The Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) will offer a seminar series this spring and we are very happy to invite you to join us. Registration is not required but please contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se to receive a Zoom link. 14 February, 13.15–15.00 (LUX:A332 & Zoom)Discussion (in Swedish) of the forthcoming book The History of Knowledge (Cambridge…

On 26 February, the Finnish Society for the History of Science and Learning organizes a workshop in Helsinki on the history of knowledge. A number of doctoral students and early career scholars will present their ongoing research in the field. As a part of this event, Johan Östling has been invited to give the Jaakko…

In a rich overview of the development of the history of education in the Nordic countries, Johannes Westberg argues that it is marked by three phases, based on its institutional setting. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the history of education was written by schoolmen for schoolmen. In the post-war era, the discipline…

A new special issue of the Nordic Journal of Educational History, devoted to the history of knowledge and education, has been published. Edited by one of LUCK’s affiliated researches, Björn Lundberg, the purpose of the special issue is to bring the history of knowledge and the history of education in close dialogue, developing new perspectives…

Enlightened Libraries: Natural Law Collections and their Role in the Intellectual Infrastructure between Lund, Copenhagen and Northern Germany 1650-1800 On 9 and 10 February 2023 the workshop Enlightened Libraries: Natural Law Collections and their Role in the Intellectual Infrastructure between Lund, Copenhagen and Northern Germany 1650-1800 will take place at the Saxo Institute, University of…