LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025

8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan)

An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime*

Robert Darnton (Harvard)

9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre Aulan)

Backlash: On Recycling and Reaction in the History of Knowledge*

Susanne Schmidt (Basel)

10 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre Aulan)

Plenary Discussion: The History of Knowledge and Its Publishing Landscape*

Isak Hammar (Lund), Sven Dupré (Utrecht), Charlotte Lerg (Munich), Natacha Klein Käfer (Lund)

18 November, 13.15–15.00 (LUX:A332 + Zoom)

Plagiarism Hunting in Early Modern Europe: Knowledge Circulation and Its Limits

Christa Lundberg (Lund/SCAS)

(jointly organised with Book History)

25 November, 13.15–15.00 (LUX:A332 + Zoom)

Book presentation: Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in An Early Modern Knowledge Community

Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem (Lund)

2 December, 13.15–16.00 (LUX:A332 + Zoom)

Beredskap i ett kunskapshistoriskt perspektiv

Björn Lundberg (Lund), Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland (Lund), Per Lundin (Chalmers), Eric Bergelin (Uppsala) and Niklas Stenlås (Uppsala)

Doctoral defences with relevance for the history of knowledge:

26 September, 13.15: Evelina Kallträsk, “Att skola entreprenörer: Ung Företagsamhet och den svenska skolans omvandling, 1980–2011”

17 October, 13.15: Trine Gaarde Outzen, “Saving the Soul through Dieting: Governing Health at Die Franckesche Anstalten 1698–1750”

24 October, 10.15: Eskil Vesterlund, “Att avlyssna folkviljan: Gallupundersökningen som ett nytt medium mellan press, politik, reklam och vetenskap, 1941–1955”

Zoom link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/2108272169

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* Keynote lecture/plenary discussion at The History of Knowledge Conference, Lund, 8–10 October.