Hej alla!
Historieämnet på Linköpings universitet söker en vikarierande universitetslektor som kan hjälpa till i undervisningen( på 40%) under HT 24.
Sista ansökningsdag är 6 juni. Sprid gärna till intresserade.
Läs mer här: https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/lediga-jobb/24366
Vänliga hälsningar
Maria Björkman, studierektor historia
[Linköping University]
Maria Björkman, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in History
Department of Culture and Society
581 83 Linköping, Sweden
Telephone: +46 (0) 13 28 23 76
Visiting address: Key building, room 4338, Valla Campus, Linköping
Latest publication: What's in a Gland? Sexuality, Reproduction and the Prostate in Early Twentieth-Century Medicine<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.12504>
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Kära kollegor,
Den 10-12 september 2025 arrangerar Linnéuniversitetet den åttonde ENIUGH (European Network in Universal and Global History) kongressen i Växjö. Det är den största återkommande globalhistoriska konferensen i Europa och den brukar samla mellan 350 och 600 deltagare. Temat för kongressen 2025 är ”Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions”.
Vi hoppas givetvis på ett stort deltagande av svenska och nordiska forskare, och ett av de teman som vi särskilt vill uppmärksamma är nordisk kolonialism. Se vidare kongressens hemsida:
https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/
Call for papers återfinns även nedan. Sista datum för att lämna in förslag på paneler, rundabordssamtal och papers är den 15 oktober.
I samband med kongressen kommer också en sommarskola för doktorander att arrangeras i Växjö. Mer information och inbjudan till denna kommer snart.
För frågor, vänligen kontakta undertecknad ordförande för organisationskommittén.
Välkomna till Växjö i september 2025!
Stefan Amirell
Eighth European Congress on Universal and Global History
Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions
Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, 10−12 September 2025
Please find the full call as a pdf here<https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/wp-content/uploads/2024/05…>.
Since its foundation in 2002, the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has emerged as the leading international association for research and teaching in world and global history. Following seven successful congresses in Leipzig, Dresden, London, Paris, Budapest, Turku, and The Hague, the next ENIUGH congress will be held at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. The congress will be on site only, although panel chairs may in exceptional cases allow participants to present their papers remotely.
Under the overall theme of “Critical Global Histories” we aim to further discussion, self-reflection, and the exploration of new avenues in global history. Over the past decade, global history has expanded internally (quantitatively and thematically, as well as methodologically and theoretically) and has, in doing so, influenced many other fields of research in the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, the expansion has led to debate and criticism, not least within the field. Objections have been raised against global history’s alleged macro-historical emphasis, connectivity bias, Eurocentrism, Anglophone dominance, and lack of attention to gender perspectives and Indigenous methodologies. Global history has also been accused of being imbued with neo-imperial, teleological, globalizing, exoticizing and neoliberal leanings. In recent years, decoloniality as a research practice and method has raised further questions regarding the situatedness of knowledge and the role of local sources for global history. At the same time, a current nationalist backlash in many countries has led to calls for a return to national history, thereby challenging the fundamental premises of global history.
At the Eighth ENIUGH Congress, we aim to pick up on these discussions and take a step forward by opening a space of dialogue, both between global historians and between global historians and their colleagues in other disciplines who are involved in the study of the global human pasts or who work with transnational, transregional, transcultural approaches in their respective fields. The Eighth ENIUGH-Congress will be a meeting place for scholars from all of the fields that go beyond methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism. We believe that critical thinking – both in the sense of impartial and intellectually disciplined thinking and in the sense of an augmented awareness of the many pitfalls associated with global history – can provide some of the means by which the field can evolve and retain its intellectual vigour and contemporary relevance. By framing the theme in terms of “global histories” in the plural, we aim to promote the inclusion of a broad range of voices, perspectives and orientations within the field, while forcefully rejecting the possibility of insisting on a single, dominating story or grand narrative of global history. The overall theme of the congress will be explored in a series of keynote events, roundtables, and panel discussions and in several of the regular panels and presentations at the congress.
Aside from the events related to the overall theme of the congress, we expect the congress to reflect the entire span of current research in global history, and we look forward to welcoming to Växjö scholars from all over world working on global and world history and related fields of study. Proposals can include a wide range of topics related to global, entangled, and transnational historical processes and phenomena, with no geographic or chronological limitations. While we expect most of the congress delegates to be historians, we also welcome scholars from other disciplines engaged in the study of humanity’s global pasts.
We invite contributions consisting of presentations of original research and empirically grounded work in progress, as well as theoretical, methodological, ethical, and historiographical reflections. We particularly encourage contributions that reflect on how critical thinking can be applied in global historical investigations. Although the main language of the congress will be English, individual presentations and panels in other languages can be accommodated (see further below).
In particular, we welcome contributions (both panels and individual papers) tailored to one of the following themes:
* Temporalities and periodizations in global history
* Ethical aspects of doing global history
* Expanding the global archive
* Multivocality in global history
* Global history and decoloniality
* Transdisciplinary approaches
* Indigenous perspectives and methodologies
* Challenging modernity from the perspective of global history
* National history, nationalist backlash, and identity politics
* Global environmental history
* Nordic colonialism
In addition to the main conference themes, we also invite proposals dealing with relations, transfers and entanglements between states, peoples, communities and individuals located in or spanning different parts and regions of the world.
Proposals
We invite proposals for panels, double panels, roundtables, and individual papers. Papers and presentations may be in any language, but abstracts for all panels, roundtables, and papers must be provided in English. Panel chairs must ensure the openness, accessibility, and coherence of their panel, and it is recommended that Q&A sessions be held in English regardless of the language of the presentations. All congress delegates are expected to participate on site in Växjö. In exceptional circumstances, panel chairs may allow a minority of presentations to be held remotely.
Panels may comprise up to four presentations, and double panels may comprise up to eight presentations, in addition to commentators and chairs. Panels must consist of scholars representing at least two different institutions in at least two different countries. Double panels must include participants from at least three different institutions in at least three different countries.
Roundtables may include up to five participants, in addition to commentators and chairs. Like double panels, roundtables must include scholars from at least three different institutions in at least three different countries.
We also welcome proposals for individual papers, which, if accepted, will be assigned to a panel by the steering committee of ENIUGH. Papers that speak to one or several of the themes listed above are particularly welcome, and the theme of most relevance to the proposal should be indicated in the submission form.
Submissions
All abstracts for panels and papers must be submitted by October 15 via the congress website: https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/. Please note that all speakers of a panel must submit their papers individually in addition to the collective panel submission.
Abstracts for panels should be 250 – 300 words long and should indicate all panellists, their institutional affiliations as well as their paper titles. Additionally, panel abstracts should be pertaining to one of the conference themes.
Abstracts for papers should be 200 – 250 words long and indicate whether the paper is submitted as an individual paper or as part of a panel. In the latter case the abstract should name the panel title as well as the convenor’s name.
All abstracts should be in English. If the presentation is in a language other than English, please state this in the abstract. (Papers are selected solely on the basis of content, not linguistic criteria.)
Abstracts should also indicate whether you plan to participate in person or online. Please note that the convenor and a majority of participants in each panel must participate on site.
Selected panels and papers will be notified in December 2024.
Kind regards from the Organizing Committee,
Stefan Eklöf Amirell (Professor of Global History, Director, Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)
Birgit Tremml-Werner (Stockholm University, affiliated researcher at Linnaeus University)
Katrin Köster (Leipzig University)
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Stefan Eklöf Amirell
Professor of Global History
Director, Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
E-mail: stefan.amirell(a)lnu.se<mailto:stefan.amirell@lnu.se>
Ph: +46-(0) 470 76 78 48
Linnaeus University
Department of Cultural Sciences
SE-351 95 Växjö
Sweden
Visiting address:
Room H329, Building F
Campus Växjö
Hej kollegor!
Jag vill gärna informera om att Routledge ligger i startgroparna med en "Handbook of Swedish History", tänkt publikation våren 2028 digitalt och i pappersform. Redaktör är undertecknad och jag har precis börjat fundera kring upplägg och enrollerat de första skribenterna.
Jag har plats för ett fyrtiotal texter - det blir en tegelsten - som ska skildra "state of the art" inom olika teman och kronologiska perioder. Jag skickar med ett väldigt preliminärt upplägg (se bifogad fil eller inklistrad text nedanför mejlet).
Jag tar gärna emot tips, synpunkter, och inte minst intresseanmälningar om att vara med och skriva! Det går bra att höra av sig till mig på hanna.enefalk(a)kau.se<mailto:hanna.enefalk@kau.se>, och jag har också gjort en facebooksida där alla som vill kan följa arbetet, länk nedan:
Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559651562931>
Önskar er alla en fin sommar!
Hanna Enefalk
Hanna Enefalk
Lektor i historia vid Karlstads universitet
Hanna Enefalk | Karlstads universitet (kau.se)<https://www.kau.se/forskare/hanna-enefalk>
Handbook of Swedish History (Routledge, planerad publicering våren 2028)
Utkast till kapitelindelning
I. From Iron Age Society to Medieval Kingdom, 900-1500
* The Vikings (an overview of research about late Iron age economy, society and religion, including slavery, shipbuilding, international contacts and life "at home" in Scandinavia)
* Christianization and state formation
* The consolidation of the Swedish realm, the expansion into Norrland and Finland, codification of law and building of royal fortresses
* Trade and towns: the Hanseatic league, the kogg, trade on the Baltic, fairs, exports-imports and local markets
* The calamitous 14th century
* The Kalmar union and the rebellions of the 15th century
* The medieval church, the formation of the parishes (socknarna), the veneration of saints, the role of women in medieval Swedish Christianity
II. Early Modern Sweden, 1500-1800
* The beginnings of the early modern state: the break-up of the Kalmar Union and the reformation under the reigns of Gustav Vasa to Karl IX
* The society of estates and the Lutheran orthodoxy (norms, world view, church documentation of the population, Bible translations, moral control and witch processes, agency and negotiation, widows as heads of households)
* From the 30 years war to the Great Northern war: Expansion of state power, military build-up and aggression, territorial conquest, the reduction and indelningsverket, the collapse of the Swedish great power
* Waterways, fisheries and water power: the Baltic herring fisheries, fishing (in the north not to forget), naval technology (chronological outlooks beyond the early modern period)
* Finland as part of the Swedish realm
* Colonial aspirations and attempts to take part in international trade (New Sweden, the East India company, St Barthelemy, chronological outlooks)
* "Age of Freedom" and Gustavian absolutism (the legal code of 1734, Swedish scientists, changes in the countryside, emerging public sphere)
* Gender and work in early modern Sweden
III. A Growing Population in a Small State, 1800-1900
* Sweden and the Napoleonic wars (political history)
* From a society of estates to a class society
* Agrarian reform and change
* Pauperization, crofters and poor relief (legislation and practice)
* The national project from Gustav III to the interwar period; national "others" (minorities and foreign powers), Scandinavianism
* Sami and tornedalingar. State power, natural resources, discrimination and legislation in the north
* Secularisation - the evangelical revival, increasing religious freedom, the secularisation of the school system, the "divorce" in 2000
* Women's rights. Legislation, unmarried mothers and infanticide, Fredrika Bremer, the moral crisis (syphilis and prostitution), the Women's movement for voting rights, the Fogelsta group
* The emigration and Swedish Americans
* The demographic transition
* Forestry and forest use (medieval times-today): grazing, tar and coal production, timber, pulp
IV. A Modern Democracy, 1900-2020
* The emergence of civil society: from associations to people's movements; IOGT/NTO, sports clubs, cooperations
* The industrial revolution - energy use, innovation, capital, social and environmental consequences
* Socialism in Sweden. The Workers' movement, labour unions, voting rights, the democratic break-through, the "people's home" and the welfare state
* The agrarian sector: urbanisation and rationalisation, technological change (fertilizers and tractors)
* Animal history (chronological overview). Iron age fur trade, reindeer herding, hunting, animal stock over time, war horses, vermin, extinction of predators, emerging animal protection, modern high-yield breeds
* Social history: demographic change and increasing living standards. From hunger riots in 1917 to the "record years" and world-leading BNP/capita after WWII
* Medicine in the 20th century (incl. psychiatry)
* The interwar period (political history). The Saltsjöbad agreement, the lack of Nazi success in elections.
* Sweden and the Holocaust (Karin Kvist Geverts, ev. med Izabela Dahl)
* Sweden and WWII: Political leadership, neutrality, Finnish aid, Swedish exports to belligerents
* 20th-century international contacts and diplomacy (secular in the UN etc + Christian ecumenical development)
* Children's rights - Ellen Key, the transition to small nuclear families, legislation against violence in schools and in the home, plunging child mortality
* The gay and queer history of Sweden
* Gender equality and labour market after WWII - baby boom, 50s stay-at-home wives and early marriages, family planning and abortion, 60s-70s tax-financed childcare and individual taxation etc. The gender-divided labour market
* Recent history. The end of the cold war, the 90s economic crisis, the IT revolution, environmental concerns, immigration, populism, covid, NATO...
V. Thematic chapters
* School systems and education history (Johannes Westberg)
* Art and literature - overview of relevant questions in current historical research in Arts and Literature?
* Historical research in Musicology?
* Swedish historiography from Rudbeck to Weibull and over to today's orientation towards British and American historians.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The 29th Nordic Medical History Congress
Lund Sweden, April 23–25, 2025
Health and Medicine under Pressure
– Challenges, Controversies and Collaborations
For more information: www.nmhc2025.se<http://www.nmhc2025.se>
/Organising Committee
Den amerikanske historikern Shelton Stromquist är på Sverigebesök i sommar! Den 10 juni föreläser han i ABF-huset i Stockholmför den intresserade allmänheten. Föreläsningen är på engelska.
Om föreläsningen:
In the late nineteenth century, urban workers fought to make their cities livable and democratic through municipal socialist politics, challenging the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements. In his latest book, Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism<https://www.versobooks.com/products/2808-claiming-the-city> (Verso Books, 2023), Shelton Stromquist offers a world-spanning account of the rise of municipal socialism, drawing on stories of local activists and their social-democratic movements in cities like Malmö, Stuttgart, Vienna, Milwaukee, and many others.
Medverkande:
Shelton Stromquist, professor emeritus i Historia vid University of Iowa. Specialiserad i arbetar- och socialhistoria.
Tid och plats:
10 juni, kl. 17:00.
Katasalen, plan 1, ABF-huset.
Fri entré!
FRI ENTRÉ
DATUM 10/6
TID 17:00
ARRANGÖR Stads- och kommunhistoriska institutet, Historiska Institutionen vid Stockholms universitet, Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek, ABF Stockholm
PLATS Katasalen, ABF-huset, Sveavägen 41
https://abfstockholm.se/evenemang/book-presentation-claiming-the-city-a-glo…https://www.facebook.com/events/263946636796341?acontext=%7B%22event_action…<https://www.facebook.com/events/263946636796341?acontext=%7B%22event_action…>
Välkomna!
Institutionen för kultur och samhälle (IKOS) vid Linköpings universitet söker minst en postdoktor i modern historia med inriktning mot kultur och beredskap och med placering vid Avdelningen för historia, konstvetenskap och religionsvetenskap (HKR) på Campus Valla, Linköping. Anställningen omfattar två år med möjlig förlängning till tre år. Internationella sökanden är välkomna.
https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/lediga-jobb/24366
Välkommen med din ansökan eller sprid gärna utlysningen till den du tror kan vara intresserad!
Marie Cronqvist
Professor i modern historia
Avdelningen för historia, konstvetenskap och religionsvetenskap (HKR)
Institutionen för kultur och samhälle (IKOS)
Linköpings universitet
Hej alla,
3-4 oktober 2024, en månad före det dramatiska presidentvalet i USA, håller Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS) konferens på Södertörns högskola. Keynote speaker (3 oktober, 15:00) är James T. Kloppenberg, professor i USA:s historia vid Harvard, bl.a. känd för verket Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-rule in European and American Thought (2016). Efter föredraget deltar Kloppenberg även i ett panelsamtal med Cecilia Khavar, Göran Rosenberg, Dag Blanck och Christin Mays. Välkomna med förslag till presentationer eller informella roundtables! Deadline 31 maj. Se bifogad CfP.
Goda hälsningar,
David
_______________________________
David Östlund
Associate Professor, History of Ideas
Södertörn University - Stockholm
School of Historical and Contemporary Studies
SE-141 89 Huddinge
Sweden
Room F 818
Cell phone: + 46 732 099393<tel:+46732099393>
david.ostlund(a)sh.se<mailto:david.ostlund@sh.se>
Hej alla,
Professor Matteo Millan<https://www.unipd.it/en/erc-millan> vid universitetet i Padua har bett mig dela följande information med svenska historiker: han söker en postdoktoral forskare i svensk historia för en tjänst om 24 månader (med möjlighet till 12 månaders förlängning). Det är inom ett större ERC-finansierat projekt om vapen och våld i Europa ca 1870-1970 och Matteo kommer samtidigt anställa ett par postdoks som kommer forska om andra länder. Man kommer alltså vara del av ett större forskarlag.
Jag bifogar utlysningen och har också klistrat in den nödvändigaste informationen nedan.
Den som är intresserad och har frågor kan höra av sig till Matteo: matteo.millan(a)unipd.it<mailto:matteo.millan@unipd.it>
Hälsningar
Erik Bengtsson
Description of the research project.
This postdoctoral fellowship is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant 'A Disarmed Continent? Gun Culture, Gun Control and the Making of Western Europe (c. 1870-1970)'. The project is a
comparative study integrating legal, cultural, social and practical analyses of the lawful use and possession of small firearms. Within the general framework of the project, the postdoctoral
researcher will study the case of Sweden between c. 1870 and 1945. Over the course of a century (c. 1870-1970), Europe experienced a silent revolution that led to the
implementation of gun control measures and the depoliticisation and cultural deglamourisation of guns. This transition has become one of the foundations of public order, social peace and the smooth
functioning of political systems. The overall aim of the project is to explore the causes and historical processes that have led to this change and its implications for European history.
In the light of the existing literature and within the chronological framework of this fellowship (1870-1945), the postdoctoral researcher will select case studies on which to focus the research, identifying
the most appropriate sources and methodologies. The postdoctoral researcher will carry out a research project based on an integrated approach to the legal, cultural, social and practical aspects of
the lawful use and possession of small firearms by law-abiding civilians. The methodologies envisaged by the project, which the postdoctoral fellow will be invited to select and implement,
include: a) security studies; b) entangled legal history; c) guns as material objects; d) advertising; e) gender studies.
Research fellow's duties and profile
The researcher will study the use and legal possession of weapons in Sweden between 1870 and 1945. In particular, the research fellow will define case studies, collect and analyse relevant primary
sources in national and local archives and libraries. The collected sources must also be made available for consultation and analysis by the other scholars in the research group. The research
fellow will have: excellent knowledge of Swedish history; very good experience in collecting and studying archival sources; willingness to work in archives and libraries abroad; excellent
knowledge of Swedish; good knowledge of English, which will be the common language of the research group and the planned publications. The researcher must be highly motivated and willing
to work with the entire research group.
