Janet Laidla presents on “Women in Tartu university before 1919”, 8 April 2025
On the 8th of April, 2025 The Baltic and East European Women’s History Network had its second meeting “Circulation and Transfer of Knowledge and Ideas across the Baltic Sea Region“. Janet Laidla spoke about the results of the project “Women in Tartu university before 1919” (KUM-TA31, Ministry of Culture) and how the resulting datasets and the digitised documents will form a basis for her research in the “Entangled borderlands” project. The personal files of thousands of women getting their certificates as midwives, dentists, assistant pharmacists, pharmacists or in the 20th century auditors and students came from various provinces of the Russian empire showing that it was an imperial university. It will be interesting to see whether there are any significant differences between the geographical backgrounds of these women and the male students.
