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Green College Special Lecture | Peter Wall Institute of Advance Studies Lecture

The Future of Humanity and the Future of Humanities: Planetary Transformation Agendas and the University in the Anthropocene

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.

April 19, 2016
10:00 am to 11:30 am

Coach House

6201 Cecil Green Park Rd

Speakers

Sverker Sörlin, Environmental History at KTH (the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology), Peter Wall Institute Visiting Research Scholar
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