The seminar usually convenes on select Wednesdays 15.00–17:00, digitally through Zoom as well as on site at the Department of History, room D837, Stockholm University. 

Convenors: Charlotta Forss (Södertörn University) and Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist. To be added to our e-mail list, contact fredrik.c.l@historia.su.se.

Seminar Program Autumn 2024
 

18 September: Paul J. Krusic (Stockholm University)

“Dendrochronology: The history within a tree”.

23 October: Ingar Stene (Oslo University)

“What was the Anthropocene? Social, Cultural and Natural Entanglements in Early Modern Scandinavian History”

13 November: Cecilia Sjöholm (Södertörns University), Björn Billing (Gothenburg University) and Cecilia Rosengren (Gothenburg University)

“Cold imaginaries in Early Modern Northern Europe – natural philosophy, aesthetics and Arctic experiences”

5 December: Otso Kortekangas (Åbo Akademi University) och Christoffer Åhlman (Örebro University)

“How did we learn to think about forests the way we do? Meanings of forests and forestry in Swedish and Finnish school textbooks 1970–2020s”.