Johan Östling receives a prestigious grant

Great news! Johan Östling has received a prestigious prolongation of his Wallenberg Academy Fellow Grant for the new five years (2024–2029), funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. In short, this means two things. Firstly, he can continue to develop the history of knowledge and LUCK, including our seminar series, visiting fellowship programme and…

Launching the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture

On Tuesday 13 December, 13.15­–15.00 (CET), we will organize this semester’s last history of knowledge seminar. Earlier this autumn, the first volume of the new yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) was published. It is devoted to the history of knowledge. To celebrate this, we will present the yearbook at the seminar and discuss what it…

The history of knowledge and the history of education: a dialogue

The new issue of the History of Education Review (vol. 51, no. 2, 2022) has a themed section devoted to the relations between the history of knowledge and the history of education. In the first article, Joel Barnes and Tamson Pietsch introduce the theme by discussing how the history of education can be brought into fuller dialogue with…