Charlotte Nilsson is a postdoctoral researcher in Media History at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. From January 2021, she holds a post-doc position within the project A nation of everyman investors: Stock saving and the circulation of financial knowledge in Sweden 1978–2018 (PI David Larsson Heidenblad). Her analytical focus is on how…
Month: February 2021
History of Knowledge with Cambridge University Press
Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad have been asked to write a concise and up-to-date account of the history of knowledge in the new series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice, published by Cambridge University Press. They have signed the contract and the book is due to be released in 2023. In their book The…
Podcast: The History of Knowledge and the History of Education
Tamson Pietsch and Joel Barnes have participated in the History of Education Society UK Podcast to talk about their work on the connections—and tensions—between the fields of the history of knowledge and the history of education. They discuss how the focus and methods of the history of knowledge can help us think through how knowledge…
Interview with Kapil Raj
Maria Bach has made an interview with Kapil Raj about his approach in the history of science. Dr. Raj is Professor of the History of Science at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris. In particular, they discuss Raj’s book Relocating Modern Science. https://ceterisneverparibus.net/relocating-modern-science-with-kapil-raj-episode-24/…
DigitalHistory@Lund: seminars & workshops
DigitalHistory@Lund is a platform that aims at promoting digital history and to support the development of new digital history research projects. It is a collaboration between the Section for Media History, and Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) and funded by The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, 2021–2022. Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Kajsa Weber…
Summer school @Lund!
On 23–26 August 2021, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) will for the second time offer a summer school in the history of knowledge. The course will be held in Swedish/Scandinavian languages, and we welcome PhD students and early postdocs to apply. Photo by Oscar Nord on Unsplash
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