The fifth Baltic Connections: a Conference in Social Science History 2024 will take place at the University of Jyväskylä from June 12–14. Conference aims to bring together scholars working on comparative, economic, social, global, and other types of history and related social sciences to address various “East-West” historical processes and events as well as comparative and transnational analysis, including at the Baltic region, Europe, and the world. Our programme includes three keynote lectures, which are open to all. The lectures will be held in the Seminarium building 212 (Vanha juhlasali -The Seminarium assembly hall). https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/baltic-connections
An additional plenary session will be delivered by Matthias Kipping, a renowned professor of business history at York University in Canada. He is also the Academic Director of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program, Professor of Policy, and holds the Richard E. Waugh Chair in Business History. Kipping's research focuses particularly on the international transfer of management knowledge, with a special interest in the evolution and role of consulting firms and management education. The title of his keynote lecture is “The duties of a historian: Why we need debates above all else”. The date of the keynote lecture is 12 June at 16:00.
The fifth Riitta Hjerppe Lecture in Social Science History will be given by Naomi Lamoreaux. She is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University, Senior Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her current research interests include business organizational forms and contractual freedom in the US and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the public/private distinction in US history, state constitutional changes mandating general laws in the nineteenth-century US, and the US Patent Office as a site of learning in the administrative state. The title of her keynote lecture is “Reconciling Democracy and Capitalism: The Transition to General Laws in the US and Beyond”. The date of the keynote lecture is 13 June at 11:00.
The third keynote lecture will be given by Hanna Kuusi, a Docent and University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on the social history of health and human reproduction, governmentality in the modernizing society and the issues of dealing with the difficult past. The title of her keynote lecture is “Medical technologies, institutions and actors - medicalization thesis reconsidered”. The date of the keynote lecture is 14 June at 13:30.
