KvinnSamSem

About the seminar

If you are a researcher, student or member of the general public working on a project that includes material from KvinnSam's archive collections, you are welcome to present at KvinnSamSem.

Anyone who is interested is welcome to participate. One or more members of KvinnSam's staff will participate in each seminar. Information about the seminar will be sent to other sister seminars (see further down) at the University of Gothenburg and to the Genuslistan and SKOGH email lists, Sweden's women's and gender historians.

The seminar series is a collaboration with SKOGH, Sweden's women's and gender historians.

Format

The seminar lasts one hour and takes place at lunchtime. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch. The project will be presented and participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and give feedback in a relaxed atmosphere. The seminar is usually in Swedish but can be in English, Danish, or Norwegian if the speaker or participants wish.

What is expected of the presenter?

Anyone who wants to give a presentation at KvinnSamSem should contact research coordinator Rachel Pierce (see contact information on the right) at least one month in advance.

The presentation consists of an introduction to the project and what has been found in the archives. It is possible to show pictures, but this is not a requirement. The presenter can lead the discussion, but otherwise someone from KvinnSam will take on that role.

What is expected of participants?

Participants do not need to prepare anything in advance. Just come as you are and participate with questions and comments, or just listen.

Upcoming seminars

• Åsa Beckman, Dagens Nyheter's assistant editor for culture, presents her project on the writer Sonja Åkesson.
  When: CANCELLED, NEW DATE SOON!
  Where: C314, Humanisten
• Opportunities and challenges in researching transnational feminist networks, an online seminar with Rachel Pierce, research coordinator at KvinnSam, Lisa Schug, archivist at FFBIZ – the feminist archive, Hannah Kaarina Yoken, postdoctoral researcher in history at University of Jyväskylä, responsible for the network Gender and Peace in the Nordics and Alina Müller, doctoral researcher in history at the University of Basel, researcher in FemMag – Feminist Magazines in Western Europe together with Kassandra Hammel , doctoral researcher in history at the University of Tübingen, coordinator of FemMag. In English.
  When: 11 May 2026, 13:00-15:00
  Where: zoom, register via Eventbrite
• Margrethe Einarsen, master in gender studies, presents her new book Våkne kvinner about Kirsten Hansteen - feminist, communist, antifascist, peace activist and Norway's first female cabinet member.
  When: 18 May 2026, 12:00-13:00
  Where: C201A, Humanisten
• Camilla Borges Freitas, doctoral student at Lund University & Maya Acharya, researcher and manager at ETHOS Lab, IT-University of Copenhagen, present their research on representation, activism, and the archives.
  When: 5 June 2026, 12:00-13:00
  Where: C201A, Humanisten
• Hannah Kaarina Yoken, historian at the University of Jyväskylä, presents her project on the media and gender.
  When: 28 October 2026, 12:00-13:00
  Where: C314, Humanisten

Previous seminars

• Berit Linden, author, art historian and librarian, presents her project "Elin Wägner and art".
• Linda Hinners, curator at the National Museum, presents her project on the artist Alice Nordin. More information about the project: Känslan som skapande kraft – skulptören Alice Nordin | Nationalmuseum
• Olivia Nedergaard, doctoral student at the Department of art, culture, and communication at Malmö University presents her project "To write is to act - textual practices in the Scandinavian women's movement," which analyses how text broadly defined (everything from poems and magazines to pamphlets and collectively written texts) were a part of the Scandinavian women's movement's activism.