Anna Åberg
I am an Assistant professor in the history of science and technology at Chalmers University in Gothenburg.
Current research:
I lead two projects on Swedish oil history and petroculture funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS). These project aims to describe how a Swedish petroculture established, and what lessons can be learned for a new
transition, this time to renewable energy. We also want to uncover the current cultures and practices stemming from this petroculture. The projects include Susanna Lidström, KTH-Royal institution of technology, Jens Millkrantz, Kristoffer Ekberg and Per Lundin, Chalmers University of Technology.
I am also a part of the H2020 research project InsScide - Inventing a shared science diplomacy for Europe (https://research.chalmers.se/project/7984). In this project, I study the international cooperation around ITER the nuclear fusion facility which is currently being constructed in Cadarache in Southern France.
My earlier historical research has included work on Swedish Uranium Import, The Swedish natural gas system, Soviet fusion and Soviet ski training.
I have also done work on popular narratives of rising sea water levels.
I am currently the Operating Agent of the IEA UsersTCP Task on Gender and Energy use, entitled: Empowering all: Gender in policy and implementation for achieving transitions to sustainable energy. The Gender & Energy Task gathers researchers from the fields of gender and energy in a global network to analyse energy policy and technologies from gender perspectives and provide recommendations for policy design and implementation. For more information see here: https://userstcp.org/annex/gender-energy-annex/
Supervisors: Arne Kaijser and Per Högselius
Current research:
I lead two projects on Swedish oil history and petroculture funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS). These project aims to describe how a Swedish petroculture established, and what lessons can be learned for a new
transition, this time to renewable energy. We also want to uncover the current cultures and practices stemming from this petroculture. The projects include Susanna Lidström, KTH-Royal institution of technology, Jens Millkrantz, Kristoffer Ekberg and Per Lundin, Chalmers University of Technology.
I am also a part of the H2020 research project InsScide - Inventing a shared science diplomacy for Europe (https://research.chalmers.se/project/7984). In this project, I study the international cooperation around ITER the nuclear fusion facility which is currently being constructed in Cadarache in Southern France.
My earlier historical research has included work on Swedish Uranium Import, The Swedish natural gas system, Soviet fusion and Soviet ski training.
I have also done work on popular narratives of rising sea water levels.
I am currently the Operating Agent of the IEA UsersTCP Task on Gender and Energy use, entitled: Empowering all: Gender in policy and implementation for achieving transitions to sustainable energy. The Gender & Energy Task gathers researchers from the fields of gender and energy in a global network to analyse energy policy and technologies from gender perspectives and provide recommendations for policy design and implementation. For more information see here: https://userstcp.org/annex/gender-energy-annex/
Supervisors: Arne Kaijser and Per Högselius
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Ecologies of the Moving Image was published by Wilfred Laurier University Press as part of it's Environmental Humanities Series in 2013. For further details, visit the publisher's website at https://wlupress.wlu.ca/press/Catalog...
Anna Åberg defended her PhD in 2013 at the Division for the History of Science, Technology and Environment of the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm. Her thesis, "A Gap in the Grid," explores the role of natural gas in late 20th century Sweden. She recently received the Fernand Braudel post-doctoral fellowship for a project on fusion energy research in France and the Soviet Union in which she will examine the narrative and imaginative strategies used by different actors to promote, criticize and interpret technological development. In April 2014, she organized a combined film festival and conference, "Tales from Planet Earth," as a cooperation between KTH’s newly-formed Environmental Humanities Laboratory and the Center for Culture, History and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin.
Seth Peabody is a graduate student at Harvard University’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, where he is working on a Ph.D. thesis on German "Mountain Films" of the Weimar Period. He has been affiliated with the Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard, BTWH, research network on modernity in German culture since 2009, and spent the past year as a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. His research focuses on German cinema.
Hannes Bergthaller is associate professor at National Chung-Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan, and currently an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the University of Würzburg. He is the author of Populäre Ökologie: Zu Literatur und Geschichte der modernen Umweltbewegung in den USA, Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2007, and co-editor of Addressing Modernity: Social Systems Theory and US Cultures, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011; with Carsten Schinko. He is immediate past president of EASLCE and book review editor of the journal Ecozon@.
Papers by Anna Åberg
This article explores how impressions of personal and quotidian life may reflect the systemic changes brought by the global process commonly referred to as the Anthropocene. For this purpose, a chain mail project was conducted. In hand written letters, the authors offered their views on the ‘local and now’ and how these related with farther-reaching scales of the global and geologic. These letters were published on a social media site, while also being juxtaposed to e-mail conversations between the authors outlining the practicalities of the project. Through an analysis of this communication, the project considers the role of technologies and practices in mediating narratives of the Anthropocene, questioning distinctions between personal and professional writing, as well as private and social media. Finally, a reflection is provided on the successes and challenges of the experimental collaboration between scholars across their respective fields, in addition to implications for such future experiments within interdisciplinary collaboration.
In the following discussion, we will suggest our own working definition based on the debate during the Anthropocene Campus and on previous definitions (in particular the one proposed by the Slow Media Manifesto, David et al., 2010), using comics as a lens. As we will see, talking about Slow Media forces us to consider not only media as a means for creative or rhetorical expression, but also how the characteristics of media have social and ideological implications.
Ecologies of the Moving Image was published by Wilfred Laurier University Press as part of it's Environmental Humanities Series in 2013. For further details, visit the publisher's website at https://wlupress.wlu.ca/press/Catalog...
Anna Åberg defended her PhD in 2013 at the Division for the History of Science, Technology and Environment of the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm. Her thesis, "A Gap in the Grid," explores the role of natural gas in late 20th century Sweden. She recently received the Fernand Braudel post-doctoral fellowship for a project on fusion energy research in France and the Soviet Union in which she will examine the narrative and imaginative strategies used by different actors to promote, criticize and interpret technological development. In April 2014, she organized a combined film festival and conference, "Tales from Planet Earth," as a cooperation between KTH’s newly-formed Environmental Humanities Laboratory and the Center for Culture, History and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin.
Seth Peabody is a graduate student at Harvard University’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, where he is working on a Ph.D. thesis on German "Mountain Films" of the Weimar Period. He has been affiliated with the Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard, BTWH, research network on modernity in German culture since 2009, and spent the past year as a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. His research focuses on German cinema.
Hannes Bergthaller is associate professor at National Chung-Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan, and currently an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the University of Würzburg. He is the author of Populäre Ökologie: Zu Literatur und Geschichte der modernen Umweltbewegung in den USA, Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2007, and co-editor of Addressing Modernity: Social Systems Theory and US Cultures, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011; with Carsten Schinko. He is immediate past president of EASLCE and book review editor of the journal Ecozon@.
This article explores how impressions of personal and quotidian life may reflect the systemic changes brought by the global process commonly referred to as the Anthropocene. For this purpose, a chain mail project was conducted. In hand written letters, the authors offered their views on the ‘local and now’ and how these related with farther-reaching scales of the global and geologic. These letters were published on a social media site, while also being juxtaposed to e-mail conversations between the authors outlining the practicalities of the project. Through an analysis of this communication, the project considers the role of technologies and practices in mediating narratives of the Anthropocene, questioning distinctions between personal and professional writing, as well as private and social media. Finally, a reflection is provided on the successes and challenges of the experimental collaboration between scholars across their respective fields, in addition to implications for such future experiments within interdisciplinary collaboration.
In the following discussion, we will suggest our own working definition based on the debate during the Anthropocene Campus and on previous definitions (in particular the one proposed by the Slow Media Manifesto, David et al., 2010), using comics as a lens. As we will see, talking about Slow Media forces us to consider not only media as a means for creative or rhetorical expression, but also how the characteristics of media have social and ideological implications.