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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
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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.