Gustav Holmberg

History of modern science; science and technology studies; scientific and technological futurism; science and the media; the Cold War and science; studies of scientific practice; STS perspectives on food studies; commemorative practices in science and their policy implications; academic blogging; space policy.

At the moment, I’m finishing papers on boundary spanning activities in the physical sciences during the Cold War in Sweden, exemplified by Yngve Öhman and solar physics; science in the mediation juncture, exemplified by meteorology in the early 20th century; Cold War futurology and its impact in Sweden.

I teach on our introductory STS course and am assistant supervisor for two graduate students: Henrik Johansson at History of science and ideas (subject: Swedish international scientific contacts 1900-1950); Sara Kjellberg, Library and information science (subject: weblogs and open access in science).

the International Astronomical Union, Comm. 41, History of Astronomy

Swedish National Committee for History of Technology and Science

History of Science Society

Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund

Swedish History of Science Society

A list of my publications, some of them available for download.

Here is my blog, an ongoing commentary in Swedish on things of academic and other interests. Online since March 2002 (which, in the blogosphere, is aeons ago).

Here is my blog in English, online since January 2003.