In a review essay in the journal History of Humanities, Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen discusses three new books dealing with the humanities in the modern welfare state: Folkhemmets styvbarn by Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Humanister i offentligheten by Johan Östling, Anton Jansson, and Ragni Svensson Stringberg, and The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge which is edited by Anders Ekström and Hampus Östh…

In a new article in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem discuss learning and knowledge circulation in “Knowing How: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency among Aristocratic Women in Early Modern Sweden”. In the seventeenth Century, Swedish aristocratic women successfully acted as managers of landed estates, mills and iron…

This week a course in the history of knowledge (7.5 ECTS) starts as part of the master programme in historical studies at the Department of History, Lund University. The teachers, David Larsson Heidenblad and Johan Östling, provide this course for a third time. Due to the rapid development of the field, they have revised the…

Tamson Pietsch, a member of LUCK’s International Advisory Board, has published a new book, The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge (University of Chicago Press): The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough—an educational reformer with big dreams—embarked…