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Libby Robin

Libby Robin holds a guest professorship in the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Her research interests include environmental history, museum studies, the history of science, ecological humanities, world history, and the history of nature conservation. Her PhD in the history of science (Melbourne, 1994) focused on the rise of ecological consciousness in Australia. Currently, she holds a chair in environmental history at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University and is senior research fellow at the National Museum of Australia. She convenes the Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network and is vice-president of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations, based in North Carolina, and a member of the Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) collective. Recent international invitations include the University of Chicago (“The History and Politics of the Anthropocene,” 2013), Harvard University Forum on Changing Climate (2012), the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (“History and Sustainability,” 2010), the University of Wisconsin, Madison (“Cultures, Histories, Environments” initiative, 2011), and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (international congress in Canberra on Anthropocene humanities, 2012). Libby is a prize-winning author and editor of twelve books, including The Future of Nature: Documents of global change (co-edited with Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde, Yale University Press, 2013). New work includes “Museums and the Anthropocene,” to be published as Collecting the Future (co-edited with Jennifer Newell and Kirsten Wehner, Routledge Environmental Humanities series, forthcoming).

Seminar: Slow Media  project