Events 2024-25

All seminars and other events are open to the public unless otherwise indicated.

The events are held in the Thunberg Lecture Hall (SCAS, Linneanum, Thunbergsvägen 2,
Uppsala) unless otherwise indicated.

In many cases (but not all) it is also possible to attend via Zoom Webinar.

Please see below for detailed information about each event.

The programme is subject to change.




Upcoming Events, Autumn 2024

17 September, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Christiaan De Beukelaer, Global Horizons Senior Fellow, SCAS.
Senior Lecturer in Culture and Climate, University of Melbourne
Can Oceanic Climate Regimes Inform a Terrestrial Governance Architecture Fit for
the Anthropocene?
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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24 September, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Linn Holmberg, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS.
Associate Professor of History of Ideas, Stockholm University
The Dictionary Craze in Enlightenment Europe, 1665–1789
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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26 September.
Pro Futura Scientia Day
By invitation only.


1 October, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Ümit Kurt, Fellow, SCAS.
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, College of
Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle
Biographies of Violence: Personhood, Agency and Mass Killing in the Late Ottoman Empire
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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8 October, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Yoko Yamazaki, Human Past Senior Fellow, SCAS.
Researcher, Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German,
Stockholm University
Working and Eating Together – Uralic=Indo-European Contacts in the Bronze Age
Working Communities
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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15 October, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Daniel Lee, Fellow, SCAS.
Reader in Modern History, School of History, Queen Mary University of London
Writing the Story of One Roundup of Jews in the Holocaust: Marseille, January 1943
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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17 October. BOOK RELEASE
LAMP Book Release
More information will follow.

22 October, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Karolina Watroba, Fellow, SCAS.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Modern Languages, All Souls College,
University of Oxford
World Literature in Weimar Germany
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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5 November, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Mathias Thaler, Fellow, SCAS.
Chair of Political Theory, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Repetition in Action: The Problem of Human Agency in the Anthropocene
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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12 November, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Seyram Avle, Global Horizons Senior Fellow, SCAS.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Future Worlds: Chinese Techno Power and African Imaginaries
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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19 November, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Vito Laterza, SCAS-Nordic Fellow, SCAS.
Associate Professor of Development Studies, Department of Global Development and
Planning, University of Agder
Becoming Double: Digital Humanity, Surveillance Capitalism and the Cambridge
Analytica Data Scandal
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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26 November, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Kateryna Bondar, SCAS-VUIAS Fellow, SCAS.
Associate Professor, Practical Psychology Department, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical
University
Digital Citizenship Dynamics: Exploring Ukrainian Youth Perspectives Amidst the
Russian Military Invasion
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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3 December, 10:15 a.m. SEMINAR - HYBRID EVENT
Elizabeth Hull, Fellow, SCAS.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Chair of the Food Studies Centre, SOAS University
of London
Beyond Crisis: Navigating Volatility in South Africa’s Informal Food Sector
Zoom Webinar: TBC
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