Events

Seminars
 

Mikael Alm, ”Making a Difference: Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden”, article presented at the Department of History, Uppsala University, 8 September, time: 10–12, place: ENG 4/2007.

Karin Sennefelt presented ”Se ståndssamhället: föremål, plats och praktiker i Stockholm 1650–1720”, at the Research Seminar at the Department of Archaeology, Stockholm University 19 March 2014.

Karin Sennefelt presented the paper ”Inspecting eyes: shaping social order in early modern Stockholm”, at the Department for Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Lunds universitet, 31 January 2014.

Mikael Alm and Henrik Ågren present the project for the History seminar at Linköping university. Place: Campus Valla (Linköping), B-building, Diskuteket, December 10th 2013

Leif Runefelt presents his article draft "'Yppighets nytta' och visualiseringar av samhällsordning: ett 'modernt' tänkande omprövat" for the Higher seminar of the History of Ideas at Södertörn University. Place: F819, December 10th 2013

Alexander Engström lectures on the topic Materiell kultur som källor. Dryckessånger och dryckeskärl från svensk stormaktsadel and presents his master thesis "Bacchus and social order. Noble drinking culture and the making of identity in early modern Sweden" for Nordiska museet's Friday seminar. Place: Nordiska museet (Stockholm), Stallet, October 18th 2013

Mikael Alm presented the article "Thoughts on a National Dress, Social Imaginary in Late 18th Century Sweden" at the Historiska seminariet at Uppsala universitet. Lokal: Engelska parken, rum 1-1062, 30 September 2013

Mikael Alm, Henrik Ågren, Karin Sennefelt and Leif Runefelt presented the project Se ståndssamhället! Skillnadernas kultur i Sverige under tidigmodern tid at the Department of History, Stockholm University, 25 April 2013.

Mikael Alm presented the paper "Thoughts on A National Dress. Social Imagination in late 18th Century Sweden", at the conference Praktiken der Selbst-Bildung im Spannungsfeld von ständisher Ordnung und gesellschaftlicher Dynamik", Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, 16-18 February 2012

Conferences

SESO participates at the sessions “Making & Taking” and "Similar & Different” at the international conference Practices and Performances: Between Materiality and Morality (arranged by Riksbankens Jubilumsfond) at Sigtunastitelsen 21–23 August. Conference organiser and Chair at the session "Similar & Different", Mikael Alm
Alexander Engström: Dance of Death. Staging and Performing Difference in the Burial Culture in the Age of Greatness. A Case Study of Axel Oxenstierna.
Astrid Pajur: Costume and Control: Sumptuary Laws and Social Order in Seventeenth-Century Tallinn.
Leif Runefelt: The Blue Peasant: Indigo as an Ethical Problem in Rural Sweden, 1770–1830.
Henrik Ågren: Estate or Profession? Principles for Social Stratification by Titles in Early 1700s Sweden.

SESO participates with the session "Iscensättningar av samhällsordning under tidigmodern tid" at Svenska historikermötet 2014 in Stockholm, May 8th-10th
My Hellsing, Örebro universitet "Det gustavianska hovets närvaro i Stockholm som social manifestation"
Carl Mikael Carlsson, Stockholms universitet "Efter Stånd och Villkor. Ståndsbegreppet och social kategorisering i tabellverket 1749–1859"
Henrik Ågren, Linköpings universitet "Titulatur i praxis - utvecklingen i hur titlar användes för att upprätthålla social differentiering i 1700-talets Sverige"
Leif Runefelt, Södertörns högskola ”Yppighets nytta” och dess visualisering av ordning – eller varför 1700-talets tes om yppighets nytta dog ut.

SESO participates with the sessions "Practices of Social Inequality in Early Modern Europe" and "Visualizing Social Inequality in Early Modern Europe" at ESSHC 2014 in Vienna, April 23th-26th.
Practices of Social Inequality in Early Modern Europe:
Mikael Alm: The Making of Difference: Imagined Order and Practices for Differentiation in Eighteenth Century Sweden
Carl Mikael Carlsson: Class by Counting
Elias Hall: Violence and Estates – Creating a Group Identity with Fist and Blade
Philip Withington: Honestas and the Science of Living in Early Modern England
Visualizing Social Inequality in Early Modern Europe:
Eva Deak: Clothing Colors in Early Modern Transylvania (17th-18th Century)
Lucas Haasis: O Captain! My Captain! Hierarchies in 18th Century Correspondences between Merchants and Ship`s Captains
Astrid Pajur: Order and Disorder in an Urban Setting: Perceptions and Practices of Social Order in Early Modern Tallinn
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen: Filtering Impressions: Meeting with Fashionable Goods in Danish Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century
Karin Sennefelt: Looking at Social Hierarchy: Stockholm 1650–1750

Leif Runefelt presents the paper "Gray Peasant, Blue Peasant - the Global Market for Indigo and the Ethics of the Gray Coat in Sweden c. 1800" at the conference Small States, Political Economy and Norwegian Independence in 1814 in Oslo, December 11th-12th 2013.

Karin Sennefelt presents the paper ”An eye for objects: shaping social order in Stockholm c. 1700”, Materialities of Urban Life in Early Modern Europe, Institute for Historical Research, London 17–19 April 2013.

Karin Sennefelt and Henrik Ågren presented the project ”Se ståndssamhället! Skillnadernas kultur i Sverige under tidigmodern tid”, at På gränsen. Om stadslivet synliga och osynliga barriärer, Stockholm City Museum, 22 March 2013.