On 5 September, the new Master’s Programme in Environmental Humanities and its seminar series will be inaugurated. The inauguration will be open to the public and take place at Accelerator.

The Master’s program is the first in Sweden to specialise in environmental humanities, and it is part of the university’s commitment to the field. The programme’s launch on 5 September will begin with a speech by Stefan Helgesson, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University.

Professor Sandra Swart, from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, will be the keynote speaker at the opening seminar on 5 September. She will speak on “Becoming a Lion’s Historian: More-than-human solutions for living on planet earth” about mutual communication and understanding between lions and humans in the Kalahari Desert.

Accelerator Café
Thursday 5 September
15:00 – 17:00
Language: English
Free entry, no registration required

About Sandra Swart

Sandra Swart is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She received her DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University in 2001, while simultaneously obtaining an MSc (with distinction) in Environmental Change and Management, also at Oxford. She studies the socio-environmental history of southern Africa, with a particular focus on the shifting relationship between humans and animals. She is an editor of the Brill book series African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities, an editor of the South African Historical Journal and past president of the Southern African Historical Society and current co-Vice President of European Society for Environmental History.