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The Department of the History of Ideas and Science welcomes Swedish and international postdoc applications, for instance with funding from Swedish Research Council’s international postdoc grant or Marie Curie fellowships. Several on-going research programs at the Department are eager to integrate postdoctoral scholars. Applicants should consider their insertion into ongoing research for the project ”Neoliberalism…

Webinar: Explaining Swedish Exceptionalism on COVID-19: Nordic Perspectives Is the Swedish approach to Covid-19 exceptional? Can we explain the approach based on history or the political system? In this webinar we bring together scholars and scientists from the Nordic countries to try to explain the divergence. Time and place: May 28, 2020 3:00 PM–4:00 PM, https://uio.zoom.us/j/68916251448…

In 1979, the Swedish Consumer Cooperative Union, Konsum, introduced its own credit card. Although Sweden already had a number of smaller but rapidly growing cards systems, this was a landmark event triggering a veritable media storm. As a symbol of “arch-capitalistic consumerism” and “private-egoism” (AB 1/12 1979), a credit card accepted and issued by Konsum, appeared…

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