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…

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The third History of Knowledge Conference (Utrecht, 2027)

The third History of Knowledge Conference will be organized in Utrecht on 25–27 August 2027. The conference follows the successful first international History of Knowledge Conference in Porto in 2023, and the second edition, hosted by the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge in 2025. Utrecht University is home of the Descartes Centre for the History…

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CfP: Merit, Worth, and Social Advancement in the Early Modern World

Call for Papers Merit, Worth, and Social Advancement in the Early Modern World: Rethinking Meritocracy as a Category of Historical Analysis University of Hamburg, 7–8 September 2026 Organised by Carolin Gluchowski (Universität Hamburg) and Asger Wienberg (Lund University) Conceptual Framework The term meritocracy is a modern one. Coined in the twentieth century and shaped by…

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New deputy directors: Isak Hammar and Kajsa Weber

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…

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Thank you, Anna and David!

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…

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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…

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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…

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