News from the SCAS Community

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Johanna Annala/Linn Holmberg/Alexandra Urakova; Christiaan De Beukelaer; Valbona Muzaka; Karolina Watroba

In the News from the SCAS Community section you find updates on funding, prizes, new positions, membership in academies and many other things.

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Johanna Annala, Alexandra Urakova and their colleagues have received funding from the Kone Foundation for their interdisciplinary research project (Un)making Knowledge: Students’ Relationship with Knowledge from Modernity to AI External link.. Also Linn Holmberg will be one of the collaborators in the project.

Annala and Urakova were Fellows at the Collegium in the academic year 2020-21 and the project has its roots in their time in residence. Also Holmberg, who is a Pro Futura Fellow, was in residence that year (as well as in the autumn of 2024).

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Christiaan De Beukelaer's discussion paper Decarbonising Shipping is a Potential Game-Changer for Climate Action: Here’s how External link. has just appeared with the Melbourne Climate Futures (MCF).

Christiaan De Beukelaer is a Global Horizons Senior Fellow at SCAS in the academic year 2024-25.

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Valbona Muzaka has been promoted to Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University.

Valbona Muzaka was a Global Horizons Senior Fellow at the Collegium in the academic year 2022-23.

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Karolina Watroba's book Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka External link. (London: Profile, 2024) has been named one of the best books of 2024 by the Economist External link.Her essay ‘Mann and the Main Man – The Magic Mountain at 100: A Century of Literary Rivalries’ External link. appeared in the Times Literary Supplement on 29 November 2024.

Karolina Watroba is a Fellow at SCAS in the academic year 2024-25.