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Anna Åberg

Anna Åberg defended her PhD in 2013 at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Her thesis, “A gap in the grid: attempts to introduce natural gas in Sweden 1967–1991,” explores the role of natural gas in late twentieth-century Sweden. Her particular topics of interest are energy history, visions of future energy development, and popular cultural visions and narratives of present and future technology, especially their connection to public opinion and decision-making. Anna organized a combined film festival and conference, “Tales from Planet Earth,” in Stockholm in April 2014 as a collaboration between the newly created KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory and the Center for Culture, History and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin. The festival brought researchers, filmmakers, and activists together and was used not only as a way of popularizing environmental knowledge, but also to reflect on the creation of environmental knowledge through different mediums and languages. Anna has recently received a Fernand Braudel postdoctoral fellowship, which will allow her to develop a project on fusion research in France and the Soviet Union, focusing on research communication, and the narratives and imaginative strategies used by different actors to promote, criticize, and interpret technological development. She is also currently working on a project on uranium importation to Sweden.
Comics and Graphic Novels  contribution