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Annual Report 2017-2018 Defining Humanities
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The Division has published reports since its early years in the beginning of the 1990s, then as the Division of History of Science and Technology. These reports are always good to have. They serve as anchoring points for institutional memory and inspiration for comparison and reflection. There is also always a certain friction in producing them… As our activities broadened and diversified considerably in the early years of the present decade – when we changed our name, adding “environment” to it, started the KTH Environmental Humanities Lab and also started to grow considerably – it proved increasingly challenging to also keep track and report on all the things we did. We realized that in order to motivate the reporting we needed to present our work in ways that invited our own reflexivity on what we were doing and where we were headed. We also thought we should use the report to communicate what we did better. The first report according to this new format covered the years 2012 to 2014. We then did a biennial report 2015-2016. This is the third of this new line of reports. It covers 2017 and 2018, years that have been just as active and busy as the preceding ones. There are a few dimensions of our work that we have gone a little bit deeper into this time. One is publishing. This is perhaps where we have changed most, going from a largely Swedish language publishing culture to one that is predominantly in the English language and where publications appear in peer reviewed journals and books. Still we are very active in Swedish media and in the national policy arena. We try to reflect on this seemingly paradoxical appearance.
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- Sörlin, Sverker, et al.
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Report 2015 – 2016 Transformative Humanities
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The previous report from the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH covered the years from 2012 to 2014. It followed a sequence of annual reports since the early 1990s. This shift in the reporting period was unintended. The changes at the Division were profound enough to divert our attention from making an annual report, and we also changed our style of reporting to give more flavor to what is actually going on in our environment for research and PhD training, societal collaboration and undergraduate teaching. In this report we have managed to reduce the period to two years: 2015 and 2016. These have been years of intellectual excitement, consolidation of established fields and continued expansion into new areas. New to this report is that the parts on funding and publishing rely on work that we have done internally to compile and analyze databases on funding streams and publications. The report is organized into three sections: first, a set of spine texts presenting general patterns of change in the Division; second, a section on the central dimensions of performance including a presentation of our staff; and, third, a set of lists including events, visitors, projects, awards, commissions, publications, etectera (divided by colour for overview). Distributed across the volume are a number of miscellaneous comments, letters, images and “bits & pieces” that highlight some of our activities. We have called the report Transformative Humanities. This is to indicate that the humanities are undergoing major changes not just in Sweden but also in many countries in the world. The Division is very much part of these changes, and we have tried to influence them and give direction to them. These changes are also affecting us, we believe largely for the better. It is also to state that the humanities are in themselves transformative – they are part of changing the world we live in, hopefully also for the better. We are part of this transformative work and we embrace that, which is a seminal point of departure for our strategy and thinking as a Division. For us in the humanities, these are challenging times but also exciting times, when societal recognition and to some extent also support for the kind of humanities that we do seem to be on the rise. It has been a privilege to put this report together. We would like to thank all contributors – literally everyone in the Division – for sharing their materials with us and for sending new texts, data and illustrations. We hope that the reader will find the result useful. Stockholm in May 2017Sofia Jonsson, Senior administratorSverker Sörlin, Co-Head of Division
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