Performing at the Museum of Wine and Liquors

in Stockholm, febr 2007 (foto Sten Söderberg)

 

 

I have performed – combining lectures with singing songs and accompanying myself on guitar, from the collection of chapbooks on crime – at various schools, prisons and museums in Sweden

In my own studio I produce CDs with blues or skillingtryck, songs on crime from the chapbooks I have studied.


Worked as carpenter and woodsman in the district of Småland, studied at the Skeppsholmen folk high school (1983-85).

Started studying economic history at Stockholm University in 1985, and also took a degree in Archival Science, BA in 1989/90, started doctoral studies.

I visited USA for the first time 1995, giving a paper at the SSHA meeting in Chicago, on the subject of female criminality in 18th century Stockholm. Received a grant for comparative research on early modern legal culture in Europe (Sweden, Great Britain and Germany

Attended the first ESSH-conference in Noordwijkerhout (NL) 1996, giving a paper: ”The Code of Honour in Early Modern Sweden”, and also the Swedish economic history conference in Umeå, and the SSHA conferens in Washington, paper: ”Child murder as an alternative to suicide for women in Stockholm cf 1700”, 1997.

1998, visited Canada for a case writing work shop. I also attended the HSFR.s conference on youth research in Sigtuna, 1998.

2005 I attended the international criminology conference in Philadelphia, where minister Bodström implemented the Stockholm prize in criminology. I presented a paper on female criminality in the early 18th century Stockholm – the only known example of a society where more women than men are accused and convicted of crime, a discovery I made when I first started to study the history of crime, and a major theme of my doctoral dissertation. I also chaired a session on gender and crime

 

 

The last chapbooks in Sweden are from 1937, with songs about the notorious, but also quite popular burglar Bildsköne (Good looking) Bengtsson

 

 

Crime and History Research

Hans Andersson, PhD in Economic History 1998.

 

 

Currently employed as information officer at the Konsument Rinkeby, Rinkeby-Kista Citizen Office, Stockholm City Council, worked in 2006 as an archivist at the Karolinska Institutet

Worked in hospitals and as a youth coordinator till 1978, traveled widely in Africa and India, worked as a free lance journalist and published some articles on travel and social issues.


Teaching and further education
Teaching at the Dep of Economic History, Stockholm University 1992 – 2000.
The courses I have taught include:

- Economic history of the ancient world (constructed by myself)
- Scientific theory and method
- Economic theory
- European economic history before cf 1800
- Swedish economic history
- The industrial revolution

1999 teaching at the Mälardalen university (Västerås).
The courses (excluding courses already mentioned) I have taught include:

- Proto-industry, in theory and praxis
- Theories of unemployment
- “Brukskultur”, the specific culture of small industrial societies in Sweden


2000 teaching at the Mid Sweden University.
The courses (excluding courses already mentioned) I have taught include:

- Gender in history
- Advanced social theory and historical methods
- Didactics for teachers in history

I have also been working at the Södertörns högskola in southern Stockholm, Karlstad University, and the Unviersity of Gävle.
The courses (excluding courses already mentioned) I have taught include:

- The economic history of Eastern Europe

In 2005 I attended the Folkhögskolelärarprogram at Linköping University, dep of Behavioural studies, getting a 40 p degree in pedagogy, the learning of grown ups and examined as teacher of folk high schools. Working part of the year at the Nordens Folkhögskola, Biksops-Arnö (School of History)

I am now involved in a project starting a new folk high school (Folkhögskola) in Kista, the neighborhood where I live and work (the city districts of Kista and Rinkeby are to be united to one administrative whole July 1, 2007).

I have also published some articles in common newspapers and written or supervised the writing of a number of cases, used at different universities (Stockholm, Södertörn, Västerås, Linköping and Härnösand) as well as Folk high schools, for example:

1) Lyckans hjul – ett case om Magnus Gabriel dela Gardie och stormaktstidens ekonomiska politik (The Wheel of Fortune – a case about Magnus Gabriel dela Gardie and the economic policy of 17th century Sweden).
2) ”Pöbeln njuter” – ett case om Axel von Fersens liv och död (The Mob Rejoices – a case about the llife and death of Axel von Fersen).
3) Reorganizing of the RCMP Training Program (written at the school of economics in London, Ontario in 1998).
4) Hr Johan Östlunds Vattenproblem (med Björn Granberg: The Water Problem of Johan Östlund).
5) Ekologiska aspekter på WTO kongressen i Seattle (med Björn Granberg: ecological aspects of the Seattle WTO-congress).
6) Laxdalingarna – Honour in the Viking age, a case from Icelandic sagas.
7) ”Den elden är snart förbrunnen”, the case of Botolf från Gottröra (”that fire will soon burn out” – the case of Botolf of Gottröra, the oldest known criminal case in Sweden, a man supposed to be burned as a heretic).
8) Martin Luther (a role playing case)
9) The bride of Jesus – a case of saint Brigit.
10) Fly eller illa fäkta? Ett Case om tattarhövdingen Svarte Petter, 1877-78.


Research
In 1998 I started working on a research program on military justice/legal culture with Magnus Perlestam, at the Mid Sweden University (högskola at the time, Härnösand), at the economy history meeting in Uppsala I presented our project ”Militär rättskultur under tre sekel…”.
I am now involved in two European networks for studies in this field.

In 2000 I received grants from STINT for a comparative study of the illegal liquor trade in Stockholm and New Orleans, member of the Midlo centre for New Orleans studies, spent the fall in New Orleans – and I have since then published several articles (in Swedish and English) and have given papers on this subject, in Sweden, USA and Latvia (the Jurmala conference of Scandinavian criminologists, 2001)

I have been attached to the Stockholm school of economy, for research on the history and development of bankruptcy law in the 19th century (2001).


 

 

Kontakt: hanz@comhem.se
mobilnr: 073-3181789

 

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