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Emma Elinor Lundin
@emmaelinor.bsky.social
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Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.

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Proofs on my desk; six years in the making.
A photo of the first page of From Activist to Feminist: Turning Foreign Policy into a Swedish Model, a chapter by me that will be published in March 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Höstens första Historieverkstad Malmö handlar om minnen, historia och nutid med fokus på Bosnien - 30 år sedan Srebrenica, och 30 år sedan kriget tog slut. Hur minns vi dessa händelser och hur närmar vi oss sår i historien? @kenanhabul.bsky.social och Livia Malmborg Nygaard deltar.
En poster med ett färgfoto från Mostar i Bosnien som bakgrundsbild. Bildtexten lyder: I år är det 30 år sedan folkmordet i Srebrenica, och 30 år sedan kriget i Bosnien tog slut. Hur minns vi Bosnien, och hur kan vi närma oss svåra och traumatiska händelser, erfarenheter och historier? Höstens första historieverkstad handlar om historia, tystnader och minnen i då- och nutid. I samtalet deltar journalisten Kenan Habul samt läraren Livia Malmborg Nygaard. Datum: 18/9 2025 Tid: 17:30-20:00 Plats: Röda rummet (entréplan) Malmö stadsbibliotek (Kung Oscars väg 11. Bild: Christian Lue via Unsplash.
August 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The world is on fire, but in Malmö the sun is shining and strong coffee and an excellent book are good sources of hope.
A photo of beige-yellow brick church against a clear blue sky. A photo of a black coffee table taken from above, with a cup of coffee (a cortado, in a small glass) and Anna Malaika Tubbs’ book Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation.
June 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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What I’m reading while the kid is at football practice. (Cc @colmpm.bsky.social)
A photo of Colm Murphy’s Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation’, the Labour Party and the British Left 1973-1997. In the background is an indoor football pitch with some tiny kids in the distance.
June 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Forskar du om global solidaritetsaktivism? Kan du vara i Malmö onsdag-torsdag nästa vecka? En sista-minuten avbokning gör att det finns plats för ytterligare en deltagare på min RJ-finansierade workshop nästa vecka! En 15-min work-in-progress-presentation på onsdag ingår - hör av dig!
Bild på programmet för dag ett - maila emma.lundin@mau.se för att få ett höguppläsbart dokument Bild på programmet för dag två - maila emma.lundin@mau.se för att få ett höguppläsbart dokument.
June 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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The world is a bin fire, but the Eustacia Vye rose on my balcony is in bloom.
A photo of a bright pink rose against a backdrop of green leaves, and a blue balcony cover.
May 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Rachel Cusk captures the first day of teaching a new course in Outline (page 133 for reference fans).
A photo of a page in a book, with a quote that reads: “There was an atmosphere of uncertainty, almost of unease, in the anonymous room. I reminded myself that these people wanted something from me; that though they didn’t know me, or one another, they had come here with the purpose of being recognised”.
May 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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I Malmö på torsdag? Kom till Gullbergsrummet på stadsbiblioteket för vårens sista Historieverkstad! Historiskans Eva Bonde pratar om Elma Danielsson, och vi minns andra o/kända kvinnor Malmö glömt. Alltid gratis, och alltid med god och matig kvällsfika. Mer info här: www.facebook.com/events/41213...
En bild på postern för Historieverkstad Malmö den 22:a maj: ett svartvitt foto på Elma Danielsson, som sitter ner i en stol och tittar lite bistert och intensivt på fotografen. Texten på postern lyder: Datum: 22/5 2025. Tid: 18:00-20:00. Plats: Gullbergsrummet (fjärde våningen i Slottet), Malmö stadsbibliotek (Kung Oscars väg 11). I maj 2023 fick Malmö sin allra första staty av en namngiven, historisk kvinna: Elma Danielsson. Elma – folkskollärare och journalist – var en av den svenska och malmöitiska arbetarrörelsens pionjärer. 1888 var hon en av kvinnorna som grundade Kvinnliga arbetareförbundet i Malmö, och hon blev också organisationens första ordförande. Trots hennes stora insats i den politiska kampen och för Malmös fattiga har hennes minne bleknat och hon har på senare år mest förknippats med sin make, Axel Danielsson, som grundade tidningen Arbetet. Medan Axel fick en staty i Folkets park redan år 1900 fick Elma vänta 123 år till på sin. Varför blev det så, och vilka andra minnen av kvinnor bör synliggöras i Malmö? Eva Bonde, grundare och chefredaktör för tidskriften Historiskan, startade 2019 insamlingen som på sikt ledde till att Elma Danielsson-statyn uppfördes fyra år senare. Eva besöker Historieverkstaden för att samtala om vägen till statyn. Som vanligt bjuder vi på kvällsfika!
May 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Spent the weekend in the Bjäre peninsula, scene of summer holidays with my grandparents and some of my misspent youth. Several time lines collapsed into one. Swipe for some bonus Bergman.
The view from Hovs hallar national park - a light reddish-brown cliff overlooking a deep blue sea. The sky is a a lighter blue and there are some green shrubs framing the view. A small house in the middle of nowhere - or at least at the end of a green field. The house is a brown cottage surrounded by a a grove of trees that are only just developing leaves. A screengrab of google maps with satellite view, where the cottage is visible and a blue dot indicating from where the photo was taken. To the left of the house is the shore where Ingmar Bergman had Death play chess with Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal, a spot also marked on the map.
May 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Walpurgis Night, when Swedes light bonfires to ward off witches and celebrate spring conquering winter. (That’s Copenhagen on the horizon.)
A photo of the sunset taken by the shore in Malmö this evening. The sun is just about to set over Copenhagen on the horizon.
April 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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If you’re in Gothenburg between now and 12 April, don’t miss Waleed Akhtar’s incredible play The P Word at GEST. I saw it last night, and it was moving, heartbreaking and heartwarming. www.gest.se/the-p-word
A photo of the window at GEST - the Gothenburg English Studio Theatre - in which a poster advertising The P Word by Waleed Akhtar is displayed.
April 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Matching book and stairwell.
A photo of Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics in a yellow-red-and-beige stairwell.
March 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Back where I belong - in the country where the bin for empty crisp packets get properly labelled.
A photo of an instructions leaflet above a bin at a British train station. General waste is defined as used paper towels, liquid and hot drink cups, crisp packets and sweet wrappers, food and polystyrene containers.
February 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Till en näktergal i Malmö av Hjalmar Gullberg (www.babelmatrix.org/works/sv/Gul...) och Talking to the Sun in Washington Square av Nick Laird (www.nybooks.com/articles/202...). Dåliga bilder med inledande rader inklippta…
Inledande raderna av Hjalmar Gullbergs Till en näktergal i Malmö: Jag mötte vänner i så många länder - men varför blev man ensam under skyn? Jag älskar det, som flyr ur våra händer; jag älskar det, som doldes för vår syn. Här ligger jag, en fånge mellan lakan, och lyssnar i en mörklagd paviljong. Jag älskar mörkret, och jag älskar vakan; jag älskar tystnaden, som blir till sång. I sjukhusparken hänger månens lykta; det glittrar genom rullgardinens dok. Nu lyssnar alla sorgsna och betryckta till Höga visan ur naturens bok. Inledningen till Nick Lairds Talking to the Sun in Washington Square: Looking after children means simultaneously building a field hospital, a hedge school, a diner, and an open-air prison with my bare hands and operating them at a continual loss. In this instant they are playing and I’m sitting on a bench where the unhindered sun applies itself and I can feel it on my skin asking how it’s been since we last touched, and I tell her things are all right mostly: the sky is the epitome of sky, the clouds give birth to themselves, the little people are getting even better at belittling the bigger people, and I am done in. I think I did my bit. Birdwatching today in Central Park until I saw an osprey with a fish in its beak and a splinter in a finger meant we had to walk out and hail a cab and I saw the booth on Sixth had its phone yanked off and wires dangled.
January 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Skriver hemtentamensinstruktioner.
Generativa AI-skrivverktyg är inte tillåtna. Detta är p.g.a. att generativa AI-verktyg själva gör sig skyldiga till plagering och begår upphovsrättsintrång, förbrukar ohållbara och klimatpåverkande mängder vatten och energi, förlitar sig på digitala sweatshops i låginkomstländer för att filtrera skadlig information, samt för att en av de viktigaste uppgifterna för en historiker är att filtrera, syntetisera och analysera information - och det lär ni er genom att tänka och skriva själva.
January 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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I got to meet and discuss Swedish foreign policy and activism with the man in the middle of this photo today.
A black and while photo from 1975 when Swedish prime minister Olof Palme (on the left of the photo, wearing a wide-collar shirt) visited Cuba. Fidel Castro, wearing a military-style uniform and cap, is on the right. The man in the middle is Pierre Schori, Social Democratic internationalist activist and diplomat.
January 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Årets första Historieverkstad Malmö går av stapeln på stadsbibblan den 23/1! Temat är Konsten i kriget, och vi har bjudit in journalisten Jesper Huor för att samtala om kulturarvsförstörare och -försvarare i Kabul och Palmyra. Vi ses kl. 18 i Röda rummet - och som vanligt bjuder vi på kvällsfika.
Poster med bild på Palmyras ruiner och information om Historieverkstaden. Vad händer med konst och kulturarv i krig? Genom historien har erövrare rivit tempel och krossat statyer av gudar och härskare. I vår tid av sociala medier har förstörelsen blivit ett globalt skådespel. Men kulturarvet har också försvarare, som med livet som insats försökt rädda vad som räddas kan. Årets första Historieverkstad Malmö handlar om platser, minnen och motstånd och inleds av Jesper Huor som kommer att berätta om Kabuls museum under talibanerna och ruinstaden Palmyra under Islamiska statens terrorvälde. Jesper Huor är journalist och har skrivit flera böcker om kulturarv i krig, bland annat Förgör de falska gudarna. Palmyra och kriget om kulturarvet (2023), tillsammans med Anders Rydell. Vi bjuder på fika.
January 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Fråga: Hur sätter man ihop ett quiz om 2000-talets historia? Svar: Man misslyckas.

Men nu finns det i dagens @sydsvenskan.se. Som vanligt gömmer sig det bästa i facit - som den sista palestinasjalsfabriken i Hebron, poesi och reggae som vapen i ugandisk opposition + var millenniebuggen slog till.
Bild på en dagstidningssida med rubriken: Kan du din nutidshistoria? Följd av 12 frågor.
December 28, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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All the gifts have been wrapped, some of the whisky drunk, but it’s still only on 4 December in Walford.
A black and white photo of a messy Christmas gift wrapping session, with a tumbler of whisky in the foreground and an episode of Eastenders in the background.
December 23, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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CfP: I've received funding for a workshop on Global Solidarity Activism – Connecting Local and Global Histories, which will take place in Malmö, Sweden, 11-12 June 2025. We're particularly keen to explore activism and solidarity as a set of ‘social and affective relations'. CfP attached!
Please contact Emma at emma.lundin@mau.se for the full-length machine-readable version of this document. Call for papers: Global Solidarity Activism – Connecting Local and Global Histories Malmö, Sweden 11-12 June 2025. We invite paper submissions for a workshop to be held in Malmö, Sweden that will examine histories of activism in global solidarity movements. Temporally, we are interested in papers that focus on the 1960s onwards and are particularly keen to hear from researchers who are examining activism and solidarity as a set of ‘social and affective relations.’ Drawing inspiration from Ruth Craggs’ scholarship on subaltern geopolitics, we are concerned with further interrogating how ‘friendship and familiarity’ sustained activist networks in the late twentieth century. The solidarity movements discussed might include (but are not limited to) anti-apartheid organisations, movements supporting the liberation of Portuguese colonies, Vietnam War protest movements, Palestinian solidarity movements, and movements in opposition to Latin American dictatorships. As methodological magpies, the organisers are interested in discussing how theoretical and methodological insights gained from other academic disciplines might be used to further our knowledge and understanding of solidarity movement history. We therefore encourage submissions from scholars working in both the humanities and the social sciences. Possible topics of discussion might include: • Activists’ personal and professional networks; • Lived experiences within solidarity movements; • The role of the local in the creation of global activism; • The role of emotions in solidarity activism; • Ad-hoc and piecemeal activism; • Differences and tensions between activist groups; • The connection between non-governmental global networks and national histories; • How solidarity activism has been translated into diplomacy and bilateral relations at the end of war or post liberation. Abstract deadline: 15 Feb.
December 23, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Guess who won the office Christmas party quiz this evening? @tjockkaft.bsky.social, Frank-who-is-not-on-here and I will be basking in the glory for AT LEAST a year. (There were 39 faces to identify, far too many of them pole vaulters but we’ll get those next time.)
A page with nine photos of famous people, named in pen underneath the photos. It’s hanging on a floor-to-ceiling window in a corridor in our department.
December 19, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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Messages I never thought I'd send, part 495 in an occasional series since moving to Sweden five years ago.

*it's flypast, I know.
A Whatsapp message that reads: Don't worry about the fighter jets! Just the Swedish and Danish airforce doing their annual Christmas tree formation fly-by (though that should be 'fly-over', I guess).
December 9, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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The Mothers (1921/2) shows a group of women huddled round their children in an attempt to protect them. Charge (1902/3) a mostly faceless mob with a solitary woman facing them. Municipal Shelter (1928) depicts an exhausted mother with two small children.
Käthe Kollwitz’ Charge at the Danish National Gallery - description in the post itself. Municipal Shelter by Käthe Kollwitz at the Danish National Gallery as described in the post. The Mothers by Käthe Kollwitz, a photo taken at the Danish National Gallery. The etching is very dark and shows a group of women huddled round children in an attempt to protect them.
November 30, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Several title cards pointed out that the artists featured were very productive - but that they weren’t able to paint when married. Patriarchy eh? Killing women’s ability to be creative for millennia. Rebellious Oda Krohg’s 1887 painting of her son cutting a newspaper was one of my favourites though.
A photo of Oda Krohg’s 1887 painting Aftenposten, depicting her son cutting the Norwegian newspaper Aftonposten. The scene is ‘shot’ from above, and the child has long, blond hair and a white top. Its frame is golden, and it’s on a beige-brown wall.
November 29, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Mats draws memories that have no other depiction in Swedish history, though Finnish migrants and Finnish-speaking people have been a part of it since, ahem, forever. Here’s one: a bus taking Finnish migrants from Finland to a Volvo factory in Sweden. No one captured the moment, but many remember it.
A photo of a powerpoint slide on which a page from Mats Kejonen and Andreas Ali Jonasson’s book Finnkampen: Sverigefinnarnas illustrerade historia): a queue of people - depicted from behind - line up in front of a bus. In the way to the bus, they pass a tent where they sign paperwork. The tent and the bus have the word VOLVO written on them.
November 26, 2024 at 5:01 PM