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… -------- 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.