Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS) is a meeting-place for European media historians since 2013. The network is co-ordinated by Media History at Lund University, also a node within the framework of LUCK. EMHIS was financed for six years by STINT Institutional Grant, and guiding ideas have been internationalization and the support of early career researchers. In…

David Larsson Heidenblad’s new book, Den gröna vändningen,(Nordic Academic Press, 2021), tells the history of how modern environmentalism emerged in postwar Sweden. It is the first monograph to emerge from LUCK and demonstrates a specific take on the history of knowledge. The English version of the book, The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge, will…

All seminars will be conducted via Zoom. Please contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se for a link. Poster photo by Andrew Ridley on Unsplash 4/2, kl. 13.15–15.00: ”Den gröna vändningen”David Larsson Heidenblad presenterar sin nya bok om miljöfrågans genombrott(tillsammans med högre seminariet i historia) 18/2, kl. 13.15–15.00: ”Från religiös kultur till konfessionell kunskap”Anna Nilsson Hammar & Kajsa Weber (Lund) (tillsammans med högre…

In the doctoral thesis Folkhemmets styvbarn. Humanioras legitimitet i svensk kunskapspolitik 1935–1980 (Daidalos, 2020), Hampus Östh Gustafsson (Uppsala University) investigates the renegotiated role of the humanities in the context of Swedish politics of knowledge, a period that saw the establishment of a new regime of legitimacy based on rational planning. While higher education and research…