now. Such As part of the project, the world (for drinking water and as understanding the importance of water different narratives of C wastewater collection) have been infrastructure for living beings (other than scarcity (or excess) of water organized around a modern infrastructure humans). On the other hand, the crisis also as a resource will also be ideal that presupposes universal and inspires more local solutions and ideas. illustrated through a section Water supplied by water cart pushers in Kayole-Soweto, a low-income settlement centrally planned infrastructure. This means on water in an art exhibition located in in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: Timos Karpouzoglou. that this ideal has resulted in tightly coupled “What we see today however “Symbiosis” planned for sewer and water supply networks that are 2021. Art installations are organized and controlled by a few state actors is an increasing questioning co-produced in collaboration such as city-level water companies. of this feeling of control over with artist and the art If we turn to a city like Stockholm today, institution Färgfabriken we see that the majority of residents receive water services that has been in south of Stockholm. The their water from Lake Mälaren, but only sustained by a small network relation between science because of a handful of three major drinking and art has a longstanding water producers and distributors, Stockholm of actors for a long time.” history. The collaborative Vatten och Avfall (SVOA), Norrvatten, and efforts during 2019 – 2020 Telge Nät take their water from there. We begin to see the emergence of smaller are triggering new questions What we see today however is an networks of actors taking ownership of such as: How can the increasing questioning of this feeling of infrastructure through mini-water grids that narratives of water be given control over water services that has been are tailored to local needs and are premised a voice? What can we learn sustained by a small network of actors for on greater citizen engagement. In an ongoing from collaborative processes a long time. Paradoxically, the same forms RJ-funded project we are interested precisely between researchers and of crises centered on the ongoing Covid-19 in how contemporary crises spark new artists and how can such pandemic, climate change and growing ideas about how water infrastructure can collaboration highlight inequalities, causing today much devastation, be narrated in ways it has not for at least a new opportunities and are also creating new narratives of water century. To support our endeavors we find challenges for future water infrastructure. For example, a crisis triggers that the arts and the humanities can help us infrastructure? A section of an informal piped water supply network made in Rwata, a peri-urban new thinking around aspects of water that rethink the narrative. village on the outskirts of Delhi, India. Photo: Timos Karpouzoglou.
72 73 A Journey Towards Internationalization with Reduced Mobility
— NINA WORMBS
“We are actually more credible if we walk the talk. Climate researchers, flying more than the average scholar, undermine the Photo and collage by Nina Wormbs, on the train to Tensions of Europe in message of a burning planet.” Luxembourg, the summer of 2019.
he Division has been internationalized alongside air travel in general, increased has showed that some of our exchanges can allow for other kinds of meetings. from the very start. Perhaps this had enormously the last decades. We attend more take place without extensive travel. Some Nobody is suggesting that we stop T to do at least partly with the fact that conferences, visit archives in other countries of the arguments for moving about are now mobility altogether. But we need to seriously History of technology and History of science than Sweden, and take part in research challenged, whereas other remain. The lower our climate impact, and at the same were small academic subjects and therefore projects with international partners. This assessments of what counts as a “necessary” time enable research, networking and internationalization was needed to find increase in emissions cannot continue. Just trip are bound to be re-evaluated together dissemination. The Division has fostered a colleagues to speak to and find out what was as society as a whole, we need to change. The with the development of digital meeting tools. discussion on this the last few years (see the high quality. I was early on taught to go on quickest way is in fact to reduce air travel, Blended meeting formats will emerge and fly- Travelling Scientist Blog: https://www.kth. international conferences, we had frequent primarily long-distance. in-fly-out visits limited. se/blogs/travellingscientist/) and we continue visitors from abroad and arranged for PhD This is no easy thing and will demand This shift is necessary, but will most likely to do so and also move from data to practise. exchanges. sacrifices. Even though the super mobility is also serve the academic community well. A justice perspective is necessary, however, Over time this internationalization has recent, many have quickly grown accustomed We are actually more credible if we walk the as always, the issue of who to compare with increased, most notably in our publication to it and even believe it is intrinsically tied to talk. Climate researchers, flying more than is key. pattern, where the traditional book in quality, something hard to establish in any the average scholar, undermine the message The first step is that we follow KTH aims Swedish has been replaced by journal articles easy way. Moreover, many enjoy travelling of a burning planet. But a different travel and reduce by ca 10 % annually. In 2020 we in English. However, we have also increased and find that the exchanges make us better, pattern might also take some stress off the managed. Will we be as successful in 2021 our international travel substantially. In this enable collaboration and offer a welcome increasingly hectic life in academia. Slow and 2022? we are no exceptions. Academic travel has, change to the daily routine. But the pandemic travel and more time away, when away, will
74 75 Organizing my Doctoral Defense Archives During the COVID19 Pandemic —PEDER ROBERTS
— DANIELE VALISENA
pace still matters. This is what I learnt Sverker Sörlin, who assisted me with the in the past year of remote working paperwork and with the finalizing of my Sfrom Italy as a doctoral student in a manuscript. Likewise, my dear friends Stockholm-based university and with a and colleagues Roberta Biasillo and Jesse research project on Belgian coal mining. Peterson were crucial in helping me with all Until March 2020, when thing got crazy in the tasks I could not accomplish in person, Italy and in the rest of Europe, I had never like loading all my 150 manuscript copies – perceived as a problem the fact that I was and they are heavy, I can promise you – and working on my thesis at some 3,000 km away sending them around via post, as well as from my host institution. Planes, trains, with many other small but necessary things cars…until then, I only needed to allocate that I could not take care of myself. a few days to come back to Stockholm if Mine was the first Zoom defense that I needed to sign a contract, teach a class, the Division hosted. Sitting some 3,000 attend to important events or just say hi to kilometers south of my opponent and the my colleagues and friends at the Division. defense committee was strange. On one hand, But from March 2020 onwards, even a simple I felt not so much pressure from the virtual task like going out for grocery shopping attendees (I was in the living room of my turned into a sneaky war-like endeavor in my parents-in-law), but I had the constant fear home country, with the army patrolling the that my internet connection was about to let love archives. I love the sense of anticipation when a box streets, checkpoints on every main roads and me down once again and my defense would be of documents arrives on the desk, I love the way I get lost train stations, and all means of transport cut canceled…but it did not! Thanks to the help of I in a story told through letters and minutes, and I love the between one city to another. All of a sudden, Nina Wormbs and the IT Office, everything thrill of the unexpected when something you really hadn’t Sweden became far away. worked out fine, although I really missed expected turns up and you’re forced to reconsider your story. The fact that the situation, or at least the face-to-face discussions and upbeat And to be honest, I love the travel. Being a packrat by nature the regulation concerning the pandemic conversations, and the after-defense party and I had collected a considerable amount of material already – as were very different from the country where celebrations. At least, the wine was cheaper luck would have it, I even made a trip to archives in Canada I was living in and Sweden contributed in in Italy... Notwithstanding the distance, I was just before the pandemic struck – and while I’ve missed the complicating things even more. Luckily for happy to sing along and say skål together with archives, being forced to stay put and work with what I have me, I could count on the inestimable help of all the dear people who accompanied me in has perhaps been timely. I’ve been putting the final touches on my supervisor Marco Armiero and, when those five years at the Division. an edited volume, the Cambridge History of the Polar Regions, he felt sick, of my second supervisor with my colleague Adrian Howkins from the University of
76 77 Bristol. And Lize-Marié van der Watt and I are preparing a book with the tentative title “The Dream of Orderly Travelogue: Visiting Ignalina Development” that explores changing views of how science could (and should) aid economic and social development of the North American Arctic in the decades after 1945. It’s sent us Nuclear Power Plant During the down a number of fascinating rabbit holes. Did you know that the Dalai Lama backed a scheme to resettle Tibetan refugees in Alaska to herd yaks? That the US government considered Pandemic settling Alaskan Inuit in Antarctica to strengthen US presence in the continent? That an expedition to find Noah’s — ACHIM KLÜPPELBERG Ark on the Turkey/USSR border ended in a debacle when Turkey declared the expedition to be a cover for spying? (Not to mention why an Arctic research body was involved with Noah’s Ark in the first place.) Or that building new towns in the north was pitched to Canadians as a means of uniting ovid-19 challenges established ways of east and west, Anglophone and Francophone, with strikingly doing research. Through a fortunate little regard for what Indigenous residents in the north had C constellation of circumstances, I was to say? We hope to wrap up the manuscript in the coming able to slip through a narrow window of months and have it out before the next report. Being forced opportunity to visit archives in Lithuania. to stay home and write has its advantages: I would love just Among others, I had to visit the Archive of one more trip to the archives, but with every new discovery New Technical Documentation at Ignalina the completion date moves further into the distance. There’s Nuclear Power Plant. Therefore, I quickly always next time. travelled to Visaginas. While being the plant’s satellite town, it is located in the top east corner of Lithuania, close to Latvia’s Daugavpils and Belarus’ Braslaŭ. Taking advice from former PhD-colleague Daniele Valisena, I explored the path from Memorial at the entrance to Visaginas. Visaginas to the plant by foot. It was a very Photo: Achim Klüppelberg. scenic experience and soon led me astray from the main road. It was very sunny and warm. Not many people were around in this somehow eerie landscape. I found myself walking through a small Dacha-village called Vishnya. People were gardening three kilometres next to a power plant, which hosted the biggest reactors of the world during the 1980s. It was a strange feeling if you reflect upon a history of accidents at the plant. Then I went further through a forest. Soon I reached a beautiful small cemetery Old out-of-date research for some is a gold mine for others. In the historical with carefully kept graves. While lake documents warehouse of the The Centre for Limnology at Estonian University of Life Drūkšiai was supposed to be very close to Sciences that was in the center of the story around a nuclear power plant planned at Lake Võrtsjärv by the Soviet Union in 1960s. The history is being research by Achim me, I did neither see its waters nor noticed Entering the power plant’s premises. Klüppelberg and Kati Lindström in the Nuclear Waters project. Photo: Kati Lindström. its presence. Photo: Achim Klüppelberg.
78 79 After struggling with mosquitoes over the sovereignty over my legs and arms, I soon Change of Plans saw the tops of the plant’s huge transformer station. Given my experiences with Russian —ADAM WICKBERG security, I was expecting someone to stop me, as I slowly approached the nuclear station. But nothing happened. When Lithuania entered the European Union, it had agreed to decommission the station due to the similarity of its reactors with the one that s a postdoc at the division funded by speeded up this process to unprecedented exploded at Chernobyl. More than three the Swedish Research council, an levels. As long as digitization was optional, quarters of the money for decommissioning A extended research exchange abroad most academics clung to traditional ways of came from the European Union, which, is part of my position package. I was set to conveying knowledge and communicating, together with Lithuania’s turn towards a move to Berlin to work at the Max Planck but as we were forced to make the most of a freer society, changed priorities from secrecy Main entrance road. Photo: Achim Klüppelberg. Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) difficult situation both pros and cons to a fully to openness. Soon, I reached unhindered the in spring 2020. As I was getting ready to digitized academia became visible. While formal entrance. move, the pandemic hit the world with we may enjoy some extra time and liberty in force and my move had to be postponed. working from home, the irreplicable quality “Given my experiences with At first, I was expecting a quick lockdown of physical face to face meetings also stand with improvement of the situation after out. Particularly with regards to research Russian security, I was summer, but as we have all learned by now, exchanges and the development of new expecting someone to stop me, this would not be the case. When I realized I ideas. The threshold to start a conversation as I slowly approached the could not count on the Institute opening up which may in the long run lead to all sorts of anytime soon I did what everyone else who valuable and fruitful outputs is just so much nuclear station.” experienced physical restraints was doing higher on zoom than in an actual seminar and started to work more on the research room and the time we spend together as we Next, I entered the archives and gained, exchange online. I started participating in gather around them. In addition, as we try to thanks to the great staff, valuable material. the seminars via zoom, and since this was interpret the pixeled facial expressions of our On my way back I walked past an installation what everyone else who resided in Berlin discussion partners on our screens we are for the storage of low-radiating nuclear waste, Ignalina nuclear power plant. Photo: Achim Klüppelberg. was forced to do as well, I adjusted my idea missing out on all of the bodily and embodied with a conveyer belt originating in the main of a research exchange and accepted that non-verbal communication we are always building of the plant. This made me wonder part of the time would have to be in this way. engaged in, yet rarely recognize in academia. what was going on inside and how much I got productive with zoom meetings and Many have also noted that the halt of progress in decommissioning was being engaged in several collaborations leading to a travelling has positive effects on greenhouse made. substantial output, but as I write these words, emissions. While this is certainly true, we After my trip to Ignalina I spent the rest of I am still hoping to be in Berlin for at least should also take into consideration the fact my time searching through files in the Central a part of this research “stay”. Uncertainty, that the quickly rising server processing State Archives. A personal highlight was another hallmark of this pandemic, is both power on which we rely for a digitized society here the discussion of how to make Ignalina a challenge and a potentially enriching currently account for three percent of annual NPP safer in the wake of the aftermath of the personal experience. greenhouse gas emissions, which is in fact on Chernobyl catastrophe. It was very fortunate As a media scholar I am not new to a par with the levels of aviation (Lotfi Belkhir that I was able to visit Lithuania. I am thinking about how digitization changes and Ahmed Elmeligi, 2018, “Assessing ICT grateful for this opportunity. research and communication patterns global emissions footprint: Trends to 2040 (I published a book on this matter some and recommendations”, Journal of Cleaner The low-level radwaste storage. Photo: Achim Klüppelberg. years ago), but the arrival of Covid-19 has Production, Vol. 177: 448 – 463).
80 81 Ending up in Lockdown
—KARL BRUNO
ooking back, the most striking thing metropolitan cultural and social life ended about the lockdown introduced to the and the most exciting thing to do in one’s L United Kingdom in March 2020 is how spare time suddenly was to hunt for flour abruptly and how irrevocably it struck. I was and toilet paper. The more profound shift working at King’s College London, where had to do with the extended confinement to the university administration stuck to a an area of southeast London defined by how “keep-calm-and-carry-on” messaging long far you could walk without being away from enough to make its subsequent reversal quite the flat for more than the permitted hour of abrupt: almost from one week to another, the “exercise”. Of the many strange things of university buildings were shut to practically lockdown, one of the strangest was looking all staff and for many they have remained off- towards the City – Forest Hill, where I and limits ever since. I vividly remember the last my partner lived, is hilly with good views time I went there, back in the days of hand towards central London – and feeling wholly sanitizer hoarding. My colleagues and I were all a bit worried about how things were going, Photo: Karl Bruno. but I think none of us seriously expected anything other than being able to keep cracking sanitizer scarcity jokes in person the disconnected from a place that I had used to forms of social interaction. It grew into a following week. I have not seen them since travel through on a near-daily basis. The vista decent substitute, and kept us well-stocked and most I will probably never see again. could give you, as I wrote to a friend towards with Spanish olives, organic vegetables and That is not literally true, of course, since the summer, “a distinct impression of London-brewed craft beer—something that I have seen them, week after week, on Zoom abandoned skyscrapers about to be reclaimed also aptly illustrates the bizarre comforts that and Teams. But my experience of being a by nature...” They were fifteen minutes away lockdown afforded to those being well-off visiting postdoc at the Centre for History on the train, but might as well have been on enough and safely working from home. of Science, Technology, and Medicine the moon. With that, I do not want to suggest that transformed drastically. A routine of library Being confined to Forest Hill did increase lockdown was, all in all, a positive experience. work, seminars, reading groups, coffee our appreciation for the area itself. We For me at least, it took away much more than breaks and of course the odd pint at the end acquired intimate knowledge of its streets, it gave back, personally and academically. But of the day (the Lyceum Tavern in the Strand parks, and fauna, including ever-present cats, now, being back in Stockholm, it is what it did being the favored local of CHoSTM) was squirrels, foxes, and, sublimely, a peregrine give back that somehow seems most salient. replaced by a routine of bedroom work and falcon couple that spent much of its time I will, I think, always fondly remember online meetings that functioned surprisingly on the church steeple just up the road from watching the falcon against the clear blue sky, well for discussing research but never seemed our flat. We also became friendly with the absolutely still on its perch, with the rest of able to replace small talk over coffee. owners and staff of those local businesses Europe’s busiest city just beyond the hill and Life outside of work changed beyond View from lockdown office in United Kingdom. that eventually were able to reopen, hanging a world away. recognition, too, and not only because Photo: Karl Bruno. out in shops in place of other, still-prohibited
82 83 Writing an International PhD Thesis During a Pandemic
— ALICIA GUTTING
“In early March 2020 I was sitting at Vienna airport after a six-week research spree around Europe, seeing people wearing facemasks and anxiously keeping a distance from others, it dawned on me that something much bigger was lying
ahead of us.” Home office of Alicia Gutting.
hen I started my PhD on the While being on this research and networking than anticipated in Stockholm and that all students was an essential part of doing nuclear Rhine in late 2018, I marathon, I also tried to learn French and future travel plans had to be cancelled. On research. Different perspectives on an issue W envisioned a five-year period full Swedish at the same time while improving one side, it was rather stressful to be stuck in helped me reflecting on my own work. I now of travelling, visiting archives, interviewing my English. Stockholm, a city I had not become friends continue teaching in the autumn semester actors and presenting at conferences In early March 2020 I was sitting at with yet due to always being somewhere and have also found time to properly throughout the world. As my research is Vienna airport after a six-week research else, and also to be met with the uncertainty learn Swedish. I even became friends focused on continental Europe, travelling spree around Europe, seeing people wearing the situation came with. On the other side, I with Stockholm and the upcoming spring to Germany, Switzerland and France was facemasks and anxiously keeping a distance slowly learned to appreciate the upsides the helps with that. What stays though is the a necessity I did not question but rather from others, it dawned on me that something circumstances provided. All the previous uncertainty the pandemic has brought on embraced. My first year as a PhD candidate much bigger was lying ahead of us. However, travelling hardly gave me time to engage us, the worry that this is the new normal did not disappoint me. I visited the nuclear I did not grasp the gravity of what was going with and reflect on my research findings. In- and also the fear that I will not finish my power plants Leibstadt in Switzerland and on until later in March, when my guest between trips there was not enough time for thesis on time. Staying in Sweden means not Fessenheim in France. I attended conferences Louis Fagon from École des hautes études en writing or teaching. collecting data, not visiting archives and not in Colmar, Paris, London, Tallinn and sciences sociales in Paris cut his visit short When my supervisor Kati Lindström interviewing actors. Learning languages and Karlsruhe. I presented my research proposal by two weeks and tried to get on one of the asked me if I would like to assist her with teaching are secondary activities to my actual at CRESAT at the Université de Haute-Alsace last Air France flights from Stockholm to online teaching, I gladly said yes and work writing a thesis. If I cannot finish my in Mulhouse and I visited many different Paris. It became quickly clear that I would realized throughout the History of Science thesis on time, all the other activities become archives in France, Germany and Austria. have to stay for a longer coherent time period and Technology course that working with distractions and turn into background noise.
84 85 Postdoc in Crisis (or not?)
— MARTA MUSSO LINA RAHM
uring the summer of 2020, the journal So, even though we have been affected research as fast and immediate as ever, stroke of luck. During previous archive Nature conducted a study on how and concerned by the pandemic in many usually from national-level portals, or hosted trips, both of us photographed and digitised D the pandemic had affected postdocs’ ways, we must also be ‘read’ with our by the national archives of their country. (“for personal use”) an amazing quantity of careers as well as their well-being. Six out of privileges in mind. We could, to a large International-level portals aggregating documents, which was too much for a single ten stated that the pandemic had worsened extent, avoid the worst rampages of the archival institutions from many different research task, but which are now being their career opportunities, and more than half virus, and we were fortunate to work countries have also started to emerge (think used for our current studies. The decision stated that they had experienced work-related in a department that did its utmost to of Europeana, Archives Portal Europe, or of taking thousands of photographs during anxiety and worry. The title of the article that accommodate the new conditions of the Internet Archive), institutions with very the archive trips was not due to the idea that presented the study was accordingly Postdocs distance mode. By creating a convivial ambitious goals of becoming parallel entities there might one day be a pandemic: indeed, in crisis. and participatory atmosphere – through to Google, where it is possible to search for all before Coronavirus, our idea of a pandemic One could say that a crisis is an event virtual APT meetings, higher seminars, pre-digital cultural production as well. Before resembled a thrilling zombie apocalypse; where the normal order of processes and helpful “shut-up-and-write” workshops, the pandemic, these projects never gathered never had the idea of “staying at home” and institutions can no longer cope with new computer-mediated “semla celebration too much attention. Except for archivists “social distancing” crossed our minds. The external conditions. The Coronavirus has fika” (and physical stroll-meetings with actively campaigning for digital access, rationale behind it was to make the best use revealed to us how we, as humans, are social distancing) – we have been spurred digital archives were still a niche subject. of the money and time spent on trips to very inevitably interlinked to a more-than-human to continue to take part of the research Some professionals even boycotted them out distant institutions, and because of the desire world, a world which, in many ways, is also environment in very concrete ways. of fear of making the physical institutions to check every single piece of a folder, while incalculable and outside the comfort zone If one important element for researchers obsolete; researchers still traditionally work allowing for time, later on, to view and review of established knowledge (see the first-hand has emerged from this pandemic, and by organising their research around the trip as many papers available in the archive as experience of dealing with the Coronavirus especially for researchers using historical to the archive; only a handful of institutions possible. by Division Professor Marco Armiero, at this documents (NB: it’s not only historians!!), allow requests of digitisation on demand - Now that we cannot go to the physical link). Further, it seems like the covid crisis it is the importance of accessing archives something that now, with the pandemics, archives, our own digital memories of the has been more conspicuously framed as a in the digital sphere. Digitisation processes professional archive-goers have discovered archives became the new archives that we crisis of death, mourning and suffering, than, have been discussed and prepared for by the hard way. With institutions closed, could inhabit. Hopefully, the pandemic has for example the so-called migrant crisis in archivists and institutions for at least the billions of documents and related researches helped to raise awareness of the importance 2019, where institutional problems were more past 20 years, since the World Wide Web are on hold; conversely, collections that are of digitisation as a fundamental aspect highlighted (instead of the death, mourning started to spread. Most archives, at least available online are flourishing, providing a of accessing our heritage, and something and suffering connected to that). How societal from rich countries, have opened a web much-needed lifeline to researchers who are complementary, not in opposition, to archives phenomena are framed thus seems to depend presence of some sort; many are proceeding sometimes working on tight deadlines, and and museum institutions. on who is ‘touched by’ its consequences and fast towards the complete digitisation of their whose jobs expire when the funds expire, how. As Marxist art critic J.J. Charlesworth collections, in order to allow researchers to whether or not the research was carried out. tweeted: “There was never any lockdown. access their documents 24/7, anywhere in the On a personal level, our post-doc There were just middle-class people hiding world. Others have at least a web presence research projects can still continue thanks while working-class people brought them where it is possible to search their catalogues to something that now feels like fantastic things.” through search engines, making archival planning skills, but that really was just a
86 87 Strategic Collaboration on User Experiencing the Pandemic, Perspectives and Co-creation in First Hand
Future Green Cities — MARCO ARMIERO
— KATARINA LARSEN
ow can different user perspectives be user perspectives in multi-stakeholder ore than a year ago, on March In the accounts I have written about my taken onboard when planning future partnerships for urban development and 18th 2020, I was hospitalized with experience, I have stressed that inequalities H cities? How can co-creation processes green infrastructures within the programme M a severe form of COVID-19. My do not stop at the COVID-19’s doors. In my between researchers, municipalities and ERA-NET Smart Cities and Communities situation became immediately extremely ordeal, I was still a privileged university citizens add value to urban development? (ENSCC). Conclusions highlighted serious; I ended up in the ICU for 10 days, professor, receiving high-quality health These are some questions that are in importance of local actors and organisations intubated, with not so high chances to care assistance, keeping my income, with a focus in the strategic collaboration initiative as knowledge carriers and were presented survive. Now, why should I share this in the social capital that supported my family and between the division and The Swedish in a policy report co-authored with IQ- biannual report of my Division, between a myself during that difficult time. In this short Centre for Innovation and Quality in the Samhällsbyggnad. list of publications and the presentation of text, then, I would like to add something Built Environment (IQ-Samhällsbyggnad). a research project? Isn’t this too personal new. In times of dramatic crisis, there is not This umbrella organization for planning the report is available online: for this venue? First of all, I should say that is coordinating several programs within https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record. I have already published a couple of short “In times of dramatic JPI Urban Europe. The study was carried jsf?pid=diva2%3A1427870&dswid=-6925 articles on my experience with the COVID-19; out by me and focused on analysing this aligns with my research and academic crisis, there is not only practices which building on feminist theory desperation, isolation, fear, do not divide the personal and the academic. Furthermore, I have been asked to write but also solidarity, care, and something on this topic for this report, friendship.” which means that my division also shares, at least partially, my approach to the personal only desperation, isolation, fear, but also and the public. Indeed, my illness was, of solidarity, care, and friendship. The factory course, extremely personal but it was also of our collective imagination – Hollywood a collective experience for our community. or perhaps Netflix in our pandemic times Some colleagues started to call me once per – always proposes dystopic prophecies of week when I came back from the hospital people fighting with each other among the after almost a month; someone came to visit ruins of some kind of disaster. In this case – keeping distance, often just outside my imagination seems just to reproduce a quite window. Someone brought flowers, some popular adage from some decades ago: bread (bread and flowers, perhaps that was there is no society but only individuals and a well-orchestrated move...). Someone just families. Well, that adage was wrong. I can jumped into my course and covered it for me. tell you that there are communities, beautiful, I went through a terrible experience, actually, caring, supportive communities, including I am not even sure that it is completely behind the academic ones. Stoccolma. Photo Marco Armiero. me; but it did reveal something to me.
88 89 The Division – a Short History
— ARNE KAIJSER PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Thirty years ago, in the spring of 1991, I joined the Department of the History of Science and Technology at KTH. It was a tiny Department at the time, consisting of only two employees, Svante Lindqvist, who had a temporary professorship, and an administrator. The Department was located in a part of the KTH Library adjunct to the remarkable “old collection” and consisted of a seminar room and two office rooms. Besides the employees, there were a number of student “hang arounds”, working on master´s theses in history of technology, and wanting to become PhD students. The only problem was that there was no PhD program – which was one of the reasons why Svante asked me to join. I had received my PhD at the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University a few years earlier and had an ongoing research project on the development of infrastructural systems that I brought with me.
A twenty five year prelude I have been working at the Department – which was renamed the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment in 2011 – ever since, and in this little essay I will give a personal account of some of the major developments in these thirty years. However, there is also a twenty-five year prehistory that I will first sketch very briefly. It involves three people.
90 91 First, Torsten Althin. After having his teaching assistant one semester, research grants for four PhD students, had close contacts with the Society retired as first the originator and then so I know). The background was that who started in the fall of 1991. Six for the History of Technology, director of the Swedish Technical Torsten Althin had a vast international months later Marie Nisser joined SHOT, the leading international Museum for forty years, he started network within the field of history of the Department. Marie came from association, however with a strong US to give courses in the history of technology, which Svante inherited the Department of History of Art at dominance. In the summer of 1992, technology at KTH in the mid-1960s, and nurtured, realizing that to be able Uppsala University and was a Swedish our Department hosted the annual the first teaching of this kind in to establish a new academic field in pioneer within Industrial Archeology. conference of SHOT with more than Sweden. He was provided an office Sweden, it was important to build She had just received a personal 400 participants. It was the first and a desk at the KTH library and put close ties with colleagues abroad. Professorship in Industrial Archeology time that SHOT had a conference up a sign on his door: “The Institute Svante managed to arrange that and chose our department as a suitable outside the US, and it was quite an of the History of Technology”. He also Hughes became guest professor at base for it. Moreover, she brought two achievement of our small Department ordered stationary with this heading, KTH. PhD students with her, and three more to arrange it. Ever since, we have and so the Institute was born. Gradually, the KTH leadership were recruited later in the year. Thus, strongly emphasized the importance of Secondly, Svante Lindqvist. In became convinced about the in the spring of 1993, the Department international relations and encouraged the mid-1970s, he followed Althin´s importance and relevance of the consisted of two professors, one our PhDs and researchers to present courses as a KTH engineering student history of technology not only as a associate professor (me) and nine PhD their work at conferences abroad. We and became fascinated by the subject. field of teaching but also of research. students. We had reached a kind of also established an informal exchange Svante started assisting Althin and The “self-made” Institute was renamed “critical mass” and each week we had of PhD students with MIT´s STS gradually took over most of the the Department of the History of a higher seminar to which we invited Department in the mid-1990s, and teaching in his turn making many Science and Technology, and became guests or discussed our own texts. over the following fifteen years almost students interested in the field, some a formal part of KTH organization: a However, we realized that we a dozen students from each of the two of which wanted to delve deeper into Department within the Institution of were a tiny environment crucially universities spent two or three months it. In parallel he enrolled in the PhD Production Systems and part of the dependent on contacts with others, at the twin department in the other. program in the history of ideas at School for Mechanical Engineering. both in Sweden and abroad. In From the outset, our Department Uppsala University, and in 1984, he Furthermore, in 1987 KTH established 1983, Svante had established the had a broad scope, and Marie, Svante defended his thesis: Technology on a temporary Professorship in the National Committee for the History and I decided to form three units Trial: The Introduction of Steam Power History of Technology. Svante was of Technology together with Jan Hult, focusing on industrial archeology, Technology into Sweden, 1715 – 1736. appointed to this position, which a professor of Structural Mechanics engineering science, and technical Thirdly, Thomas P. Hughes. He became permanent in 1992. at Chalmers with a strong interest systems. One reason for this was was one of the most prominent in history. This Committee became to distribute the responsibility for international scholars in the history Small and networking an important meeting ground for supervision and funding of PhD of technology and author of the path- Until 1991, the Department was thus the scholars at different Swedish students. However, we kept the higher breaking book Networks of Power: very tiny, but in the following years, universities interested in the field. seminar as a common arena to avoid Electrification in Western Society, it grew significantly. In the spring of It published a journal, Polhem and fragmentation and we emphasized 1880 – 1930 (1983). In 1985, he became 1991, Svante and I wrote a proposal arranged conferences every second its importance. Another important a guest professor at KTH for a four- for a PhD program in the history of year. mechanism for encouraging internal year period, and gave an annual technology, which was soon formally Even more important was to cooperation was edited books. We course that became a success (I was adopted. We were also able to secure make connections abroad. Svante produced several such books in
92 93 which our PhD students contributed, grants were sufficient to finance two Expanding into new fields at Uppsala University, was appointed along with authors from outside the or three people, but in 1996 a big I replaced Svante as Head of the half time guest professor in Industrial Department as well. In the process of proposal with Svante as main applicant Department, when he left, and at the Archeology at our Department for four writing them, we organized seminars was approved by the Riksbankens end of 1999, I was also appointed his years. discussing the main themes and the Jubileumsfond. It was called “Scientific successor as Professor of History of The arrival of two senior individual chapters. research – Technical development – Technology. In the following years, the professors with long experience from Industrial renewal”, abbreviated VTI composition of the Division changed other universities meant a major Limited teaching – a focus on research in Swedish, and included not only our when a handful of postdocs were consolidation and expansion of our and grants Department but also two Departments recruited to a number of projects. research environment. They could look We continued the long tradition at Uppsala University, History of They had varying backgrounds and at our activities with fresh eyes, and to from Althin, giving undergraduate Science, and Business Studies. This this increased the interdisciplinary profit from this we decided to set up courses for engineering students. project was thus interdisciplinary in character of the Department with a little working group including both However, at KTH like at most other character and a main ambition was to political history, environmental Sverker and Maths and some long- universities there is a constant “battle train three cohorts of PhD students history, urban history, and ethnology. time “insiders” of the Department of the curriculum” among different in an interdisciplinary environment. Moreover, the international character to draft a five-year strategy for our departments, as big courses give For our Department it meant that six of our Department was intensified. Department. This became a very secure income. As a humanities subject PhD students were part of the project, In the 1990s we started a number of fruitful exercise and made us see both at an engineering school, we were only which lasted for twelve years. research and teaching collaborations some of the strengths in our traditions allowed to give short courses of an The photo in the beginning of this with Nordic and also Baltic colleagues, but also a number of shortcomings. introductory nature in the different text, was taken at the KTH promotion and from 1999, our Department We have continued making such programs. We constantly tried to ceremony in the Stockholm Town became involved in a long-lasting strategies every fifth year, the last increase our share of the curriculum, Hall in November 1997. It shows the European research network called one for the period 2018 – 2022. All the as we were convinced that engineers three first PhDs from our Department, Tensions of Europe and we have three strategies can be downloaded benefit from broader perspectives, who successfully defended their participated in a whole series of from our home page, and they give a but we had little success. From the theses earlier this year – Thomas research projects with a European or good picture of the visions and of the very start, our PhD students took on Kaiserfeld, Ulf Larsson and Hans global scope ever since. developments, we have experienced active roles in these courses as seminar Weinberger – together with Svante, A new transition period started since 2007. This is a reason why I will leaders, lecturers and sometimes even Marie and myself. The photo also around 2003/2004. In 2003, be very brief in my description of these as course responsible. symbolizes a major transformation of Sverker Sörlin was appointed guest years. The limited teaching income meant our Department: a few weeks earlier, professor in Environmental History that we were dependent on getting Svante had informed us that he had at our Department. He already Leadership and Laboratory research grants, and we developed been appointed Director of the new held a professorship in the same I want to point at three major changes a certain skill in writing competitive Nobel Museum, and that he would discipline at Umeå university since in this period. First a steady growth applications. We realized that we could leave his position at KTH at the end of 1993 and his arrival meant a major in the number of co-workers and not apply both to funding agencies within the year. This was a bit of a shock as strengthening of our environmental least in the number of permanent the humanities and social sciences, Svante had such a central role at the competence. In 2004, Marie retired faculty. We have developed an internal and to agencies within innovation, Department and so much valuable and her longtime collaborator Maths organizational structure, with a energy, transport, etc. Most of the contacts outside it. Isacson, professor of Economic History rotation on key positions that works
94 95 well. Furthermore, we have had the university implies that there is no privilege of having had very skillful and self-evident organizational “home”. devoted Heads of Division – Thomas This has implied two organizational Kaiserfeld, Nina Wormbs, and Sabine changes. In 2001, the Department Höhler. Thomas and Nina with a moved from the School of Mechanical PhD from our own Division, while Engineering to the School of Sabine has a habilitation in History of Industrial Economics, and four Science from Darmstadt University of years later, we moved again to the Technology. School of Architecture and the Built Secondly, a deepened Environment. The latter change was internationalization with a growing combined with merging with the share of co-workers from abroad and Department of Philosophy to form the much more of our research focusing on Department of Philosophy and History, international and transnational issues. and from then on, we are a Division English has become the common within this Department. working language, but many more These two organizational changes languages are used in our corridors. were accompanied by physical moves. Thirdly, environmental issues have In addition, we have moved a number become more central in our research of times due to repairs and new and teaching. This was reflected in construction. In fact, we have moved a new name in 2011, the Division no less than seven times in these of History of Science, Technology thirty years to end up in today´s very and Environment. Moreover, it nice and welcoming space. At present, was facilitated by a very generous our offices are sadly empty because donation from Carl Bennet the same of the pandemic, while our activities year that enabled us to establish the have become digital: we even had Environmental Humanities Laboratory, three successful digital dissertation headed since 2013 by Marco Armiero, defenses in 2020! However, we are with a PhD in Economic History from very much looking forward to resume the University of Naples and a broad the face-to-face interaction that is so experience from universities in Spain, vital for a thriving scholarly and social Portugal and the United States. This environment. Lab has been a vigorous part of our Division since its start. Finally, a few words about our organizational and physical place at KTH. Being a relatively small humanistic entity at a technical
96 97 Visiting scholars 2019 – 2020
damir arsenijevic was a guest at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in 2019. He contributed to the research environment and helped with both the Archipelago Backlists Lecture and the Crosscuts Film Festival. Damir is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a literary theorist and psychoanalyst in training. In early 2019, he set up the working group “Zemlja, voda, zrak” (“Earth, Water, Air”) through which young people can work together to articulate and enact demands for environmental justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina. October to December 2019.
louis fagon was a guest on the Nuclearwater projects in the spring 2020. He is a doctoral student at the EHESS-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris. He examines the history of nuclear power development on the Rhône river. Originally, he was scheduled to visit us for the whole of March in 2020, but due to Corona he had to return to Paris after two weeks in mid- March. He presented his research in the Nuclearwater seminar series on 13 May over Zoom. March 2020.
eva la cour visited the Division and the REXSAC project in 2019. She is a PhD student at the Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts. Her PhD project is an artistic research project on Arctic landscapes with Svalbard as a case study. January-February 2019.
hélène le deunff was a guest at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in 2019. She is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Humanities at the University of Sydney where she is supervised by Thom van Dooren. Her research explores participatory water governance from a multi-species perspective. June 2019 to January 2020.
98 99 beatriz martinez ruiz visited the Division from January to yunwei song made her second visit at the Division to work March 2020. She was originally scheduled to stay until May, with Per Högselius among others from June 2018 to June 2019. but left earlier due to the pandemic. Beatriz is a historian of Yunwei is an associate professor at the School of History science from Spain working in Paris on her doctoral thesis at Renmin University of China. Her doctoral dissertation in the project “Salt, Vessels and Maps: The Discovery of and first book (The Period of Dual Federalism in the United the Mediterranean Salt Giant”, which also Peder Roberts is States) dealt with the relationship between federal and state involved in. Her research project aims to study a particular governments before the American Civil War. Her current geological feature of the Mediterranean’s seafloor where she academic interests are on the history of natural resources is exploring how marine geosciences in France, Italy and policy. June 2018 to June 2019. the USA were related to, and depended on, the oil industry’s activities, national political agendas, and international andrei stsiapanau visited the Division and the Nuclear scientific collaboration. January to March 2020. Waters project during the spring 2020. He was the only guest during the spring semester that stayed his full time during the laura pietilä was an intern at the KTH Environmental pandemic. Andrei is a Belarussian researcher lecturing on Humanities Laboratory where she contributed to the Annals nuclear technopolitics in Lithuania. January to June 2020. of Crosscuts. She holds a MA in Global environmental history from Uppsala University. She has an interest in narratives, qi wang was a visitor of the Division in 2019 and 2020, storytelling, transdisciplinary practices, visuality as a form working for the platform of Making Universities Matter of knowledge creation, and landscape studies, which she also (MUM). She is a data analyst at the KTH library and a touched upon in her master’s thesis. October 2020 to January researcher. She finished her PhD at the Department of 2021. Industrial Economics and Management in KTH. Her dissertation was to explore and develop bibliometric elisa privitera visited the KTH Environmental Humanities methodologies in order to address the challenges caused by Laboratory in 2019, where she worked with Marco Armiero the dynamics of science. She has a broad interest in research on the Toxic Bio project. She is a PhD student at the University evaluation, career life, gender issues, and innovation studies. of Catania, Italy and a C.M.Lerici Foundation fellow. Elisa is 2019 and 2020. an engineer and architect and her research interests are “small data” and community’s role in the environmental planning of esther zamboni Rossi was a guest at the KTH Environmental contaminated territories. February to July 2019. Humanities Laboratory from September 2018 to March 2019. She is a PhD student at the Universidade Federal de simona quagliano was a guest at the KTH Environmental Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil, working on the Humanities Laboratory in 2020. She is an architect and environmental history of waste management in the city of currently she is a PhD student in urban planning at the Porto Alegre since 1970. She received a prestigious scholarship University of Naples Federico II and a Lerici Fellow. Her from the Brazilian agency Capes in order to spend a semester doctoral research investigates the role of governance for with us at the Lab. September 2018 to March 2019. cities in transition mainly in the context of climate change. From 2012 she is an active member of Legambiente, an Italian leonoor zuiderveen borgesius was a visiting fellow at the environmental organization. January to March 2020. KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in March 2020. She is an environmental historian and a PhD-candidate at the samantha saville visited the Division in 2019. She is a human University of Oslo, where she is part of the interdisciplinary geographer, most interested in nature-culture or human, non- project ‘LIFETIMES: A Natural History of the Present’. Her human relations, based at Aberystwyth University, Wales, project is about the colonial histories of Dutch hydraulic UK, where she did her undergraduate (2005) and PhD (2017) engineering, and space-making practices of engineers in degrees. Following her PhD, ‘Saving Svalbard? Contested imperial and domestic settings between the 1860s and 1930s. value, conservation practices and everyday life in the high Leonoor was scheduled to stay until June, but had to leave Arctic’ Sam spent two years as research associate on the ERC earlier due to the pandemic. March 2020. project “Global-rural examining globalization processes in rural Wales through assemblage thinking”. September 2019.
100 101 – Examiner of application by Dick Magnusson History of Antarctic Heritage Work Group, for Docent in technology and social change, since 2020. Commissions of Trust, Linköping University, 9 October 2019. – Member of the Faculty Assembly – Dissertation committee member for (Skolkollegium), School for Architecture and Ekaterina Kalemeneva’s PhD defence, Higher Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Prizes and Awards School of Economics, Moscow, 2019. Technology, since 2020. – Reviewer for fellowship applications to the – Coordinator and founder for the informal Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, network of Baltic Environmental Humanities 2020. and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS), since marco armiero siegfried evens 2018. – President, European Society for – Chairperson of the ABE PhD Student Council sabine höhler – Member of the 2020 Swedish-Argentinian Environmental History 2019 – 2021. since February 2020 and member of the ABE – Elected member of SNTV Svenska expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula for School Executive Group. Nationalkommittén för Teknik- och survey and maintenance of their joint dmitry v. arzyutov Vetenskapshistoria (Swedish National Historic Sites and Monuments of the – Associate editor of Sibirica: Journal of erik isberg Committee for the History of Technology Antarctic Treaty on behalf of Swedish Polar Siberian Studies (Taylor and Francis). – Member of the ABE PhD Student Council and Science) (2017 – 2020, 2020 – 2023). Secretariat, Swedish Heritage Board and – Editorial advisory board, book series Arctic since June 2020 and PhD student – Society for the History of Technology Swedish Science Council in cooperation Worlds: Communities, Political Ecology and representative in the ABE School Assembly. (SHOT), Kranzberg Dissertation Prize with the Argentine Antarctic Institute Ways of Knowing (Routledge). Committee (2019 – 2021; chair 2020). and Argentine National Directorate for jasmin höglund hellgren – International Journal of Environmental Antarctica. dag avango – Education Manager / Board Member of the Humanities, Duke University Press, member – Board member of the Estonian Centre – Expert member of ICOMOS (International PhD Chapter, March 2020 to June 2021. of Management Committee (2018 – 2020). for Environmental History (University of Council on Monuments and Sites) and of – Member of the KTH Board of Education, KTH – Editorial Board member, Technikgeschichte, Tallinn), since 2011. its International Polar Heritage Committee Third Cycle Education Committee, and PhD Nomos (2020 – 2026). – Regional Representative for the Baltic States (IPHC). student representative in the departmental – Advisory Board member, research and Board member for the European Society – Delegate to the National committee for Samverkan group. project “Mapping the Oceans” / BMBF- for Environmental History, 2017 – 2021. History of science and technology (Royal Verbundvorhaben “Karten – Meere. Für eine – Summer school committee member, Academy of Sciences), per högselius Geschichte der Globalisierung vom Wasser European Society for Environmental History, – Member of the Insynsrådet advisory – Member of the Faculty Assembly aus”, Gotha Research Centre, University of 2019 – 2021. committee for the Swedish Polar Research (Skolkollegium), School for Architecture and Erfurt (2018 – 2021). – Nomination committee member and Secretariat, since 2020, and its advisory Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of – Advisory Board member, book Program committee member for the group for Abisko scientific research station. Technology, since 2020. series “Geschichte der Technischen European Society for Environmental History, – Member of Jernkontorets Bergshistoriska – Member of the evaluation committee for Kultur” / “History of Technological Culture”, 2017 – 2019. utskott. research applications to the Swedish Energy Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh (2017 – 2020). – Member of the Board of Trustees of TICCIH Agency’s “Humans, energy systems and – Advisory Board member, research project marta musso (The International Committee for the society” programme, since 2018. “Corridor Talk: Conservation Humanities – Holder of the Energy History (StandUp) Conservation of Industrial Heritage) and – Member of the advisory board for the NTM and the Future of Europe’s National Parks”, Postdoctoral Fellowship 2020. served on the board of its Swedish section, Journal of the History of Science, Technology German Research Council DFG and UK’s – President of Eogan, the network of energy Svenska Industriminnesföreningen. and Medicine. Arts and Humanities Research Council archives (since 2017). – He also served as expedition leader for – Pre-examiner of Mattias Näsman’s PhD AHRC, University of Leeds / Rachel Carson – Editor of the Resources section of the several field trips to Greenland and Svalbard. thesis, Department of Economic History, Center for Environment and Society Munich Journal of Energy History / Revue Histoire Umeå University, 2020. (2020 – 2023). Energie (JEH / RHE) (since 2018). roberta biasillo – Examiner of application by Magdalena – Member of the Digital History Center, – Member of the ESEH Next Generation Kuchler for promotion from assistant kati lindström University of Aarhus. Action Team (NEXTGATe) 2017 – 2019, and professor to associate professor in global – Expert member of the ICOMOS International – Honorary Fellow at King’s College London, its coordinator during 2019. energy systems, Uppsala University, 2020. Polar Heritage Committee, working on the Department of Digital Humanities.
102 103 – Visiting Fellow, Grantham Research – Reviewer, female postdoctoral fellowship (Oslo), Long Term Professorial Fellow, since (2018 – 2020; chair 2019). Institute, London School of Economics and program Reinforcing Women in Research 2014. – Redaktionsråd Bildningspodden, since 2020. Political Science. (REWIRE), University of Vienna (2019). – Cultural Geographies (Sage), editorial – Redaktionsråd Curie, since 2020. – Reviewer for journals: Cultural advisory board, since 2000. lina rahm Anthropology, International Journal of – Environmental Humanities, Routledge book cecilia åsberg – Holder of the Physicist Ragnar Holm’s Heritage Studies, Science as Culture, series (London, NYC), editorial advisory – Expert advisor, Statens Konstråd / Swedish Postdoctoral Fellowship 2020. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. board, since 2013. Art Agency, 2019 – 2021. – Anton Nyström fellowship 100,000 SEK – The Anthropocene Review (Sage), editorial – Expert advisor, Färgfabriken Art and (grant for finishing the book Makten och gloria samosir advisory board, since 2014. Exhibition Space, Stockholm, 2019 – 2023. Datorerna: den svenska arbetarrörelsens – Chairperson of the THS PhD Chapter, July – International Journal of Environmental – International Expert Evaluator, Danish data- och folkbildningspolitik). 2020 to June 2021 (member March to June Humanities (Duke Univ. Press), editorial National Research Foundation, 2020. 2020). advisory board, since 2015. – Member of the Gender and Values peder roberts – Member of the KTH University Board and – AMBIO: Journal of the Environment, Collegium: The Gender Network, KTH, since – Steering Committee member, Standing of the KTH Strategic Council. Education editorial advisory board, since 2016. 2018. Committee for Humanities and Social Manager / Board. – Environment and Planning E: Nature and – Member of the KTD Programme Council for Sciences (SC-HASS), Scientific Committee for – Member of the KTH Board of Education. Space (Sage), editorial advisory board, since Art, Technology, Design, KTH, since 2019. Antarctic Research (SCAR), since 2020. – PAD / Board Member of the ABE PhD Student 2017. – Fellow of the Rachel Center for Environment – Prize committee, Northern Canadian Council (June 2019 – June 2020). and Society at the Ludwig Maximilians History, for Canadian Historical Association – PhD student representative in the ABE lize-marié van der watt Universität, Munich, since 2019. (2020 – 2022). School Assembly. – Elected member of the Swedish National – Associated founding member – Board member of the Norwegian Committee for Global Environmental Posthumanism Research Insitute, Brock Committee for History of Science (since sverker sörlin Change, (with the Royal Swedish Academy University, Canada, since 2018. 2020). – The Gerard Bonnier Literary Fellowship, of Sciences, KVA), 2016 – 2021. – Associate Editor, Environmental Humanities, – Chair, Academic Planning Committee, member of award committee, since 2004. – Member of the executive committee of 2018 – 2019. SC-HASS biannual conference on Antarctic – Centre for Environmental Humanities, the Standing Committee for Humanities – Co-editor, book series More-than-human Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. ANU Canberra, Australia, member of and Social Sciences in SCAR – the Scientific humanities (Routledge). – Organizing Committee member, 2022 SCAR international advisory board, since 2010. Committee for Antarctic Research, since – Editorial Board, Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal Open Science Conference. – Steering Committee and executive Board 2018. of Environmental Humanities, since 2020. member of the global IHOPE project, IGBP / – Rapporteur to the Antarctic Treaty – Editorial Board, New Disciplinary linus salö Future Earth, since 2011. Consultative Meeting, since 2014. Perspectives in Education, Peter Lang, since – Recipient of the Erik Wellander Prize 2019 – Folkuniversitetet (People’s university, 2016. for outstanding research on language policy adult education), president of the national adam wickberg – Advisory Board, Matter: Journal of New and planning. 50 000 SEK from the Erik federation board, since 2012. – Member of the ESEH Next Generation Materialist Research, since 2018. Wellander Foundation, Stockholm. – Nordiska Museet (national museum of Action Team (NEXTGATe) 2020 – 2022. – Advisory Board, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, cultural history), board member, appointed and Technoscience. anna storm by the Swedish Government, 2015 – 2020. nina wormbs – Advisory Board, Resilience: A Journal of – Scientific Committee for the Fifth Biennial – Swedish Climate Policy Council, appointed – KTH Faculty Council, member, 2019 – 2021. Environmental Humanities, University of Conference of the Association of Critical by the Swedish Government, since 2018. – Steering Committee, Swedish Authority for Nebraska Press. Heritage Studies (ACHS), ACHS Futures, at – Austrian Research Council (FWF), member of Accessible Media, since 2016. – Advisory Board, Unlikely: Journal for the the University College London 26 – 30th international science advisory board, since – Steering Committee, National Library of Centre of Creative Arts, La Trobe University, August 2020 (2019 – 2020). 2019. Sweden, since 2019. Australia. – Founding member of the International – Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (funder of – Advisory Committee, Centre for History of – Advisory Board, Journal of Gender and Research Network “Nuclear Cultural humanities and social sciences), board Science, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Power, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. Heritage: From Knowledge to Practice”, member, 2020 – 2022. since 2017. funded by Arts and Humanities Research – Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in – Board of Ridderstad Foundation for Media Council UK, 2019 – 2020. the Social Sciences (SCAS), Uppsala, Long History, since 2011. – Examiner of application for Docent Term Fellow, 2020 – 2023. – Jury Lars Salvius foundation 2020 – 2024. in Conservation by Bosse Lagerkvist, – Nordic Institute for Studies in Research, – Society for the History of Technology Gothenburg University (2019). Higher Education and Innovation, NIFU (SHOT), Nomination Committee
104 105 Studies, USC, Los Angeles) invited speaker: Using Cinematic 2019 Location: Seminar room, Div. Ethnography to Explore Events History of Science, Technology and Knowledge Politics in Postcolonial higher seminar: Sketch for a Environment Cities history of Indigenous labour in Screening and discussing the film northern (de)industrialization docent lecture: Trespassing: “One Table Two Elephants” (von Time: Mon 2019-01-21, Migration and the Environment in Heland and Ernstson, 2018, 87 min) 13:15 – 14:15 a Historical Perspective Time: 2019-03-05, 18:00 – 20:30. Presenter: Jean-Sébastien Boutet Lectures and seminars Presenter: Henrik Ernstson (KTH, Div. History of Science, Time: Tue 2019-02-12, 13:00 (KTH, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment) Presenter: Marco Armiero Technology and Environment) Location: Seminar room, (KTH, Div. History of Science, Location: Lecture Theatre 4, Div. History of Science, Technology Technology and Environment) Diamond Building, Sheffield and Environment Location: V3 University
the posthumanities hub seminar higher seminar: Nuclear reactors, the posthumanities hub seminar series: Deterritorialising death: technology policy, and the series: Weird Ecologies – stories queer(ing) methodology and national interest: explaining from the void and the web contemporary art energy transition decisions in Time: Tue 2019-03-12, Time: Tue 2019-01-22, France and Britain, 1961 – 79. 10:15 – 12:00 10:15 – 12:00 StandUp for Energy post-doc Presenter: Line Henriksen Presenter: Marietta Radomska project presentation (University of Copenhagen) (Department of Thematic Studies Time: Mon 2019-02-18, 13:15 – Location: Seminar room, (TEMA), Linköping University) 14:45 Div. History of Science, Technology Location: Seminar room, Presenter: Tae Hoon Kim and Environment Div. History of Science, Technology (KTH, Div. History of Science, and Environment Technology and Environment) higher seminar: Powered by Location: Seminar room, Rumor: Energy Politics and This is a broad-brush list of events – workshop: Digital Humanities Div. History of Science, Technology Conspiracy in the Making of a New Stockholm and Environment Turkey seminars, conferences, workshops, online A key theme: Structure, vulnerability Time: Mon 2019-03-18, and uncertainty in Data. conference: Crafting the Long 13:15 – 14:45 talks and conversations, keynote lectures, Time: Tue 2019-01-29, 13:00 Tomorrow: New Conversations and Presenter: Sinan Erensü Location: Kungliga biblioteket, the Productive Catalysts Across Science (The Department of Sociology, exhibition talks, panels, PhD defenses, National Library. and Humanities Boundaries as the Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) etcetera – which have either been hosted/ Global Emergency Worsens Location: Seminar room, workshop: Hate Online: Analyzing Presenters: Sabine Höhler and Div. History of Science, Technology co-hosted by the Division/EHL or where Hate Platforms, Fighting Hate Jesse Peterson (KTH, Division of and Environment Crimes History of Science, Technology members of the Division/EHL have Time: Wed 2019-01-30, 13:00 and Environment) as part of an research presentation Presenters: Tara McPherson ENHANCE event. Presentation of an ongoing research made contributions. It is chronologically (Division of Cinema and Media Time: 2019-02-21 – 2019-02-24 projects from the LabPEAT, an organized. It is far from exhaustive, with Studies, USC, Los Angeles) and Location: Arizona, Biosphere 2 Action-Research Laboratory. Kenneth Bodin (CEO of Algoryx Time: Thu 2019-03-21 one exception, the regular higher seminar. Simulation, Umeå) higher seminar: Atomic fish: Presenter: Elisa Privitera Location: Seminar room, Sublime and non-sublime nuclear (Department of Civil Engineering These, and several other activities typically Div. History of Science, Technology nature imaginaries and Architecture, University of and Environment Time: Mon 2019-03-04, Catania) take place (physically) in the Seminar 13:15 – 14:45 Location: The EHL lab room room on level 5 of the Division premises workshop: Feminist in a Software Presenter: Anna Storm (KTH, Div. Lab History of Science, Technology and seminar: PI-SYMPOSIUM: on the KTH campus. In the list below this Time: Wed 2019-01-30, 13:00 Environment) Location: Seminar On the Future Presenter: Tara McPherson room, Div. History of Science, Time: Tue 2019-03-26 location is just called “Seminar room”. (Division of Cinema and Media Technology and Environment Presenters: Martin Rees
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(York University, Canada) Div. History of Science, Technology 15:00 – 17:00 the posthumanities hub seminar Supervisor: Nina Wormbs and Environment Presenter: Ben Martin series: Coloniality, Media and the (KTH, Div. History of Science, (SPRU, Sussex University, UK) Anthropocene in Early Americas Technology and Environment) higher seminar: Do HeLa Cells Location: Seminar room, Time: Wed 2019-06-05, Location: F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26, Have a Sex? Conceptualizing “Sex” Div. History of Science, Technology 10:15 – 12:00 KTH Campus in Experimental Settings and Environment Presenter: Adam Wickberg Time: Mon 2019-04-29, (KTH, Div. History of Science, the posthumanities hub seminar 13:15 – 14:45 the posthumanities hub Technology and Environment) series: Histories and Perceptions Presenter: Sarah Richardsson presents: Open Humanities Lab Location: Seminar room, of Climate in Early American (Harvard University, USA) Symposium: New Humanities and Div. History of Science, Technology Literature and Culture Location: Seminar room, Anthropocene and Environment Time: Mon 2019-04-08 Div. History of Science, Technology Time: Tue 2019-05-14 – Presenter: Lauren LaFauci and Environment Wed 2019-05-15 invited speaker: Environmental (Department of Thematic Studies Presenters: 25 speakers from KTH Film in a New Way (TEMA), Linköping University) ehl events: Possibilities and and international guests Screening and discussing the film Location: Seminar room, challenges for developing a more- Location: Open Lab, KTH Royal “One Table Two Elephants” (von Div. History of Science, Technology than-human spatial planning Institute of Technology Heland and Ernstson, 2018, 87 min) and Environment Time: Thu 2019-05-02, 14:00 Time: 2019-06-07, 19:00 – 21:00 Presenter: Jonathan Metzger higher seminar: Race and Climate Presenters: Jacob von Heland seminarium: The European Energy (Urban and Regional studies, KTH) Change: How Urban Inequality and Henrik Ernstson (KTH, Div. System in an Age of Globalization Location: Seminar room, Made America Less Sustainable History of Science, Technology and Time: Wed 2019-04-10, Div. History of Science, Technology Time: Thu 2019-05-23, Environment) 15:00 – 16:15 and Environment 13:15 – 14:45 Location: Fyrisbiografen Cinema, Presenter: Per Högselius Presenter: Robert R. Gioielli Uppsala (KTH, Div. History of Science, higher seminar: Nuclear waters (University of Cincinnati, USA) Technology and Environment) “The Global Governance of Nuclear Location: Seminar room, higher seminar: Bridges, toll Location: KTH Campus, Room V3, Risk and Cooling Systems” by Div. History of Science, Technology stations and harbor cranes – Teknikringen 72, 5th floor Siegfried Evens and Environment “Critical Infrastructures” in pre- “Nuclear Decision-making in modern societies? higher seminar: Fascist colonial the Soviet Union” by Achim workshop: The Laws of Nature Time: Mon 2019-06-10, ecologies: Italian agricultural Klüppelberg SPHERE researchers and invited 13:15 – 14:45 schemes in Libya (1922 – 1943) Time: Mon 2019-05-06, scholars Presenter: Stephanie Eifert Time: Mon 2019-04-15, 13:15 – 15:15 Time: Mon 2019-06-03 – (TU Darmstadt, Germany) 13:15 – 14:45 Presenters: Siegfried Evens and Thu 2019-06-06 Location: Seminar room, Crosscut poster, Stockholm City. Photo: Sofia Jonsson. Presenter: Roberta Biasillo Achim Klüppelberg Location: Lauterpacht Centre for Div. History of Science, Technology (KTH, Div. History of Science, (KTH, Div. History of Science, International Law, Cambridge and Environment Technology and Environment) Technology and Environment) University (Astronomer Royal, Cambridge Crosscut’s Introduction Location: Seminar room, Location: Seminar room, conference presentation: University), Christer Fuglesang Time: Thu 2019-04-04, 14:30 Div. History of Science, Technology Div. History of Science, Technology the posthumanities hub seminar Imperial Remains and Imperial (astronaut, director of KTH Space Presenters: Jacob von Heland and and Environment and Environment series: Decolonialising Mourning Invitations: Theorizing Racial Center), David Christian (La Trobe Sofia Jonsson (KTH, Div. History Through Speculative Wonder and Disposability within the University, Melbourne) and of Science, Technology and ehl event: Which Environmental higher seminar Narrative Unthinkable Questions? On the Infrastructures of African Cities. Nina Wormbs (KTH, Div. History Environment) Justice for Climate Refugees? ecologies in post-truthful times Selk’nam ‘Hain’ and Its Layers of (Kimari and Ernstson) of Science, Technology and Location: Seminar room, Time: Thu 2019-04-18, 14:00 Time: Mon 2019-05-13, Lostness Time: 2019-06-11-14 Environment) Div. History of Science, Technology Presenter: Francesca Rosignoli 13:15 – 14:45 Time: Tue 2019-06-04, Presenter: Henrik Ernstson Location: Scalateatern, Stockholm and Environment (Department of Political Science, Presenter: Yiannis Gabriel 10:15 – 12:00 (KTH, Div. History of Science, Stockholm University) (University of Bath, England, Presenters: Camila Marambio Technology and Environment) the posthumanities hub PhD dissertation defense: Location: Seminar room, and visiting Professor at Lund (Monash University, Melbourne, Location: European Conference seminar series: Signing Nature, Environing Technology: Swedish Div. History of Science, Technology University) Australia) and Nina Lykke of African Studies (ECAS) 2019, Memorializing Plantations: Public Satellite Remote Sensing in and Environment Location: Seminar room, (Department of Thematic Studies University of Edinburg. Memory on the Bartram Trail the Making of Environment, Div. History of Science, Technology (TEMA), Linköping University) Time: Fri 2019-03-29, 10:15 – 12:00 1969 – 2001 ehl events: Photos from the end of and Environment Location: Seminar room, higher seminar: Presentation of Presenter: Tom Hallock (Uni. Of Time: Fri 2019-04-05, the world Div. History of Science, Technology dissertation plans by Erik Isberg South Florida, St. Petersburg USA) 13:00 – 15:00 Time: Thu 2019-04-25, 14:00 seminarium: 50 years of and Environment and Gloria Samosir Location: Seminar room, Respondent: Johan Gärdebo Presenter: Kati Lindström Innovation Policy Studies – What “Governing planetary timescales: Div. History of Science, Technology (KTH, Div. History of Science, (KTH, Div. History of Science, have we learned? And what are the technologies of temporalization and Environment Technology and Environment) Technology and Environment). emerging challenges? in the making of Earth System Opponent: Edward Jones-Imhotep Location: Seminar room, Time: Mon 2019-05-13, Sciences” by Erik Isberg
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“Accounts of Nature: An Sector” by Jasmin Höglund Hellgren (KTH, Div. History of Science, Till bildningens försvar – den svåra Environmental History of Time: Thu 2019-09-05, Technology and Environment) konsten att veta tillsammans Development Banks” by Gloria 13:15 – 15:15 Location: Svolvaer, Lofoten, (in Swedish) Samosir Presenters: Alicia Gutting and Norway Time: Fri 2019-09-27, 16:30 Time: Thu 2019-06-13, Jasmin Höglund Hellgren Presenters: Sverker Sörlin 13:00 – 15:00 (KTH, Div. History of Science, seminar: The Research Council (KTH, Div. History of Science, Presenters: Gloria Samosir and Erik Technology and Environment) of Norway: The Creation and Technology and Environment), Isberg (KTH, Div. History of Science, Location: Seminar room, Future of a Systemic Research and Niklas Gårdfeldt Leavy Technology and Environment) Div. History of Science, Technology Innovation Funder (Utgivningschef inom akademisk Location: Seminar room, and Environment Time: Mon 2019-09-23, pedagogic, Natur and Kultur, Div. History of Science, Technology 15:30 – 17:30 Stockholm) and Environment conference presentation: Presenter: John-Arne Røttingen Location: Bokmässan i Göterborg, “Kilamba Life”: Domestic Visions (CEO, Research Council of Norway) Lärarscenen higher seminar: Resource of China in Angola (Kimari and Location: Valen room at Reindeer: Negotiating the reindeer Ernstson) Vetenskapsrådet, Västra seminar: Presentation of as food and bearer of culture in Time: 2019-09-12 Järnvägsgatan 3, 111 64 Stockholm dissertation plans by Araùjo modern Swedish Sápmi Presenters: Wangui Kimari Domingos, Thomas Schrøder and Time: Mon 2019-06-24, (African Centre for Cities (ACC), ehl events: Coal extractive Domingos Langa 10:00 – 12:00 Science journalist Torgny Nordin and Sabine Höhler at the Gothenburg Book Fair, 2019. University of Cape Town) and assemblages and the politics of “Health development projects in Presenter: Corinna Röver Henrik Ernstson (KTH, Div. History sovereignty in India Mozambique: The co-production of (KTH, Div. History of Science, of Science, Technology and Time: Tue 2019-09-24, knowledge” by Araùjo Domingos Technology and Environment) Environment) 13:30 – 15:30 ”Environmental Governance of Location: Seminar room, Time: 2019-08-20 – 2019-08-23 Location: RGS-IBG 2019 Annual Location: Annual Conference on Presenter: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Transnational Energy Systems – Div. History of Science, Technology Presenter: Janna Holmstedt International Conference in London China-Africa Relations (ACCAR) (Resource, Environment and From Danish Wind in 1973 to Global and Environment (KTH, Division of History of Science, 2019, University of Nairobi Development Program, The Wind in the Present” by Thomas Technology and Environment) conference presentation: Australian National University, Schrøder SPHERE researchers attend WCEH Location: Aalborg University, Imperial Remains and Imperial higher seminar: The Discursive Canberra) “Universities and innovation in The 3rd World Congress on Denmark Invitations: Theorizing Racial Formation of The Indies: Media Location: Seminar room, Africa: Contemporary histories of Environmental History SHPERE researchers attend ESEH Disposability within the and Environment in the Spanish Div. History of Science, Technology innovation policy and practice in a Time: Mon 2019-07-22 – The 10th Biennial European Infrastructures of African Cities Colonial Empire 1570 – 1620 and Environment selection of African universities” by Fri 2019-07-26 Society for Environmental History (Kimari and Ernstson) Time: Mon 2019-09-16, Domingos Langa Location: Florianopolis, Brazil Conference Time: 2019-08-30 13:15 – 14:45 Wiki-slam on the crucials of Time: Monday 2019-09-30, Time: Wed 2019-08-21 – Presenter: Henrik Ernstson Presenter: Adam Wickberg Environmental Humanities with 13:00 – 16:00 public event: /Mis/ Sun 2019-08-25 (KTH, Div. History of Science, (KTH, Div. History of Science, the Posthumanities Hub Presenter: Araùjo Domingos, communication/s/ Location: Tallinn University, Estonia Technology and Environment) Technology and Environment) Time: 2019-09-25, 10:00 – 14:00 Thomas Schrøder and Domingos A post-disciplinary session Location: RGS-IBG 2019 Annual Location: Seminar room, Location: Seminar room, Langa (KTH, Div. History of Science, with artists and researchers invited panelist: Citylife: Agency, International Conference in Div. History of Science, Technology Div. History of Science, Technology Technology and Environment) curated by Janna Holmstedt, The Aesthetics, Politics. London and Environment and Environment Location: Seminar room, Posthumanities Hub (KTH) on The ‘genius’ of the local: Citylife Div. History of Science, Technology invitation by The Public Art Agency through thick and thin. higher seminar: Extending an seminar: The Transformative workshop: CFP: Dying at the and Environment Sweden in collaboration with Time: 2019-08-28 ethics of care to “rusty junk”? Imagination Margins: A critical exploration of Fragmentarium Club. Presenter: Henrik Ernstson Contestations of value and Time: Tue 2019-09-17, 17:00 Material-Discursive Perspectives to The Gordon Goodman Memorial Time: Fri 2019-08-16 (KTH, Div. History of Science, Svalbard’s Cultural Heritage Presenters: Karen O’Brien Death and Dying Lecture with Sverker Sörlin Presenters: Cecilia Åsberg, Janna Technology and Environment) Time: Mon 2019-09-02, (Department of Sociology and Time: Thu 2019-09-26 – The ‘environment’ – Unearthing the Holmstedt (KTH, Div. History Location: RGS-IBG 2019 Annual 13:15 – 14:45 Human Geography, University of Fri 2019-09-27 past, present and future of one of of Science, Technology and International Conference in Presenter: Samantha Saville Oslo), Tim Ingold (Department Presenters: Natashe Lemos the most successful policy concepts Environment), Marietta Radomska London (Aberystwyth University, Wales) of Anthropology, University of Dekker (Cultural Anthropology of the twentieth century (Department of Thematic Studies Location: Seminar room, Aberdeen), and Sverker Sörlin and Development Sociology, Time: Thu 2019-10-03, 14:30 (TEMA), Linköping University), conference presentation: Div. History of Science, Technology (KTH, Div. History of Science, Universiteit Leiden) and Jesse Presenter: Sverker Sörlin Mirko Nikolić and Jacek Smolicki Histories of Heterogenous and Environment Technology and Environment) Peterson (KTH, Div. History (KTH, Div. History of Science, (Department of Culture and Infrastructures: Negotiating Location: Moderna Museet, of Science, Technology and Technology and Environment) Society (IKOS), Linköping Colonial, Postcolonial and Oral higher seminar: Presentation of Stockholm Environment) Location: Royal Swedish Academy University) Archives in Kampala, Uganda dissertation plans by Alicia Gutting Location: Environmental of Agriculture and Forestry Location: Reaktorhallen, KTH (Ernstson and Nilsson) and Jasmin Höglund Hellgren public event: The Kelp Congress, Humanities Laboratory, KTH Time: 2019-08-27 “The Nuclear Rhine” by Alicia Lofoten International Art Festival conference: RE:SOUND, the 8th Presenter: Henrik Ernstson Gutting (LIAF) International Conference for (KTH, Div. History of Science, “Governing the Environment: Time: 2019-09-17 – 2019-09-22 Histories of Media Arts 2019 Technology and Environment) Alternative Agencies in the Mining Presenter: Cecilia Åsberg
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ehl events: 8th Stockholm the posthumanities hub seminar Div. History of Science, Technology 15:00 – 17:00 of History of Science, Technology public lecture: Transitioning to Archipelago Lecture: What series: Iqaluit’s Dumpcano and the and Environment Presenter: Jakob Edler (Director and Environment), Ashley Bohrer net zero emissions: What can we should socialism mean in the 21st Indeterminate Material Politics of of the Fraunhofer Institute for (intersectional feminist from learn from Sweden? century? An ecofeminist view Waste ehl events: The OCC! team is Systems and Innovation Research the University of Notre Dame) What has made Sweden take Time: Mon 2019-10-07, Time: Fri 2019-10-18, 10:15 – 12:00 taking part in the Conference (ISI)) and Andrés Fabián Henao Castro leadership role in climate policy? 17:15 – 18:30 Presenter: Myra Hird “UNDERSTANDING, MEASURING Location: Seminar room, (political philosopher from How does a country like this plan to Presenter: Nancy Fraser (The New (Queen’s University, Canada) AND GOVERNING LOSS AND Div. History of Science, Technology University of Massachusetts reach net zero emissions by 2045? School for Social Research, New Location: Seminar room, DAMAGE FOR SOCIAL AND and Environment Boston). York) Div. History of Science, Technology ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS” Time: Wed 2019-12-04, Location: ABF Huset, Lecture Hall and Environment With a paper on Occupy Climate higher seminar: Making Futures Location: Seminar room, 16:00 – 17:00 Z-salen, Stockholm Change: How do social movements in End Times: Nature conservation Div. History of Science, Technology Presenter: Sverker Sörlin the posthumanities hub seminar address loss and damage from in the Anthropocene and Environment (KTH, Division of History of Science, higher seminar: New territories series: To Care is To Resist: Situated bottom up? Time: Mon 2019-11-11, Technology and Environment) of conflict and cooperation over Perspectives on Architecture Time: Wed 2019-10-30, 08:00 – 13:15 – 14:45 keynote lecture: Solander, Location: Finkel Theatre, John water in an urbanising world Time: Wed 2019-10-23, Fri 2019-11-01, 17:00 Presenters: Esther Breithoff Sparrman, and the Anthropocene: Curtin School of Medical Research, Time: Mon 2019-10-14, 13:15 – 15:00 Location: Lund University Centre (Birkbeck, University of London) Saving “the Environment” on a Canberra, Australia. Co-hosted 13:15 – 14:45 Presenters: Isabelle Doucet for Sustainability Studies and Rodney Harrison (University Planet made Unstable by Humans. with Swedish Embassy to Australia. Presenter: Timos Karpouzoglou (Chalmers University of College London) Time: Mon 2019-11-25, (KTH, Div. History of Science, Technology, Sweden) and Hélène ehl events: Nordic Environments: Location: Seminar room, 18:30 – 19:30 seminar: Bortom flygskam Technology and Environment) Frichot (School of Architecture, Opening Conference of the Div. History of Science, Technology Presenter: Sverker Sörlin (in Swedish) Location: Seminar room, KTH) Oslo School of Environmental and Environment (KTH, Division of History of Science, Time: Thu 2019-12-05, Div. History of Science, Technology Location: Seminar room, Humanities. Technology and Environment) 08:00 – 09:30 and Environment Div. History of Science, Technology Marco Armiero is part of the ehl and the posthumanities Location: The Museum of New Presenters: Nina Wormbs and Environment panel discussion Environmental hub event: A Roundtable Session Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, (KTH, Div. History of Science, ehl events: Wasteocene. Guerrilla Humanities of the Global North on Teaching Environmental Wellington, New Zealand Technology and Environment), Narrative and the embodied higher seminar: Coal Lives. Italian Time: Fri 2019-11-01, Humanities Hanna Nikkanen (Stockholm stratigraphy’s of toxic capitalism Miners and the Metabolism of Coal 10:00 – 20:30 Time: Thu 2019-11-14, seminar: Formas frukost: Kan man Resilience Center) and Maria Time: Thu 2019-10-17, in Wallonia, Belgium Presenters: Marco Armiero 13:15 – 14:45 beställa forskning? (in Swedish) Wolrath Söderberg (Department 16:00 – 18:00 Time: Mon 2019-10-28, (KTH, Div. History of Science, Location: Seminar room, Kan politiken och samhället hitta of Teaching and Learning In Higher Presenter: Marco Armiero 13:15 – 14:45 Technology and Environment), Div. History of Science, Technology och påskynda lösningar på våra Education, Södertörn University, (KTH, Div. History of Science, Presenter: Daniele Valisena Dolly Jørgensen (Department of and Environment stora samhällsutmaningar genom Stockholm) Technology and Environment) (KTH, Div. History of Science, Cultural Studies and Languages, att beställa forskning? Location: Fores, Kungsbroplan 2, Location: William-Olssonsalen, Technology and Environment) University of Stavanger) Britt ehl events: The Proletarian Lung: Time: Fri 2019-11-29 Stockholm Stockholm University Location: Seminar room, Kramvig (Department of Tourism fighting waste colonialism in Presenters: Contributions from the and Northern Studies, The Arctic Bosnia and Herzegovina-Lab MUM platform at KTH, Division of seminar: Poetics of Future Work University of Norway, Tromsö) meeting History of Science, Technology and Time: Fri 2019-12-06, 16:00 – 17:00 and Julia Leyda (Department of Time: Mon 2019-11-18, Environment and Lund University Panel: Janna Holmstedt Art and Media Studies, Norwegian 14:00 – 15:00 Location: Formas (KTH, Div. History of Science, University of Science and Presenter: Damir Arsenijevic Technology and Environment), Technology (NTNU), Trondheim) (Department of English Language public event: Climate Change, Sandor Albrecht, (RISE Research Location: SALT, Oslo and Literature, University of Tuzla) Policy and the Humanities and Institutes of Sweden), Per Location: The EHL Room, Social Scienses Johansson (Co-founder of the think ehl events: The OCC! team is Teknikringen 74D, Floor 5 Time: Tue 2019-12-03, tank Infontology), Tove Chevalley taking part in the Historical 09:45 – 13:00 (Digital Innovation Director, Materialism Conference “Claps of ehl events: Crosscut’s Festival for Presenters: Sverker Sörlin Electrolux), moderator: Nina Bozic Thunder: Disaster Communism, Film and Text (KTH, Division of History of Science, (RISE, Västerås) Extinction Capitalism and How to Time: Fri 2019-11-22 – Technology and Environment), Location: Electrolux, Sankt Survive Tomorrow” Sun 2019-11-24 Libby Robin (Fenner School Göransgatan 143, Stockholm Time: Thu 2019-11-07 – Location: Bio Rio of Environment and Society, Sun 2019-11-10 Australian National University, higher seminar: Defiant Seas: Location: SOAS, Russell Square, ehl events: The 4th Annual Canberra), Peter Christoff (School Storying Waste, Water, and Central London Democratic Practices PhD Seminar of Geography, University of Blooms — Nature, Capitalism, and Film as Melbourne), Lauren Rickards Time: Mon 2019-12-09, seminar: From enabling to Decolonial Dialectic? (School of Global, Urban and 13:15 – 14:45 delivering: Understanding the Time: Mon 2019-11-25 – Social Studies, RMIT University, Presenter: Jesse Peterson Lahemaa Military Heritage Days were held by the Cold War Coasts project at the implications of mission-oriented Wed 2019-11-27 Melbourne), Katie Holmes (Director (KTH, Division of History of Science, Cold War military sites in Lahemaa National Park, Estonia. On picture are the innovation policy Presenters: Henrik Ernstson, of the CSI) Technology and Environment) demagnetisation stand for ships at Hara port. Photo: Kati Lindström. Time: Thursday 2019-11-07, Jacob von Heland (KTH, Division Location: University of Melbourne Location: Seminar room,
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Div. History of Science, Technology seminar: The Arctic for sale? Technology and Environment), De Rosa, Roberta Biasillo, and at the European Bank for workshop: What is the role and Environment Time: Wed 2020-02-05, Anne van Leeuwen (Board more (KTH, Div. History of Science, Reconstruction and Development of science in environmental 17:30 – 18:30 member of Embassy of the North Technology and Environment) (EBRD)), Michael N. Goddard, diplomacy? higher seminar: Framing a human Presenter: Sverker Sörlin Sea, Amsterdam) and Klaas Location: Seminar room, (University of Westminster, UK), Time: Thu 2020-06-11 – disaster: Swedish defense research (KTH, Div. History of Science, Kuitenbrouwer (Digital Culture, Div. History of Science, Technology Paul Josephson (Colby College, Sat 2020-06-13 and the governance of industrial Technology and Environment) Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam) and Environment USA), Alena Ledeneva (UCL, UK), Presenters: Nina Wormbs, accidents Location: Lokomotivet, Eskilstuna Location: Het Nieuwe Instituut, Tatiana Kasperski, (Pompeu Fabra Eric Paglia, Miyase Christensen Time: Mon 2019-12-16, Rotterdam Invited Speaker: Occupy Climate University, Spain), Johan Renck, (KTH, Div. History of Science, 13:15 – 14:45 higher seminar: Indigenous Change Workshop. (Film director), Vitalij Strigunkov Technology and Environment), Presenter: Fredrik Bertilsson avant la lettre. The origins and higher seminar: Keeping the Saying it out aloud! Occupying is (Visual artist, Lithuania), Simon Simone Turchetti, Sam Robinson (KTH, Division of History of Science, livelihoods of the Sámi in European wheels turning: oil storage as a something we do together; voicing Watson (the University of (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Environment) scholarly thought 1930 – 1960 key defence strategy in Cold War a genealogy of racial capitalism. Manchester) Egle Rindzeviciute Technology, and Medicine at the Location: Seminar room, Time: Mon 2020-02-10, Sweden Time: 2020-03-05 (Kingston University, London) University of Manchester) Div. History of Science, Technology 13:15 – 14:45 Time: Mon 2020-02-24, Presenter: Henrik Ernstson Location: Zoom Location: Zoom Webinar and Environment Presenter: Otso Kortekangas 13:15 – 14:45 (KTH, Div. History of Science, (KTH, Div. History of Science, Presenters: Camilla Eriksson Technology and Environment) phd dissertation defense: Coal ehl events: Streaming STREAMS Technology and Environment) and Jenny Ingemarsdotter, Location: Seminar room, Lives: Italians and the Metabolism STREAMS is an international Location: Seminar room, (Department of Defence Analysis, Div. History of Science, Technology of Coal in Wallonia, Belgium, conference for the Environmental Div. History of Science, Technology Swedish Defence Research Agency) and Environment 1945 – 1980 Humanities (EH) that gathers and Environment Location: Seminar room, Time: Tue 2020-06-02, researchers from a wide range of Div. History of Science, Technology higher seminar: Research 13:00 – 16:00 academic disciplines as well as 2020 seminar: Fossilfri välfärd och and Environment Evaluation in Context. Push-back Respondent: Daniele Valisena artists, activists and practitioners. negativa utsläpp – vision, kollision from SSH scholarship on recent (KTH, Div. History of Science, Time: Wed 2020-08-05, 12:30 – higher seminar: Governance, eller tomma ord? ehl events: Simona Quagliano developments - experiences from Technology and Environment) Fri 2020-08-07, 16:00 organisation and perceptions of Time: Tue 2020-02-11, Cities in transition: how climate the case of the Netherlands Opponent: Don Mitchell Location: Zoom autonomy in research 15:00 – 17:00 change is modifying the perception Time: Mon 2020-03-09, (Department of Social and Time: Mon 2020-01-20, Presenters: Nina Wormbs of urban spaces within institutions 13:15 – 14:45 Economic Geography, Uppsala higher seminar: A Sea Change in 13:15 – 14:45 (KTH, Div. History of Science, and society. The case study of Presenter: Thed van Leeuwen University) the Environmental Humanities Presenter: Ulrika Bjare Technology and Environment), Naples (Centre for Science and Technology Supervisors: Marco Armiero and Time: Mon 2020-09-28, (KTH, Div. History of Science, Eva Svedling (State Secretary to Time: Thu 2020-02-27, Studies (CWTS), Leiden University) Sverker Sörlin (KTH, Div. History 13:15 – 14:45 Technology and Environment) the Minister for International 14:00 – 15:00 Location: Seminar room, of Science, Technology and Presenter: Cecilia Åsberg Location: Seminar room, Development Cooperation and Presenter: Simona Quagliano Div. History of Science, Technology Environment) (KTH, Div. History of Science, Div. History of Science, Technology Climate) and Isak Stoddard (University of Naples Federico II) and Environment Location: Zoom webinar Technology and Environment) and Environment (Department of Earth Sciences, Location: Seminar room, Location: Zoom Natural Resources and Sustainable Div. History of Science, Technology higher seminar: Purifying higher seminar: Reassembling Development, Uppsala university) and Environment Burdensome Environments: At the Environmental Archives of the Location: Aula ArkDes, home with coal in Upper Silesia, Cold War: Perspectives from the Exercisplan 4, Stockholm the posthumanities hub seminar Poland Soviet North series: Climavore – How We Eat as Time: Mon 2020-05-11, Time: Mon 2020-01-27, ehl event: For the Benefit of all Humans Change Climate 13:15 – 14:45 13:15 – 14:45 men: Oceanography and French- Time: Wed 2020-04-04, Final PhD seminar: Irma Allen Presenter: Dmitry Arzyutov American diplomacy during the 13:15 – 15:00 (KTH, Div. History of Science, (KTH, Div. History of Science, cold war Presenters: Daniel Fernández Technology and Environment) Technology and Environment) Time: Wed 2020-02-19, Pascual and Alon Schwabe Opponent: Thomas Hylland Eriksen Location: Seminar room, 14:00 – 15:00 (Co-founders of London-based (Social Anthropology, University Div. History of Science, Technology Presenter: Beatriz Martínez-Rius Cooking Sections) Of Oslo) and Environment (KTH, Div. History of Science, Location: Seminar room, Location: Seminar room, Technology and Environment) Div. History of Science, Technology Div. History of Science, Technology seminar: A Joyful Apocalypse: Location: Seminar room, and Environment and Environment Activism for the End of the Div. History of Science, Technology Anthropocene and Environment ehl events: Contesting Loss and ehl events: (Re)Placing Chernobyl Time: Thu 2020-01-30, Damage – Urban climate justice, (Re)Placing Chernobyl focuses on 13:15 – 15:00 seminar: Multispecies grassroots organizations and HBO’s miniserie “Chernobyl” (2019) Presenter: Patricia MacCormack Communication, with Janna radical adaptation in the context of the ongoing global (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) Holmstedt Time: Thu 2020-03-05 – COVID-19 pandemic. Location: Seminar room, Time: Fri 2020-02-21, 17:00 – 18:30 Fri 2020-03-06 Time: Thu 2020-05-14, 15:00 Div. History of Science, Technology Presenters: Janna Holmstedt Presenters: Marco Armiero, Presenters: Simon Evans (Head and Environment (KTH, Div. History of Science, Ethemcan Turhan, Salvatore Paolo of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund The traditional dance at Tensions of Europe, Luxembourg. Photo: Nina Wormbs.
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workshop: Arctic Environmental (KTH, Div. History of Science, higher seminar: Antarctic higher seminar: The politics the posthumanities hub seminar Humanities Workshop Series: Technology and Environment) Minerals for the Soviet Bloc? East of urban climate adaptation in series: Ingesting the Hydrocene Sverker Sörlin Location: Zoom Side Story of the South Pole’s Malmö: challenges, vulnerabilities Time: Wed 2020-12-09, Time: Tuesday 2020-09-29, Environmental Geopolitics in the and the role of social movements 13:15 – 15:00 11:00 – 12:00 seminar: NUCLEARWATERS Cold War Time: Mon 2020-11-23, Presenter: Bronwyn Bailey- Presenter: Sverker Sörlin seminar with Lis Kayser Time: Mon 2020-11-09, 13:15 – 14:45 Charteris (Department of Art and (KTH, Div. History of Science, NUCLEARWATERS arranges the third 13:15 – 14:45 Presenter: Salvatore Paolo De Design, University of New South Technology and Environment) in its series of zoominars. Presenter: Roman Khandozhko Rosa (KTH, Div. History of Science, Wales) Hosted by Scott Polar Research Time: Wed 2020-10-21, (KTH, Div. History of Science, Technology and Environment) Location: Online Institute, Cambridge University 13:15 – 15:00 Technology and Environment) Location: Zoom and Brown University, Boston. Presenter: Lis Kayser (the Danish Location: Zoom seminar: Energy Imperialism? Location: Zoom Institute for International Studies ehl events: The 9th Stockholm Resources, power and (DIIS) Finland Gender Studies Conference Archipelago Lecture: Reflections environment docent lecture (in swedish): Location: Zoom 2020, Tampere University on Planetary Habitability Time: Fri 2020-12-11, 14:00 Att konstruera förflutenheter för Time: 2020-11-12 – 2010-11-13 Reflections on Planetary Presenters: Angélique Palle omstridda framtider: kulturarv i Conversation on a Sustainable Presenter: Cecilia Åsberg Habitability (Strategic Research Institute, Paris), polartrakterna Future after Corona (in Swedish) (KTH, Div. History of Science, Time: Wed 2020-11-25, 15:00 Paul S. Ciccantell (Department I denna föreläsning diskuteras det Time: Tue 2020-10-27, 17:30 Technology and Environment) Presenter: Achille Mbembe of Sociology, Western Michigan senaste årtiondets forskning om Presenters: Sverker Sörlin Location: Online (Wits Institute for Social University, Kalamazoo) Armel kulturarvets roll i ett föränderligt (KTH, Div. History of Science, and Economic Research in Campagne (History and Arktis och Antarktis. Technology and Environment), Invited Speaker to Seminar on Johannesburg, South Africa) Civilization, European University Time: Thu 2020-10-08, 15:00 Jonna Bornemark (The Center for Urban Ecologies: Location: Zoom Institute), Michael Hennessy Picard Presenter: Dag Avango Studies in Practical Knowledge, Grounding Urban Natures: An (Institute of Advanced Studies, (KTH, Div. History of Science, Södertörn Högskola, Stockholm) Invitation to Do Comparative Urban workshop: Toolbox of UCL), Simone Selva (L’orientale Technology and Environment) and Pella Thiel, (systemisk aktivist Environmentalism. Environmental Governance: University of Naples, Italy) and Location: Zoom och kulturell förändringsagent) Time: 2020-11-13, 13:00 – 14:30 Numbers, Metrics, and Acronyms Marta Musso (KTH, Div. History Location: Hörsalen, Kulturhuset, Presenter: Henrik Ernstson SPHERE event with 25 participants of Science, Technology and higher seminar: Food Politics of Stockholm (KTH, Div. History of Science, Time: Wed 2020-12-02 – Environment) Antarctic Krill: The Soviet Food Technology and Environment) Fri 2020-12-04 Location: Zoom Experiment higher seminar: Educational Location: Department of Location: Online Time: Monday 2020-10-12, Imaginaries: Governance at the Geography, Cambridge University seminar: Archiving for Nuclear 13:15 – 14:45 Intersection of Technology and (online) seminarium: (Bio)discourse after Decommissioning: Challenges and Presenter: Tayana Arakchaa Education Catastrophe: The Natural-Cultural Collaborations (KTH, Div. History of Science, Time: Mon 2020-11-02, seminar: Theme meeting 4C: Status of Nuclear Disasters in Time: Mon 2020-12-14, Technology and Environment) 13:15 – 14:45 Communicating climate change Chernobyl and Fukushima 11:00 – 13:00 Location: Zoom Presenter: Lina Rahm and meeting deniers Time: Fri 2020-12-04, 10:15 – 12:00 Presenters: Izumi Hirano (Research (KTH, Div. History of Science, Time: Tue 2020-11-17, 13:15 Presenter: Aleksandra Brylska Center for Cooperartive Civil seminar: Sustainability, techno- Technology and Environment). Presenter: Nina Wormbs (University of Warsaw) Societies, Rikkyo University, Tokyo), sciences, transitions Location: Zoom (KTH, Div. History of Science, Location: Zoom Kolya Abramsky (George Padmore Time: Thu 2020-10-15, 18:00 Technology and Environment) Institute archive, London), Jenny Presenter: Timos Karpouzoglou seminar: The Posthumanities Hub Location: Online higher seminar: Science – policy Mitcham (Head of Good Practice (KTH, Div. History of Science, Presents: A Critical Cartography collaboration in Sweden: The and Standards, DPC), Marta Musso Technology and Environment) of New Materialist Constellations phd dissertation defense: case of minority mother-tongue (KTH, Div. History of Science, Location: Zoom and Interventions in Times of Marknadsanalogier: Studier av instruction” Technology and Environment), Terror(ism) marknadiseringens idé och dess Time: Mon 2020-12-07, Martin Robb (NDA Information phd dissertation defense: Time: Thu 2020-11-05, 13:15 möte med offentliga verksamheter 13:15 – 14:45 Governance Programme Manager) Excessive Seas: Waste Ecologies of Presenter: Evelien Geerts i Sverige Presenter: Linus Salö and Gordon Reid (Nuclear Archivist Eutrophication (Department of Modern Time: Fri 2020-11-20, 13:00 (KTH, Div. History of Science, at Nucleus: the Nuclear and From History to Contemporary Languages, University of Respondent: Jesper Meijling, Technology and Environment) Caithness Archive, Wick, UK) Environmental and Social Birmingham (UK)) (KTH, Div. History of Science, Location: Zoom Location: Online Challenges Location: Online Technology and Environment) Time: Fri 2020-10-16, 13:00 Opponent: Per Wisselgren Respondent: Jesse Peterson (Umeå University) (KTH, Div. History of Science, Supervisor: Sverker Sörlin Technology and Environment) (KTH, Div. History of Science, Opponent: Catherine Rigby (Bath Technology and Environment) Spa University, Bath, UK) Location: Zoom Supervisor: Sabine Höhler
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identify and compare different socio-technical joining three leading universities for the recent campus-wide KTH Sustainability pathways to geothermal energy across environmental research – the University Initiative (KTH-S). The work in the KTH ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES, different cases, particularly distinguishing of Leeds, Ludwig-Maximilians-University EHL is built on the extensive research transitional and transformative approaches Munich, and the Royal Institute of developed in the Division in the last two ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND to geothermal power and the socio-technical Technology, Stockholm – with Europes decades, especially in the fields of history of POLITICAL ECOLOGIES system dynamics and assemblages they bring largest science and technology museum, technology, science and energy and in STS. forward. The ultimate goal of the project is the Deutsches Museum, and a further Those areas remain at the core of the KTH Indigenous Avant la Lettre The origins and to improve our understanding of promises, five Associated Partners from the private EHL though it has also expanded in other Livelihoods of the Sámi in European Scholarly pitfalls and diverse spatializations of the and third sectors. ENHANCE aims to directions such as environmental history, Thought 1930 – 1960. energy transition to pave the way towards provide ESRs with the skills training to eco-criticism, and political ecology. The project ”Indigenous avant la lettre. transformative change in decarbonization be at the forefront of a new generation of The origins and livelihoods of the Sámi in across urban energy landscapes. Environmental Humanities research, and to project leader: Marco Armiero. Bennet European scholarly thought 1930 – 1960”, be employable in a range of careers including donation. Multiple grants from EU H2020, funded through the Swedish Research project leader: Ethemcan Turhan and environmental consultancy, risk assessment, Formas, KTH Sustainability, Lerici Foundation, Council’s International postdoc grant, studies Marco Armiero research and development, green business Barbro Osher Fundation, and others. the prehistory of the concept “indigenous”. funding agency: Formas/the Swedish management, media and communications, In what terms did early twentieth century Research Council and not-for-profit work (environmental and Occupy Climate Change (OCC!) Nordic and European scholars describe and period: 2021 – 2023 wildlife NGOs). OCC!’s team will delve into the practices of discuss the origins and the livelihoods of self-organization and solidarity experimented the Sámi before the term ”indigenous” was CrossCuts Film Festival project leader: Marco Armiero. by grassroots groups, researching which widely in use? The scholarly discussions on Crosscuts is festival for film, art and text, participants at the division: Marco Armiero, kind of knowledge is being produced and the origins and the livelihoods of the Sámi with a film as research focus. Special Irma Allen, Anne Gough, Jesse Peterson, whether these practices can be scaled-up included important links to international invited guests, panels and visitors discuss Daniele Valisena. Marie Curie PhD Training beyond “militant particularism” (Harvey & debates on themes such as ecology, evolution, films on different themes within the field of Networks (ITN). 2015 – 2019. and the preservation and education of environmental humanities. indigenous peoples. KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory founders: Marco Armiero, Miyase Christensen, The KTH EHL was founded in 2011 and project leader: Otso Kortekangas Sofia Jonsson, Jacob von Heland. Participants started operation in early 2012 as a cross- funding agency: VR/Swedish Research at the Division: Roberta Biasillo, Erik Isberg, cutting unit of the Division of History of Council. Alicia Gutting, Henrik Ernstson. Funded by KTH Science, Technology and Environment at period: 2019-10-01 ABE and Stockholm University. 2019. KTH. It was part of long term efforts in the Division to foster the Environmental Harnessing the Heat Below our Feet: Promises, Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Humanities. The immediate reason for its Pitfalls and Spatialization of Eothermal Energy Europe, ENHANCE founding was a generous donation from as a Decarbonization Strategy ENHANCE (Environmental Humanities for industrialist Carl Bennet, which was matched This project is a collaboration between a Concerned Europe) will provide the first by internal KTH funds. The KTH EHL has University of Groningen (Ethemcan Turhan), fully coordinated training programme for developed well under its initial phase and KTH (Marco Armiero) and University of Environmental Humanities in Europe. has already achieved a high visibility. It can Workshop with Occupy Climate Change! on Contesting Loss & Chile (Marco Billi). The overarching aim is to It will train twelve early-stage researchers, also be seen as the humanities element of Damage, Stockholm, 5 – 6 March 2020.
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Williams 1995) and the specificities of the project leader: Henrik Ernstson. project leader: Susanna Lidström. single case. The project will produce both a participant at the division: Henrik Ernstson. participant at the division: Susanna global database (The Map of the other worlds) Swedish Research Council (VR). 2016 – 2019. Lidström. The Swedish Research Council documenting cases of grassroots initiatives Formas. 2016 – 2020. that tackle climate change and an in-depth Policies and Practices That Have Shaped the case study analysis on urban experiments Baltic Sea: An Exploratory Study Climate Security with Local Authorities from Europe (Stockholm, Naples, Istanbul), The aim of this project is to investigate (CLISEL): From Insecurity Takers to Security the US (New York City), and Latin America the decisions and policies that govern or Makers – Mobilizing Local Authorities to (Rio De Janeiro). OCC!’s key objective is to control the environmental work in the Secure the EU Against the Impacts of Climate test which grassroots responses to loss and Baltic Sea. Focus will be on key actors in Change in Third Countries damage have been successful, why, and on science and governance in, for example, CLISEL explores the climate-security nexus what scale. Ices (The International Council for the from the perspective of local authorities response to this issue, is inseparable from Exploration of the Sea) and Helcom and communities, based on the idea that the rise of a planetary Earth systems science project leader: Marco Armiero. (Baltic Marine Environment Protection innovations in the exercise of regulatory and a knowledge-informed understanding participants at the division: Marco Armiero, Commission – Helsinki Commission). power at local level can contribute to enhance of global change that has affected broad Sverker Sörlin, Roberta Biasillo, Salvatore Paolo We want to analyze how the conceptual the understanding of the indirect security communities of practice. The overarching De Rosa, Ethemcan Turhan, Ilenia Iengo. The development has influenced policy work and implications of climate change in third objective is to provide a fundamentally new Swedish Research Council Formas. 2017 – 2022. how it can continue to influence the way the countries. In particular, CLISEL looks at the perspective on GEG that challenges both administration chooses to act. issue of climate-induced migration, an issue previous linear, progressivist narratives HICCUP — Heterogeneous Infrastructures often cited as an indirect security dimension through incremental institutional work and of Cities in Uganda Project: Thinking project leader: Susanna Lidström. of climate change, from the perspective of the way contemporary history is written and Infrastructure with the South participant at the division: Johan Cederqvist, local administrators in Sardinia (Italy). The understood. Building on African urbanist literature, Susanna Lidström, Sverker Sörlin. aim is to understand the extent to which the HICCUP project challenges the notion Richert Foundation. 2018 – 2019. migrants from ecologically vulnerable third project leader: Sverker Sörlin. of the “infrastructure ideal”, the goal countries are perceived as a security issue, participants at the division: Sverker Sörlin, that service provision should be created Understanding Marine Environmental Change: the reasons why that is (not) the case, as Christina Goldhar, Jasmin Höglund Hellgren, through a uniform solution throughout Ocean Narratives from 1950 to the Present well as the policies and actions through Sabine Höhler, Erik Isberg, Eric Paglia, Gloria the city. Instead, the project focuses on Oceans are key indicators of global which local administrators can ward off the Samosir, Thomas Harbøll Schrøder. European describing and analyzing the much wider environmental change and play a central role emergence of a security crisis within their Research Council (ERC). 2018 – 2023. landscape of infrastructure configurations in the earth´s climate, especially the high seas territory. that poor urban dwellers have created with its vast volumes of water. At the same Community-Responsive Adaptation to and fought for to improve services in time, the high seas are a difficult environment project leader: Ilenia Ruggiu Flooding in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya relation to state and private sectors. This to govern and protect. Marine scientists argue (University of Cagliari). Flooding constitutes one of the biggest landscape of “heterogeneous infrastructure that the way we have understood the oceans participants at the division: Marco Armiero challenges to rapidly urbanizing cities today. configurations” is deeply embedded in in the past needs to be radically changed in (Local Coordinator), Ethemcan Turhan. Community-level approaches are often more everyday realities, while connected to local- order to facilitate more and better marine European Commission H2020. 2016 – 2019. about “coping” with flood risk than adapting to-international geographies and networks. policies and protection. To effect that change, to it or mitigating it, while government-led In close collaboration with Makerere we need not just new science and technologies Study of the Planetary Human-Earth initiatives are of mixed success and can University in Kampala, we are developing but also profoundly new stories that can Relationship (SPHERE): The Rise of Global even increase risk. Virtually no examples in-depth urban infrastructure ethnographies, transform how we regard the sea. This project Environmental Governance of successful community-government which will be complemented with historical studies how these new stories take form in The project is a historical study of collaboration, combining infrastructure archival research and oral histories, alongside the genre of non-fiction ocean literature and humanity’s relation to planetary conditions and services, exist. This research tests the the spatial mapping of formal/informal examines public science writing about the and constraints and how it has become theory that soft and hard infrastructure infrastructure arrangements across Kampala. sea in relation to contemporary societal and understood as a governance issue. The key interventions a the local scale are a viable academic developments of environmental argument is that Global Environmental climate adaptation to flooding that bridges thought. Governance (GEG), which has arisen in this gap. The study will provide critical new
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evidence on the viability of community- both individually and on a collective level. responsive flood adaptation measures, The gap between knowledge and action has informing policy in Kibera and other rapidly been studied in a number of disciplines. GEOGRAPHIES OF HERITAGE urbanizing cities across sub-Saharan Africa. We want to investigate further how these legitimization processes work for people in AND LANDSCAPES project leader: Anna Tompsett, their everyday life in Sweden by using the Stockholm University. Aristotelian topos theory. We also want to SPOOR-Mistra Sport and Outdoor participants at the division of history: find out how these topoi are addressed in David Nilsson. Project financed by The Swedish the public discourse on climate change and project leader: Sverker Sörlin. Research Council & Swedish International transition. Our unique contribution is to Mistra. 2020 – 2024. Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). study these processes as culturally situated, 2017 – 2020. but also as an internal dialogue. Cold War Coasts: The Transnational Co-Production of Militarized Landscapes Towards a Visual Environmental Humanities in project leader: Nina Wormbs. Cold War Coasts explores the pervasive the Digital Era: Filming and Writing as a participants at the division: Nina Wormbs, role of the military in shaping the Baltic Bimodal Research Practice Maria Wolrath Söderberg. Riksbankens Sea’s coastal landscapes since 1945 – and The aim of this project is to explore the added Jubileumsfond: The Swedish Foundation for the practical challenges that the legacies value of filmmaking to the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences. 2018 – 2022. from the Cold War period give rise to today. Humanities. The project involves a film Our point of departure is a dissatisfaction triology set in Cape Town, Durban- InsSciDE - Inventing a Shared Science with the “methodological nationalism” eThekwini and Johannesburg working the Diplomacy for Europe that so far characterizes nearly all research intersection urban ecology and postcolonial The Environment Work Package (WP7) in the intersection between military and studies. The project also studies the historical Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. intends to trace how environmental environmental history. We counter this inability of the academy to institutionalise monitoring has long been an important by developing a genuinely transnational film and visual registers as part of its mode The current eco-crisis and the proposition of resource for science diplomacy precisely approach, scrutinizing how coastal of knowledge production despite a broader an Anthropocene epoch is hard to imagine because it challenges the notion of fixed landscapes on opposite shores have been visual and digital revolution. without a development which inaugurated boundaries between scientists and – and continue to be – “co-produced”. The a large-scale exploitation built on global diplomats, and between the natural world project targets three broadly defined regions project leader: Jacob von Heland. political expansionism and an incessant and international affairs. Understanding its in Sweden and the former Soviet Union: participants at the division: Jacob von quest for natural resources. The project workings in the past and the present can lead Stockholm archipelago plus Gotland; Heland, Henrik Ernstson. The Swedish Research analyzes the conditions for this development to an assessment of how it might be made northeastern Estonia’s archipelago and Council Formas. 2017 – 2020. in the media and infrastructure that more effective in the future. coasts; and southern Latvia’s militarized allowed for long distance and global-scale coastscapes. Plus Ultra: Media and Environment in the governmentality. project leader: Nina Wormbs. Spanish Colonial Empire 1570 – 1620 participant at the division: Nina Wormbs, project leader: Per Högselius. The project studies the production and project leader: Adam Wickberg. Miyase Christensen. European Commission participants at the division: Per Högselius, mediation of knowledge of the natural world participant at the division: Adam Wickberg. H2020. 2017 – 2022. Anna Storm, Kati Lindström. The Swedish in the Americas around the end of the 16th Swedish Research Council (VR). 2017 – 2020. Research Council Formas. 2018 – 2021. century, a period that rised a new regime of bureaucratic media infrastructure in which Understanding Justification of Climate Change Sustainable Communities and Heritage both the gathering and the dissemination Non-action Politics Beyond Nature-culture Divide: of knowledge became systematized and For most people, to act against our conviction Heritage Development as a Strategy Against large scale. The colonial history of Spain results in discomfort, sometimes called Depopulation in Japan constitutes a clear example of the rapid cognitive dissonance. Our hypothesis is The aim is to analyse the use of heritage building of environments, altering of habitats, that we try to manage this dissonance by development as a possible strategy and establishment of global networks. justifying our choices in different ways, against depopulation, by comparing how
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different types of heritage relate to the of communities around the northern parts project leader: Peder Roberts. local communities. The project carries of the Nordic countries, in order to inform participants at the division: Peder Roberts, out qualitative analyses of 7 heritage GEOPOLITICS OF SCIENCE AND contemporary discussions on the future of Tayana Arakchaa, Dmitry Arzyutov, nominations from four different categories RESOURCE EXTRACTION IN THE mining communities in northern Sweden. Lize-Marié van der Watt, Kati Lindström, (cultural landscape, natural, industrial The material remains of mining – from Roman Khandozhko. and archaeological heritage) in Japan and POLAR REGIONS ecological damage to operational equipment European Research Council (ERC). 2017 – 2022. asks which of the four types benefits the and transport infrastructure – persist long related communities best (economically, Mining Heritage as a Resource for Sustainable after the end of activities and the end of Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic socially, culturally), how they are impacted Communities mining-generated income. Mining sites are Communities (REXSAC) by depopulation and changing community In this project researchers cooperate to often sites of cultural memory, central to the REXSAC – Resource Extraction and structures and how do local governments explore how communities in the Arctic identity of the communities that depended Sustainable Arctic Communities – is a envision heritage maintenance with reduced can handle the material and immaterial upon them. Yet different communities have Nordic Centre of Excellence in Arctic population. It is expected that the results legacies of mining when building post- taken very different approaches to these research, funded by Nordforsk and led by of the study serve as reference to heritage industrial futures. We use approaches legacies, from actively incorporating them the division of history of science, technology developers in depopulating communities from industrial and cultural heritage into new economies (tourism in particular) and environment at KTH, together with worldwide. studies, history, archaeology, and physical to leaving them behind with no further Stockholm University and Stockholm geography to understand how communities consideration. Environment Institute. Together with 12 project leader: Kati Lindström. can deal with legacies of mining – societal additional partners in the Nordic countries, participant at the division: Kati Lindström. as well as environmental. Through field project leader: Dag Avango. REXSAC studies extractive resource The Swedish Research Council Formas. research, archive work and interviews participants at the division: Dag Avango, industries in the Arctic as cultural, social, 2018 – 2022. with stakeholders, we explore how even the Peder Roberts. economic, and ecological phenomena – most physically resistant mining legacies The Swedish Research Council Formas. from analysis of why resource extraction The Movement Heritage are constantly open for reinterpretation by 2016 – 2020. (Moved to LTU in 2020.) commences, to what consequences it has for Landscapes which appear as wilderness or different groups and thus able to support communities in the Arctic and beyond, and nature are often rather shaped by culture. different visions for the future of local Greening the Poles: Science, the Environment, what opportunities exist for transitioning They contain comprehensive traces and communities. With mining in the Arctic as and the Creation of the Modern Arctic and toward post-extractive futures. remains from different kinds of movement. a subject of intense contemporary debate Antarctic These traces represent a neglected cultural and the future of mining communities in This project investigates how and why project leader: Dag Avango. heritage, the movement heritage. Landscapes Norrbotten under considerable scrutiny, environmental concerns have become so participants at the division: Sverker Sörlin, of movement have been shaped by hiking, lessons from around the Arctic can help important to our conceptions of the polar Jean-Sébastien Boutet, Annika Nilsson, Peder hunting, outdoor life, tourism, sports, and inform responsible decision-making. regions today. Through a historical study Roberts, Camilla Winqvist. training. The demand for places suitable for of both the Arctic and Antarctic from 1945 Nordforsk. 2016 – 2021. movement, training and events continue to project leader: Dag Avango. to the turn of the past century, the project grow. We will formulate an expansion of the participants at the division: Dag Avango, explores the connections between how On Creating Cultural Heritage in Antarctica landscape heritage through one of its most Peder Roberts, Camilla Winqvist. environments are described – particularly The aim of this project is to explore the defining practices, movement by foot. This Swedish Research Council (VR). 2016 – 2021. through the natural sciences and economics processes through which cultural heritage heritage is physical in form of paths, trails (Moved to LTU in 2020.) – and the judgments made about how those production is used to create collective and effects on vegetation, but also a local environments should be administered. memories of Antarctica. It addresses the memory landscape or life world with great Mining Heritage as a Resource for Sustainable The key hypothesis of this project is that paradox of how cultural heritage can be significance. Communities: Lessons for Sweden from the the process of describing an environment reconciled with a governance system that Arctic cannot be separated from the process of limits the accumulation of materiall egacies project leader: Sverker Sörlin. This project is conducted in close interaction controlling and managing it. GRETPOL will of human presence. The framing of cultural participants at the division: Sverker Sörlin, with the Nordic Centre of Excellence produce a new understanding of how far from heritage protection in Antarctica within Daniel Svensson. Swedish National Heritage REXSAC – Resource Extraction and being the passive frames for human action, environmental protection regulations is Board (RAÄ). 2017 – 2020. Sustainable Arctic Communities. The project environments (in the polar regions but indeed significant as it raises particularly important examines the legacies of mining in the context also beyond) are constructed by human agency. questions about the relationship between
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environmental change and cultural heritage. the argument that nuclear energy is in essentially transformed the understanding The research draws on methods from history, essence a hydraulic form of technology, and of life to a minimalist principle of survival geography, heritage studies and cultural that it as such builds on centuries and even through infinite metabolic conversion KNOWLEDGE IN SOCIETY AND anthropology. millennia of earlier hydraulic engineering and technological substitution. This efforts worldwide – and, culturally speaking, understanding conjoined images of recreation POLICY project leader: Lize-Marié van der Watt. on earlier “hydraulic civilizations”, from and creation, of paradisiacal pasts and eco- participants at the division: Lize-Marié van ancient Egypt to the modern Netherlands. technological futures. The question whether Engineering Education Ideals, Stereotypes and der Watt, Dag Avango, Kati Lindström. We investigate how historical water- ‘postplanetary’ life, life that is not tied to Role-models: Analysis of Gender, Innovation Swedish Research Council (VR). 2017 – 2020. manipulating technologies and wet and dry a specific planet but transcends planetary and Diversity in the Development of Courses risk conceptions from a deeper past were boundaries, will be possible and desirable Realted to Design and Sustainable Products carried on into the nuclear age. may become one of the most challenging and Services questions of our future. Projektet handlar om integrering av genus- project leader: Per Högselius. och mångfaldsperspektiv i kurser som ges participants at the division: Per Högselius, project leader: Sabine Höhler. till ingenjörsstudenter som utbildar sig Kati Lindström, Anna Storm, Alicia Gutting, participant at the division: Sabine Höhler. för att utveckla framtidens produkter och Achim Klüppelberg, Siegfried Evens, Roman Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: The Swedish tjänster. Därmed har initiativet fokus på HISTORY OF SCIENCE, Khandozhko. European Research Council (ERC). Foundation for Humanities and Social hur dessa aspekter hanteras i praktiken 2018 – 2023. Sciences. 2018 – 2021. och initiativet avser berika existerande TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY kurser och undersöka förutsättningar för Life on Mars: The Science and Fiction of HoNESt (History of Nuclear Energy and att utveckla nya kurser och kursmoduler Clinical Breeding: Cattle Reproduction and Terraforming and the Future of Planet Earth Society) som använder de kritiska perspektiv från Veterinary Expertise in Sweden, 1922 – 1975 This project explores the science and fiction of HoNESt involves an interdisciplinary kurser som exempelvis Genus och Teknik The study examines how cattle reproduction Mars settlement with the help of terraforming team with many experienced researchers (AK2022). De teman som analyseras i det became a veterinary expert field in Sweden; as a creation of new environments in Space and high profile research institutions. föreslagna projektet har direkt koppling the impact this had on dairy farming; and as well as blueprints for the technological HoNESt’s goal is to conduct a three-year till de pågående kursaktiviteter hos de två the extent to which knowledge produced reconstruction of the Earth’s environment. interdisciplinary analysis of the experience enheter/avdelningar som deltar i ansökan, in a veterinary and agricultural context The aim is to describe the Anthropocene of nuclear developments and its relationship se tidigare beskrivning av kurser. Det was used to understand and intervene not simply as an epoch that endangers to contemporary society with the aim of inkluderar kurser med fokus på genus och in human reproduction. At the core, it is the Earth but primarily as an epoch that improving the understanding of the dynamics teknik (AK2022), produktinnovation och an investigation into how human-bovine over the last 60 years. HoNESt will embrace tjänstedesign (MF2046, MF2085, MF2038) relations, veterinary expertise, and the complexity of political, technological and samt kurser som handlar om olika aspekter av reproductive technologies (in the animal and economic challenges; safety; risk perception hållbar utveckling (LH233V) och som belyser in the human) were co-produced during the and communication, public engagement, olika ideal kring ingenjörsutbildningen idag middle of the twentieth century. media framing and social movements; etc. historiskt (AK1213). Research on these interactions has thus far project leader: Karl Bruno. been mostly fragmented. We will develop project leader: Katarina Larsen. participant at the division: Karl Bruno. a pioneering integrated interdisciplinary 2021 – 2022. Swedish Research Council (VR). 2018 – 2021. approach, which is conceptually informed by Large Technological Systems (LTS) and The Mediated Planet: Claiming Data for NUCLEARWATERS Integrated Socio-technical System (IST), Environmental SDGs NUCLEARWATERS develops a new based on a close and innovative collaboration The global environment has become subject approach to studying the history of nuclear of historians and social scientists in this field. to an accelerated pace of mediation and energy. Rather than interpreting nuclear datafication. The knowledge, management energy history as a history of nuclear Russian State Archive in Samara, where Achim Klüppelberg project leader: Arne Kaijser. and governance of the earth system is physics and radiochemistry, it analyses it and Per Högselius carried out archival research for the Arne Kaijser. dependent on enormous flows of data from a NUCLEARWATERS project in 2019. Photo: Per Högselius. participant at the division: as a history of water. The project develops H2020 European Commission. 2015 – 2019. ‘vast machine’ of measuring tools.
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The ‘mediated planet’ is subject to Universities as Societal Pillars? A Platform for project leader: Mats Benner. project leader: Liv Langfeldt, NIFU, Oslo. interpretation and shared human decision- Research on the Impact of University participant at the division: Mats Benner. participant at the division: Sverker Sörlin. making that should ideally be democratic and The proposed project explores how Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (KAW). 2016 – 2024. guided by the sustainable development goals universities operate, how they interact with 2015 – 2020. (SDGs). The aim of this project is to critically their environments, and how that interplay Comparative Higher Education, Policy and research the opportunities and risks in the shapes how they organize their core activities. Humanities Knowledge in Swedish Defense Innovation Studies (CHEPIS) rapid datafication of the environment in The project assumes that universities Research: Human Sciences at FOA 5 To meet the growing demands and needs of relation to the SDGs for climate change (13), worldwide share many characteristics but The purpose of the project is to study higher education systems and institutions, the ocean (14), ecosystems and biodiversity that universities also differ significantly humanities knowledge in Swedish defense the field of higher education research and (15) and effective and inclusive institutions depending on their historical evolution and research during the Cold War, focusing on the management has emerged in the past half (16). We analyze the role of SDGs in their local and national embeddedness. To Swedish National Defense Research Institute century. Of 274 academic programmes generating and aggregating environmental illuminate this, this project will study how (FOA) and the Department of Human worldwide, two thirds are in the USA data, identify the effects of datafication universities interact with governments, Sciences (Avdelningen för humanvetenskap), whereas China comes second. The UK and and present a framework of trust and funders and stakeholders, how they FOA 5, 1974 – 1989. The project explores continental Europe have about 13 programs, participation for future SDG governance. structure their tasks, and how they shape the knowledge that FOA 5 produced about Japan has 6, the rest of Asia, excluding China, relationship between funding, organization human society, how the research was has around a hundred. Africa has only 7. project leader: Sabine Höhler. and the aforementioned activities. organized, prioritized, distributed as well Given the demand for higher education participants at the division: Sabine Höhler, as its impact. The aim of the project is to studies graduates in the Africa, particularly Susanna Lidström, Sverker Sörlin, Adam project leader: Mats Benner. create new insights on the significance in Mozambique, and in sub-Saharan Africa, a Wickberg. The Swedish Research Council participants at the division: Mats Benner, of humanistic knowledge in the Swedish Consortium between of Universidad Eduardo Formas. 2020 – 2024. Ulrika Bjare, Klara Müller, Linus Salö, Sverker sectorial research and in the building of Mondlane, Maputo, KTH and University Sörlin, Nina Wormbs. modern Sweden. Theoretically, the project of Western Cape (South Africa) has been Iniative to Support, Promote and Intergrate Vinnova. 2015 – 2023. builds on, and contributes to, the concept of formed for training of PhD students (7) and Researchers @Risk in Europe (InSPIREurope, co-production. postdocs (2). Of the seven PhD students The InSPIREurope project will forge a Where is Science Going?: Research Governance 2 have been enrolled in the Division, all coordinated, cross-sectoral, Europe-wide and Scientific Impact in Asia project leader: Fredrik Bertilsson. recruited from Mozambican public higher alliance in support of researchers at risk. The aim of the proposed project is to inquire participant at the Division: Fredrik education institutions, particularly UEM. The project partners are uniquely suited into the scientific investments made in China, Bertilsson. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: The The overarching goal of the project is to to lead such cooperation as they include India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social strengthen African higher education research (i) leading organizations in supporting over the last decade (2000 – 2015), asking how Sciences. 2018 – 2022. and expertise through the training of a new researchers at risk including the French and their scientific profiles have evolved in terms cohort of expertise in higher education, policy German national funding programmes and of national and international collaboration, Centre for Research Quality and Policy Impact and innovation studies. the European office of the Scholars at Risk renewal and composition of the research Studies (R-QUEST) network (ii) organizations with expertise in cadre, institutional publication and impact Quality in research is a highly prioritized, but project leader: Professor Patrício Langa, UEM, European and national R&I programmes (iii) patterns. This will in turn be related to the also a much-debated issue in research policy. Lars Geschwind, KTH (co-PI). leading actors in influencing EU policies on institutional configurations of research The Centre for Research Quality and Policy participants at the division: Mats Benner, higher education, research and innovation (iv) governance in the countries. On the basis Impact Studies (R-QUEST) constitutes an Urban Lundberg, Sverker Sörlin, Nina Wormbs. universities in regions underrepresented in of this research, we will be able to portray a 8-year commitment to explore the nature and SIDA (Swedish Internal Development Agency). existing support networks and initiatives for coherent picture of the evolution of research mechanisms of research quality – funded by 2017 – 2021. researchers at risk. The project will lay the in these countries and how their research the RCN FORINNPOL initiative. A central groundwork for a durable support structure governance model(s) are evolving. We will aim of the centre is to understand research in Europe for researchers at risk. also be able to shed light on the linkages assessments, standards and practices in between these research systems and those of different fields of research. More generally, project responsible at the division: European and North American countries. we aim to help policy makers in their efforts Nina Wormbs, Horizon 2020/European to develop the best framework conditions for Comission. 2018 – 2023. high quality research.
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Thematically, it engages with recent places at Bromma gymnasium in Stockholm, and upon to solve. Integrative learning is key to and theorisations of exposure, toxicity, stress the researchers in The Posthumanities how existential insights can be communicated THE POSTHUMANITIES HUB and vulnerability. Hub. The purpose is to explore methods for in processes offering reciprocal encounters communicating environmental humanities between researchers and pupils, society and project leader: Cecilia Åsberg and Hayden in a digital and social media context through academy, science and art. The goal is to enable Lorimer, Glasgow University, UK. film and arts-based methods. new ethical and existential insights that participant at the division: Cecilia Åsberg, empower and counteract apocalyptic apathy Janna Holmstedt, Jesse Petersen. project leader: Cecilia Åsberg. for young adults through arts-based methods Seed Box, Linköping University. 2018 – 2019. participant at the division: Cecilia Åsberg and film making. and Janna Holmstedt. The Swedish Research Open Humanities Lab Symposium: Council Formas. 2017 – 2019. project leader: Cecilia Åsberg. New Humanities & Anthropocene participant at the division: Cecilia Åsberg Toxic Embodiment A symposium arranged by The On Common Ground: Synthesizing Feminist and Janna Holmstedt. The Swedish Research Concerns around health and the state of our Posthumanities Hub that gathered 24 Environmental Humanities for Climate Council Formas. 2020 – 2024. planet today take on a wider set of issues speakers, scholars, artists, educators, Change Action (and a wider set of bodies) as we interact with academic activists, and journalists, to discuss The research first surveys and synthesizes Posthumanism Research Network climate change, antibiotics, and untested if the new humanities, transformative and the state of the environmental humanities This network, headed by the Posthumanism chemical cocktails through the food we eat, integrative in nature, can become not just (EH) field from its origins to the present, Research Institute at Brock University, the make-up we wear, the new sofas we sit it relevant to society but also enact real change. with special attention to gender studies and Canada, seeks to investigate the status in or the environments we dwell in. “Toxic Can we have research that is participatory, feminist interventions underpinning both and limits of the “human” in an era in Embodiment” gathers, bridges and advances communicable, and, as Rosi Braidotti puts it, its foundational and its current insights. which multiple crises – global warming, a unique multi-disciplinary skill set of gender ‘worthy of our times’? Keynote speakers were Building upon this largely academic work, superintelligent computers, genetic and justice methodologies across the arts and Hayden Lorimer, Glasgow University, UK, we in the second half of this project focus engineering, and species extinction, to name a sciences. Toxic Embodiment collects a team of and Norie Neumark, LaTrobe University, AU. on creating “translational humanities” for few – mark the precariousness of exclusively international scholars from major European 14 – 15 May 2019, KTH, Stockholm. All panels interested stakeholders. In transforming human-centred practice and thought. Our research hubs, offering important and and keynotes are online here: the academic syntheses into an accessible transdisciplinary research network, a underresearched aspects on gender, health https://posthumanities.net/open-humanities- handbook for climate actors and to several collaboration with other likeminded centres, and climate change from interdisciplinary lab-symposium-new-humanities-the- new Wikipedia entries, we enact the very institutes, and scholars across the globe, and bridge-building gender and justice anthropocene/ activist work that we believe is foundational is committed to the idea that humanity’s methodologies. to creating real-world solutions to climate perseverance in the coming centuries will project leader: Cecilia Åsberg. change. require collaboration with agents (animal, project leader: Cecilia Åsberg. participant at the division: Cecilia Åsberg, vegetable, fungal, viral, mineral, and digital) The Swedish Research Council Formas. Janna Holmstedt, Marco Armiero, Adam project leader: Cecilia Åsberg with co-pi: besides those formerly classified as “human.” 2014 – 2019. Wickberg, Sverker Sörlin. Lauren LaFauci, LiU. The Swedish Research Seed Box, Linköping University. 2018 – 2019. Council Formas. 2018 – 2019. project leader: Christine Daigle, Storying Exposures Brock University, Canada. Storying Exposures operated as a Popularizing Environmental Humanities: Reclaiming Futures and Storying Change: participants at the division: Cecilia Åsberg. collaborative, interdisciplinary initiative, Film and Media Resources for Young Adults Participatory Media Production with Young SSHRC – Social Science and Humanities principally through the design and delivery Pondering the Stakes for the Future Adults Facing Wicked Climate Challenges Research Council Canada. 2017 – 2020. of two intensive, residential writing This project is the brain child of Lotten This project builds on the successful methods workshops occurring in different locations Wiklund, science journalist, and Prof. created in the pilot project “Popularizing Gender & Sustainability: Introducing Feminist (Sweden and Scotland) where international Cecilia Åsberg, The Posthumanities Hub. Environmental Humanities”. Young adults Environmental Humanities gatherings of Environmental Humanities It was developed as a participatory process today live in a world of mediatized tension, This new electable course (FAD3115) in the researchers had the opportunity to enter into by Dr. Janna Holmstedt, and is co-created where existential, ethical and political doctoral program, Art, Technology and concentrated conversation, skill-sharing, together with a group of third grade students powerlessness gets entangled with a climate Design (7,5 credits), is an educational effort collaborative experiment, and writing praxis. attending Samhällsvetenskaps-programmet crisis they are often, paradoxically, called for the integration of knowledge on gender
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equity in sustainable development research, SOS Climate Waterfront that live in informal settlements still rely provided by the KTH School of Architecture Linking Research and Innovation on heavily on informal water regimes to meet and the Built Environment. The online URBAN SOCIAL ECOLOGIES AND Waterfront through Technology for their everyday water needs. Informal PhD course combines critical and creative Excellence of Resilience to face Climate water regimes tend to emerge outside the perspectives on gender and sustainability INFRASTRUCTURES Change The project is addressing the formal water network and typically rely from the emerging field of environmental pressures on urban waterfront areas and how less on pipes and more on market driven humanities as it overlaps with science, NATURE: Examining Nature-society Relations engineering and architechture solutions in arrangements, such as water tankers, reverse technology, humanities, art and feminist Through Urban Infrastructure. city planning can be cross-fertilized by skills osmosis drinking water bottles, and water theory-practices. Teachers: Cecilia Åsberg, Historically, the modern infrastructure and tools for design and visualization of water softeners. Building on socio-technical and Meike Schalk, Marietta Radomska, and Janna ideal has dominated the imagination of in urban context. The project and workshop urban political ecology scholarship, we will Holmstedt. engineers and planners. As a consequence, activities also includes workshop activities investigate how conflict and cooperation urban water and sanitation networks with researches and public agencies, occurs between formal and informal water project leader: Cecilia Åsberg and comprising of pipes, pumps, and reservoirs, drawing on understanding the history of the regimes in Asia and Africa. The study will Meike Schalk. have largely been built in the same way urban landscape, social sciences, arts and be based on empirically grounded fieldwork participant at the division: Cecilia Åsberg all over world. However, the multilayered humanities to discuss future urban solutions in Gurgaon, India (Asia case study) and and Janna Holmstedt. KTH Sustainability and challenges experienced by cities worldwide to cope with consequences of climate change Nairobi, Kenya (Africa case study). With our Equality Office. 2020. demand a new approach as part of imagining and other pressures on waterfront areas in study, the aim is to improve the co-existence future urban infrastructures. Building on urban settings. of formal and informal water regimes, a key Checking-in with Deep Time Clocks recent urban scholarship, we mobilise the During year 2020 the ABE-school at KTH step towards achieving sustainability in – Re-configuring Intergenerational Justice and concept of ‘Heterogeneous Infrastructure was invited to join an EU-initiative in the urban water provision and equity in water Hope Configuration’ (HIC) to advance theoretical H2020-programme ”Stimulating innovation access and distribution. We further aim to How can we re-tie the material and and empirical insights on nature and by means of cross-fertilization”. In addition learn across different urban experiences in immaterial knots between past, present and society relations in urban regions where to Swedish participation, other countries the Global South that will help us re-think future generations? What might be ways heterogeneous infrastructures and networks involved in this programme is Portugal, the relationship between formality and forward to check in with our postnatural are – or are about to become – challenged. Greece and Poland. Project initiatives informality in the provision of urban services and materializing clocks? This project is We will combine theoretical insights with includes exchange activities and workshops such as water. The project will span across 2 methodologically innovative and aspires grounded empirical work in Guwahati and digital webinars. years and will consist of an interdisciplinary to have high impact on the approaches to (India) Stockholm (Sweden) and Kampala team of scholars from Sweden, Asia and sustainability, intergenerational justice and (Uganda). These three cities are at interesting project leader: Lina Suleiman, Africa. care in postnatural heritage management. It historical junctures in terms of their water Urban and regional studies KTH. focuses on the politicization of the long-term infrastructures and appear to be breaking participation at the division: Katarina project leader: Timos Karpouzoglou. Formas within the natural/cultural heritage sectors, out of the modern infrastructure ideal. The Larsen. H2020, Funding scheme: MSCA-RISE - The Swedish Research Counsil. 2019 – 2022. and on how vernacular temporalities are met project is timely in its attempt to learn across Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and transformed on site at Gärstadsverken Northern and Southern urban experiences and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) (a garbage disposal site situated on an Iron and will generate new insights about how to Age archaeological sanctuary), alongside create more socially inclusive and resilient WATERFLOW: Making the Water Flow: theoretical work on intergenerational urban infrastructures. Conflict(s) and Cooperation Between Formal justice and care where traditional theories and Informal Urban Water Regimes in Asia are compared to those of feminism and the project leader: Timos Karpouzoglou. and Africa environmental humanities. RJ Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Historically cities have built their water 2020 – 2023. infrastructures based on the principle of project leader: Christina Fredengren, universal coverage that relies heavily on Stockholm University. formal water supply (“the piped paradigm”). participants at the division: Cecilia Åsberg. However, formal water regimes have often The Swedish Research Council Formas. failed to meet the demands of all the urban 2017 – 2020. water users. Importantly, the urban poor
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Ensuring Sustainability and Equality of Water We use case studies in Stockholm, and Energy Systems During Actor-driven Gothenburg and Värmdö, where different on- Disruptive Innovation (SEQWENS) property solutions are already being tested. Improved energy efficiency in buildings We assess the co-evolution of technology, contributes to global and national goals for actors and society, and how new technology environment and climate. Recovery of heat redistributes benefits and costs among the from wastewater is a promising technology societal actors. but may become disruptive for the city- wide systems for water and heat. The aim project leader: David Nilsson. of this project is to assess the system effect project participants at the division: of on-property heat and water installations, Timos Karpouzoglou. Project financed by The including social consequences, in support of Swedish Research Council Formas. 2018 – 2021. a smooth transition towards a climate-smart society.
The moment the water tanker of the Delhi Water Company (Delhi Jal Board) arrives in Rwata, a peri-urban village on the outskirts of Delhi, India. Photo: Timos Karpouzoglou.
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Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Vi försöker Holmstedt, Janna. Flock Frequency Larsen, Katarina, and et al. Evens, Siegfried, Achim Högselius, Per. ‘Slaget om Salö, Linus. ‘Fjuttig engelska eller gemensamt finna en väg – där Colony: Sonospheric Communards ‘ERA-NET Cofund Smart Cities Klüppelberg, and Johan Gärdebo. framtidens bokstavliga mossig svenska?’ Curie, 9 March, en väg aldrig funnits’. In Corona: and Points of Listening. Stockholm: and Communities – Experiences De serie ‘Chernobyl’ toont grenzen byggstenar’. Svenska Dagbladet, 2020. 19 författare om krisen, 109 – 18. Public Art Agency Sweden (Statens and Insights.: Synthesis Report van experten in coronatijden aan, 20 January, 2020. Stockholm: Polaris, 2020. Konstråd), 2019. JPI Urban Europe Published by 15 April, 2020. Salö, Linus. ‘Forskningspolitikens IQ-Samhällsbyggnad’. Stockholm: Högselius, Per. ‘Vart tog den kroppsbyggare’. Curie, 2 December, Sörlin, Sverker. Holmstedt, Janna. Gränssnitt. Urban Europe, 2020. Evens, Siegfried. ‘Tijd kopen door bildade ingenjören vägen?’ Svenska 2019. ‘“Miljöövervakningen är en Stockholm, 2019. kerncentrales langer open te Dagbladet, 9 October, 2019. kollektiv livförsäkring”’. In SOU Nilsson, David. Paving the Way houden, is tijd verliezen’. Knack, 23 Salö, Linus. ‘Kan svenskan 2019:22 Sveriges miljöövervakning: Holmstedt, Janna. Shared Surfaces. for pro-Poor and Sustainable May, 2019. Högselius, Per. ‘Världshavens användas som vetenskapsspråk?’ dess uppgift och organisation för Stockholm, 2019. WASH: The Role of Local framtid är människans’. Svenska Språkpolitikbloggen, 22 January, en god miljöförvaltning, 718 – 21. Innovation. Stockholm: Stockholm Fahlén, Åsa, and Sverker Sörlin. Dagbladet, 2020. 2020. Stockholm: Regeringskansliet, Holmstedt, Janna. Sonic International Water Institute, SIWI, ‘“Sänk trösklarna för idéburna 2019. Sensibilities: /Mis/ 2020. aktörer att driva skolor”’. Dagens Isberg, Erik. ‘Allt de säger om Salö, Linus. ‘Leve ordet avnämare!’ Communication/S/. Stockholm, Nyheter, 24 December, 2020. Facebook är fel’. Expressen, Curie. 20 January, 2020. Turhan, Ethemcan, and O. İnal. 2019. Wolrath Söderberg, Maria and 17 September, 2020. ‘Socio-Natures on the Edge: Nina Wormbs, Grounded – Beyond Gustafsson, Bengt, Tomas Salö, Linus. ‘Min bok!: Om att Landscapes, State and Movements Holmstedt, Janna. The Order of the Flygskam. Stockholm: Fores, Kåberger, Gabriel Michanek, Lars Isberg, Erik. ‘Forskare: Siffrorna flärpa sin läsning’. Curie, 27 April, in Turkey’. In Transforming Socio- Dolphin. Stockholm, 2019. Stockholm and European Liberal Rydén, Johanna Sandahl, and ger inte hela bilden’. Svenska 2020. Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State Forum, Bryssel, 2019. Sverker Sörlin. ‘Vi behöver en Dagbladet, 19 May, 2020. and Environmental Movements, Kruger, Yvette, Henrik Ernstson, et konvention för nedrustning av Salö, Linus. ‘Rusta studenter med 1 – 7. Taylor and Francis, 2019. al. Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish?: fossil energi’. Dagens Nyheter, 29 Isberg, Erik. ‘Att resa till Island användbart språk’.Curie, A Documentary Film About the August, 2020. under antropocen’, OBS i P1, 11 February, 2020. van der Watt, Lize-Marié, Political Ecology of Urban Waste 25 April, 2019. Peder Roberts, and Julia Lajus. Management in Cape Town and MEDIA Högselius, Per. ‘Behovet av Salö, Linus. ‘Universiteten borde ‘Institutions and the Changing South Africa. Cape Town and kyla satte fart på Amerikas Lidström, Susanna, and Johan betyda mer’. Curie, 5 November, Nature of Arctic Research during Manchester: The Situated Urban Anderson, Kevin, and Sverker modernisering’. Svenska Dagbladet, Cederqvist. ‘Vår distans till havet’. 2019. the Early Cold War’. In Cold Science: Political Ecologies Collective (SUPE), Sörlin. ‘“Vi klimatforskare stödjer 30 March, 2019. Sveriges Natur, 10 September, 2019. Greta och skolungdomarna”’. no. 4, 2020. Storm, Anna, Achim Klüppelberg, Environmental Knowledge in the Dagens Nyheter, 15 March, 2019. Högselius, Per. ‘Döden på stranden’. and Tatiana Kasperski. ”Därför är North American Arctic during the Lindström, Kati. Exhibition on 5 June, Anekdot, 2020. Lindström, Kati. ‘Antarktika det bara Sverige som har en svensk Cold War, 197 – 216. Routledge, Antarctic Heritage at Museo Bertilsson, Fredrik. Humanioras lummuses’. GO REISIAJAKIRI 84, kärnkraftsdebatt”. Dagens Nyheter, 2019. Antártico Giró Tapper at Esperanza nya berättelse: Om vikten Högselius, Per. ‘I begynnelsen var no. 3, 14 August, 2020, 38–45. 27 May, 2019. Base, Antarctica, 2020. av att synliggöra den ”dolda oljan – sedan kom oljemänniskan’. Wormbs, Nina. ‘Teknikrapport humanioran”. Humtank, 6 Svenska Dagbladet, 29 June, 2019. Lindström, Kati. Mis koroona? Svedäng, Henrik, Susanna Lidström, från vår man in New York: De December, 2019. Jaapani jaoks tuleb kõigepealt and Sverker Sörlin. ‘Regeringen tekniska attachéerna’. In Tekniken i Högselius, Per. ‘Liberalas olümpia, siis tükk tühja maad ja måste skydda strömmingen’. samhällets tjänst: Första hundra Biasillo, Roberta. ‘Ockupera marknadsidéer ger ingen ny alles siis inimeste elud 100: (On Svenska dagbladet, 1 August, 2020. åren, 130 – 35. Stockholm: Kungl. REPORTS Klimatförändringarna’, 16 January, kärnkraft’. Dagens Industri, Crises Communication through Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, Tidningen Brand, 2019. 17 February, 2020. Corona, Olympics and Fukushima). Svensson, Daniel, Katarina 2019. Bonde, Ingrid, Karin Bäckstrand, Eesti Päevaleht. 15 March 2020, Saltzman, and Sverker Sörlin. Katarina Eckerberg, Johan Biasillo, Roberta. Grassroots Högselius, Per. ‘Ny kärnkraft är 2020. ‘Kulturarvets sårbarhet talar för Wormbs, Nina. ‘Ett kunskapsförakt Kyulenstierna, Tomas Kåberger, Åsa Initiatives in Climate Change- chanslös på den fria elmarknaden’. utvidgning’. Nya Wermlands- utan motstycke’. In Stjärnspäckat Löfgren, Markku Rummukainen, Adaptation for Justice and Göteborgs-Posten, 21 January, Nilsson, David. ’Framtiden för Tidningen, 29 October, 2020. – reflektioner från amerikanska and Sverker Sörlin. Report of the Sustainability, 28 February, 2019. 2020. utvecklingsforskning osäker’, FUF presidentvalet 2020 av ledande Swedish Climate Policy Council Magasin, 1 December, 2020. Sörlin, Sverker, and Martin Breum. forskare, p. 17, Sundsvall: 2019. Stockholm, 2019. Bonde, Ingrid, Johan Kuylenstierna, Högselius, Per. ‘När folk och ‘How a Warming Arctic Connects Mittuniversitetet DEMICOM, 2020. Karin Bäckstrand, Katarina mammutar gick under i Nordsjön’. Salö, Linus, and Fredrik Bertilsson. to Populism in the US and Europe’. Bonde, Ingrid, Karin Bäckstrand, Eckerberg, Åsa Löfgren, Tomas Svenska Dagbladet, 23 February, The Creep and Leap of Knowledge: Arctic Today, 28 March, 2019. Katarina Eckerberg, Johan Kåberger, Markku Rummukainen, 2020. On ‘source Criticism’ and Art and Artistic Research Kyulenstierna, Tomas Kåberger, Åsa and Sverker Sörlin. ‘Regeringens ‘semilingualism’ as Impactful Ideas Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Bildningsskolan Löfgren, Markku Rummukainen, krispolitik måste rymmas i Högselius, Per. ‘Om oljan tog of the Human Sciences. Stockholm: ger en gemensam berättelse om Holmstedt, Janna. (P)Art of and Sverker Sörlin. Report of the klimatramverket’. Dagens Nyheter, slut idag skulle världen kollapsa’. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, världen’. Skola och Samhälle, the Biomass. Stockholm: Swedish Climate Policy Council 5 May, 2020. Svenska Dagbladet, 30 June, 2019. 9 December, 2019. 11 November, 2019. Mossutställningar, 2019. 2020. Stockholm, 2020. Salö, Linus. ‘Böcker vi låtsas ha läst’. Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Brysselavtalet är Holmstedt, Janna. Blåshålet. Curie, 30 March, 2020. början på en ny historia’. Dagens Gnesta: Ljudtornet, 2019. Nyheter, 22 July, 2020.
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Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Det är nu vi Sörlin, Sverker. ”Inom Wormbs, Nina. ‘Så länge du är tyst’. väljer hur Sverige ska se ut efter folkbildningen sker en stor del Svensk biblioteksförening, pandemin’. Dagens Nyheter, 5 May, av det viktiga demokratiska 30 January, 2019. 2020: 8–9. samtalet”. Folkbildningsrådet, 8 February, 2019. Åsberg, Cecilia, and Marietta Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Dubbla hot kräver Radomska. ‘Why We Need Feminist nya svar’. Pedagogiska magasinet Wormbs, Nina, and Maria Wolrath Posthumanities for a More-than- 24, no. 1, 1 February, 2019: 91 – 91. Söderberg. ‘Skippa flygskammen Human World’. Transformative – kunskapen är viktigare’. Humanities KTH Blog, 23 August, Sörlin, Sverker. ‘I Australien Aftonbladet, 4 December, 2019. 2019. är klimatkrisen akut men makthavarna låtsas att det regnar’. Wormbs, Nina. ‘Distansarbete Dagens Nyheter, 15 December, är inte enbart av godo’. Dagens 2019. Nyheter, 29 July, 2020.
Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Ibland behöver Wormbs, Nina. ‘Full fart genom man en knuff’. Impuls 53, no. 1, historien för mänsklig rörelse: 14 February, 2020: 33–33. Recension av Henrik Höjer, Människor i rörelse (Natur och Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Miljöns humaniora’. Kultur, 2020)’. Svenska Dagbladet, Vattenmagasinet 4 (2019): 38 – 38. 26 May, 2020.
Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Norges skidhjältar Wormbs, Nina. ‘Lång dags letande får evigt liv i böckerna’. Dagens efter Bach’. Dagens Nyheter, 9 April, Nyheter, 18 February, 2019. 2020.
Sörlin, Sverker. ‘När cyklister, Wormbs, Nina. ‘Man vill ju gärna vegetarianer och vindkraftsvänner göra rätt – hur tar jag mig till går i spetsen’. Arbetsvärlden, Krakow?’ Curie, 19 Mars, 2019. 8 June, 2020. Wormbs, Nina. ‘Nästa konflikt på Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Skidglädje i jobbet kan handla om rätten att snöabstinensens tidevarv: Review resa’. Publikt, 10 February, 2020. of På ski fordi: Om gleden ved å gå på ski: Forsøk till en beskrivelse Wormbs, Nina. ‘Och så behöver vi (Oslo: Pax forlag, 2018).’ Dagens en kvinna också’. Curie, 20 October, Nyheter, 24 February, 2020. 2020.
Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Svensk höst, Wormbs, Nina. ‘Svårt att inte oktober 2019’. Dagens Nyheter, kunna ge längre utan bara få ta 26 Octorber, 2019. emot’. Kyrkans Tidning, 10 September, 2020. Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Sverige 2020 – en kollektiv laerdom’. Morgenbladet, Wormbs, Nina. ‘Så har 28 April, 2020. “svemestern” sommaren 2020 skapat ökad kunskap om världen’. Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Sverige gjør ikke alt Dagens Nyheter. 14 August, 2020. riktig’. Morgenbladet 201, no. 17, 29 April, 2020: 24–25. Wormbs, Nina. ‘Så kan den nya Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Vi försöker klimatsorgen bli en politisk gemensamt finna en väg – där en handling’. Dagens Nyheter. väg aldrig funnits’. Dagens Nyheter, 14 January, 2019. 4 April, 2020, 10–12. Wormbs, Nina. ‘Så leder individens Sörlin, Sverker. ‘Vi har vittring på handlingar till kollektiva lösningar i en ny värld’. Dagens Arena, 2 June, klimatfrågan’. Dagens Nyheter. 2020. 1 July, 2019.
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