• Peter Wall Institute of Advance Studies Lecture
    Sverker Sörlin, Environmental History at KTH (the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology), Peter Wall Institute Visiting Research Scholar at UBC
    Coach House, Green College, UBC
    Tuesday, April 19, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow

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  • Sverker Sörlin’s research focuses on the roles and functions of knowledge in environmentally informed modern societies, and on research and innovation policy. His current research projects encompass the politics of climate change through the lenses of glaciology and sea ice; the emergence of and changes in environmental expertise; historical images of Arctic futures; and the environmental turn in the humanities and the social sciences.

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April 19th, 2016 from  5:00 PM to  6:30 PM
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