Invitation to the symposium National Christianities in the Nordic Region - Past and Present
Christianity has long been a part of nation-building and societal change in Sweden and other Nordic countries. However, the process of creating "imagined national communities" has not always been smooth since the emergence of nationalism in the 19th century. Ethnic, racial, cultural, political, and geographic boundaries usually associated with various forms of nationalism have clashed with the universal claims of the Christian faith. Similarly, different visualizations of the content and role of Christian faith and practices in the modern democratic welfare states have included tensions between lingering ideals of confessionalism and visions of religious freedom.
The symposium aims to bring Nordic scholars of different disciplines together to explore the multifaceted relationship between Nordic welfare states and Christian faith, practice, and theology as an important element in Nordic nation-building.
The symposium will be held in Uppsala on May 11-12, and you are cordially invited to join us either on-site or via Zoom. Please visit Kalendarium - Uppsala universitet (uu.se)<https://mp.uu.se/web/info/kalendarium/-/detail/79998> for more information.
Best regards,
Ida Olenius
Ph.D. Candidate in Church History
Department of Theology
Uppsala University
Sweden
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Call for papers for a selected anthology to be entitled ‘Corrupted Coasts’
Proposals for papers are welcomed to be part of a selected anthology regarding the historic moral, religious, medical, legal, political, physiological or environmental ‘corruption’ of coastal culture in the 18th and 19th century. Entries are to make contributions to a ‘New Coastal Historiography’ and develop discussions relating to a moral geography concept. The ‘corruption’ of the coast in the context of this anthology can extend to a plethora of meanings. For example it may consist of the economic or political corruption of coastal peoples (e.g. cultural activity as being morally or culturally corrupt yielding a legislative response), of physical corruption (e.g. relating to physiological well-being and enlightenment theories of bacteriology) or be as a result of or resulting in hazardous change to the coastal environment (e.g. the process of industrialisation or urbanisation creating biological or physical hazard). Topics of discussion, following the theme of ‘Corrupted coasts’ under a broad range of interpretations, are invited within a Northern European setting and mid-modern historic period between the 18th and 19th centuries. Papers are encouraged to explore an individual interpretation of ‘coastal corruption’ through their choice of case study(ies) and topics can take a macro or local to wider national approach.
Please submit proposed title and abstract/outline (max 250 words) via Word, Google Doc or PDF by 1st May 2023 to Oscar Karlsson (Oscar.karlsson(a)hh.se)
Please contact oscar.karlsson(a)hh.se or daisy.turnbull(a)hh.se with any questions, queries or comments. Notification of receipt of the submission will be provided via email and response to proposed papers shall be given within 3 weeks following the submission deadline in reply to the email of submission.
Welfare Services and Urban Political Culture in Nordic countries
Call for papers for three workshops in 2023-2024
The aim of these workshops is to analyse urban institutions of welfare and their role for the urban political culture in a long historical perspective. Today, the term welfare is linked to state politics in 20th century, in particular when it comes to the Nordic states. However, the history of welfare is older; it was since the Middle Ages organized locally, as a part of a social contract or an obligation that social and religious institutions organized. These institutions were mostly situated in urban settlements, creating a specific urban political culture based on the changing interactions between institutions like the municipal government, central government, private profit-oriented agents (merchants, landowners, entrepreneurs) and various actors from social and religious institutions.
The term "welfare" has a history in itself, generally denoting investments and subsidies based on the contemporary understanding of the common good (bonum commune). Welfare is, thus, a touch-stone for questions of citizenship and participation rights. Debates on welfare are, consequently, at the core of the urban political culture. By way of negotiations, commercial actors, members of religious, working-class and social institutions engaged in political discussions, influencing both the ways, in which welfare was understood as well as how urban politics were perceived. These negotiations resulted in new notions of citizenship, focusing inclusion, democratization and participation. Ultimately, an exceptionally high level of citizen engagement commonly defines the Nordic countries.
The expansion of welfare was a part of urbanisation process, causing new demands for social and material welfare institutions (infrastructures, sanitation, protection, food supply and social care for those in need). These institutions, in turn, had a profound impact on urban life and space, effectively accelerating the urbanization process. Urbanisation is the result of the implementation of welfare; welfare institutions in their turn were an ever more important part of the urban fabric. The conflict-laden negotiations of welfare resulted in a municipalization process even in rural municipal areas. They were turned into urban settings, in particular since the second half of the 19th century. In 20th century, welfare cities organize welfare due to an understanding of citizen rights to welfare.
The three workshops focus on different aspects of this urban political culture and the specific role of welfare in a long historical perspective. Welfare in Nordic countries has to be explained as an urban phenomenon, a part of the social contract that might explain a particular kind of urbanity. However, welfare has in the 20th century almost exclusively been researched on state level. In consequence, the term "welfare city" is hardly in use. We propose to see welfare as part of an urban agenda, resulting in a distinct role of urban settlements in the Nordic countries. Leading questions:
1. In what ways were cities defined by institutions of welfare?
2. In what ways can the urban political culture be analysed as the result of a cooperation between the magistrates and religious, popular movements, and social institutions?
3. In what ways are these processes coinciding in the Nordic countries, in what ways are they similar to and dependant on other European welfare societies?
4. Finally, is the urban political culture of the Nordic countries specific for these countries, constituting a particular kind of urbanness?
The above sketched background to our interest in welfare cities concerns different aspects of urban life. The lack of interest in a specific urban political culture might be explained with the fact that the role of popular and religious movements for municipalization processes until the early 20th century is under-studied. This lacuna in the study of welfare societies must be explained with a nation-state paradigm in historical research, which is particularly strong when it comes to matters of welfare.
The three workshops will take place in Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen, inviting scholars from the North or those working on the Nordic Countries.
Workshop I - Urban welfare in pre-modern times (Stockholm, November 2023)
This workshop will investigate the cities' growing engagement in welfare since the Middle Ages. This engagement resulted in a slow municipalization process over the course of centuries. The urban elites engaged in a cooperation with religious and social institutions, thus creating a specific political culture as well as a welfare fabric that centred around charity, services, insurances, and investments, sustained by a variety of actors with different interests.
Workshop II - Welfare and local democracy in industrialized cities (Copenhagen April 2024)
The second workshop is focusing on the transition of the pre-modern welfare cities, during 19th-century municipalisation processes. This analysis highlights the magistrates' and other actors' agency. The expansion of infrastructural and social welfare services in this period transformed urban spaces, as well as the social and economic fabrics supporting them. Nordic cities were open for new ideas and eager to learn from both the successes and failures of other Nordic countries, in particular by engaging in international cooperation. They were also utilizing what Alexander Gerschenkorn calls for "advantages of backwardness".
Workshop III - The welfare municipality as an urban setting (Helsinki September 2024)
The third workshop investigates the welfare city as a built environment. Welfare is part of urban settings, it is inherently urban, as urbanness is the result of a spatial construction of welfare units (Castells). This is true for both the centres of welfare cities, the post-war suburban centres as well as the smaller, rural-based urban settlements, which came into existence as an answer to the needs of welfare. On all levels, welfare institutions formed the core of a localized democratic society, based on the understanding of neighbourhoods as a basic form of community. Privatization and the dismantling of state welfare since the 1980s changed the urban settings once again and resulted in a re-definition of welfare cities, with new and old actors engaging in welfare and its public discourse.
If you are interested in the topics of this series of workshops, if you want to participate with an own paper, please send a short (10-20 lines) abstract, a title and your name with affiliation until April 23, 2023, in order to allow us planning the workshops in detail as well as applying for funding.
Heiko Droste, Prof of urban history, Stockholm university, heiko.droste(a)historia.su.se<mailto:heiko.droste@historia.su.se>, https://skhi.se
Welfare Services and Urban Political Culture in Nordic countries
Call for papers for three workshops in 2023-2024, more information in attached pdf-file.
The aim of these workshops is to analyse urban institutions of welfare and their role for the urban political culture in a long historical perspective. Today, the term welfare is linked to state politics in 20th century, in particular when it comes to the Nordic states. However, the history of welfare is older; it was since the Middle Ages organized locally, as a part of a social contract or an obligation that social and religious institutions organized. These institutions were mostly situated in urban settlements, creating a specific urban political culture based on the changing interactions between institutions like the municipal government, central government, private profit-oriented agents (merchants, landowners, entrepreneurs) and various actors from social and religious institutions.
If you are interested in the topics of this series of workshops, if you want to participate with an own paper, please send a short (10-20 lines) abstract, a title and your name with affiliation until April 16, 2023, in order to allow us planning the workshops in detail as well as applying for funding.
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Magnus Linnarsson
Associate Professor
Senior Lecturer in History
Stockholm University
Department of History
Mail address: SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Schemat för vårens online-seminarier från Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek är klart. Seminarierna arrangeras i samarbete med Arbetarnas kulturhistoriska sällskap, ABF Stockholm och Långbro folkhögskola.
Varmt välkomna.
Först ut är Johan Svanberg, ekonomisk historia, Stockholms universitet.
28 mars 16:00-17:00
Europas kärna och utkanter. Facklig internationalism under kalla kriget och Europaintegrationen 1947-1972
Vad är facklig internationalism? Johan Svanberg besvarar frågan genom att presentera sin nyutkomna bok om internationellt fackligt samarbete i metall- och verkstadsindustrin. Presentationen ramas in av kalla krigets kontext – och motsättningarna mellan socialdemokrater och kommunister – med särskilt fokus på Internationella metallarbetarfederationen och efterkrigstidens Europaintegration.
För mer information och Zoom-länk:
https://www.arbark.se/sv/events/europas-karna-och-utkanter-facklig-internat…
Kommande datum:
18 april (16:00-17:00)
Brandtal för världsrevolutionen – Allan Wallenius och hans röda resor
Mathias Kaiovirta, Åbo akademi
Annvi Gardberg, YLE/Hufvudstadsbladet
2 maj (16:00-17:00)
Slummen får sin hämnd. Författaren Carl Sandburg och drömmen om ett demokratiskt Amerika
Pierre Schori, diplomat och författare
16 maj (16:00-17:00)
Social rörlighet i en socialt rörig tid. Eleverna och deras utbildning vid Brunnsvik, Väddö och Hola folkhögskolor, 1906–1921
Jonas Söderqvist, Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek.
Hej!
Vad kan pigga upp en historiker i marsblasket? Kanske möjligheten att delta i givande forskningsdiskussioner i fager majgrönska på ett skånskt slott? Det Nordiska Arvsnätverket (DNA) är ett flerdisciplinärt forum för forskare inom samhällsvetenskapliga, humanistiska, juridiska och ekonomiska discipliner som på ett eller annat sätt arbetar med perspektiv på arv. Efter lyckade nordiska möten i Huskvarna 2021 och Århus 2022 inbjuder nätverket nu till en ny nordisk konferens den 22-23 maj på Bjärsjölagårds slott i Skåne, strax öster om Lund. Det är kostnadsfritt att delta och det kommer ordnas transport till och från Lund för intresserade deltagare. Länken nedan går till en sida med praktiskt information och ett anmälningsformulär. Presentationer kan avse avslutad, pågående eller planerad forskning och det vore mycket roligt med fler deltagare som anlägger ett historiskt perspektiv.
Finns det några praktiska frågor går det bra att kontakta mig. Länken med inbjudan till konferensen får också gärna spridas vidare till andra intresserade.
https://sv-se.eu.invajo.com/event/detnordiskaarvsnatverketdna2023/perspekti…
Hälsningar,
Martin
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Martin Dackling
Docent, biträdande universitetslektor i historia
Historiska institutionen
Lunds universitet, Box 192
221 00 Lund
Tel: 0705218378
Aktuell forskning: Fideikommiss i Sverige under 400 år<https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/projects/att-konservera-godsen-vid-sl%C3%A…>
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Hej kollegor,
Påminner om följande utlysning, sista ansökningsdag 16/3:
En postdoc-tjänst i historia på 2,5 år (75%) utlyses inom projektet Humanitarian Great Power? The Local Reception of Refugees in Sweden, 1700-1730. Hjälp gärna till att sprida annonsen vidare till tänkbara intressenter!
https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038… (Swedish version).
https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… (English version)
Läs mer om själva projektet här:
https://www.gu.se/en/research/humanitarian-great-power-the-local-reception-…
Med vänliga hälsningar
Sari
Sari Nauman
Pro Futura Scientia XVII Fellow, SCAS
Docent in History, University of Gothenburg
Postdoc in History, Centre for Privacy Studies, Universty of Copenhagen
University of Gothenburg
Department of Historical Studies
Box 200
405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Recent publications:
Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Strangers in Northeastern Europe, eds: Sari Nauman, Wojtek Jezierski, Christina Reimann & Leif Runefelt (London: Palgrave, 2022).<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98527-1> (Open Access)
Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia, eds: Sari Nauman & Helle Vogt (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).<https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/private-public-in-18th-century-s…> (Open Access)
'Sweden Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity'<https://muse.jhu.edu/article/861704>, by Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Thomas Lindkvist & Biörn Tjällén, Scandinavian Studies 94:3 (2022), pp. 352-381.
'Peripheral Promises: Political Oaths as Instruments of Trust and Control, Sweden 1520-1718', The Seventeenth Century 37:3 (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2021.1949744
'Securitisation of Space and Time', Journal of the British Academy 9:4s (2021), pp. 13-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s4.013
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Hej,
Tipsa gärna era masterstudenter och doktorander om sommarkursen ”Debt in historical perspective” (15hp) på avancerad nivå.
Den ges på engelska, via zoom (inga fysiska träffar) under juni–augusti.
Lärare: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd ( elise.dermineur(a)ekohist.su.se<mailto:elise.dermineur@ekohist.su.se> )
Ansökningsperiod = nu tom 15 mars.
https://www.su.se/english/search-courses-and-programmes/eh6118-1.643451
Med vänlig hälsning,
Fia Sundevall
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Fia Sundevall
Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Economic History
Director of Studies for the Department’s Master’s Level
Dept. of Economic History & International Relations
Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
www.su.se/english/profiles/fisu1563<http://www.su.se/english/profiles/fisu1563>
Inbjudan till att medverka i
Historisk tidskrifts temanummer 2024: INDUSTRI
Industrisamhället har under lång tid väckt forskarnas intresse och nyfikenhet. Under 1900-talet skrevs många tunga företagsmonografier. En gräsrotsdriven forskning kom att växa sig stark under 1970- och 1980-talens "gräv där du står-rörelse". Lämningarna från industrin har i växande grad studerats inom lokal industriminnesvård. Samtidigt har den industriella fabriksverksamheten och sysselsättningen förändrats radikalt i många svenska orter, med arbetslöshet och avfolkning som följd. Idag planeras dock åter stora industriprojekt i Sverige, framförallt i Norrland.
Till HT:s temanummer om industri välkomnar vi bidrag med historiska studier av industriell verksamhet och dess relation till olika aspekter av samhällsutvecklingen. Likaså välkomnas perspektiv på industrins kulturarv, exempelvis dagens industriminnen. Vi efterlyser bidrag som i olika perspektiv belyser industriell tillverkning och industriellt arbete samt deras relation till samhället i stort. Det kan därmed handla om arbetet och dess organisation, industriellt företagande och branschstruktur, arbetar-, genus- eller socialhistoriska perspektiv på arbetsdelning och arbetsförhållanden eller teknik- och bebyggelsehistoria.
Ett abstract på som mest 300 ord, skrivet på svenska, inlämnas senast den 27 april 2023 till gästredaktörerna Johannes Daun och Per Hallén (johannes.daun(a)boras.se<mailto:johannes.daun@boras.se>, per.hallen(a)econhist.gu.se<mailto:per.hallen@econhist.gu.se>). Till temanumret mottas förutom uppsatser gärna även texter i form av essäer, forskningsöversikter och debattinlägg.
Sprid gärna denna inbjudan vidare till kollegor som kan vara intresserade av att medverka (mail och/eller bifogad pdf).
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Johannes Daun, Textilmuseet
Per Hallén, Göteborgs universitet
