History of Knowledge seminar series spring 2020

Welcome to our seminar series this spring, which will feature two international guests, Daniel Bellingradt and Peter Burke. We also welcome three visiting fellows that will join us in May through our International Fellowship Programme. We start off by discussing new projects that recently received funding and in March we celebrate both our new book,…

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LUCK

We are very happy to announce that the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) will be opened in March 2020 at the Department of History, Lund University.

Reformation, confessionalization and the representation of Martin Luther

In a new article in the historical journal Historisk tidskrift, Kajsa Brilkman takes issue with an established interpretation of the Reformation in Sweden. Drawing on international scholarship and utilising methods from the history of the book, she argues that the term “the Reformation” should be reserved for the first half of 16th century, a period…

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Swedish Research Council funds histories of knowledge

The Swedish Research Council has announced the new projects that it will fund and we are very delighted that several of them will explore dimensions of the history of knowledge. Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem (history, Lund) will study Swedish aristocratic households 1618-1710 and what opportunities they offered to servants in terms of careers,…

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Workshop at Häckeberga Castle

On 4–5 November, twenty-two historians met at beautiful Häckeberga Castle for an intense and productive workshop, “The Future of the History of Knowledge”.

New book on exile and knowledge circulation

Karolina Enquist Källgren just published a new book on the works of spanish author María Zambrano, interpreting her production in the light of exile and knowledge circulation. The book, María Zambrano’s Ontology of Exile: Expressive Subjectivity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) is the first monograph in English offering a philosophical interpretation as well as historical contextualisation of…

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Widening the network

In order to widen our networks and strengthen our ties with inspiring colleagues in different parts of the world, we have assembled an International Advisory Board.

Clio Prize to Ragni Svensson

Ragni Svensson receives the Clio Prize, a prestigious Swedish prize that is awarded to a young historian who successfully combines scholarly and communicative skills. She receives the prize for her dissertation in the field of book history from 2018 that dealt with the publishing house Bo Cavefors and its position on the Swedish book market…

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