Historian Malin Arvidsson presents her biography of photographer Nelly Thüring (1875–1972), who was elected to the second chamber in 1921 and thus became one of the first female members of parliament. The study highlights the organization of social democratic women to expand the right to vote and shows how Thüring's theosophical outlook on life served as a driving force in her commitment to peace, sobriety, vegetarianism, feminism and socialism. Thüring became involved in theosophy shortly after she established her own photography studio at Stortorget in Lund in 1900, and it was through the city's theosophical lodge that she met her future husband Johan Göransson.
Malin Arvidsson is a PhD in history and a senior lecturer at the Division of Human Rights, Department of History, Lund University. She published her biography Nelly Thüring: Teosof, feminist, socialist in September 2024 at Makadam förlag.
Organized in collaboration with the Labor History Seminar. Free admission, no pre-registration required.