Hej!
Flera av er har säkert redan fått information om detta upprop, men jag skickar igen för säkerhets skull. Listan kan skrivas under fram till 14 maj. Jag tycker själv att den här frågan är viktig att driva och att åtgärderna som föreslås i uppropet skulle vara till stor nytta för oss historiker.
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Hanna Enefalk, docent i historia
Som många av er förmodligen känner till cirkulerar det nu ett upprop som ska avyttra sig i en debattartikel i form av ett öppet brev till Sveriges alla riksdagsledamöter. Där framförs kravet att etikprövningslagens omedelbart revideras. Den 10/5 var utkastet undertecknat av närmare 2 200 svenska forskare.
Bakgrunden är att Sverige är det enda land i världen som tillämpar strikta forskningsetiska regler som egentligen kommer från medicin, men som har kommit att appliceras på alla vetenskapsområden (med undantag för konstnärlig forskning). Etikprövningslagen är förvisso från 2004 men den skärptes avsevärt 2018 med många ogynnsamma konsekvenser för alla som använder kvalitativa metoder i studier som på något sätt inbegriper levande forskningspersoner. Inte minst är sanktionerna hårda om man gör minsta "fel”, t.ex. oavsiktligt spelar in känsliga personuppgifter som lagras på fel medium eller inte har redovisat alla upptänkliga intervjufrågor flera månader i förväg, med risk för hundratusentals kronor i böter eller i värsta fall fängelse.
Mycket forskning inom ämnen som svenska som andraspråk, religionsvetenskap, psykologi och genusvetenskap kan överhuvudtaget inte bedrivas med inte mindre än en mycket omfattande, kostsam och tidskrävande byråkrati. Det har också fått som konsekvens att våra studenter endast med stora svårigheter och med begränsade förutsättningar kan genomföra intervjuer eller studera sociala medier i sina uppsatsarbeten.
Som författarna till en DN-artikel noterat har vi dessutom hamnat i den absurda situationen att statsvetare, lingvister eller retoriker inte kan studera politiska tal eller twitter-inlägg av Donald Trump, Jimmy Åkesson eller Magdalena Andersson. För det krävs enligt Etikprövningsmyndigheten individuellt samtycke från forskningspersonerna, även om materialet är tryckt och offentligt. Att granska makten kräver alltså samtycke från makten (som sannolikt inte kommer att ges i många av fallen).
Här är en länk till brevet (initiativtagare är en statsvetare från Uppsala, Carl Öhman): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XAEAoqEp0NfhD6C1e5_wyQy553Faa866JAepYCY… .
Och här är DN-artikeln: https://www.dn.se/debatt/donald-trump-lar-knappast-skriva-under-var-blanket…
Vill man skriva under kan man göra det här (fram till 14/5):https://docs.google.com/document/d/13ooiUWrNQYTCbJ7f8AtUgf6alhm7g1ErM… ]
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Hej!
Jag skapade en Facebook-grupp, "Vi som ska på Svenska historikermötet 2023”, för oss som ska på historikermötet i Umeå i sommar.
Där vi fritt kan mötas, prata och diskutera! En mötesplats!
Välkommen att gå med:
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Från: Joris Oddens <joris.oddens(a)huc.knaw.nl>
Skickat: den 26 april 2023 12:00
Ämne: Cfp formulaic language
Dear colleagues,
I would like to bring to your attention a call for papers. From 7-9 February 2024 we organize the conference Formulaic Language in Historical Research and Data Extraction. Abstracts are due by 15 June. For further details see https://republic.huygens.knaw.nl/index.php/2023/04/24/call-for-papers-formu…
Best wishes,
Joris
Dr. J Oddens
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Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlands
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Hej!
Vi vill meddela att programmet för det Svenska historikermötet nu är publicerat, under fliken program: www.svenskahistorikermotet2023.se<http://www.svenskahistorikermotet2023.se>
Sista anmälningsdag är den 14 maj!
Varmt välkomna!
Vänliga hälsningar
Åsa
Åsa Karlsson Sjögren
Professor i historia Professor of History
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies
Umeå universitet Umeå university
901 87 Umeå
+46 (0) 907866248
The Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, invites applications to the course ”Histories of Scientific Racism” (7.5 credits), to be taught on campus in Uppsala during Autumn term 2023. Master’s and PhD students from the historical disciplines and beyond are welcome to apply. Any questions about the course can be addressed to the course coordinator Petter Hellström (petter.hellstrom(a)idehist.uu.se<mailto:petter.hellstrom@idehist.uu.se>) or to the Director of Studies for advanced level Orsi Husz (orsi.husz(a)idehist.uu.se<mailto:orsi.husz@idehist.uu.se>). Teachers on the course include Sven Widmalm and Linda Andersson Burnett.
Histories of Scientific Racism, 7.5 credits
Advanced course offered by the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Autumn 2023 (period 1)
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This advanced course, open to students at the master’s or doctoral level, examines the historical development of scientific racism from the 18th century to the first half of the 20th century. The overarching purpose is to investigate how the ideas and practices of scientific racism have been constructed and developed over time, both in relation to the more general history of science, and to social processes of profound importance to the history of scientific racism, including colonialism and imperialism, the institutionalisation and abolishment of slavery, secularisation and the enlightenment, nationalism and democratisation.
The expression “scientific racism” is not limited, in this context, to race biology, but is used more broadly to denote attempts at applying scientific methods to divide humankind into distinct groups, and to decide the characteristics of those groups in relation to one another. The course is chronologically and thematically organised into a series of modules, which range from the emergence of the concept of race within 18th-century natural history, to the enactment of race in early 20th-century genetics and eugenics. Particular emphasis is afforded to the early history of scientific racism, the religious legacy, and the interplay between different fields of enquiry, including natural history and biology, philology, anthropology, archaeology, and medicine. The reading and analysis of primary sources is a central feature of the course.
The course consists of lectures and seminars; it is examined by way of written assignments and by active participation in the seminars. The language of instruction is English. We welcome applicants from the historical disciplines and beyond, including the medical and biological sciences.
Course details are available in the Uppsala University course catalogue<https://www.uu.se/en/admissions/freestanding-courses/course/?kKod=5LH011&ty…>, and applications can be filed at universityadmissions.se<https://www.universityadmissions.se/intl/start>. PhD students are encouraged to write directly to the course coordinator<mailto:petter.hellstrom@idehist.uu.se>.
Please note that this is a historical course about racism. While we will not tolerate expressions in support of racist or otherwise prejudiced opinions, applicants are advised that the nature of the course means course participants will be exposed to deeply offensive materials as a part of their study.
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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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Stockholm University
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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.
