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….

David Larsson Heidenblad, Associate Professor of History and Deputy Director of LUCK, has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for his project “’California Dreamin’: Silicon Valley Knowledge, Culture, and Capital in Late 20th Century Sweden”. The project will study how the model of Silicon Valley came to influence Swedish society through decisive innovations such…

Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities, 1700-2000 Call for AbstractsDeadline for abstracts (500 words): 31 January, 2026. Organising Committee: ● Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (Ghent University) ● Sjang ten Hagen (Utrecht University) ● Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven) ● Els Minne (KU Leuven) Evaluation, i.e. assessing how an entity attains a certain time of worth,…

8-10 November 2025 In November 2023, the first ever international History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Porto, bringing together experts from a wide range of historical research fields. Following this successful event, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) is proud to host the second international History of Knowledge Conference on 8–10…

Last year, Peter Jönsson successfully defended his Master’s thesis at Lund University’s Department of History. This has now been rewritten and published as an article in the 2024 Yearbook of The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. The article is written in Swedish, accompanied by an English abstract. It has been published with the approval…

LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre Aulan) Backlash: On Recycling and Reaction in the History of Knowledge* Susanne Schmidt (Basel) 10 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre Aulan) Plenary Discussion: The History of Knowledge and…