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Talks

Collection of talks and papers in chronological order. Some manuscripts are available for download as pdf documents.


  • In Preparation
  • "The Pacific Blob: Ocean Warming, Datafied and Storified"
    Panel series "Datafying the Environment, Environmentalizing Data" (coorganized with Gemma Cirac-Claveras), 11th Tensions of Europe Konferenz, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, September 19-21, 2024.
  • "Introduction: Critique or Action, History or Activism" (with Christina Wessely)
    Roundtable "Critique or Action, History or Activism? Exploring the Role of Environmental History in the Environmental Crisis" (coorganized with Christina Wessely), WCEH World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finland, August 19-23, 2024.
  • "An Ocean of Data: Informing Ocean Heating in the Anthropocene?"
    Panel "Anthropocene History" (coorganized with Adam Wickberg), TVHD Teknik och vetenskapshistoriska dagar/History of Science and Technology Days 2024, Stockholm, June 12-14, 2024.
  • "'Space: the final frontier'? Rymdkapplöpningen mellan teknisering och reglering"
    Offentliga samtal – forskare möter praktiker, Vetenskapsfestivalen/Science Festival Gothenburg, April 18, 2024.

  • 2024
  • "Histories of the Recent Future: Technology and Anthropocenic Time"
    Workshop "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 'Technology Futures'", Institute of Technology Futures (ITZ) and Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, March 14-15, 2024.
  • "Anthropocene History"
    Colloquium Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, January 18, 2024.

  • 2023
  • "Anthropocene History"
    KTH Sustainability Research Day 2023, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, November 23, 2023.
  • "Anthropocene History"
    Colloquium Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT), University of Wuppertal, Germany, November 15, 2023.
  • "Global Perspectives on Timber Colonialism"
    Invited commentator, conference "At the Vanguard of Colonialism: Global Perspectives on Timber Colonialism during the Age of Industrialization", SCAS Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, November 9-10, 2023.
  • Panelist, "Open and Accessible Data – A Recipe for Research Success?"
    Popular science panel discussion at KTH Library, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (hybrid event under the Stockholm Nobel Calling week), October 5, 2023.
    Video: https://play.kth.se/media/Open+and+accessible+data+%E2%80%93+a+recipe+for+research+successF/0_hqaqh54t
  • "To monitor is to manage – or not? Which data do we need to reach the environmental SDGs?" (with Adam Wickberg)
    Roundtable WASP-HS The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society, CRM Community Reference Meeting "AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030", online event, October 4, 2023.
  • "Anthropocene History"
    DHST Global History of Science and Technology Festival 2023, "The Future of History of Science and Technology / History of Science and Technology for the Future", online event, September 28-30, 2023.
  • "From Ridges to Riches – Subsea Mountains and Plains as Places of Prospecting. Giving the (Sea) Floor to Environmental History"
    Roundtable, 12th Conference of the European Society for Environmental History ESEH, "Mountains and Plains: Past, present and future environmental and climatic entanglements", University of Bern, August 22-26, 2023.
  • "Baseline Truths Beyond the Map: Global Environmental Change in the Bathymetric Model of the World’s Oceans"
    Workshop "Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling", Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, June 8-9, 2023.
    Program:     https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/historical-epistemologies-planetary-modelling
  • "Anthropozängeschichte"
    Workshop "Perspektiven einer Geschichte ökologischen Wissens", Leuphana University Lüneburg, March 22-23, 2023.
  • "An Ocean of Data: Oceanic Knowledge Architectures from Sounding to Sensing"
    Seminar "Maritime Modernities: Formats of Oceanic Knowledge", University of Oslo, March 14, 2023.
  • "Climate is a Scaling Exercise"
    Session "Histories of Climate Change: Place-Based Approaches from European History" (Central European History Society Presidential Panel, organised by Astrid M. Eckert), AHA American Historical Association Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, January 5-8, 2023.

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  • 2022
  • "Spaceship Earth: Space Science Fact and Science Fiction"
    Presentation Rymddag/Space Day, Södertörn University & Swedish National Space Agency, Stockholm, November 25, 2022.
  • "It could have been otherwise: STS as a Historical Project"
    Joint STS seminar series of Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden, October 7, 2022.
  • Commentator (online), conference panel "Jenseits des Terrazentrismus: Kartographien der Meere und das Wissen von der Globalität der Welt im 19. Jahrhundert"
    Annual Meeting GWMT Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik, Erfurt, Germany, September 21-23, 2022.
  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on "Technology Futures"
    Statement, Online-Workshop at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Technology Futures (ITZ) and Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), September 16, 2022.
  • "The Metrics of the Anthropocene" (with Ariane Tanner)
    Panel "Historicizing Global Environmental Governance: Environmental Objects and Institutional Responses" (convenor Sverker Sörlin), European Society for Environmental History (ESEH), University of Bristol, UK, July 4-8, 2022.
  • "The Elephant in the Room. Mediations of a Heating Ocean in Times of Global Climate Change"
    "The Mediated Ocean: A Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Marine Data and Policy", KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, May 10-11, 2022.
  • Discussant, "Smart Forests: How are Forests becoming Digital Environments" (Jennifer Gabrys)
    Online spring seminar series "NordAI – Nordic Observatory of Artificial Intelligence", KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, May 5, 2022.
  • "The Numbers and Metrics of Environmental Governance"
    Panel "Making the Environment Governable: Towards a History of Global Environmental Governance" (organised by Eric Paglia), ASEH American Society for Environmental History Conference, Eugene, Oregon, USA, March 23-27, 2022. Paper delivered at the Virtual ASEH 2022 conference, April 8-10, 2022.
  • "The Ocean's 'Digital Twin'? Marine Environmental Data Through Time" (with Susanna Lidström and Tirza Meyer)
    #frAIday online seminar series, Umeå University, Sweden, February 25, 2022.
    Recorded presentation online:     https://www.umu.se/en/research/our-research/features-and-news/artificial-intelligence/fraiday/

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  • 2021
  • Panelist, Keynote Roundtable "The Future History of the Anthropocene"
    "Streams: Transformative Environmental Humanities", International Environmental Humanities Conference hosted by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, August 3-6, 2021.
    The session on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvqmEdjb_GY
  • "The Pacific Blob"
    "Streams: Transformative Environmental Humanities", International Environmental Humanities Conference hosted by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, August 3-6, 2021.
  • "Die Ökosphäre: Ein Umweltmodell in Wissenschaft und Fiktion"
    "Dialogo", Colloquium series Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik / Wirkungsgeschichte der Technik, University of Stuttgart, June 8, 2021.

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  • 2020
  • "The Metrics of the Anthropocene" (with Ariane Tanner)
    Workshop "Toolbox of Environmental Governance: Numbers, Metrics, and Acronyms", KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, December 2-4, 2020.
  • "The Pacific Blob"
    "Streams: Transformative Environmental Humanities", International Environmental Humanities Conference hosted by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, August 5-8, 2020 (postponed to 2021, due to Covid-19 pandemic).
  • "Ecospheres: Life and Environment ex natura"
    Seminar series "Origin and Condition of Appearance of Life", Observatoire de Paris, June 3, 2020 (postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic).

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  • 2018
  • Commentator, Workshop "Technology's Temporal Regimes: Past, Present and Futures"
    ITZ Institute of Technology Futures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), November 29-30, 2018.
  • "Plant Engineering and Visions of Forest Design in Sweden in the 1960s"
    Session "Science, Techno-Science and Sustainability in Scandinavia" (organised by Peder Anker), The 7th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, Oslo, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, November 15-16, 2018.
  • Commentator, SHOT Graduate Student Workshops I and II
    SHOT Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting St. Louis, USA, October 11-14, 2018.
  • "Ökosphären. Leben und Umwelt ex natura"
    Keynote Annual Meeting Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT), conference theme "Wissen und Umwelt", Ruhr Universität Bochum, September 12-14, 2018.
  • Panelist, Roundtable "Die Provokation des Anthropozäns – Reaktionen der Wissenschafts-, Technik- und Umweltgeschichte"
    Annual Meeting Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT), conference theme "Wissen und Umwelt", Ruhr Universität Bochum, September 12-14, 2018.
  • Panelist, Roundtable "Planetary Boundaries, Thresholds, Budgets as 'hard data' for an effective Global Environmental Governance?"
    "The Right Use of the Earth. International Conference on Knowledge, Power and Duties in a Finite Planet / Le bon usage de la Terre. Conférence internationale sur savoirs, pouvoirs et devoirs sur une planète finie", Paris, École normale supérieure, May 29 to June 1, 2018.
  • "Terraforming: Technoscience and Environment in Experimenting with Earth"
    "The Right Use of the Earth. International Conference on Knowledge, Power and Duties in a Finite Planet / Le bon usage de la Terre. Conférence internationale sur savoirs, pouvoirs et devoirs sur une planète finie", Paris, École normale supérieure, May 29 to June 1, 2018.
  • "From Life to Life Support: The Environmental Life Support System on Earth and Beyond since the 1960s"
    Keynote Conference "Life on Earth and Beyond: Emergence, Survivability, and Impact on the Environment", Bertinoro, Italy, March 19-23, 2018.

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  • 2017
  • "'Transformative Humanities': Gestaltungspotenziale der Geisteswissenschaften am Beispiel der Klimaforschung"
    Forschungskolloquium Institut für Geschichte / Institut für Technikzukünfte, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, November 27, 2017.
  • "Utveckling och dynamik i marina system"
    Symposium "Mistra Arctic Sustainable Development: Vad kom vi fram till?", Nordic Museum, Stockholm, November 17, 2017.
    See the presentation online at www.mistraarctic.se: www.mistraarctic.se
  • "'Spaceship Earth': Envisioning the Human Habitat in the Environmental Age"
    "Campus 100" Seminar Marathon on occasion of the 100th Campus Anniversary, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, October 18, 2017.
    See the presentation on Youtube: www.youtube.com
  • Commentator, Panel Discussion "Engaging Transpositions: Science and Art"
    Research Event "Transpositions: From Science to Art (and Back)", Stockholm, October 2-6, 2017.
  • Panelist, Roundtable "Can there be a Nordic Anthropocene? Histories of New Natures in the Nordic Countries"
    (organised by Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen), 29th Congress of Nordic Historians, Aalborg, Denmark, August 15-18, 2017.
  • "Two Degrees. Climate Dynamics in Aggregate"
    ESEH European Society for Environmental History Conference, Session "Historicizing Earth Dynamics: How Geology, Ecology and Climatology Have Coped with a Lively Planet", Zagreb, Croatia, June 28 to July 2, 2017.
  • "Marine Governance: Oceanic Resources and Environment in the European Arctic"
    Ninth International Congress of Arctic Social Science (ICASS IX), Umeå University, June 8-12, 2017.
  • "Terraforming. Technik und Umwelt im Experiment mit der Erde"
    Keynote Annual Conference of the GTG Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte, conference theme "Technisierte Umwelten", Braunschweig Technical University, May 19-21, 2017.
  • "Infinite Variety Circumscribed: A Dialogue between John Ray's Wisdom of God and John Allen's Biosphere 2" (with Anna Svensson)
    Conference "Biodiversity and its Histories", University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, March 24-25, 2017.

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  • 2016
  • "Smart, Compact, Sustainable? Challenging the Techno-Ecological Model City as a Global Solution for Urban Sustainability"
    Conference "(Re-)imagining Future(s): Ecology, Emancipation and the Built Environment", SNU Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi, India, September 22-23, 2016.
  • "Two Degrees: A Global Climate Accord and its Disparities"
    Workshop "Creative Commensuration: Histories of Scaling in Science and Society", Center History of Knowledge Zurich, July 7-8, 2016.
  • "Local Weather Event, Global Climate Condition: Satellite Translations of El Niño"
    Session "Re-Inventing the Human Scale: Science, Technology and Global Climate Change", SHOT Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Singapore, June 22-26, 2016.
  • "Turning Point oder Tipping Point? Die Zwei-Grad-Grenze im Klimadiskurs"
    Global Challenges Ringvorlesung "Planetary Boundaries", TU Darmstadt, June 7, 2016.
  • "Die Zahl Zwei als globaler Leitwert und Grenzwert in der Klimadebatte"
    Conference "Geschichte und Soziologie globaler Zahlen", University of Luzern, May 26-28, 2016.
    Conference Report by Daniel Speich on H-Soz-Kult online: https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-6716
  • "Local Disruption or Global Condition? Satellite Stories of El Niño"
    Swedish STS Conference 2016, Lund University, Campus Helsingborg, May 19-20, 2016.
  • "Local Disruption or Global Condition? The Satellite View of El Niño"
    Workshop "La coopération spatiale du global au national: enjeux, échelles et éléments de comparaison", Centre Alexandre Koyré CNRS, EHESS, MNHN, Paris, April 20, 2016.
  • "Local Disruption, Global Condition: El Niño as Weather and as Climate Phenomenon"
    Workshop "Experiencing the Global Environment", Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, February 4-6, 2016.

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  • 2015
  • "Edens, Arks and Spaceships: Visions of Whole Earth since the Environmental Revolution"
    KTH Lunch Lecture on occasion of the photo exhibition "Whole Earth?" Stockholm, November 10, 2015.
    More Information at www.kth.se
  • "From Extreme Experience to Climate Engine: The Satellite Story of El Niño"
    Session "Satellite Stories: Remote Sensing Technology's Claims on Earthly Environments", 7th "Tensions of Europe" Conference "Technology and Environment", Stockholm, September 3-6, 2015.
  • "From Exceptional to Periodic: Southern Oscillation Satellite Data between Climate Change and Predictability"
    Conference "Dealing with Climate Change: Calculus & Catastrophe in the Age of Simulation", Leuphana University Lüneburg, June 25-26, 2015.
  • "Top Skin Data and Model Images: El Niño as Seen by Satellite Oceanography"
    "The Making of Earth Imagery. Workshop on the History of Space Technology and Environmental Perceptions". KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, June 11, 2015.

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  • 2014
  • "From Life to Life Support: Ecotechnological Futures in Space"
    Symposium "Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene", EHL Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, December 2-4, 2014.
    Audio Presentations online: http://www.immortalityandinfinitude.net/presentations.html
  • "'Spaceship Earth': Sufficiency and Efficiency Ideals Prior to the Sustainability Debate"
    "Environmental Humanities & New Ecologies in the 21st Century", Roundtable Meeting SNU Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi, India, September 29, 2014.
  • "'Total Life Support': Systems Stability and Visions of Sustainability in Space"
    Session "Science and Science Fiction of Biomass. A Film Session", WCEH World Congress of Environmental History, Guimarães, Portugal, July 8-12, 2014.

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  • 2013
  • "From Biodiversity to Biodiversification: The New Economy of Nature"
    Colloquium Series of the Center for Science Studies, Aarhus University, December 2, 2013.
  • "Stress und Resilienz: Modelle der Leidens- und Leistungsfähigkeit um 1970 zwischen Erholung und Selbstoptimierung"
    Research Colloquium ZZF Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung/Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, November 7, 2013.
  • "Coexistence: Feeding Humans into the Biospheric Cycle"
    Session "Biomass: Metabolizing Living Matter, 1960s to 1980s" (with Ariane Tanner), ESEH European Society for Environmental History Conference "Circulating Natures: Water – Food – Energy", Munich, August 20-24, 2013.
  • "Rebuilding Spaceship Earth: Sufficiency and Efficiency in the Quest for Environmental Sustainability"
    Symposium "Space at work: space programmes, the environment and nuclear technology", ICHSTM 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester, July 22-28, 2013.
  • "Von Biodiversität zur Biodiversifizierung"
    Global Challenges Series "Ware Wissenschaft: Ökonomisches Denken im Forschungsprozess", TU Darmstadt, June 24, 2013.
  • "Managing Nature's Portfolio: Risk, Diversity and Performance in the New Ecosystem Economy"
    Higher Seminar History of Science and Ideas, Umeå University, May 21, 2013.
  • "Biodiversification – A New Economy of Nature?"
    The History of Technology and Science Days, Umeå University, March 20-22, 2013.
  • "Natur als Dienstleisterin. Zur ökologischen Flexibilisierung um 1970"
    Conference "Leben wir in einer ökologisch modernisierten Gesellschaft? Historisierung eines soziologischen Konzepts", Freiburg University, February 28 – March 1, 2013.
  • "How to Shape a Post-Disciplinary Environment" (with Sverker Sörlin)
    Contribution on the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in the Anthropocenic Research Forum, Conference "The Anthropocene-Project. An Opening", Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, January 10-13, 2013.

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  • 2012
  • "Wider den Umweltdeterminismus: Nachhaltigkeitsforschung qualifiziert sich durch Gender"
    Conference "Gender trifft Nachhaltigkeit – Nachhaltigkeit braucht Gender. Kompetenzen und Stand der Forschung im Themenfeld Geschlechterverhältnisse und Nachhaltige Entwicklung," Umweltforum Berlin, December 10-11, 2012.
  • "Der kreative Kollaps: Resilienz als Überlebensmodell in Zeiten der Flexibilisierung. Das Beispiel der Ökosystemforschung"
    Conference "Sollbruchstelle. Medien und Geschichten kontrollierter Ver/un/sicherungen," Graduate School "Mediale Historiographien," Weimar, November 29 to December 1, 2012.
  • "Biodiversifizierung: Eine Neue Ökonomie der Natur?"
    Session "Rechnen mit der Natur: Ökonomische Kalküle um Ressourcen" (with Lea Haller and Andrea Westermann), 95. Annual Meeting "Wissenschaft und Ökonomie" of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e. V., Mainz, September 28-30, 2012.
  • "Exterritoriale Ressourcen: Die Diskussion um die Meere, die Pole und das Weltall um 1970"
    Session "Global Commons – Anspruch und Legitimation der 'Gemeingüter' als Erbe der Menschheit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg," 49. Deutscher Historikertag, Mainz, September 25-28, 2012.
    Download SWR2 Journal am Abend, September 26, 2012: Umstrittenes Kulturerbe (1,9 MB)
  • Comment in the session "Lebensraum Meer. Umwelt- und entwicklungspolitische Ressourcenfragen in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren"
    49. Deutscher Historikertag, Mainz, September 25-28, 2012.
  • "Stress und Resilienz der Ökosysteme. Konzepte einer Dienstleistungsökologie seit den 1970er Jahren"
    Workshop "Stress in der Leistungsgesellschaft: Flexible Systeme zwischen Erholung und Kollaps," ETH Zurich, March 8-10, 2012.
  • "Spaceship Earth: Envisioning Human Habitats in the Environmental Age, 1960-1990"
    Paper presentation, Research Seminar Department of History of Science and Ideas, University, February 21, 2012.
  • "Taking Stock of the Earth"
    Authors' Workshop "History of Modern Sciences, 1770-1914" (Les sciences et la modernité Vol. 2, Paris: Le Seuil 2013), Uppsala University, February 9-11, 2012.

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  • 2011
  • "Biodiversification: Service Ecology's Economy"
    Workshop "Data – Difference – Diversity: Technologies of Differentiation in the Life Sciences," Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, November 24-26, 2011.
  • "Life Support: Technology and Environment in the Age of the System"
    Research Seminar Division of History of Science and Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, November 14, 2011.
  • "Tacit Knowledge and the Problem of Explication"
    Lecture and Seminar, CCES Winter School "Sustainability Science Meets Practice" (Competence Center Environment and Sustainability of the ETH Domain), Einsiedeln, Switzerland, January 11, 2011.

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  • 2010
  • "The Ark and the Spaceship: Fears of Ecocide and Figures of Survival"
    ASLE-UK/EASLCE joint conference "Environmental Change – Cultural Change," Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, United Kingdom, September 1-4, 2010.
  • "'Raumschiff Erde': Lebensraumphantasien im Umweltzeitalter"
    Research Colloquium Chair for Economic, Social and Environmental History, University of Freiburg, July 1, 2010.
  • "Population Growth and Decline in the Late Twentieth Century: Reflections on Two Related Cultures of Fear"
    Workshop "Family, Health, and Reproduction," Södertörn University College, Sigtuna, Sweden, May 24-25, 2010.
    Download manuscript: Cultures of Fear.pdf (180 KB)

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  • 2009
  • "A Model of Sustainability? Systems Integrity and Society in Biosphere 2"
    Continuing education seminar "Sustainability: The Future of Our Planet," Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (HLZ); Staatliches Schulamt Darmstadt-Dieburg; Center for North American Studies (ZENAF) of the University of Frankfurt (Main), Weilburg, November 5-7, 2009.
  • "Wissenschaftliches Reisen zu Lande, zu Wasser und in der Luft: Die Vermessung der Erde im 19. Jahrhundert"
    Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Fall School History of Physics, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, October 23-27, 2009.
  • "A Model of Sustainability? Systems Integrity and Society in Biosphere 2"
    International conference "Modeling Spaces – Modifying Societies," Darmstadt University of Technology/Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Darmstadt, October 7-9, 2009.
  • "Natur in Reserve: Die Kreation der Biosphäre 2"
    "Technik und die Wiederkehr der Natur. Zur Ästhetik der schöpferischen Zerstörung," Joint Conference of the sections Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Sociology of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ), Leipzig, June 18-19, 2009.
  • "'Raumschiff Erde': Lebensraumphantasien im Umweltzeitalter, 1960-1990"
    Colloquium Modern History, Darmstadt University of Technology, May 5, 2009.
  • "Myth and the Conquest of Space: Air and Sea"
    British-German Conference "Myths, Gender, and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea," University of Oldenburg, April 22-25, 2009.
    Download manuscript: Air and Sea.pdf (236 KB)
  • "'Raumschiff Erde': Lebensraumphantasien im Umweltzeitalter"
    Research Colloquium History of Technology, ETH Zurich, March 10, 2009.

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  • 2008
  • "Life Support: Die Experimentalisierung des Lebensraums im All"
    Workshop "Überleben," Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin, December 12-13, 2008.
  • "'Raumschiff Erde': Lebensraumphantasien im Umweltzeitalter"
    University of Regensburg, History of Science/Media Science Departments, November 25, 2008.
  • "Life Support: Die Experimentalisierung des Lebensraums im All"
    AG "Objektforschung," Deutsches Museum Munich, October 28, 2008.
  • "Natur im Ausnahmezustand: Über Leben in der Zweiten Biosphäre"
    Session "Inland Empires – Kolonialisierungsprojekte in einer postkolonialen Welt, 1960-1990" (Sabine Höhler/Sven Mesinovic), 91. Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e. V., Darmstadt, September 26-28, 2008.
  • "Ein Thermostat für das Erdklima: Wissenschaft und Weltsteuerung seit 1970"
    Conference "Schnee von gestern? Zivilisationskritik und Überlebensperspektiven in Zeiten des Klimawandels," Comment in the Session "Klimawandel und alternative Lebensformen nach 1970," Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, September 8-9, 2008.
  • "Figuring Survival: Cultural Plots of the Ship"
    "Figuren des Wissens / Figurations of Knowledge," European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin, June 2-7, 2008.
    Download manuscript: Figuring Survival.pdf (2.8 MB)

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  • 2007
  • "'Spaceship Earth': Envisioning Human Habitats in the Environmental Age"
    16th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, November 16, 2007.
  • "'Spaceship Earth': Imagining Environment in the Age of Ecology"
    History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 1-4, 2007.
  • "Biosphere Reserves: Environment in the Age of its Technoscientific Reproduction"
    Session "Blurring the Boundaries between the Natural and the Unnatural" (Finn Arne Jørgensen), Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, October 17-21, 2007.
  • "'Raumschiff Erde': Lebensraumphantasien im Umweltzeitalter"
    Naturwissenschaftlich-Philosophisches Kolloquium "Kultur und Raumfahrt," Braunschweig Technical University, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, April 5, 2007.
  • "Cold War Environments: Nature in the Age of Global Closure"
    Final Discussion Panel, Conference "Environmental History and the Cold War," German Historical Institute, Washington DC, March 22-25, 2007.

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  • 2006
  • "Human Surplus: Population Accounts in the Environmental Age"
    Session "Capital and Aggregate Forms of Life" (Sabine Höhler/Michelle Murphy), Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, November 2-4, 2006.
  • "Zwischen Indikation und Simulation: Bemerkungen zum Umweltraum aus wissenschaftshistorischer Perspektive" (with Rafael Ziegler)
    Workshop "Raum ohne Hüter? Nachhaltigkeit und Verantwortung im Konzept des Umweltraums," Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin, October 9, 2006.
  • "Reconstructing Discourses of Nature in Metropolitan Hamburg" (with Sybille Bauriedl)
    Session "In Search of the Urban Pastoral: Nature, Ideology and the Modern Metropolis" (Michael Flitner/Matthew Gandy), Royal Geographical Society/IBG Annual International Conference, London, August 30 to September 1, 2006.
  • "Zurück in die Zukunft? Wider die Phantasie technikförmigen Regierens"
    Comment workshop "Lässt sich Zukunft steuern? Leitbilder, Indikatoren und best practices für die Hamburger Stadtentwicklung," Project NEDS/Zukunftsrat Hamburg, Hamburg University, February 24, 2006.
  • "Ballonfahrer und Meteorologen: Die Frühgeschichte der Luftfahrtforschung"
    Authors' conference, book project "100 Jahre Luft- und Raumfahrt in Deutschland" (Campus 2007)
    Deutsches Museum Munich, February 1-2, 2006.

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  • 2005
  • "Spaceship Earth: Myth as a Theme in Environmental History"
    Session "Myths in the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment: Stories of Magic and Momentum," (Mikael Hård), Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) and the History of Science Society (HSS), Minneapolis, USA, November 3-6, 2005.
  • "A Law of Growth: The Logistic Equation and the 'Population Explosion' after World War II"
    Session "Normalizing by Images – Imaging Normalization," International Conference "Technological and Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of Society," Darmstadt University of Technology, October 12-14, 2005.
    Download manuscript: Growth Curve.pdf (1.6 MB)

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  • 2004
  • "'Science Wars': Streiten für die Wissenschaften der Zukunft"
    Conference of the Heinrich Böll Foundation "Innovation und Reform an der Hochschule: Zur Zukunft der Geisteswissenschaften," Berlin, September 30, 2004.
    Download manuscript: Science Wars.pdf (33 KB)
  • "Geschlechterforschung ist Wissenschaftsforschung: Was die Wissenschaftsgeschichte von der Geschlechtergeschichte lernen kann"
    Introduction to the Session "Wissenschaftsgeschichte als Geschlechtergeschichte," 87. Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e. V., Mainz, September 24-27, 2004.
  • "'Carrying Capacity' – the Moral Economy of the 'Coming Spaceship Earth'"
    4S & EASST Meeting, Paris, August 25-28, 2004.
    Download manuscript: Carrying Capacity.pdf (600 KB)
  • "Transdisziplinarität als neues Weltbild? Ein Praxisbericht" (with Fred Luks)
    Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie (VÖÖ), Annual Meeting, conference theme "Ökologische Ökonomie: eine neue Wissenschaft?" Heidelberg, May 6-8, 2004.

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  • 2003
  • "Zwischen 'Raumschiff Erde' und 'System Erde': Umweltwissenschaftliche Konstruktionen des globalen Lebensraumes im späten 20. Jahrhundert"
    Authors' Workshop "Räume der Globalisierung im späten 19. und 20. Jahrhundert," Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, November 20-22, 2003.
  • "Black Boxing the Biosphere. Technologies of Environmental Closure in the late 20th Century"
    Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA, October 16-18, 2003.
  • "Black Box Biosphäre. Die Funktionalisierung der Umwelt im 20. Jahrhundert"
    Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e. V., conference theme "Technisierungen," Freiberg, September 26-29, 2003.
  • "Doing Nature: River Elbe under Discursive Construction" (with Sybille Bauriedl)
    International Conference "Does Discourse Matter? Power, Discourse and Institutions in the Sustainability Transition," Hamburg, July 11-13, 2003.
    Download manuscript: Doing Nature.pdf (2.1 MB)

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  • 2002
  • "A Sound Survey: The Oceanographical Advance into the Deep in Weimar Germany"
    History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, Session "Crossing Borders, Claiming Space: Modern Geoscientific Exploration and the Construction of Place," Milwaukee, USA, November 7-10, 2002.
  • "Ein Platz an der Sonne: Ballonkultur um 1900 zwischen Luftfahrtmythologie und Luftraumwissenschaft"
    Conference "LUFT," Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, October 24-26, 2002.
  • "Raumordnung und Orientierungswissen. Geographie im Zeitalter der Territorialität, 1820-1970" (with Iris Schröder)
    Colloquium Modern History, Department of History, Braunschweig Technical University, May 29, 2002.
  • "A Sound Survey: Technological Perceptions of Ocean Depth"
    International Conference "Transforming Spaces: The Topological Turn in Technology Studies," Darmstadt University of Technology, March 22-24, 2002.
  • "Thoroughness in Times of Need: The Oceanographical Advance into the Deep in Weimar Germany"
    American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, January 3-6, 2002.

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  • 2001
  • "Grund und Gründlichkeit. Territorien der Deutschen Atlantischen Expedition (1925-1927) der Notgemeinschaft Deutscher Wissenschaft"
    Colloquium Modern History, Department of History, Braunschweig Technical University, December 12, 2001.
  • "'Dichte Beschreibungen': Instrumente ozeanischer Tiefenprofilierung, 1850-1930"
    History of Science Colloquium, Institute for the History of Science, Göttingen University, November 20, 2001.
  • "Floating Pieces, Deep Sea, Full Measure: Spatial Relations in Oceanography as a 'Field Science'"
    Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Mass., USA, October 31 to November 5, 2001.
  • "Profilgewinn. Die Deutsche Atlantische Expedition (1925-1927) der Notgemeinschaft Deutscher Wissenschaft"
    Session of the Workshop "Geschichte der Geographie," 53. Deutscher Geographentag, Leipzig, September 29 to October 5, 2001.
  • "Profilgewinn. Bilder der Deutschen Atlantischen Expedition (1925-1927) der Notgemeinschaft Deutscher Wissenschaft"
    Centennial Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e. V.: "Konjunkturen und Perspektiven der Medizin-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte," Hamburg, September 28 to October 1, 2001.
  • "'Boundary Nature' under Construction: Technological and Political Assertions of Ocean Depth, 1850-1930"
    Workshop: "'Boundaries Work' – Setting and Crossing Boundaries in (the History of) Science and Technology," Lausanne Summer School "Knowledge in Plural Context": Science, Technology, and Society Studies in Switzerland, Lausanne, September 11-14, 2001.
  • "Nation im Zeitalter technischer Repräsentierbarkeit. Das Zusammentreffen des Grafen von Zeppelin, seines Luftschiffes und des deutschen Volkes im 'Wunder von Echterdingen' 1908"
    Workshop "Technik und Identität" Graduate School "Genese, Strukturen und Folgen von Wissenschaft und Technik," Bielefeld University, June 7-8, 2001.
  • "Deutsche 'Gründlichkeit' in deutscher 'Not'. Grundlagenforschung als Grundlagenbildung in der Weimarer Republik: Das Beispiel der Deutschen Atlantischen Expedition (1925-1927)"
    wissen_schaf(f)t widerstand: 27th Congress of Women in Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria, May 24-27, 2001.
  • "Die Faszination des Marginalen. Grenzgänge wissenschaftlicher Expeditionen am Beispiel der Meeresforschung"
    Colloquium Series "Jenseits der Geschlechtergrenzen/Queer Studies," Fall Term 2000, Hamburg University, February 7, 2001.

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  • 2000
  • "Gründlichkeit im Zeichen der 'Not'. Die Deutsche Atlantische Expedition der Notgemeinschaft Deutscher Wissenschaft (1925-1927)"
    Workshop "Erfahrungsgeschichte als Möglichkeit einer Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Kriegs- und Krisenzeiten," SFB 437: "Kriegserfahrungen –‚ Krieg und Gesellschaft in der Neuzeit," Project E: "Kriegserfahrung und wissenschaftliche Praxis," Tübingen University, December 1-2, 2000.
  • "Tiefgang demonstrieren: Raumgewinn im Echolotverfahren"
    Workshop "Ganz normale Bilder. Zur visuellen Herstellung von Selbstverständlichkeiten im historischen Kontext," Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, November 5-10, 2000.
  • "Frequency in the Making of Space: Sounding Ocean Depth from the mid-19th Century to the 1920s"
    4S/EASST Conference "Worlds in Transition: Technoscience, Citizenship and Culture in the 21st Century," Vienna, Austria, September 27-30, 2000.
  • "Mythen des Fortschreitens. Das Beispiel der Geschichte ozeanographischer Expeditionen"
    Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e. V., Düsseldorf, September 22-25, 2000.
  • "Reisen an Ränder. Die Faszination der Grenze am Beispiel ozeanographischer Expeditionen des 19. Jahrhunderts"
    26th Congress of Women in Science and Technology, Hamburg, June 1-4, 2000.

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  • 1999
  • "Mittelmaß unter Profilierungsdruck. Kritische Anmerkungen zur Geschlechterpolitik im Bereich der Wissenschaften"
    Meeting Studienwerk of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Potsdam, September 30 to October 1, 1999.
  • "Universalität und Omnipräsenz. Eine Mythographie der Raumerschließung durch internationale aerologische Forschung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts"
    Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e. V., Leipzig, September 24-27, 1999.
  • "Luftfahrtforschung und Luftfahrtmythos. Das Rätsel der wissenschaftlichen Ballonfahrt um 1900"
    25th Congress of Women in Science and Technology, Darmstadt, May 13-16, 1999.
  • "Männlichkeit, Objektivität, Heldengeschichten: Wissenschaftliche Ballonfahrt um 1900"
    Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium "Wissenschaftsforschung als Geschlechterforschung," Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, Berlin Technical University, January 13, 1999.

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  • 1998
  • "Luftfahrtforschung und Luftfahrtmythos. Die Genese eines Forschungsfeldes als Kulturprojekt um 1900 in Deutschland"
    Colloquium Modern History, Department of History, Braunschweig Technical University, June 10, 1998.
  • "Heldinnengeschichten. Die Re-Konstruktion von Geschlecht in Frauenbiographien am Beispiel der Pilotinnen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts"
    24th Congress of Women in Science and Technology, Mainz, May 21-24, 1998.
  • "Der Held, der aus der Kälte kam. Inszenierungen von Wissenschaftlichkeit in der Aeronautischen Meteorologie um 1900"
    Colloquium Series "Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung zu Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften," Summer Term 1998, Hamburg University, May 14, 1998.

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  • 1995-1997
  • "Psychrometer, Variometer, Barograph – Instrumente der Inszenierung von Luftfahrtwissenschaftlern um 1900"
    Colloquium "Dialogo," Department for the History of Science and Technology, Stuttgart University, December 2, 1997.
    Colloquium Graduate-Program Pharmaceutical Technology of the Technical University of Braunschweig, November 26, 1997.
    Colloquium Graduate School "Genese, Strukturen und Folgen von Wissenschaft und Technik," Bielefeld University, November 10, 1997.
    Colloquium Modern History, Department of History, Braunschweig Technical University, November 5, 1997.
    Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e. V., Regensburg, September 26-29, 1997.
  • "Unbestimmte Grenzen. Konstruktion von Geschlecht – Dekonstruktion von Differenz?"
    23rd Congress of Women in Science and Technology, Hannover, May 8-11, 1997.
  • "Bürgerliche Assoziationen: Wissenschaftliche Höhenflüge im Luftfahrtvereinswesen um 1900"
    Annual Meeting of the Driburger Kreis, Berlin, September 24-26, 1996.
  • "Zum Verhältnis von Forschung und Mythos in der Luftfahrt des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland"
    Annual Meeting of the Driburger Kreis, Bonn, September 21-22, 1995.

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Prof. Dr. Sabine Höhler | Physicist – Historian – Historian of Science, Technology, and Environment
KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
Teknikringen 74 D | SE-100 44 Stockholm | Fon: +46 8 790 87 41 | Email: sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se