Professor of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

Hybrid event.
Zoom Webinar: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/65802739142 External link.

ABSTRACT:
My talk focuses on a small group of companies in the Business Fund (Näringslivets fond), created in Sweden in 1940 and growing over time into an advocacy network of Swedish multinational companies with both domestic and transnational inscription. I will argue that through the prism of the Fund, we see Sweden's political history, and future, differently.

ABOUT:
Jenny Andersson is Professor of History of Ideas at Uppsala University. She is the author of academic works including The Future of the World: Futurology, Futures Studies and the Struggle for the Cold War Imagination, and several high-level articles including the review essay "Just Out of Our Reach" in Modern Intellectual History and "The Future as an Object of Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences" in the European Journal of Social Theory.

The lecture is part of the workshop Welfare in Danger? Institutions, Infrastructures, and Environments in the Age of Risk.