Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK)

LUCK’s seminar series this spring has been released. Welcome to join us!

Björn Lundberg, coordinator of the LUCK focus area “Knowledge and Education”, has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for his project "Preparing children for war: Swedish preparedness education in transition 1945–2000". Congratulations! newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/11/13/res…

Call for Papers: The Standing Working Group "History of Knowledge in the History of Education" invites submissions to the upcoming conference ISCHE 46 in Lille, 8–11 July 2025 (or 15–16 July, online). newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/11/13/cal…

Read more about the project: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/11/13/res…

We are happy to announce that Christa Lundberg (@christalundb) has received funding from both the Swedish Research Council and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project “Plagiarism hunting in early modern Europe (c. 1665–1730)” – an impressive achievement!

Welcome to LUCK, Martin Hamre! During the stay with us, he will by studying the transformation of the Humboldt University of Berlin between 1988 and 1993 in the context of European integration. Read more: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/11/13/wel…

REMINDER: LUCK's International Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge has an open call for the spring of 2025. Deadline for application: 15 November.

Job opportunity: Full professor in history with a focus on modern history at Linköping University. More here: liu.se/en/work-at-liu…

SAVE THE DATE: The second international History of Knowledge Conference will take place in Lund on 8–10 October, 2025. It is thus a sequel to the first conference organized in Porto in the autumn of 2023. More information will follow later this year or early next year.

En fyllig och initierad recension av vår bok ”Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge”, signerad den alltid lika läsvärde Fredrik W. Thue. Recensionen kan läsas här: idunn.no/eprint/WCKKBMY…

@kra_natalie Yes; see: newhistoryofknowledge.com/advisory-board…

@nhknowledge Do you have something like that planned for PhD students? Sounds wonderful!

NEW CALL: LUCK's International Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge. Read more: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/10/17/cfa…

Good news! 💡The @SartonCentre at @ugentlw changed its name and is now the Sarton Centre for the History of Science AND Humanities. As a historian of the humanities, I am obviously delighted with this! + our programme for the autumn semester is ready, check this out below! 🍂⬇️

The third issue of the yearbook “History of Intellectual Culture” has been published. Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/10/14/new…

The history of knowledge yearbook "HIC" has released a new volume!

This week, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge has organised the 11th "The Making of the Humanities Conference". It has been marvelous days.

At the second day of our conference “The Making of the Humanities XI”, Suzanne Marchand will give her keynote lecture “Learning from the Father of Lies: Herodotus’ Lessons for Modern Truth-Seekers”. Learn more here: lnkd.in/eg2ys_yU

We have kicked off our conference “The Making of the Humanities XI” with a great keynote lecture by the one and only Helge Jordheim. Read more about his lecture here: lnkd.in/e288ET_9

This week, the eleventh conference in this series on the history of the humanities will be hosted by LUCK. A number of scholars from a wide range of universities will discuss various aspects of the history of the humanities. More information: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/10/07/con…