ArcHum in conversation with Sverker Sörlin

Per Pippin Aspaas and Lilli Mittner in conversation with Sverker Sörlin about more than human dimensions in the Arctic, exceptionalism, inward looking humanities and the Helsinki Initiative. Listen to Sverker talking about collaborative moments, questions that bounce back, and his new book about snow. *********** Sverker Sörlin, Swedish historian of ideas and writer, professor of environmental history and co-founder of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Host of the ‘Stora idéer’ podcast. Per Pippin, senior academic librarian and researcher affiliated to the Creating the New North research group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Host of the ‘Open Science Talk’ podcast. Lilli Mittner, associate professor in gender studies, since 2022 coordinating the Centre for Arctic Humanities at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. ******************** This conversation was recorded at RESULT studios at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on September 5th, 2024. It is a result of Sverkers key-note lecture at the kick-off event for UiT’s Centre for Arctic Humanities at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and his visit at campus Tromsø in September the same year. Read more: • Sörlin, S. (2015). The Emerging Arctic Humanities: A Forward-looking Post-script. Journal of Northern Studies, 9(1), 93–98. https://www.jns.org.umu.se/JNS_1_2015.pdf • Sörlin, S. (2015). Cryo-History: Narratives of Ice and the Emerging Arctic Humanities. In B. Evengård, J. Nymand Larsen, & Ø. Paasche (Eds.), The New Arctic (pp. 327–339). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17602-4_24 • Sörlin, S. (2025). Snow. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/467833/sno-by-sorlin-sverker/9781529947878