In March 2026, we are delighted to welcome Isak Hammar and Kajsa Weber as the new deputy directors of LUCK. They succeed Anna Nilsson Hammar and David Larsson Heidenblad. Johan Östling remains the director. Isak Hammar and Kajsa Weber, who have long been part of LUCK’s inner circle, will work alongside Johan Östling to lead…

When LUCK was launched in March 2020, it did not emerge in a vacuum. It developed from a series of collaborations (reading groups, seminars, workshops, grant applications) at the Department of History during the second half of the 2010s, aimed at exploring the history of knowledge and introducing it as a new field in the…

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…

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:

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…

The Journal for the History of Knowledge features an annual special issue, compiled by guest editors, which explores a theme central to the journal’s scope. The journal is currently accepting proposals for the 2028 Special Issue. Proposal deadline: 1 May 2026. More information: https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement/view/317

On 16 June, 2026, the workshop “Lost in Translation: Historical Perspectives on Language and Student Mobility from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century” is organized at the University of Geneva. Read more about the workshop here:  Photo: Dmitry A. Mottl – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42089750

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….