A public economic‑historical keynote lecture on the history of women’s work will be held on Thursday, 11 June 2026, from 11:00 to 12:15 in room H320 of the Historica building on the Seminaarinmäki campus. The lecture is organized as part of the Baltic Connections and the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History -conference.
The lecture also serves as the seventh Riitta Hjerppe Lecture in Social Science History. The speaker is Joyce Burnette, Professor of Economics and John H. Schroeder Interdisciplinary Chair in Economics at Wabash College. Burnette is an economic historian whose research focuses on women’s work, labour markets, and wages. Her work has examined gender differences in employment and pay in Britain, Sweden, and the United States. More recently, she has also studied the role of unpaid work in women’s economic lives and household living standards.
The title of the lecture is ‘A History of (Women’s) Work’. The lecture will be held in English.
Baltic Connections and the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History -conference
The seventh Baltic Connections Conference and the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History Conference will be held jointly at the University of Jyväskylä from 10 to 12 June 2026. The conference aims to bring together scholars working in comparative, economic, social, global, and other fields of history and related social sciences to discuss various East–West historical processes and events, along with comparative and transnational perspectives on the Baltic region, Europe, and the wider world.
