On the 14th of August, LUCK’s Evelina Kallträsk organized a session on the history of knowledge in action at the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians in Reykjavik. The idea that inspired that session was that, in order for the field to develop further, there is a need for more examples of how the history of…

The research project Edutopias. Reforms of everyday school practices. Denmark 1945–1975, funded by the Danish independent research fund and hosted by the Department of education at Aarhus University, invites you to join four digital, international, explorative seminars. They are also open to extra contributions/contributors, please notify them about which dialogue you would like to be a…

Andreas Tranvik, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Lund University and an associate researcher at LUCK, has published the article “Specialization on Stage: The Formation and Deformation of Knowledge in Hedda Gabler and A Dream Play” in Modern Drama. The article examines two of the most canonical plays in all of Scandinavian and European modern drama – Henrik…

Today, August 19, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge opens. Over the next four days, an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers will gather for lectures, seminars, and discussions. This year’s program features contributions from Johan Östling & David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar, Maria Simonsen & Karl Haikola, Natasha…