This page provides information regarding some main activities of the graduate school, apart from the regular seminar series at respective university, and the recurrent 10%, 50% and 90% PhD seminars that are published on the website of respective institution. Note: Links to the PhD theses and other publications are published here>>
2025 – The Sixth year of the Graduate School
February 27, 2025, kl 12:45. Chelsea Rodriguez (PhD Defence, University of Groningen). Title: ”All the School News That’s Fit to Print: Postwar Education News in the New York Times”. Assessment committe: Jeroen Dekker, Annette Mülberger, Pieter Verstraete.
April 4, 2025, kl 10.00-12:00. Andreas Westerberg (PhD Defence, Umeå University). Title: ”Skolutrustning och undervisningsideal: Socio-materiell förändring inom svenskt skolväsende 1865—2010.” Opponent: Lisa Rosen-Rasmussen (Aarhus).
April 4, 2025, kl 13:15-15:00. Emma Hellström (PhD Defence, Uppsala University). Title: ”Kampen om folkhemskristendomen: Kristendomsundervisningens roll i den demokratiska skolans framväxt, 1920–1969”. Opponent: Daniel Lövheim (Stockholm).
April 24, 2025. kl 16:00. Årsmöte i FSUH 24 april 2024. Föreläsning av professor Daniel Lindmark:
”Fyra decennier av utbildningshistorisk forskning: Några personliga reflektioner” (samarrangemang med PEDASK).
April 25, 2025, kl 13:15. Franziska Primus (PhD Defence, Örebro University). Title: ”Present Futures in Global Education Governance: A Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO’s Futures of Education Initiative”. Opponent: Maren Elfert (King’s College London).
May 28, 2025, kl 13:00. Anna Ahlgren (PhD Defence, Stockholm University). Title: Att bli elev – En genealogisk studie av skolstartens normaliserande villkor. Opponent: Jonas Qvarsebo (Malmö University).
November 7, 2025, kl. 13.00. Viktor Johansson (PhD Defence, Stockholm University). Title: De organiserade eleverna: Den svenska elevrörelsens riksförbund och deltagande i utbildningspolitiken 1938–2005. Opponent: Björn Norlin (Umeå University).
December 19, 2025, kl 13:00. Martin Andersson (PhD Defence, Umeå University). Title: Folkbildningens vänner: Folkskollärarnas kollektiva agerande 1838–1879. Opponent: Jakob Evertsson (Stockholm University).
2026 – The Seventh year of the Graduate School
January 15-16, 2026. Concluding PEDASK-workshop, Uppsala University.
February 20, 2025. Badegül Eren-Aydinlik (PhD Defence, Umeå University). Title: Educationalising Womanhood: Constructions of Female Subjectivities in Educational Discourse from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early Republic of Turkey (c. 1859–1933). Opponent: Sara Backman Prytz (Uppsala University).
March 6, 2026, kl 13:15. Linnéa Waldekranz (PhD Defence, Örebro University). Title: Barnträdgårdens
vardagsliv: institutioner, pedagogisk verksamhet och emotionshistoria i Västerås 1940-1970. Opponent: Johan Samuelsson (Karlstad University).
May 29, 2026, kl 13:15. Sebastian Piepenburg (PhD Defence, Örebro University). Title: TBA.
2024 – The Fifth year of the Graduate School
April 4-11, 2024. Writing Retreat, Kavalla.
November 7-8 2024. International PhD workshop (Uppsala University)
November 13, 2024. Anne Helene Høyland Mork (PhD Defence, USN Norway). ”History, Education, and History Education: Expressions of Historical Culture in Norwegian and Swedish Upper Secondary Schools (1920-1960)”. First opponent: Johanna Ringarp
2023 – The Fourth year of the Graduate School
March 6-7, 2023. Workshop: Historical Writing for PhD students.
May 9, 2023. Seminar on history of education and academic writing with the editors of History of Education Quarterly
July 18-21, 2023. Presentations of/by members of the graduate school at ISCHE 44: Histories of Education and Reform: Traditions, Tensions and Transitions
November, 2023. International PhD workshop (Örebro University)
2022 – The Third year of the Graduate School
23 March-2 June, 2022. PhD-course ”International and Transnational Perspectives” (Hybrid, Stockholm University)
May 3-4, 2022. PhD Course Workshop, Stockholm University
25-27 May, 2022. Presentations of/by members of the graduate school at Nordic Educational History Conference (Aalborg)
August 31-September 3, 2022. Presentations of/by members of the graduate school at ISCHE 43: Histories of Educational Technologies
November 17-18, 2022. International PhD workshop (Umeå University)
2021 – The second year of the Graduate School
March-June, 2021. PhD-course ”School Systems and School Reforms” (online, Uppsala U)
April 28, 2021. Seminar: ”What does this have to do with everything else? An ecological reading of the impact of past influenza pandemics on education in five European cities”. Speakers: Angelo Van Gorp; Björn Norlin; Eulàlia Collelldemont; Ian Grosvenor; Núria Padrós
May 19, 2021. Seminar with Martin Lawn: ”Learning to be Tested: Teachers and Pupils in Systems in the 1920s-1930s”
June 2, 2021. Seminar with Lisbeth Lundahl: ”Putting the pieces of the thesis together”
November 11-12, 2021. Workshop: ”Sources and Methods” (Uppsala University)
2020 – The first year of the Graduate School
February 2020. Call for PhD positions. Calls for 9 PhD positions where distributed. More information available här.
27 March, 2020 . Presentation of the graduate school at KU Leuven. On March 27, Johannes Westberg presents the idea of an applied history of education at KU Leuven, Belgium, under the heading ”What is an Applied History of Education”. [cancelled due to covid-19]
September 15, 2020. The introductory meeting of the Graduate School in Applied History of Education
September-October 2020. PhD Course: ”Introduction to Applied History of Education”. The first PhD-course will be organized in September-October 2020. More information regarding this course is found here>>
December 8, 2020. Seminar ”Experiences of being a PhD-student”. Invited speakers: Dr. Inês Félix (Umeå University) and Dr. Lisbeth Matzer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).
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