Climate and Environmental History Seminar: "How did we learn to think about forests the way we do?"

Seminar

Date: Thursday 5 December 2024

Time: 15.00 – 17.00

Location: Department of History (Stockholm University), room D837 and on Zoom

"Meaning of forests and forestry in Swedish and Finnish school textbooks 1970–2020s". Otso Kortekangas (Åbo Akademi University), and Christoffer Åhlman (Örebro University), presents at the Climate and Environmental Seminar.

Otso Kortekangas and Christoffer Åhlman present their project about different meanings (e.g., economic, ecological, cultural, recreational) that school textbooks have presented about forests in Sweden and Finland (from 1972 to today). The project builds on a sample of books in biology, geography, social studies, and history.

Otso Kortekangas, PhD, is Docent in Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki and Researcher in History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
 
Christoffer Åhlman, PhD, is Researcher in Educational History at Örebro University, Sweden.

Zoom link for seminar 5 December

Convenors: Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm University) and Charlotta Forss (Södertörn University).

For information about the seminar, e-mail fredrik.c.l@historia.su.se