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Here you will find a selection of recorded SCAS seminars and lectures, as well as SCAS: A Place for Scientific Curiosity, a short film about SCAS.

SCAS: A Place for Scientific Curiosity

A short film about SCAS


2025

One Planet Shipping: Can Maritime Transport Deliver Climate Justice?

Christiaan De Beukelaer
SCAS & University of Melbourne

Seminar, 4 February, 2025
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Time-Travelling Concepts: Historicizing Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

Sari Nauman
SCAS & University of Gothenburg

Seminar, 28 January, 2025
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2024

Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World

Michèle Lamont
Harvard University

The 6th Wittrock Lecture,
8 March, 2024


Charting Time While Visualising Race: How History Became Entwined with Empire and Colonisation in Scotland’s Enlightenment

Bruce Buchan
SCAS & Griffith University

Seminar, 23 January, 2024


2023

On Academic Integrity

Sverker Sörlin
SCAS & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Lecture, 26 October, 2023

The Long Road to Equity for Women in Medicine

Anat Biegon
SCAS & Stony Brook University

Seminar, 19 September, 2023

Ancient Synagogues and the
Early History of Jewish – Christian Relations

Wally V. Cirafesi
SCAS & Lund University

Seminar, 30 May, 2023

From Digital Humanities to the Emblem Book as 'album amicorum'

Mara R. Wade
SCAS & University of Illinois

Seminar, 25 April, 2023

From the Far North to the Far Right: White Masculinity and the Myth of Hyperborea

Christopher E. Forth
SCAS & University of Kansas

Seminar, 7 March, 2023

Writing a Political Life: On the Challenging Relationship Between Biography and History

Fredrik Logevall
SCAS & Harvard University

The 5th Wittrock Lecture,
16 February, 2023


2022

The Phase Transitions of Our Universe: When the Smallest Things Transformed the Largest Thing We Know

Eliel Camargo-Molina
SCAS, Uppsala University &
Imperial College, London

Seminar, 22 November, 2022

Constitutions in Times of Crisis

Linda Colley
SCAS & Princeton University

The 4th Wittrock Lecture,
10 June, 2022



Moral Change and the Ambiguity of Religions: Christianity Between Racism and the Struggle Against It

Hans Joas

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & University of Chicago

The 3rd Wittrock Lecture,
9 June, 2022


2021

Considering Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Gyanendra Pandey
SCAS & Emory University, Atlanta

Lecture, 27 May, 2021


When and Where Birth Spacing Matters for Offspring Outcomes: An International Comparison

Kieron Barclay
SCAS & Stockholm University

Seminar, 27 April, 2021

Race, Slavery, and the Perils of Gift-Giving: Rereading The Liberty Bell and Cassey’s Album

Alexandra Urakova
SCAS & Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Seminar, 13 April, 2021

Transnational Encounters - Translational Practices: Swedish-Finnish Cultural Influences in Emergent Finnish Literary Practice

Outi Paloposki
SCAS & University of Turku

Seminar, 23 March, 2021

The Ethics of Individuals’ Greenhouse Gas Emission

H. Orri Stefánsson
SCAS & Stockholm University

Seminar, 9 March, 2021

Dictionary Craze: Transforming Knowledge across Early Modern Europe

Linn Holmberg
SCAS & Stockholm University

Seminar, 2 March, 2021

From Big Data to Deeper Knowledge of the Human

Jan Komorowski
SCAS & Uppsala University

Seminar, 2 February, 2021

The Big Picture: From Cosmic Origins to Life on Exoplanets

Martin Sahlén
SCAS & Uppsala University

Seminar, 12 January, 2021


2020

The History and Philosophy of Biosignatures

David Dunér
SCAS & Lund University

Seminar, 8 December, 2020

The Search for Signatures of Life - Investigating the Geological Archives

Anna Neubeck
SCAS & Uppsala University

Seminar, 10 November, 2020

Constitutional Democracy and the Corporation: From Republican Liberty to Oligarchy

David Ciepley
SCAS & Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Seminar, 3 November, 2020

Knowledge and Curriculum in the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

Johanna Annala
SCAS & Tampere University

Seminar, 22 September, 2020


Searching for the New Human: Glacier Melt, Anthropogenic Change and Self Reflection in Andean Pilgrimage

Karsten Paerregaard
SCAS & University of Gothenburg

Seminar, 15 September, 2020

Paradoxes, Local Consequence and the Role and Future of Deductive Logic

Peter Schroeder-Heister
SCAS & Universität Tübingen

Seminar, 12 May, 2020

Reading Belief through Structural Ordering, 1700–1850

Ruth Tatlow
SCAS & Uppsala University

Seminar, 31 March, 2020



Individualization, Subjectivity and Reform: Nicholas of Cusa and the Erfurt Carthusians in the Fifteenth Century

Mikhail Khorkov
SCAS & Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Seminar, 17 March, 2020

Why Do Global History?

Michael J. Puett
SCAS & Harvard University

Seminar, 10 March, 2020

 

Climate Variability and Food (In)Security in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
SCAS & Stockholm University

Seminar, 3 March, 2020

Life in the Digital Time Machine

Helga Nowotny
Prof. em. ETH Zurich & Former President, European Research Council

The 2nd Wittrock Lecture,
25 February, 2020

Ancient Greek Dance Aesthetics and the Dipylon Wine Jug

Eric Cullhed
SCAS & Uppsala University

Seminar, 11 February, 2020


Discrete Archives: Untold Stories from the Past

Racha Kirakosian
SCAS & Harvard University

Seminar, 4 February, 2020


“A Drunken Charade?”:
Finding East Asian Justice in Imperial Decline and Colonial Defeat

Barak Kushner
SCAS & University of Cambridge

Seminar, 28 January, 2020


2019

Governance After the End of Borders

Peter Mancina
SCAS & University of Oxford

Seminar, 3 December, 2019

The Knife and the Word: Placebo Effects in Surgery

Karin Jensen
SCAS & Karolinska Institutet

Seminar, 26 November, 2019

From Populations to Species: Genome Evolution and Its Modelling

Laurent Guéguen
SCAS & Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1

Seminar, 19 November, 2019

Enacting the Artifice: A Cognitive Approach to Literary Self-Reflection

Merja Polvinen
SCAS & University of Helsinki

Seminar, 12 November, 2019

George Orwell’s Forerunners and Disciples: Anti-Utopia in Modern Russian Literature

Boris Lanin
SCAS & Russian Institute of
Theatre Arts (GITIS), Moscow

Seminar, 5 November, 2019

Rhythmical Entrainment: A Genealogy of Embodied Sympathy in the Nineteenth Century

Ewan Jones
SCAS & University of Cambridge

Seminar, 22 October, 2019

Is a Unified Theory of the Good Possible?

Graham Oddie
SCAS & University of Colorado

Seminar, 14 May, 2019

Repertoires of Public Giving: Elite Philanthropy in Gift-Theoretical and Comparative Perspective

Ilana F. Silber
SCAS & Bar-Ilan University

Seminar, 9 April, 2019

The Causes and Consequences of Human Genomic Variation

Sohini Ramachandran
SCAS & Brown University

Seminar, 26 March, 2019

Historians and the Future

Jürgen Kocka
Freie Universität Berlin

The 1st Wittrock Lecture,
15 February, 2019

The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination

Jenny Andersson
SCAS & Sciences Po, Paris

Seminar, 5 February, 2019

Setting the Table: How Capital Transformed Russia’s Food System

Susanne A. Wengle
SCAS & University of Notre Dame

Seminar, 29 January, 2019


2018

The Early Baltic Pantheon

Jenny Larsson
SCAS & Stockholm University

Seminar, 6 November, 2018



The Economy of Promises: Trust and Credit in the United States of America

Bruce G. Carruthers
SCAS & Northwestern University

Seminar, 23 October, 2018

The History of 10%: Measures of Sexual Behavior and the Gay Rights Movement in the U.S.

Wendy N. Espeland
SCAS & Northwestern University

Seminar, 25 September, 2018

The Effects of Sexual Selection
on Origin of Species

Maria Servedio
SCAS & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Seminar, 24 April, 2018

How to Write the History of Philanthropy in General, and
of the Ford Foundation in
Particular

Sir David Cannadine
SCAS & Princeton University

Lecture, 19 April, 2018

Written Constitutions as Print


Linda Colley

SCAS & Princeton University

Lecture, 8 March, 2018

 

Capitalism and Its Critics:
A Long-term View

Jürgen Kocka
SCAS & Freie Universität Berlin

Lecture, 1 February, 2018



Transnational Cultural Exchange and Globalization

Johan Heilbron
Centre européen de sociologie et
de science politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP), Paris & Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Seminar, 25 January, 2018


2017

The Institutionalization of American Universities as Organizational Actors: Will
This Model Globalize?

Francisco O. Ramirez
SCAS & Stanford University

Seminar, 14 November, 2017

Science Studies Without
Relativism

Anandi Hattiangadi
SCAS & Stockholm University

Seminar, 3 October, 2017


The Moral Sciences in 19th Century Cambridge

Keith Tribe
SCAS & Independent Scholar

Seminar, 26 September, 2017

Scholarship and Freedom

Geoffrey Harpham
Duke University, Durham & National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Lecture, 14 September, 2017

The Beginning of the Century:
A Reconsideration of the 20th Century in Chinese/Global History

Wang Hui
SCAS & Institute for Advanced
Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University,
Beijing

Lecture, 18 May, 2017

The Distinctive Pattern of Revolution in the Islamicate Civilization

Saïd Amir Arjomand
State University of New York
at Stony Brook

Lecture, 18 May, 2017


Gaston Bachelard and the Hands of Albert Flocon

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
SCAS, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
& Technische Universität Berlin

Lecture, 11 May, 2017

Kelainai - Apameia Kibotos: The Results of Researches in South Phrygia

Askold Ivantchik
Université de Bordeaux 3, Moscow State University & Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Seminar, 29 March, 2017

Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom: The Historian as Expert Witness

Christopher R. Browning
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill

Seminar, 15 March, 2017


2016

Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden
and Eighteenth-Century Politics

Elise Dermineur
SCAS & Umeå University

Seminar, 7 December, 2016

Clifford Geertz’s World

Joel Isaac
SCAS & University of Cambridge

Lecture, 17 November, 2016

Sin: The Prehistory

David Konstan
SCAS & New York University

Lecture, 14 October, 2016

Carl Peter Thunberg, Japan och Linneanum

Marie-Christine Skuncke
Uppsala University

Lecture, 10 September, 2016

A Very Queer Family Indeed:
Writing and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century England

Simon Goldhill
University of Cambridge

Lecture, 22 September, 2016

On Norms and Facts of Reasoning

Hans Rott
Universität Regensburg

Lecture, 9 September, 2016


Religion in Modern Britain: Revisiting a Research Site

Grace Davie
University of Exeter

Seminar, 17 March, 2016


The Modern Communications Environment: An Evolutionary Perspective

Merlin Donald
SCAS & Queen’s University, Kingston, ON

Lecture, 18 February, 2016

Traditional China: ‘Superstitious’ or ‘Rational’? Another View of Cross-cultural Master Narratives

Michael Lackner
SCAS & Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Lecture, 28 January, 2016


2015

Choreographed Diplomacy:
The German-Israeli Encounter in Luxembourg 1952

Dan Diner
SCAS & the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem

Seminar, 1 October, 2015

 

Houses of Refuge and Entertainment: The Development of Institutes for Advanced Study and Their Role in Contemporary Academia

Peter Goddard
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Lecture, 17 September, 2015

Translating and Editing ”Unfinished” Writings: August Strindberg’s Diaries and Letters

Elena Balzamo
SCAS & Literary Scholar and Translator, Paris

Seminar, 10 February, 2015

Decomposing a ‘Great Narrative’. The Exodus: The Context and Background of the National
Myth of Ancient Israel

Jan Retsö
SCAS & University of Gothenburg

Seminar, 11 March, 2015

Can You Trust a Text You Read/Interpret? Case in Point: Strindberg’s Inferno and Legender in Samlade Skrifter and Samlade Verk, a Text Critical Comparison

Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams
SCAS & University of Washington, Seattle.

Seminar, 3 February, 2015

To Edit Strindberg Again: On
the National Edition of August Strindberg’s Collected Works

Gunnel Engwall
SCAS & Stockholm University

Seminar, 29 January, 2015




2014

From Values to Probabilities

Wlodek Rabinowicz
SCAS, Lund University & London School of Economics and Political Science

Seminar, 4 December, 2014

Linguistics and Normativity

John Broome
SCAS, University of Oxford &
Australian National University,
Canberra

Seminar, 16 October, 2014