Välkomna alla arkiv- och mediehistoriskt intresserade att skicka in abstract till nedanstående konferens på temat papper i audiovisuella arkiv, som arrangeras av nätverket Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS)<https://emhis.org> i samarbete med FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives)<https://fiatifta.org>. Konferensen äger rum den 19-20 november 2026 på Institute for Sound and Vision i Hilversum, NL. Abstract deadline är 31 maj.
https://fiatifta.org/symposium-papering-over-the-audiovisual-archives/
Vänliga hälsningar
Marie Cronqvist (LiU)
Hej!
Se nedan för inbjudan att delta på en session om martitim historia med fokus på hamnar och handel nästa år på en urbanhistorisk konferens i Barcelona. Förfrågan stammar från Pablo Sánchez Pascual som skrivit mycket om handel mellan norr och syd under 1700-talet med fokus på Norra Spanien.
Hälsar
Martin
Från: Sanchez Pascual, Pablo <pablo.sanchezpascual(a)unican.es>
Skickat: den 27 augusti 2025 12:47
Till: Martin Almbjär <martin.almbjar(a)umu.se>
Ämne: Call of Papers, EAUH 2026 Conference, Barcelona
Dear Martin:
I hope you are enjoying your holidays.
I know you have finished your research on trade, but I am sending you this information in case you are interested or could send it to a colleague who studies maritime and trade issues. It concerns the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) conference to be held in Barcelona from 2 to 5 September 2026. The call for proposals remains open until 22/10/2025.
https://www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/
I am coordinating a panel, No. 28, on general port, maritime and trade issues. Each panel requires between 6 and 8 proposals. Bearing in mind that the other two coordinators are from Modern History, I estimate that we will be able to accept four proposals, on a first-come, first-served basis. Anyone interested in this topic, please write to me at this email address:
sanchezpasp(a)unican.es<mailto:sanchezpasp@unican.es>
Pablo Sánchez Pascual
Contratado PDI Postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva- Gobierno de España
Universidad de Cantabria - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Departamento de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea
Avda. Los Castros, 52, 39005 - Planta 2.ª, despacho 265
Santander (Spain)
Call for papers
7th Digital History in Sweden Conference, 5–6 November 2026, Malmö University
The 7th Digital History in Sweden Conference invite paper, panel, roundtable and poster proposals on any aspect of digital history, while we especially encourage presentations related to the conference theme, Hic sunt dracones. Submissions presenting project ideas or sketching emerging work are welcome. Presentations should be circa 10–20 minutes long, in a Scandinavian language or in English. Posters will be on display for the duration of the conference. The conference will be held over two days, 5–6 November 2026, on-site at Malmö University. (The date has had to be changed from our save-the-date announcement. Apologies for any inconvenience.) There is no conference fee.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Hannu Salmi, University of Turku
Prof. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Malmö University
Submissions must contain:
• title of paper/panel/poster,
• abstract of 200–300 words,
• your name, affiliation and e-mail address.
Panel proposals must include the titles of all papers and the names of all participants. E-mail abstracts to digitalhistory2026(a)mau.se no later than 15 April 2026. Notification of acceptance will be given within a month.
On behalf of the organising committee,
Patrik Lundell
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https://mau.se/personer/patrik.lundell/
Hej,
jag vill uppmärksamma er på möjligheten att söka en forskartjänst vid universitetet i Warszawa inom projektet
Reformation Violence: Religious Unrest in the Baltic Region in 1520-1525
Se bifogad information.
Hälsar
Kajsa Weber
Kajsa Weber, FD/PhD
Docent i historia / Associate Professor, History
Biträdande föreståndare Centrum för kunskapshistoria (LUCK) / Deputy Director Lund Center for the History of Knolwledge
Utbildningskoordinator Nationella forskarskolan i historiska studier / Coordinator National Graduate School of Historical Studies
Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna / Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
Lunds universitet / Lund University
Det finns nu möjlighet att anmäla sig till höstens forskarutbildningskurs, Historiografi (HIA018F), 7,5 hp.
Kursen behandlar frågor om historiesyn, vetenskapssyn och vetenskapssociologi, från antikens historiker fram till vår tids historievetenskapliga ”vändningar”. Den diskuterar hur den vetenskapliga historieforskningen avgränsats från annan historieförmedling, relationerna till andra vetenskapsområden över tid, och introducerar den historiografiska subdisciplinen som sådan. Ett genomgående inslag under kursen är att kombinera historiografisk forskningslitteratur med läsning av historiska källtexter.
Kursen ges vid Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap vid Mittuniversitetet, helt på distans genom webbseminarier under veckorna 46–50. Kursen samläses delvis med institutionens masterkurs, men omfattar även seminarier enbart för doktorander.
För intresseanmälan och vidare information, kontakta kursansvarig Biörn Tjällén (biorn.tjallen(a)miun.se<mailto:biorn.tjallen@miun.se>).
Information om hur Mittuniversitetet behandlar personuppgifter: www.miun.se/personuppgifter<http://www.miun.se/personuppgifter>
Information about processing of personal data at Mid Sweden University: www.miun.se/en/personaldata<https://www.miun.se/en/personaldata>
Välkommen till Arbetarhistorikernas dag!
Är du student eller forskare med intresse för arbetarhistoria? Har du en idé om ett framtida arbetarhistoriskt projekt och vill prata med andra om din idé? Är du mitt i en studie och skulle vilja dela med dig av dina funderingar? Eller har du nyss avslutat ett projekt och vill dela med dig av dina resultat? Kom till Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek för en nätverksträff den 15 april kl 9 – 16.
Mötet är kostnadsfritt och vi bjuder på en lunchmacka och fika. Allt du behöver göra är att anmäla dig och skicka ett abstract (1500 tecken) till oss senast den 30 mars: event(a)arbark.se<mailto:event@arbark.se>
Varmt välkomna
Silke Neunsinger
Call for Papers
Merit, Worth, and Social Advancement in the Early Modern World: Rethinking Meritocracy as a Category of Historical Analysis
University of Hamburg, 7–8 September 2026
Organised by Carolin Gluchowski (Universität Hamburg) and Asger Wienberg (Lund University)
Conceptual Framework
The term meritocracy is a modern one. Coined in the twentieth century and shaped by debates about education, social mobility, expertise, and competition, it names a social order in which offices, rewards, and opportunities are supposedly distributed according to individual merit rather than inherited status or privilege. At the same time, the problems to which the term speaks are much older. Long before “meritocracy” existed as a word or political ideal, societies developed languages and practices for identifying, displaying, rewarding, and contesting merit, worth, desert, deservingness, qualification, and fitness for office.
Why the Early Modern Period?
This conference starts from the premise that the early modern period is a particularly productive site from which to reconsider these questions. Between roughly 1500 and 1800, older structures of lineage, privilege, corporate belonging, and inherited rank did not simply disappear, but increasingly interacted with other criteria for advancement: learning, service, confessional discipline, civility, usefulness, competence, performance, and examinable skill. In many spheres of life, claims to social position, office, education, patronage, and recognition had to be formulated, justified, assessed, and made visible in new ways. The early modern world was therefore not “meritocratic” in any straightforward modern sense. Yet it was deeply concerned with the problem of how worth should be recognised, by whom, and according to which criteria.
Questions and Themes
The conference asks what historians gain by using meritocracy as an analytical category for the study of the early modern world. Under what conditions does the concept help us identify historical forms of valuation, selection, and advancement? Where does it obscure more than it reveals? How can it be used without collapsing historically specific vocabularies of virtue, honour, service, talent, discipline, or desert into a single modern framework? And how did claims to merit relate to other principles of stratification such as birth, patronage, wealth, confession, gender, race, and legal status?
We invite proposals that address these questions through close engagement with historical sources and with the conceptual stakes of the topic. We are especially interested in papers that examine how merit and worth were defined, narrated, institutionalised, measured, or challenged in the early modern period. Relevant topics might include the languages of merit, virtue, talent, qualification, and deservingness; practices of recruitment, promotion, exclusion, and reward in courts, churches, schools, universities, convents, guilds, academies, armies, charitable institutions, and bureaucracies; and the documentary forms through which claims to advancement were articulated and evaluated, including petitions, supplications, recommendations, examinations, testimonials, service records, and applications. We also welcome work on the visual, material, and spatial cultures of merit, such as portraits, inscriptions, monuments, honours, ceremonial display, architecture, and other media through which worth was rendered legible and socially effective.
Merit and Inequality
A central aim of the conference is to explore how supposedly universal claims to worth were always shaped by structures of inclusion and exclusion. We are therefore particularly interested in contributions that address the tension between merit and inequality: how access to recognition depended on social origin, gender, confessional belonging, economic resources, or imperial and colonial power; how institutions defined and regulated “deserving” subjects; and how actors navigated, appropriated, or resisted such frameworks. We also welcome papers that trace the interplay between older languages of virtue and service and newer logics of competition, credentials, comparison, and performance.
Chronological and Geographical Scope
While the conference is centered firmly on the early modern period, contributions on medieval antecedents or modern afterlives are welcome where they clearly illuminate early modern formations or trace longer genealogies of merit and social advancement. Comparative and global perspectives are likewise very welcome, especially where they complicate or provincialise familiar European narratives. At the same time, we are not primarily seeking papers that use “meritocracy” simply as a loose synonym for fairness, competition, or qualification without engaging the concept’s historical and analytical specificity.
Format and Participation
The event will bring together approximately 10–12 participants for a two-day workshop-style conference at the University of Hamburg. In addition to standard papers of 20–25 minutes, the programme may include a limited number of shorter lightning talks for work in progress or conceptual interventions, as well as extended discussion sessions designed to foster exchange across chronological, regional, and disciplinary boundaries. A short excursion in Hamburg may also be included. Selected contributions may be considered for publication in a themed journal issue. Subject to external funding, we expect to be able to cover accommodation and at least part of participants’ travel and subsistence costs.
Scholars at all career stages are invited to apply, and early-career researchers are especially encouraged. The working language of the conference will be English.
Submission Details
Please submit a single PDF containing an abstract of 300–400 words outlining your argument, sources, period, and engagement with meritocracy as an analytical category, along with a short biographical note of no more than 150 words. Please indicate whether you would prefer to present a full paper or a lightning talk.
Proposals should be sent by 15 April 2026 to
carolin.gluchowski(a)uni-hamburg.de
asger.wienberg(a)hist.lu.se
Hej! <https://su.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:913941/where:4/>
Nu går det att söka ett vikariat som lektor i modevetenskap vid Institutionen för mediestudier, Stockholms universitet. Undervisningen omfattar kurser med ett historiskt perspektiv på textil, kläder och mode.
https://su.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:913941/where:4/
Hälsningar,
Marie Ulväng
Marie Ulväng, Docent/ Associate Professor
Institutionen för mediestudier / Dep. of Media Studies
Stockholms universitet / Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sverige / Sweden
marie.ulvang(a)ims.su.se
This is a call for papers for the Theory and Historiography Network of the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC). The 16th ESSHC will take place in Lyon, France, 21−24 April 2027.
We look forward to receiving your proposals for panels, roundtables and ‘meet the author’ sessions on theoretical and historiographical topics, in particular on the topic of the role of history and historians in times of crisis (upload via the ESSHC-site).
Please see the attached Call for Papers for further information. The submission deadline is April 15, 2026.
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Victoria Fareld
Professor
Idéhistoria / Intellectual History
Institutionen för kultur och estetik / Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Stockholms universitet / Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
