
Gender and Work
A Research and Digitization Project at the Department of History
The Gender & Work seminar series
Thursday, June 8th 10.15–12
Room Eng 1-1060, Campus Engelska Parken, Uppsala University
Nick Collins (PhD student, Exeter) presents parts of his ongoing research project under the heading “Using time use data to understand gender differences in working hours” (no written paper). The seminar will be in English.
Recent publications
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Women and Work
2023
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Att tilltala överheten: Suppliker som kulturarv och källa till kunskap
2022
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David versus Goliath: The Girjas Case: Public History in the Courtroom
2022
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Households
2022
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Review of Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen, Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession
2022
Verb of the month
En bonde lånade ut pengar med en myr som pant. Myrgräset skulle ha blivit bondens ränta, men det uppdagades att bävrar förstört myren genom att bygga i forsen och orsaka översvämning. Missnöjd vände bonden sig till tinget i Offerdal år 1649. Men bäverns arbete ger inblick i dåtidens kreditväsende!
GaW3 has started

The third phase of the Gender and Work project (GaW3) is now in full swing. On the GaW blog, research assistant Linnea Henningsson has written a post on the kickoff meeting in January.
Bob Pierik receives dissertation prize
We congratulate Bob Pierik, former guest researcher in GaW, who is awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) for his dissertation Urban Life on the Move: Gender and Mobility in Early Modern Amsterdam!
Read more about the ASH prize and Bob Pierik's disseration here.

Jonas Lindström awarded by the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy

Jonas Lindström, research leader of the Gender and Work project, receives a prize from the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for his “significant contributions in the intersection between history, especially history of work, and digital humanities.”
Podcast episode on Gender and Work
Project leader Maria Ågren speaks about Gender and Work in a podcast episode from Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies.

The GaW database is being updated!
System developers at Umeå University are currently constructing a new version of the GaW database. Read more
Maria Ågren gets new funding

The Swedish Research Council has appointed professor Maria Ågren to Rådsprofessor. She gets 50 milions over a period of ten years.
Read more about this news in Swedish
Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt

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