Spring seminar series @LUCK

13 February, 12:00–13:00 (LUX:A331) Reading seminar: Vera Keller et al., “Projects in the History of Knowledge”, Journal for the History of Knowledge (2025) Introduction: Christa Lundberg 4 March, 12:00–13:00 (Zoom)  Book presentation: Sverige som kunskapssamhälle Carl-Filip Smedberg (Linköping), Klara Müller (Stockholm), Hampus Östh Gustafsson (Uppsala) and Jonas Andersson (Södertörn) 11 March, 13:15–14:30 (Zoom) Book presentation: The Cultural History of Higher Learning Ning…

New editors-in-chief of HIC: Andersen, Hammar & Steinberg

From 2021 to 2026, History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society has been edited by Charlotte A. Lerg (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich), Johan Östling (Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), Lund University), and Jana Weiß (The University of Texas at Austin). In 2025, Isak Hammar (Lund Centre for the…

CfP: History of Intellectual Culture vol. 6

The editors of the scholarly yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) invite contributions to Vol. 6, to be published in autumn 2027. All contributions will be peer reviewed and available fully open access. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 8 May. See this document for more information:

New book: The History of the Knowledge Society

A new book on the history of the knowledge society in Sweden has been published, Sverige som kunskapssamhälle: Historiska perspektiv på en förväntad samhällsomvandling (Nordic Academic Press), edited by Carl-Filip Smedberg, Jonas Andersson, Klara Müller and Hampus Östh Gustafsson. It brings together some twenty researchers from a number of disciplines and universities who together explore aspects of…

Anna Nilsson Hammar appointed Associate Professor

Anna Nilsson Hammar has been appointed Associate Professor in History at Lund University.  Being one of the founders and a deputy director of LUCK, she has been dedicated both to methodological questions within the history of knowledge and to research concerning early modern knowledge communities, everyday knowledge and the capacity to act, and religious knowledge….

New project on Silicon Valley Knowledge receives funding

David Larsson Heidenblad, Associate Professor of History and Deputy Director of LUCK, has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for his project “’California Dreamin’: Silicon Valley Knowledge, Culture, and Capital in Late 20th Century Sweden”. The project will study how the model of Silicon Valley came to influence Swedish society through decisive innovations such…

CFP: Histories of Scholarly Evaluation, 1700–2000

Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities, 1700-2000 Call for AbstractsDeadline for abstracts (500 words): 31 January, 2026. Organising Committee: ● Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (Ghent University) ● Sjang ten Hagen (Utrecht University) ● Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven) ● Els Minne (KU Leuven) Evaluation, i.e. assessing how an entity attains a certain time of worth,…