Our new book Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge has been published. It is the third book in our trilogy on the history of knowledge, which began with Circulation of Knowledge (2018) and continued with Forms of Knowledge (2020). Knowledge Actors will be available shortly as a digital open access publication as well as a printed book.

PhD course (7 5 HP), offered in collaboration between the departments of History and History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University autumn 2023 – spring 2024. The course is open for PhD candidates in the humanities and aimed in particular at those working on historical topics. The course starts in October 2023 and ends in…

In early June, Olof Bärtås defended his master thesis at the Department of History, Lund University. It is a study of the processes of cultural Europeanization in Sweden 1977–1989, drawing on perspectives from the history of knowledge. Does Sweden belong to Europe? The question itself has a unique position in Swedish historiography; it arose in…

This summer Johan Östling will be a Simone Veil Fellow at the research institute Project House Europe at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munch. During his time in the Bavarian capital, he will be preparing his new project on the Europeanisation of universities since the 1980s and the emergence of the knowledge society. His fellowship…

David Larsson Heidenblad has received funding for a new project on the popularisation of stock saving in Sweden. Together with Axel Vikström, (currently PhD-student at Örebro University) he will investigate the role of ”Market communicators”, such as stock market columnists, private finance advisors, and so called ’savings economists’, tracing developments from 1980 to 2020. The…