Workshop: "Scholarly Institutions Through
Time: Continuity and Change"
- Date: 14 May 2025, 13:00–17:30
- Location: English Park, 6-3025 (Rausingrummet)
- Type: Workshop
- Organiser: Maria Florutau and Laura Royer, Department of History of Science and Ideas
- Contact person: Maria Florutau
Workshop
Programme
Introduction (10 minutes) 13:00 - 13:10 — Welcome and Opening Remarks
Speaker Presentations - Session 1 (15 minutes each)
13:10 - 13:25 — Aron Ambrosiani "Gendered professions of computing in Sweden 1955–1985: the limits of academization"
13:25 - 13:40 — Laura Royer "Addressing (or not) political events in scholarly institutions: a case study on the International Congress of Africanists (1962-1991)"
13:40 - 13:55 — Joris Vandendriessche "Anatomy of a scholarly organization: the International Astronomical Union and globalization (1919-1991)"
13:55 - 14:10 — Maria Zirra "A Potted History of African Literary Studies in Sweden (1950s-2010s): Institutions, Generations, Happenstance"
Fika Break (20 minutes) 14:10 - 14:30 — Coffee, tea, and refreshments
Speaker Presentations - Session 2 (15 minutes each)
14:30 - 14:45 — Sven Widmalm " The politics of scientific objectivity and the institute for racial biology at Uppsala from the 1920s to the 1940s"
14:45 - 15:00 — Maria Florutau "Institutionalizing colonial knowledge: the Batavian and Asiatic Societies between 1770 and 1820"
15:00 - 15:15 — Jenny Beckman "Corporation, agency or NGO? The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the state, 1739-1974"
15:15 - 15:30 — Per Wisselgren "Organisational structuration, bureaucratic practices, and transnational entanglements: UNESCO's Social Sciences Department as a scholarly institution, 1946–1955"
15:30 - 15:45 — Shu Wan "Chinese Medical Missionary Association's Anthropometric Research (1915-1925)"
15:45 - 16:00 — Short Break (15 minutes)
Q&A Discussion (30 minutes) 16:00 - 16:30 — Q&A discussion with all panelists
Roundtable and Open Discussion & Closing (50 minutes) 16:30 - 17:20