Recent talks & workshops

2024

Is the Dollar System Invariably a Fossil Fuel System?

This talk examined the relationship of global payments systems and energy regimes from the 19th century to the present.

Jan 16, 2024 Global Climate Forum, Berlin, Germany

2023

Setting a price on science: applied science under the fall of communism

Fisheries biology played a fundamental and unusually prominent role in Soviet state planning and diplomacy. Scientists and institutions …

Dec 1, 2023 Trondheim

Aggressiv nøytralitet i sør. Hvordan påvirkes norsk utenrikspolitikk?

On the rise of “aggressive neutrality” in the global South since 2022. Presentation given at conference organized by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the title “Norwegian foreign policy for a new age”.

Sep 27, 2023 Høgskolen i Innlandet

Liberalisering i fiskeriforvaltning siden 1980-tallet

Sep 9, 2023 Høgskolen på Vestlandet, Sogndal

Visions of constructing global capitalism past and present: the New International Economic Order and present-day climate politics

Jun 1, 2023 Kazimierza Wielkiego University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Hvordan er livet i Russland under krigen?

Russlands brutale krig mot Ukraina har fått vestlige land til å innføre omfattende økonomiske sanksjoner. Hvordan rammer disse …

Jan 25, 2023 Hamar/Lillehammer

2022

Quantifying History

Weeklong workshop co-taught with Francisco Beltrán Tapia, provided an in-depth introduction to quantitative and computational methods, covering some of the techniques most widely used in research in the historical and social sciences.

Nov 21, 2022 — Nov 25, 2022 Trondheim

2021

Computational Text Analysis for Digital Humanities

Half-day course discussing commonly used methods in quantitative text analysis.

Nov 9, 2021 NTNU, Trondheim

Global klimapolitikk i historisk kontekst

Nov 3, 2021 Høgskolen i Innlandet, Hamar

Computational Text Analysis for Historians

Two-day hands-on course teaching basic methods of quantitative text analysis and visualization in R.

Aug 12, 2021 NTNU

2019

History and the Future of the Energy Transition

Dec 17, 2019 University of Oslo

Financialization and the energy transition: The Big 4 German electricity utilities

Dec 12, 2019 London

A Global Green New Deal: Historic parallels and future possibilities

Possibilities and perils for a global Green New Deal.

Dec 4, 2019 Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen

Language and discourse surrounding electric vehicles in Norway

Oct 19, 2019 University of Bergen

Ownership, corporate structure and the Energiewende: the Big 4 German electricity utilities

Oct 11, 2019 University of Uppsala

Star Wars as Cultural and Environmental Event

Sep 26, 2019 Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra