The spring seminar series is here, with interesting guests, a workshop and a text seminar. For more information, contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se.
We wish to welcome our new colleague Anton Jansson to our research environment in Lund. Anton Jansson is a postdoctoral researcher in History. He holds a PhD in History of Ideas and Science from the University of Gothenburg, and has a special interest in historical perspectives on religion in modernity. From 2019 he works in…
In the latest issue of Scandia, Staffan Bergwik discusses our edited volume Circulation of Knowledge and its contribution to the field. “Som jag ser det skymtar en stor fråga i bakgrunden av det nya fältet, och den rör kunskapsorganisationens intressanta historia. Det disciplinära sätt som kunskap alltmer intensivt organiserades på under 1800- och 1900-talen har…
In his new article published in History of Education, Isak Hammar examines challenges to the classical paradigm in Sweden, 1828–1832. Read the full text on: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0046760X.2018.1543458 ABSTRACT This article examines challenges to the classical paradigm of education in Sweden that followed in the wake of state-initiated attempts at school reform in the first decades…
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Politics of knowledge, between particularity and universalism
Nordic Summer University together with Department of History and Human Rights, Lund University
Several new projects affiliated with the History of Knowledge@Lund have received funding. We congratulate Björn Lundberg, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar!
Karolina Enquist Källgren is a postdoc at the Department of History. She studies intellectual history with a particular interest in epistemology, exile and the circulation of knowledge. In her current project she is investigating the relationship between theology and quantum physics between the years 1925-1934. Her study focuses on the interaction between Spanish catholic theologian…
