Masterclass: Sverker Sörlin

10:30am–12:45pm, Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, Madsen F09 Room 495

Hosted by the Social and Political Sciences (Environment Theme) and Sydney Environment Institute, together with the Vere Gordon Child Centre and School of Humanities.

HDR students, early and mid-career researchers in the environmental social sciences and humanities are invited to a masterclass with Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Participants are warmly invited to lunch following the masterclass, and then to attend Sverker’s seminar on Environing Technologies.

Sverker Sörlin is professor of Environmental History at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He was co-founder of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in 2012 and is a member of the Center for Anthropocene History in the Division of History of Science, Technology at KTH. His book with Eric Paglia, Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance: The Human Environment will appear in November 2024 with Cambridge University Press. He is an Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project Planetary Health Histories: Developing Concepts led by Professor Warwick Anderson (Anthropology, SSPS).