Conferences, workshops and other presentations

A group picture of conference participants

2024

Skeppsholmens Folkhögskola, Maria Ågren gives a lecture, January.

2023

Danska historikermötet, Århus 17-19 August, Maria Ågren gives a key-note lecture on the GaW project.

Workshop at the International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam, May, most of the GaW members participate.

Sävja hembygdsförening, Maria Ågren gives a lecture on women's and men's work.

Gottsunda hembygdsförening, Maria Ågren gives a lecture on women's and men's work.

Svenska Historikermötet in Umeå, 14–16 June,

Karin Hassan Jansson och Jonas Lindström gives the presentation ”Kön och arbete: Förändring och kontinuitet 1550–1880”
Caroline Lindroth gives the presentation ”Bortom berget: Kvinnors och mäns arbete i en tidigmodern bergstad”

Uppsala högre seminarium i agrarhistoria, The Swedish University of Agricultural Science, 31 May 2023, Carolina Menker gives the presentation ”Så länge kroppen förmår? Äldre människors arbete och försörjning i Vendels socken, ca. 1740–1800”.

Uppsala Rotary Club, February 2022, Karin Hassan Jansson gives the presentation ”Ordergivningens praktik: Om att ge och ta order i 1600- och 1700-talets samhälle”.

Folkligt skrivande 1750–1950: Dagböcker som källor till vardagligt liv och emancipatoriskt skrivande, Turku 4–5 October, Karin Hassan Jansson gives the presentation "Arbete och kön i egodokument. Erfarenheter från projektet Gender and Work”.

2022

Agrarhistoriska seminariet, The Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Jonas Lindström presented results from the second phase of the GaW project regarding changes of the division of work within agriculture.

European Association for Urban History Conference (EAUH), Antwerpen 31 August–2 September, Caroline Lindroth gives the presentation “Crossing Boundaries: Work, Spatial Mobility and Social Interaction in the late 18th Century”.

Nordiska historikermötet, Göteborg 8–11 August, participators:

Karin Hassan Jansson och Jonas Lindström ger presentationen ”A Piece of Advice: Why global issues need micro history”.
Karin Hassan Jansson ger presentationen ”Hunting for separate spheres The household in Swedish political debates around 1800”.

The International Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO), Uppsala 20–23 June, participators: Karin Hassan Jansson, Jonas Lindström, Sofia Ling och Maria Ågren in cooperation with Jane Whittle och Mark Hailwood from University of Exeter, UK.

Västerås City Hall, May, organizer Västerås City Archive, Sofia Ling and Marie Ulväng, presentation, ”Kvinnors och mäns arbete i västmanländska domböcker 1720–1880”.

Conference at the University of Exeter, UK, 28–29 April, participators: Maria Ågren, Karin Hassan Jansson och Jonas Lindström.

Vitterhetsakademins Högtidssammankomst, Stockholm, March, Maria Ågren, presentation on the petitition project.

Women’s History Seminar, UK, mars, föredrag (online) av Sofia Ling, “Women's demands for their right to work, support themselves and trade: Stockholm 1650–1750”

Finska historikermötet, Tampere, 20 oktober, Maria Ågren (keynote), ”In search of practice: lessons from the Swedish Gender and Work project”

Svenska Arbetarhistorikermötet, Helsingborg 27–28 October, Karin Hassan Jansson gives the presentation ”Äktenskap och organisering av arbete i Västmanland 1720–1880”.

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Universitetet i Cambridge, UK, Jonas Lindström, research presentationa at two seminars.

Rudbecksgymnasiet Sollentuna, October, Sofia Ling, lecture on the GaW project.

Källarseminariet in Linköping, October 2022, Karin Hassan Jansson gives the presentation ”Gender and Work: Arbetsdelning och familjeliv under tidigmodern tid”.

Publication Mingle at Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, December 7, Karin Hassan Jansson presents “Was there a collectivity named ’women’ in early modern Sweden?”

Tidigmoderna seminariet, Historiska institutionen, Stockholm University, Karin Hassan Jansson and Jonas Lindström give the presentation ” On the Threshold of Modern Society: The Story of Gender and Work in a Local Society, 1720 to 1880”.

Workshop, LINGLAW, Louvain-La-Neuve, Nov 4 2022, Karin Hassan Jansson gives the presentation "Gender and Work: a research project and a database”

Släktband, Sveriges Radio, January, participator Örjan Kardell

2021

Meeting with the scientific advisory board, Uppsala, 26 November. The sicentific advisory board included Joachim Eibach (Bern), Danielle van den Heuvel (Amsterdam), Amy L. Erickson (Cambridge), Mark Hailwood (Bristol), Ann-Catrin Östman (Turku), Hilde Sandvik (Oslo), Leif Runefelt (Södertörn) och Ulrika Holgersson (Lund)

Maria Ågren gave key-note lecture at the conference ”Ehen vor Gericht”, Wien, October.

Project meeting 23–25 August at Haga Castle, Enköping. The following researchers participated: Maria Ågren, Jonas Lindström, Karin Hassan Jansson, Marie Ulväng, Sofia Ling, Caroline Lindroth, Christopher Pihl, Örjan Kardell, Carl Mikael Carlsson, Jezzica Israelsson, Linnea Henningsson.

Arbetets kulturhistoria, Åbo Akademi, January, Sofia Ling, presentation on the GaW database, online.

2020

Maria Ågren gave a key-note lecture on ”Teamwork and technology” at The Third Digital History Sweden conference, online, 3 December.

The Parish as a Place for Lived Religion and Social Interaction, conference arranged by Urban Claesson, participants from GaW was Maria Ågren and Karin Hassan Jansson, online, 18 November

Lecture on the GaW project by Maria Ågren, International Institute for Social History (IISH), Amsterdam, online, October

Seminar (online), with the Dutch research project ‘Freedom of the Streets’, arranged by GaW, online, June.

Meeting with the scientific advisory board, Uppsala, January, online. The sicentific advisory board included Joachim Eibach (Bern), Danielle van den Heuvel (Amsterdam), Amy L. Erickson (Cambridge), Mark Hailwood (Bristol), Ann-Catrin Östman (Turku), Hilde Sandvik (Oslo), Leif Runefelt (Södertörn) och Ulrika Holgersson (Lund).

Webinar, CEDAR, Umeå University, Jonas Lindström presented the rerearch and digitization project GaW.

2019

Maria Ågren led a seminar on the GaW project at Oxford University, 18 November.

Maria Ågren gave key-note lecture at the opening of the Bonn Centre of Dependency Studies, 7 November.

Jonas Lindström och Maria Ågren presented the GaW project at universities in Amsterdam and participated in a meeting with the project ”Freedom of the Streets”, October.

Svenska historikermötet, Växjö, 8-10 maj, several of GaW's members participated

The department of Economic History, Lunds Univeristy, Jonas Lindström presented at two seminars.

Maria Ågren participated as introductory speeker and kommentator at a conference in Vienna within the COST network WORCK, 19 June.

Karin Hassan Jansson and Jonas Lindström presented their book Horet i Hälsta [The Whoredoom in Hälsta] at a number of different occasions bland such as in radio and podcasts, at libraries, museums and for associations.

Det delade landet: Samisk historia och mångkulturalitet före det moderna - kickoff meeting, Jonas Lindström presented the verb oriented method.

Svenska ekonomisk-historiska mötet, October 2019. Caroline Lindroth, Jonas Lindström, Jezzica Israelsson och Marie Ulväng presented the book Fantastiska verb. Hur man fångar uppgifter om kön och arbete, Västmanland 1720-1880.

2018

Doing House: Social, Cultural and Political Practices in Early Modern Europe, conference, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (KVHAA), Stockholm (arranged by GaW), 11–12 June 2018. Participators (papers):

Caroline Lindroth, “Mining Men and Working Women: Making a Living in a Swedish Mining Community, 1770–1890”
Carolina Menker, “Supporting oneself or being supported? Old age in 18th century rural Sweden”
Marie Ulväng, “Housework in change – Housing and domestic work in rural Sweden 1850-1910”
Christoffer Åhlman, “By her own hand – women’s writing and counting in 18th century Sweden”

Jezzica Israelsson, "Providing for themselves and others: Women's strategies for support in petitions to Swedish county administrations, ca 1730 to 1840", Nordiska kvinno- och genushistorikermötet, Uleåborg, 7–9 June 2018

Invisible Hands: Reassessing the History of Work, conference, Glasgow 16–18 May 2018. Participators (papers):

Carl Mikael Carlsson, Benny Jacobsson och Maria Ågren, “Work-verbs in transition? The verb-oriented method and the study of change: The Gender and Work project tackles the 1800s”
Karin Hassan Jansson and Jonas Lindström, “Gender and Work: Useless Categories of Historical Analysis?”
Jezzica Israelsson, “Work as Practice and Ideal in Sweden, ca 1760–1880: Some results from a pilot study”
Dag Lindström, “Bachelors and the widowers in the world of guilds. Swedish towns in the 18th century”
Marie Ulväng och Jonas Lindström, “The significance of the two-supporter model”

European Social Science History Conference, Belfast 4–7 April 2018, Participators (papers):

Jonas Lindström, “The economic network of an eighteenth-century clergyman”
Maria Ågren, “The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650–1780”

Umeå University, Jonas Lindström presented the resaerch and digitization project GaW

2017

Karin Hassan Jansson & Jonas Lindström, "Gender & Work: Useless categories of historical analysis?", Gender Studies Conference 2017: Genders through time, Jyväskylä, 23-25 November 2017

Maria Ågren, "The History of the Home Office: Lower state servant families in early modern northern Europe", The Domestic Sphere in Europe 16th to 19th Century, Schloss Schadau, Thun, Switzerland, 7-9 September 2017

Karin Hassan Jansson & Jonas Lindström, "Masters and Maids and the Everyday Making of Patriarchy", Nordiska historikermötet, Aalborg, 15-18 August 2017

Maria Ågren, "Households, intermediaries, individuals: who and where were the economic actors in early modern societies?", 3rd International Conference in Economic and Social History Labour History: production, markets, relations, policies (from the late Middle ages to the early 21st century), Ioannina, Greece, 26 May 2017

Jonas Lindström, Vad gjorde de obesuttna? En verbinriktad studie av några västmanländska 1600-talskällor med stöd av databasen GaW Pdf, 356 kB., the GaW seminar, Uppsala University, 16 March 2017

2016

Stadsmuseet & Medeltidsmuseet, Stockholm, 26 October 2016. Talk by Sofia Ling 'Månglerskor, krögerskor och bagerskor'.

Forskarpodden, Uppsala universtitet, 8 October 2016. Interview with Sofia Ling.

Stockholm City Archive, 5 October 2016. Talk by Sofia Ling. 'Månglerskor, krögerskor och bagerskor'.

De svenska historiedagarna, Karlskrona, 1October 2016. Talk by Sofia Ling, 'Gender & Work – Vem gjorde egentligen vad?'.

P1, Vetenskapsradion historia, 24 August 2016. Inteview with Sofia Ling.

P4 Stockholm, 23 juni 2016. Interview with Sofia Ling.

Centre for Business History, Stockholm, 19 maj 2016. Talk by Sofia Ling, 'Konsten att försörja sig. Kvinnors arbete i Stockholm 1650-1750'.

Fd Bränneriämbetet, Stockholm 14 april 2016. Talk by Sofia Ling, 'Konsten att försörja sig. Kvinnors arbete i Stockholm 1650-1750'.

2015

Nordic Women and Gender History Conference, 19-21 August 2015, Stockholm. Papers presented by Maria Ågren and Dag Lindström.

World Economic History Conference, 3-7 August 2015, Kyoto, Japan. Paper presented by Sofia Ling, ‘The Swedish Gender and Work Project: Approach and main results’,

Vardagsliv, conference organized by Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier, 7-8 May 2015, Uppsala. Papers presented by Karin Hassan Jansson, Jonas Lindström & Rosemarie Fiebranz, Sofia Ling, Marie Lennersand and Christoffer Åhlman.

Senioruniversitetet, Uppsala, 28 April 2015. Talk on Gender and Work by Maria Ågren.

Swe-Clarins första HS-workshop, Gothenburg, 17 April 2015. Paper presented by Jonas Lindström, ’”Att kika in i mörkret”: Nyttan av språkteknologi för projektet Gender & Work’,

2014

Högre seminariet, Historia institutionen, Lunds universitet, December 2014. Paper presented by Karin Hassan Jansson, ’Hierarki, auktoritet och identitet: Arbete och skillnadsskapande i det tidigmoderna Sverige’.

The Fifth Swedish Language Technology Conference, 13 November 2014, Uppsala. Papers presented by Eva Pettersson and Maria Ågren & Jonas Lindström.

Humanistisk forskning till nytta & glädje: Ett symposium med föredrag för att fira 125 år med Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, Uppsala 28 October 2014. Papers presented by Jonas Lindström, ”Om en snäll man – och om tusentals andra: Mångsyssleri bland jordfattiga i 1600-talets Sverige”.

Entre famille, maison et entreprise, École Française de Rome, 23-24 October 2014, Rome. Key note by Maria Ågren, ‘The Complexities of Work’.

Women’s work across time and place: foundations for comparisons in pre-census Europe, 11–12 September 2014, University of Glasgow. Papers presented by Jonas Lindström, Marie Lennersand, Rosemarie Fiebranz and Maria Ågren.

Dansk Historikermøde, 29-30 August 2014, Odense. Session ‘Historikerens nye verkstæd - digitalisering og digital forskningsinfrastruktur’. Paper presented by Benny Jacobsson.

Practices and Performances Between Materiality and Morality in Pre-Modernity, 21–23 August 2014, Sigtuna. Paper presented by Karin Hassan Jansson,’Doing household, performing power: Agency, authority and space in early modern Sweden’.

Nordiska historikermötet, Joensuu 14–17 Augusti 2014. Paper presented by Karin Hassan Jansson,’Social hierarchies and interaction: A spatial performance’.

The Berkshire Conference of Women’s and Gender History, 22-25 May 2014, Toronto. Papers presented by Rosemarie Fiebranz and Maria Ågren.

Svenska Historikermötet, 8-10 May 2014, Stockholm. Session devoted to Gender and Work, organized by Maria Ågren.
Papers presented by Jonas Lindström, Karin Hassan Jansson, Dag Lindström, Sofia Ling.

Svenska historikermötet, 8-10 May 2014, Stockholm. Session ‘Elektronisk renässans? Utmaningar och möjligheter med digitala forskningsmaterial’. Paper presented by Rosemarie Fiebranz, Benny Jacobsson & Jonas Lindström, ’Databasen Gender and Work: Erfarenheter från de första fem åren av ett historiskt infrastrukturprojekt’.

The European Social Science History Conference, 23-26 April 2014, Wien. Session ‘Das Haus/Households in Practice I-II’. Papers presentd by Karin Hassan Jansson, Dag Lindström and Göran Rydén. Maria Ågren discussant.

2013

Släktband, Sveriges Radio, December 23 and 28 2013. Presentation of the GaW database by Maria Ågren.

Arbetets Museum, Norrköping, 8 November 2013. Talk by Maria Ågren, “Långt borta och nära. Arbete och vardagsliv före år 1800”.

Uppsalas högre seminarium i agrarhistoria, SLU, 30 Oktober 2013. Paper presented by Christopher Pihl, ’Arbete och kunskap på 1500-talets kungsgårdar’.

Statens Historiska museum, Stockholm, 30 September 2013. Presentation by Rosemarie Fiebranz, ’Databasen GaW – att samla källor om arbete’.

International Federation for Research in Women’s History, 29 August-1 September 2013, Sheffield. Papers presented by av Rosemarie Fiebranz. ‘Women as labour hikers: Gender, labour migration and the dynamics of the transition to capitalism in rural Sweden, c. 1680–1800’.

Jyväskylä University, 22 augusti 2013. Lecture by Maria Ågren when she received her honorary doctorate, “Making up people in early modern society: State formation, gender and work identities in Sweden”.

Gender in the European Town: Medieval to Modern, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 22-25 May 2013. Papers presented by Sofia Ling and Dag Lindström. Karin Hassan Jansson discussant.

Das Haus im Kontext in Europäischer Perspektive, 5-8 March 2013, Schloss Beuggen (Rheinfelden). Papers presented by Karin Hassan Jansson, ‘Households in practice: Agency and authority in early modern Sweden‘.

Arkivcentrum, Uppsala 13 March 2013. Talk by Linda Oja, ’Barnomsorg i tidigmodern tid’.

Urban Variation: Utopia, Planning and Practice, 19-22 February 2013, Gothenburg. Paper presented by Dag Lindström. ‘Work, households and strategies of survival: Gender division of labour in guild organized trades in Sweden, 1650-1800’.

Genushistoriska seminariet, Göteborgs universitet, 6 February 2013. Paper presented by Christopher Pihl, ’Genusarbetsdelningen i 1500-talets Sverige’.

2012

Sverige och allt det andra: Det svenska 1700-talet i global belysning. Conference organized by Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier, 25-26 October 2012, Uppsala. Papers presented by Erik Lindberg & Sofia Ling and Dag Lindström.

Forskningsnoden Tidigmodern kulturhistoria, 18 October 2012, Uppsala. Presentation by Jonas Lindström, ’Gender and Work: A research project at the Department of History”.

Det X Nordiska Kvinnohistorikermötet, Bergen 9-12 August 2012, Paper presented by Karin Hassan Jansson, ‘The work and working conditions of maid servants in Early Modern Sweden’.

Gustav Vasa Seminar, Jyväskylä 7–8 June 2012. Paper presented by Karin Hassan Jansson, ‘Patriarchal power: Dangers and possibilities’.

Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe, Vitterhetsakademien, 10–11 May 2012, Stockholm. International conference organized by Maria Ågren. Papers presented by Dag Lindström and Christopher Pihl.

Uppsala universitets vänner, 4 May 2012. Presentation by Maria Ågren & Jonas Lindström, ’Arbete förr i tiden: Varför vet vi så lite och hur kan Uppsala universitet knäcka problemet’.

2011

För- och tidigmoderna källmaterial och deras digitalisering, Gothenburgh, 29-30 September 2011. Paper presented by Rosemarie Fiebranz, ’Databasen Gender and Work, Uppsala: att samla källor om arbete’.

Gender & Work, workshop 17-18 May 2011, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Åbo universitet. Several project members participated and presented papers.

Svenska Historikermötet, 5-7 May 2011, University of Gothenburg. Papers presented by Benny Jacobsson, Jonas Lindström, Dag Lindström, Sofia Ling and Maria Ågren.

Riksarkivet, Stockholm, March 2011. Project presentation by Dag Lindström & Maria Ågren

Göteborgs stadsmuseum, 9 March 2011. Talk by Karin Hassan Jansson, ’Manliga grytsnokar och kvinnliga husbjörnar: kön i 1700-talets samhällsdebatt’.

2010

Research Communities and Research Infrastructures in the Humanities, workshop organized by European Science Foundation, Standing committee for the Humanities, Strasbourg 29-30 oktober 2010. Paper presented by Rosemarie Fiebranz , ‘GaW – building the Gender and Work database’.

SALT, 6 October 2010, Uppsala. Paper presented by Jonas Lindström & Joakim Nivre et.al., ’Språkteknologiska verktyg i historisk forskning’.

Women’s Work in Early Modern Europe, 23-24 September 2010, Jesus College, Cambridge. Papers presented by Rosemarie Fiebranz, Erik Lindberg and Dag Lindström.

The European Social Science History Conference, 13-16 April 2010, Ghent. Jonas Lindström and Sofia Ling participated.

2009

Reconstructing the female activity rate in historical Europe, 30-31 October 2009, Barcelona. Paper presented by Rosemarie Fiebranz & Jonas Lindström, ‘The Uppsala project on gender and work in the period 1550 to 1800: Combining a verb-oriented approach with a database-methodology’.

Det globala mötet mellan materialitet och mentalitet, 4000 f. Kr-1600 e. Kr: globala konstanter och förändring i ett långsiktigt perspektiv, Stockholm, 26-27 September 2010. Paper presented by Rosemarie Fiebranz, ‘The Uppsala Gender and Work project’.