Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities, 1700-2000 Call for AbstractsDeadline for abstracts (500 words): 31 January, 2026. Organising Committee: ● Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (Ghent University) ● Sjang ten Hagen (Utrecht University) ● Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven) ● Els Minne (KU Leuven) Evaluation, i.e. assessing how an entity attains a certain time of worth,…
Month: October 2025
New volume of “History of Intellectual Culture”
The yearbook History of Intellectual Culture, focusing on the history of knowledge, has published its fourth volume. It has been edited by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling and Jana Weiss. The thematic section is devoted to “Gender, Archiving, and Knowledge Production after the Holocaust: A Postwar Republic of Letters?”, edited by Victoria Van Orden Martínez, Christine…
The History of Knowledge Conference
On 8–10 October, the second History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Lund by LUCK. Over three intense days, around a hundred researchers from different universities and countries explored the history of knowledge from various perspectives. The first day started with a wonderful keynote lecture by Robert Darnton (Harvard) and continued with sessions on everything…
The History of Knowledge Conference
8-10 November 2025 In November 2023, the first ever international History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Porto, bringing together experts from a wide range of historical research fields. Following this successful event, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) is proud to host the second international History of Knowledge Conference on 8–10…
LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge 