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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

Sverker Sörlin

Sverker Sörlin is a professor of environmental history at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and a member of the Swedish government’s Science Advisory Board. In the spring of 2016, he was an international visiting research fellow at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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Sverker Sörlin

Fire and Ice in the Academy

The rise of the integrative humanities July-August 2016
The study of the humanities has fallen victim, again, to media fire. This time over ice. Historian Mark Carey and his co-authors at the University of Oregon published an article offering “a feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research.” They argued that glaciology had a male and western history with Cold War roots and pointed out that there are many other knowledge traditions involving…