Today we have a DISCUSSION OF SCANDINAVIA IN THE PANDEMIC with Leonoor Borgesius, Erik Isberg, Nalan Azak, Emil Flato.  First—it’s Lori Peek.
Lori Peek, director of the Natural Hazards Center, UC Boulder.
Nalan Azak is a medical anthropologist pursuing a PhD at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. Her research explores the local infrastructure and use of antibiotics in Turkey in light of the current antimicrobial resistance (AMR) problem by drawing on discourses of medical anthropology and the history of public health in Turkey.
Erik Isberg is a PhD Candidate in the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.  He is currently working on a thesis on the history of postwar paleoclimatology and the making of Anthropocene temporalities. This spring, Erik wrote about the times of knowledge production during the pandemic for the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet.
Emil Flatø is a ph.d. candidate at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages in Oslo. His research concerns the interdisciplinary, transatlantic network of managers, scientists and bureaucrats that spawned the traditions for making claims about society and climate's entwined futures. This history of risk management is relevant to the sorts of knowledge politics that have been playing out around the Covid-19 pandemic, especially concerning the shared emphasis on modeled knowledge. Previously, Flatø was a staff writer at Morgenbladet, a Norwegian weekly of arts, science and politics.
Leonoor Borgesius is an Environmental Historian, doing a PhD in cultural history at the University of Oslo. She was also a guest researcher at the Division for the History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH in Stockholm. She writes the history of the imagining, planning, and construction of infrastructural works in the Netherlands and colonial Suriname. She is specifically interested in how these structures invite environmental knowledge production and distribution and carry imaginaries of progress and modernity.