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Humanisthuset och Beteendevetarhuset på hösten.

Education and disability in history

Tue
29
Sep
Time Tuesday 29 September, 2026 at 13:00 - 17:00
Place BET.C2.306, the big conference room at the Department of Education

EDUDIS at Umeå University warmly welcomes you to the symposium.

EDUCATION AND DISABILITY IN HISTORY (1)

13.00
Intro and presentation 

13.20
Angelo van Gorp (RPTU), Beyond the Divide: Special and Progressive Education in the Early Twentieth Century 

14.10
Short break 

14.15
Emma Vikström (UmU), From observations to numbers: The production of “hard facts” in the history of educational assessment and sorting  

14.45
Anna Ahlgren (SU), Age as a normalising technology: Temporal governance in the construction of special education needs 

15.15
Coffee 

15.45
Anna Larsson (UmU), School psychiatry in Sweden: The Malmö Mental Guidance Bureau 1933–1974   

16.15
Badegül Eren Aydinlik (UmU), Intersecting Histories: Disability, Immigration, and Special Education in Postwar Sweden, 1940s–1990s  

16.45-17.00
General reflections and discussion 

Event type: Symposium
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Anna Larsson
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