Nanna L. Sæten did her MSc in political science at the University of Copenhagen, and her BSc in comparative politics at the University of Bergen.
College: Corpus Christi College
Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
Nanna L. Sæten did her MSc in political science at the University of Copenhagen, and her BSc in comparative politics at the University of Bergen.
Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten is a PhD candidate in political theory at the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. In her PhD, she’s developing a contemporary political theory of digital technology advocacy as political promises.
Her research interests span theories of time and temporal language, digital transformations of society, the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, environmental political theory, and theories of rights and political violence. In September-October 2024, Nanna is a visiting researcher at the Chair of Geopolitics of Risk at École normale supérieure, Paris.
Sæten, Nanna Lilletvedt. 2025. ‘Between inevitability and hindsight: End-times and the loss of agency in the Anthropocene.” Political Studies.
Sæten, Nanna Lilletvedt. 2024. “Gilroy’s Black Atlantic diaspora: climate displacement and right-bearing beyond the nation.” Nations and Nationalism.
Sæten, Nanna Lilletvedt. 2023. “Political by Nature: Political Thought Through the Lens of the Anthropocene.” Journal of the History of Ideas BLOG. Available at: https://www.jhiblog.org/2023/07/12/political-by-nature-political-thought...lens-of-the-anthropocene/
Sæten, Nanna Lilletvedt. 2019. “Forgiveness – the potential for new beginnings.” Philosophical supplement (3-4): 40-47. Oslo: University of Oslo. Special Issue on Hannah Arendt.
Sæten, Nanna Lilletvedt. 2019. “Returning home”. The New (New) Norwegian syllabus. Ed. Kjersti Rognes Solbu and Marte Blikstad-Balas, Fagbokforlaget. (Official curriculum for prospective teachers in Norwegian).
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