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Centre for Anthropocene History

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Cross-disciplinary research on past, present & future of the human-induced environmental transformation of the planet @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden

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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join our new intensive Winter School in Planetary Histories, November 23-26 at KTH Stockholm! Application open now shorturl.at/x0KgY
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New Article at Resilience.org includes an interview with center director Sabine Höhler. "The Anthropocene denotes our current experiment with the entire Earth – the age of terrestrial reorganization,” said Höhler. “It is a name for how things connect” shorturl.at/XrCml
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'Industrial memories': What the history of the Anthropocene can tell us about where we’re headed
Industrial landscapes are living reminders of how centuries of fossil-fuel development reshaped Earth’s systems. As the Anthropocene unfolds, that legacy continues to shape our future. Historian Sabin...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our incoming assistant professor Jonathan Galka has been awarded the World History Association’s Dissertation Prize for 2025! shorturl.at/44Dez Congratulations Jonathan!
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We were excited to host Naomi Oreskes as part of our new series of talks and events Changing Earth. Thank you to our our partners ABF Stockholm, the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, and special thanks to Arena Idé for their engagement. Sign up www.kth.se/form/6735b4e...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Come join us for an evening with world renowned author Naomi Oreskes in Stockholm on the 24th April at ABF Huset! Tickets 🎟️ lnkd.in/dz8W9Gqg Organised by the Centre for Anthropocene History and supported by ABF Stockholm, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory and Arena Idé.
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🎫 Get tickets to 'In the Belly of AI' Swedish premiere film screening at Bio Skandia as part of the Material Cloud Film Festival next Tuesday 14th. www.kth.se/.../the-mate....
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚀 ❓What happens if the AI bubble pops? Should we see data centers as potential ruins that will remain? Join us next week for 'AI Before the Ruins', a seminar with Anne Pasek on Wednesday 1st of April shorturl.at/wARXH
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New book chapter from Centre researchers, 'Reckoning with the Ocean' shows disconnect between the digital transformation affecting all environmental science & policy, including the ocean, and the obstacles to achieving sustainable ocean environments. Check out the full open access book !
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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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."
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New project from colleagues at KTH tracks one family's household plastic to quantify its footprint and show alternatives!
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KTH empties a family’s home of plastic | KTH
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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! shorturl.at/zzJ99
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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
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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
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our workshop Infrastructures In, Of, and For the Anthropocene has wrapped! Thanks to everyone who participated! shorturl.at/yllJN We're now preparing for a second Autumn workshop, Futures Beyond Transition: Perspectives from the Energy Humanities shorturl.at/kO4EI (Flamenco image: James Bridle)
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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.
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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... www.kth.se/anthropocene...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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.
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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
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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!
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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.
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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
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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.
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
See the latest open calls, events, publications and news from us in our newsletter here! shorturl.at/cOjva
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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...
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
‘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
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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! fargfabriken.se/en/pa-gang/r...
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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...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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 Event shorturl.at/E3YmC More shorturl.at/MwXI9
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A brief flirtation between fossil fuels and green energy | NWO
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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/...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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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Join this year’s Archipelago Lecture with Timothy Mitchell
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"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 www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/eMk...
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COP 29 | 1,5-gradersmålet snart omöjligt att uppnå
COP29: 1,5-gradersmålet kommer mycket snart vara omöjligt att uppnå
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Sign up to our Newsletter for updates on events, publications, news, invitations, and more www.kth.se/form/6735b4e...
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Centre for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! Inviting you to connect with us and our recently launched centre at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Find updates on events, publications, invitations to visit, and signup to our newsletter at our website www.kth.se/anthropocene...
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Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History | KTH
The Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History is a multi-disciplinary, research-focused center. We aim to build a novel, integrated approach to the past, present and future of the cumulative anthr...
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