"Investigating disabilities in past, present and future societies"
Date: Wednesday, May 15 2024, at 13:30-14:30
Location: Lecture room 3, 2nd floor in house 1, Campus Albano

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Lotta Vikström is Professor of History at Umeå University. She often makes use of demographic data and methods to examine disabled people in history using digitized parish registers stored at the Demographic Data Base, CEDAR, Umeå University. She has published her results in journals within the humanities, social sciences and health studies. Her disability research has generated funding from the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant 2016–2021), the Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg Scholars Grant 2020-2029) and the Swedish Research Council (2024–2027).