Phd Colloquium for Historical Studies — The Missionary Journal for Israel as Accountability Tool

While the Colloquium emanated as an idea to bring together PhD students within the three disciplines of History, Economic History and History of Ideas, many other disciplines exist at Uppsala University with a historical focus in the featured research topics. As such anyone with a historical methodology or perspective in their doctoral project are warmly welcome to attend.

The seminar will feature a presentation by Samuel Wenell from the Department of Theology with the title of "The Missionary Journal for Israel as Accountability Tool", taking as its starting point Samuel's empirical chapter dealing with the journal of the Swedish Mission to the Jews (Svenska Israelsmissionen) in Vienna 1938-1941. Understanding the mission as a religious nonprofit organization, how can the researcher make sense of the journal as a tool for accountability towards the mission’s donors, and how can the journal be used as source material given that it belongs in a particular genre – that of missionary literature?

Attendees need to register beforehand, but do otherwise not have to do any preparatory work. Discussion is based on a presentation held by one of the PhD students.

Most importantly, sandwiches and fika is provided for attendees to allow for a sociable and welcoming atmosphere.

If you are a PhD student interested in attending, please contact maya.strom@idehist.uu.se for more information and registration.

This seminar series is an initiative by PhD students, supported by CIRCUS.