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Aula Magna
Frescativägen 6
Stockholm, Stockholms län, 114 18
Sweden

Christina Fredengren

Humanities Scholar

Chrisina researchers on archaeology, heritage studies, curatorship, gender theory and the environmental humanities. In archaeology she has explored relations with waters and wetland. Currently, she works on human- and animal remains in Sweden, discussing sacrifice and the inhumane. As Director of Ireland's Research Institutione on Archaeology, she worked on artefacts and bodily remains in wetlands, as well as the building of crannogs – man made islands or platforms. In heritage studies, she explores how heritage is valued in the present, and links to sustainable development. This strand of research has been furthered in the meeting point between critical heritage studies and posthumanist feminism that blur the boundaries between nature/culture, material/immaterial and challenge the anthropocentric focus in heritage polic. Her research in the Environmental Humanities concerns questions about Deep Time, materiality, ethics, intragenerational justice and care.

John Hassler

Professor + Economist

John is Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1994. He has been teaching subsequently at Stockholm University. His research has covered areas of dynamic public finance, social mobility, growth and climate change. His work has been published in American Economic Review, Econometrica and Journal of Political Economy and in many other international journals. He is chairman of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He was the Chairman of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council nd is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He has worked as advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Finance and is a currently a member of the Finance Minister’s Economic Council. He serves as scientific advisor to several Swedish government agencies. He was member of the European Economic Advisory Group.

Todd Ehlers

Professor + Geologist

Todd is a Professor and Head of School at the University of Glasgow. Before this, he was a Professor and former Department Speaker at the University of Tübingen, and an Associate Professor and Associate Chair at the University of Michigan. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academia Europaea, recipient of the EGU Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal, and former Moore Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. While in Germany, Professor Ehlers was the speaker for the German priority research program EarthShape: Earth Surface Shaping by Biota, and a former European Research Council Consolidator Awardee. He has served on numerous USA and German Science Foundation Senate Commissions for the future of Geo- and Earth System Sciences, as well as science review panels for the National Science Foundation and DFG. Todd is on the Board of Review Editors for Science.