The Baltic Connections and the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History conferences bring together leading scholars in the field
The programme includes three keynote lectures, all of which are open to the public. The lectures will be held in Lecture Hall 320 of the Historica building.
The fifth Riitta Hjerppe Lecture in Social Science History will be given by 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. Her keynote lecture, titled “A History of (Women’s) Work”, will take place on, Thursday, 11 June at 11:00.
An additional plenary lecture will be delivered by Marcelo Bucheli, Professor of Business Administration at the University of Illinois. His research interests include the political economy of foreign direct investment, business history, and the intersection of history and management theory. His keynote lecture, “The Corporation as a Political Actor in History”, will take place on Wednesday, 10 June at 17:45.
The third keynote lecture will be given by 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. His keynote lecture, “Monetary History and Why Conventional Economics Fails to Understand Money”, will take place on Friday, 12 June at 9:00.
