Center for Anthropocene History

New Article out on how seabirds have been made sentinels of the Anthropocene. shorturl.at/ZOXl8

"Recent technological advances have even been used to transform animals into mobile sensing ‘platforms’, collecting environmental data much like a weather balloon or an Argo float in the ocean."

KTH empties a family’s home of plastic | KTH

New project from colleagues at KTH tracks one family's household plastic to quantify its footprint and show alternatives!

Today at our Centre "Greenland, the United States, and the Global Order: How Useful is History in Understanding our Current Moment?"

A discussion with Pr. Ronald E. Doel, Smithsonian Institution and Florida State University www.kth.se/anthropocene...

We're happy to announce that our Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH will lead the polar humanities training in the new national polar research education program funded by the Swedish Research Council!
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‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery

Article on Youngwilders UK at the top of the Guardian’s read list! Oscar Hartman Davies, post doc at our center, is a co-founder and advisor to the organisation, which helps young people “accelerate nature recovery in one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.” shorturl.at/PyEXY

Thanks a lot to colleagues at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory for a great event that brought Kohei Saito to Stockholm for EHL's annual Archipelago Lecture. A provoking and enlightening talk. Which form degrowth would take is crucial question. lnkd.in/gfcW4x47

Ståle Holgersen joining us this Thursday to present his book Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World. He argues ecosocialist futures are our way out of repeating cycles of capitalism and crisis. www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Our workshop Infrastructures In, Of, and For the Anthropocene has wrapped! Thanks to everyone who participated!
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We're now preparing for a second Autumn workshop, Futures Beyond Transition: Perspectives from the Energy Humanities shorturl.at/kO4EI
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Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb

The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

We heard from John Chung-En Liu today, visiting from National Taiwan University and a guest at our division. He presented his work on climate narratives on the Chinese-language internet; not often included in the discussion on climate obstruction and misinformation...

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Kronos Quartet Enlist Ringo Starr, Iggy Pop, Willie Nelson, and Many More for Star-Studded Bob Dylan Covers Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test

Hard Rain Collective EP released! Featuring Kronos Quartet, Sara Parkman, Iggy Pop, Ringo Starr, Laurie Anderson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willie Nelson & more. This grew from a musical performance we co-hosted at KTH with the Strange Attractors project. Thanks Owen Gaffney for driving this.

We were happy to co-sponsor the experimental Strange Attractors event in Stockholm. Sara Parkman and Chronos Quartet gave us beautiful and unsettling music. Authors Andre Magnusson and Sverker Sörlin gave us talks on time, water and the power of words. Anticipating Strange Attractors next event...

Book Launch: Digital Ecologies - Mediating more-than-human worlds | KTH The Centre for Anthropocene History co-hosts the event in Oslo with the Oslo Centre for Environmental Humanities at University of Oslo.

We are happy to be co-hosting this launch event this week in Oslo with the Centre for Environmental Humanities. Register at the link below!

Join us on April 23rd when Wim Carton comes to visit us in Stockholm to present his and Andreas Malm's new book Overshoot: Why the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. ➡️ Register shorturl.at/SEfYw

Doing Anthropocene History #2: with Jo Guldi | KTH Join us for the second session of our 'Doing Anthropocene History' seminar series for 2025, with Jo Guldi.

Joins us online today for a seminar with Jo Guldi, the second in our “Doing Anthropocene History’ spring seminar series at at 15:30-17:00. shorturl.at/sEivE

Join us tomorrow for the first session in our Doing Anthropocene History ONLINE seminar series for 2025 on "Cultural Memory in the Anthropocene" with Gabriele Dürbeck. Register here shorturl.at/fTC5F

See the latest open calls, events, publications and news from us in our newsletter here! shorturl.at/cOjva

Location confirmed: Utö in the Stockholm Archpelago! Apply by 28 Feb for our Summer School in Anthropocene Histories. August 25-28Organised by Center for Anthropocene History at KTH, and the European Society for Environmental History. shorturl.at/ZwocS

Apply for the Summer School in Anthropocene Histories! August 25-28 in Stockholm's archipelago. Organised by, Center for Anthropocene History at KTH, in collaboration with the European Society for Environmental History conference www.kth.se/anthropocene...

‘Global Environment’ 18.1 is now available. This is a special issue called ‘Visions of Sustainability’, guest edited by Laura Meneghello. It’s #openaccess online, thanks to all of our #subscribetoopen and KOALA supporters! @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist

Apply for our Visiting Scholar Fellowships for 2025 and 2026! We welcome applications from scholars at all levels and from all disciplines and all parts of the world, who want to work with us and contribute to shaping the emerging field of Anthropocene history. www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Relational Technologies, Technological Relations  - Färgfabriken Technology has always been with us and within us. It has shaped our relationships with each other and with the world around us since humanity’s beginning. However, the recent acceleration in the devel...

Join us in attending Relational Technologies, Technological Relations – An interdisciplinary assembly on existential challenges of AI and biometrics. Opening Friday at Färgfabriken exhibition space Stockholm!
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New publication from centre member Sverker Sörlin. Taking Planetary Boundaries framework "as both a case of ‘planetary modelling’ and, at the same time an ‘environing technology’ that is performative and shapes what the environment ‘is’ while modelling it" www.kth.se/anthropocene...

A brief flirtation between fossil fuels and green energy | NWO

Join us for a seminar with Prof. Cyrus Mody on 14/1 at 13-14:30. His recent Managing Scarcity project looks into why oil firms like Shell & BP contributed to environmentalism and alternative energy, but then later abandoned those fields
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Work with us! Two assistant professorships at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Apply by Feb 7th.

1. Environmental History with specialization in Anthropocene History www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...
2. History of Science with specialization in Anthropocene History www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

Join this year’s Archipelago Lecture with Timothy Mitchell

A reminder that the Environmental Humanities Lab's once a year Archipelago Lecture is happening today 17-19:00 at KTH, with renowned author of 'Carbon Democracy', Timothy Mitchell.

Mingle with refreshments afterwards www.kth.se/ehl/ehl-even...

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"In the finance Industry, the green hype is over. Capitalism will never be able to solve the climate crisis"

New opinion article in Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet from Centre co-director Adam Wickberg

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