SCAS News - 13 December, 2024

News from the SCAS Community

Johanna Annala, Alexandra Urakova and their colleagues have received funding
from the Kone Foundation for their interdisciplinary research project (Un)making
Knowledge: Students’ Relationship with Knowledge from Modernity to AI
. Also
Linn Holmberg will be one of the collaborators in the project.

Annala and Urakova were Fellows at the Collegium in the academic year 2020-21
and the project has its roots in their time in residence. Also Holmberg, who is a
Pro Futura Fellow, was in residence that year (as well as in the autumn of 2024).













Christiaan De Beukelaer's discussion paper Decarbonising Shipping is a
Potential Game-Changer for Climate Action: Here’s how
has just appeared with
the Melbourne Climate Futures (MCF).

Christiaan De Beukelaer is a Global Horizons Senior Fellow at SCAS in
the academic year 2024-25..

Valbona Muzaka has been promoted to Professor of Economic History
at the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University.

Valbona Muzaka was a Global Horizons Senior Fellow at the Collegium in
the academic year 2022-23.

Karolina Watroba's book Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka (London:
Profile, 2024) has been named one of the best books of 2024 by the Economist

Her essay ‘Mann and the Main Man – The Magic Mountain at 100: A Century of
Literary Rivalries’
appeared in the Times Literary Supplement on 29 November
2024.

Karolina Watroba is a Fellow at SCAS in the academic year 2024-25.




Photo credits: Danish Saroee (Annala, Urakova), Johan Wahlgren (Holmberg, Mikael Wallerstedt (Muzaka, Watroba)