KvinnSamSem
Are you planning to visit us to study material from our archival collections? We invite you to present your project and reflect on your findings at the KvinnSamSem lunch seminar, as well as receive feedback and further inspiration.
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
- 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
When: 18 December 2025, 12:00-13:00
Where: Humanisten, C314 - Taru Elfving, director and curator at Contemporary Art Archipelago and Petra Bauer, professor of film and media at Stockholm University of the Arts, present their project on textiles and posters from the women's and workers' rights movements.
When: Spring 2026
Where: TBD - Åsa Beckman, Dagens Nyheter's assistant editor for culture, presents her project on the writer Sonja Åkesson.
When: Spring 2026
Where: TBD
Previous seminars
- 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.
Sister seminars at Gothenburg University
- Feminist seminar in sociology: FEMSEM at the Department of Sociology and Work Science
- Gender history seminar at the Department of Historical Studies
- The Collegium Gender Perspectives in Education at the Department of Education and Special Education
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