A public economic history keynote lecture on the monetary history will be held on Friday, 12 June 2026 at 9:00 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 speaker is Anders Ögren, Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University. His research focuses on financial and monetary history, macroeconomic history, business history, and the history of economic thought. More recently, he has also added Viking economics to his research agenda.
The title of the lecture is "Monetary History and Why Conventional Economics Fails to Understand Money”. The lecture will be held in English.
Baltic Connections and the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History -konferenssi
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.
