Dear colleagues,
please be warmly invited to a seminar with Nicolás Cuvi, Professor at the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO) at Quito, Ecuador, and currently a research fellow at the Centre for Anthropocene History at KTH. Nicolás will present his research on Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Amazonia<https://www.kth.se/anthropocenehistory/events/upcoming-events/making-unmaki…>:
Friday, October 23, 10:15–12.00
Centre for Anthropocene History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH
Teknikringen 74 D, 114 28 Stockholm
Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Amazonia
Before the sixteenth century, the Amazon was a densely inhabited, highly diverse biocultural biome, shaped by millennia of intricate human and non-human entanglements. This seminar explores the long-term history of this socio-ecological system through three phases. First, it examines the ”Making” of the Amazon, highlighting the deep historical co-production of its biocultural landscapes. Second, it dissects the systematic “Unmaking” of the region, tracing the extractivist vectors that have operated since European contact, by summarising examples of the centuries of ecosystemic and epistemic dispossession, from early imperial extraction to contemporary agribusiness. In this Unmaking, the Amazon has been subjected to a relentless process of dual colonial emptying to construct a tameable terra nullius: a semiotic depletion that erased local ontologies, languages, and knowledge, and a material depletion driven by demographic collapse and the metabolic reorganization of the territory. Finally, the talk explores the “Remaking” of the biome by emphasising the persistent resistances, agencies, and adaptation strategies of Indigenous and local communities (and of studies on the Amazon) that highlight possible pathways to a resilient future.
Nicolás Cuvi is an environmental historian based in Quito, Ecuador, where he is a Senior Research Professor at the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO) at Quito, Ecuador. His work spans the environmental humanities broadly: environmental history, history of science, urban ecology, and environmental ethics, in the context of the tropical Andes, the Amazon and Latin America. Nicolás has also served as Lead Author and Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth and seventh assessment cycles.
Welcome!
Sabine
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Dr. Sabine Höhler
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Head of Department of Philosophy and History
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
Department of Philosophy and History
Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
Teknikringen 74 D
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Fon: +46 8 790 87 41
Email: sabine.hoehler(a)abe.kth.se<mailto:sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se>
Dear all,
Please see attached CfP regarding a workshop in Gothenburg on 13-14 May 2027: The Midnight Lands. Olaus Magnus and the Representation of the Environment of Northern Europe.
The workshop will combine paper presentations with close discussion of selected chapters. You are most welcome to submit a proposal of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper, together with a suggestion of up to four chapters to be read in preparation, by 31 October 2026 to Cecilia Rosengren (cecilia.rosengren(a)lir.gu.se) and Joana van de Löcht (van.de.loecht(a)uni-muenster.de) The working language of the workshop will be English. We will endeavor to cover all travel and accommodation costs.
Please feel free to spread the information.
Best wishes,
Joana and Cecilia
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Joana van de Löcht
Universität Münster
Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe
LitLIA: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Germanistik/LitLIA/
Cecilia Rosengren, Professor of History of Ideas and Science
University of Gothenburg
Freezing Cold: https://www.gu.se/en/research/freezing-cold-northern-european-imaginaries-o…
Hej,
Här är schemat för det teknik- och vetenskapshistoriska seminariet i Göteborg, ett samarbete mellan STS på Chalmers och idé- och lärdomshistoria, Göteborgs universitet.
Välkomna!
/Aron Ambrosiani och Gustav Holmberg
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Gustav Holmberg
http://www.gustavholmberg.com
Hej! En påminnelse om denna doktorandkurs, som vi ser fram emot att ge i höst. Nu finns en litteraturlista, som bifogas detta mailutskick och som inom kort kommer att läggas ut på kurshemsidan också. (Ytterligare en liten justering som ska in på hemsidan är tiden för sista seminariet, den 11 december, som är förlängd till 13–17).
Sök eller sprid till möjliga intresserade doktorander, i Sverige och utomlands (distansdeltagande kommer att vara möjligt)! Och igen, ursäkta eventuell dubbelpostning.
The Gender Academy at Stockholm University is giving the following PhD course, that will be taught in October-December 2026:
Critical Perspectives on Anti-gender, 7,5 credits, Stockholm University
The aim of the course is to offer an advanced introduction to the expanding research field on anti-gender politics, which has sought to contribute understandings of the intensified mobilizations against LGBTIQ+ rights, women’s reproductive rights, and feminist, anti-racist and social justice politics. During the course, historical and contemporary, trans-disciplinary and trans-national perspectives on this phenomenon will be discussed, along with explorations of feminist and LGBTIQ+ resistance and counter mobilizations. Furthermore, the interconnection between anti-gender politics and other contemporary phenomena such as for example the rise of the digital manosphere, the institutionalization of right-wing populism and the resurgence of anti-immigration, white supremacist and authoritarian/neo-fascist discourses and regimes will be interrogated.
The course will be organized around thematic readings and lecture/seminars, spread out between October 9 and December 11. The students will be given the opportunity to delve into a chosen area based on their own research interests. Please note that Nov. 6 will be a full day, including open lectures by Elzbieta Korolczuk (Södertörn University & Warsaw University) and Haley McEwen (University of Gothenburg & University West). Online/hybrid participation will be possible.
Further information on the course may be found at the Gender Academy’s website, https://www.su.se/english/divisions/gender-academy/about-the-gender-academy….
For further questions, contact the course coordinators Annika Berg, annika.berg(a)idehist.su.se<mailto:annika.berg@idehist.su.se> and Åsa Eriksson, asa.eriksson(a)gender.su.se<mailto:asa.eriksson@gender.su.se>.
To register for the course (as soon as possible, but at the latest Sep. 30), please e-mail phdadministration(a)erg.su.se<mailto:phdadministration@erg.su.se> .
Teachers:
Annika Berg, Stockholm University (course coordinator)
Åsa Eriksson, Stockholm University (course coordinator)
Emil Edenborg, Stockholm University
Lena Gemzöe, Stockholm University
Elzbieta Korolczuk, Södertörn University & Warzaw University
Haley McEwen, University of Gothenburg & University West
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Annika Berg
Docent och universitetslektor i idéhistoria/Associate Professor and University Lecturer in the History of Ideas
Institutionen för kultur och estetik/Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Stockholms universitet/Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
annika.berg(a)idehist.su.se<mailto:annika.berg@idehist.su.se>
https://www.su.se/profiles/annibhttps://www.su.se/english/profiles/a/annib
Hej,
Den 23-26 november anordnas doktorandkursen Stockholm Winter School in Planetary Histories vid Centre for Anthropocene History på KTH. Läs mer om kursen nedan och sprid gärna vidare om ni känner någon som ni tror kan vara intresserad. Mer info kan också hittas här: https://www.kth.se/philhist/historia/kalender/winter-school-in-planetary-hi…
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Join us for the first Stockholm PhD Winter School in Planetary Histories, 5 ECTS, November 23-26, 2026.
Course aims
The aim of the course is to explore what environmental history is and can be in a “planetary” age. In recent years, the planetary has emerged as an epistemological and historical category in its own right. Planetary perspectives go beyond the global: they encompass the geophysical and biological planet as well as political, cultural and economic orders. The course aims to provide students with an introduction to these perspectives, how they challenge us to interpret the past in new ways, and critically approach the epistemologies and politics underpinning planetary knowledge. We will explore how the material dimensions of the planet, and their interwoven relations with politics and economics, shape our understanding of history and compel us to think across new temporalities and timescales. Planetary histories are in this sense not necessarily “big histories”, but ways of historically accounting for how the human and the planetary intersect in particular settings.
Course contents
The course will feature a keynote lecture by Paul Edwards (Stanford), sessions taught by Julia Nordblad (Uppsala), Alexis Rider (Vienna), Tom Turnbull (MPIWG) and Jonathan Galka (KTH), and a field trip to the Askö laboratory in the Stockholm archipelago. Participants will receive feedback on their own work by The Centre for Anthropocene History’s faculty. The course is organized by Erik Isberg and Emil Flatø.
To apply, please send a short CV and an abstract of your dissertation topic (max 300 words) with the subject line "Planetary Histories PhD course application" to eriisb(a)kth.se by October 1st.
We welcome applications from PhD candidates working in environmental history and other historical subdisciplines, as well as STS, political ecology, environmental humanities, anthropology, or other related disciplines. The course is free of charge, and lunches and coffee are included, but students are expected to cover their own travel and lodging. If you are prevented from attending for lack of funds, please write to us, as we have some limited funding for travel costs.
Hej alla!
Ber om ursäkt för eventuell dubbelpostning! Här kommer ett CFP för årsskriften 1700-tal: Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies inför 2027. Temat är ”Förfluten natur. Miljöhistoriska, ekokritiska, och kulturekologiska perspektiv på nordisk naturgestaltning under det långa 1700-talet”. Mer information hittar du i bifogad fil. Varmt välkommen med abstract senast den 15 september – färdig artikel skickas in den 15 januari 2027. Vi ser fram emot artiklar, essäer och debatt!
Hälsningar från forskargruppen Cool Nature
genom
Sara
Vi ser fram emot att ge denna nya doktorandkurs i höst. Sök eller sprid till möjliga intresserade doktorander, i Sverige eller utomlands (distansdeltagande kommer att vara möjligt)! Och ursäkta eventuell dubbelpostning.
The Gender Academy at Stockholm University is giving the following PhD course, that will be taught in October-December 2026:
Critical Perspectives on Anti-gender, 7,5 credits, Stockholm University
The aim of the course is to offer an advanced introduction to the expanding research field on anti-gender politics, which has sought to contribute understandings of the intensified mobilizations against LGBTIQ+ rights, women’s reproductive rights, and feminist, anti-racist and social justice politics. During the course, historical and contemporary, trans-disciplinary and trans-national perspectives on this phenomenon will be discussed, along with explorations of feminist and LGBTIQ+ resistance and counter mobilizations. Furthermore, the interconnection between anti-gender politics and other contemporary phenomena such as for example the rise of the digital manosphere, the institutionalization of right-wing populism and the resurgence of anti-immigration, white supremacist and authoritarian/neo-fascist discourses and regimes will be interrogated.
The course will be organized around thematic readings and lecture/seminars, spread out between October 9 and December 11. The students will be given the opportunity to delve into a chosen area based on their own research interests. Please note that Nov. 6 will be a full day, including open lectures by Elzbieta Korolczuk (Södertörn University & Warsaw University) and Haley McEwen (University of Gothenburg & University West). Online/hybrid participation will be possible.
Reading lists will be finalized later in August and published at the Gender Academy’s website, where further information on the course may be found, https://www.su.se/english/divisions/gender-academy/about-the-gender-academy….
For further questions, contact the course coordinators Annika Berg, annika.berg(a)idehist.su.se<mailto:annika.berg@idehist.su.se> and Åsa Eriksson, asa.eriksson(a)gender.su.se<mailto:asa.eriksson@gender.su.se>.
To register for the course (as soon as possible, but at the latest Sep. 30), please e-mail phdadministration(a)erg.su.se<mailto:phdadministration@erg.su.se> .
Teachers:
Annika Berg, Stockholm University (course coordinator)
Åsa Eriksson, Stockholm University (course coordinator)
Emil Edenborg, Stockholm University
Lena Gemzöe, Stockholm University
Elzbieta Korolczuk, Södertörn University & Warzaw University
Haley McEwen, University of Gothenburg & University West
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Annika Berg
Docent och universitetslektor i idéhistoria
Institutionen för kultur och estetik
Stockholms universitet
106 91 Stockholm
annika.berg(a)idehist.su.se<mailto:annika.berg@idehist.su.se>
https://www.su.se/profiles/annib
Dear colleagues,
Please see the call for participation in a Summer School for PhD & master students on the topic “What Computers and AI can’t do: Reflecting on Errors, Malfunctioning, and Limitations of Technology in the Digital Age” (5 cp), organized and hosted by the Department of History at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, to take place June 17-21, 2024: https://www.geschichte.tu-darmstadt.de/unitesummerschool
Topics include: The Public Discourse on Errors, Limits, and Malfunctions in the Digital Age; Concepts of Error; Tackling Errors/Finding Errors/Scientific Culture of Error; and Ethical and Scientific Limits of Computers and AI: What They Can’t and Shouldn’t Do.
The deadline for applications is March 31, 2024. Please help spread in your networks.
All the best,
Sabine
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Dr. Sabine Höhler
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Head of Department of Philosophy and History
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
Department of Philosophy and History
Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
Teknikringen 74 D
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Fon: +46 8 790 87 41
Email: sabine.hoehler(a)abe.kth.se<mailto:sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se>
Hej!
Professor Thomas Brandt, NTNU lyser ut en doktorandtjänst i vetenskapshistoria:
Vi har en ledig stilling som doktorgradsstipendiat ved Institutt for historiske fag, NTNU. Den er tilknyttet et tverrvitenskapelig prosjekt om Trondheimsfjorden som system i et «human-nature entanglement» perspektiv. Den aktuelle doktoranden skal arbeide med et prosjekt innenfor vitenskapshistorie og krever at man behersker et skandinavisk språk.
Ville det være mulig for deg å dele informasjon om stillingen i aktuelle kanaler i Sverige? Her er i alle fall lenken til stillingsannonsen:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/300877/stipendiat-i-vit…
Hälsningar,
Per
Ny krönika | new op-ed
"Men när får ni tid att tänka då?", Tidningen Curie, 27 april 2026<https://www.tidningencurie.se/kronikor/men-nar-far-ni-tid-att-tanka-da>
Nya böcker | new books
Det dolda universitetet: Militär forskning i kalla krigets Sverige (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2025) (edited with Eric Bergelin & Niklas Stenlås)<https://nordicacademicpress.se/product/det-dolda-universitetet/>
Grå reformer och gröna omställningar: Omregleringar av sociotekniska system runt 1990 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2025) (edited with Andreas Mørkved Hellenes & Martin Hultman)<https://nordicacademicpress.se/product/gra-reformer-och-grona-omstallningar/>
Maktens maskiner: Hur stora datorer moderniserade folkhemmet (Lund: Arkiv förlag, 2024) (with Arne Kaijser, Gustav Sjöblom, Johan Gribbe)<https://doi.org/10.13068/9789179243883>
Ny rapport | new working paper
Att följa pengarna: En analys av forskningsfinansieringen i efterkrigstidens Sverige (Stockholm, 2023) (with Johan Gribbe)<https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2042787/FULLTEXT01.pdf>
Ny artikel | new article
'The limits of academization: Agricultural policy and the shaping of Swedish higher agricultural education during the interwar and war years', Agricultural History Review 71, no. 2 (2023)<https://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLE.html?ID=751&MOD=this>
Per Lundin
Professor i teknikhistoria | Professor of History of Technology
Avdelningen för teknik, vetenskap och samhälle | Div. of Science, Technology and Society
Teknikens ekonomi och organisation | Dept. of Technology Management and Economics
Chalmers tekniska högskola | Chalmers University of Technology
SE - 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)31-772 15 28, +46 (0)721-58 22 60
Zoom: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/7292318561
