Baltic Connections 2021
https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/baltic-connections

Joel Mokyr (Northwestern), perhaps the leading scholar of the history of technology in the world, will give the second Riitta Hjerppe Lecture in Social Science History at the Baltic Connections 2021 on April 20, 17:15. To follow the lecture and two other brilliant keynotes, register via the website (30 EUR).

Attitudes, Aptitudes, and the Origins of the Great Enrichment
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern)
April 20, 17:15-18:30

Neoliberalism in the Nordics – a research program
Jenny Andersson (Uppsala University)
April 21, 9:00-10:00

Unnecessary and harmful? Feminism and sex role movement as dangerous ideologies in Finnish public debate in the 1960s and 1970s
Arja Turunen (University of Jyväskylä)
April 21, 16:15-17:30

Check also the workshop Interdisciplinary and Historical Perspectives on Technology on April 19. Follow the workshop by registering via the website (free). Invited speakers are Julia Lajus and Alessandro Nuvolari.
https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/baltic-connections/workshop-interdisciplinary-and-historical-perspectives-on-technology

Co-construction of natural resources and technologies in Russian/Soviet history
Julia Lajus (HSE University, St Petersburg)
April 19, 10.00-11.00

Technical change as an evolutionary process: some perspectives from the economic history of industrialization
Alessandro Nuvolari (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa)
April 19, 10.00-11.00