11-13 June 2024: Uppsala, Sweden
Uppsala University (Sweden)
Local organizer: Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek | Swedish Labour Movement’s Archives and Library
Contact Persons: Jonas Söderqvist, Jenny Jansson and Silke Neunsinger
Large crowds and intensive workdays
5th Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) held in Uppsala, 11-13 June 2024.
During three days in June 2024 in Uppsala, around 250 scholars met to convene the 5th conference of the European Labour History Network. Keynote lectures were given by Jonas Monié Nordin on indentured Sami workers in early modern Sweden, and Helle Stenum on contemporary traces of Denmark's colonial past. A total of 56 sessions were organized, 208 papers presented, 5 roundtable discussions and 1 book launch held, as well as a public event at the Uppsala association for industrial heritage on the importance and usefulness of digitizing reports. The conference was concluded with a social event in the form of a guided tour to Lövstabruk, one of the earliest sites of industrial iron production in Sweden.
All in all, we believe the conference was a success with three days filled with talks and presentations.