The autumn seminar series has been finalized and we are happy to invite you to a number of interesting seminars. For more information, contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se.
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…
Joel Barnes is the first scholar to be part of our newly launched Visiting Fellowship Programme. Here he presents his research project.
We hereby launch the Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge. Each semester, we invite scholars to join us in our research environment at Lund to present their ongoing projects and help us to develop the history of knowledge. Welcome to apply!
In June 2019, Måns Ahlstedt Åberg graduated from the master’s programme in history at Lund. His thesis, “The Circulating Race Knowledge: The Interaction between the State’s Institue for Race Biology and the Swedish General Public 1922—1935 from a history of knowledge perspective”, is the first one in Lund to adopt—and develop—history of knowledge perspectives. In…
Laura Skouvig and Maria Simonsen report from the Gewina Woudschoten Conference in Zeist.
History of knowledge is establishing itself in the Scandinavian countries, and is in many ways doing so through cooperation between Swedish, Danish and Norwegian researchers. For instance, one published and one forthcoming edited volume produced in Lund include researchers from all three countries. A further step is now taken in that the Danish History of…
Johan Östling, Ragni Svensson and Anton Jansson present their new project.
On the 29th May we are very happy to welcome Elaine Leong from Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte who will visit our seminar and give a lecture titled “Books, Medicine and the Household: Tracing Knowledge Itineraries in Early Modern England”. Elaine Leong has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is currently working at the Max…
David Larsson Heidenblad has received two years of funding for his new project A Nation of Everyman Investors: Stock Saving and the Circulation of Financial Knowledge in Sweden 1978–2018 from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse (1 000 000 SEK). The purpose of the project is to study the profound transformation of the…
