In March 2026, we are delighted to welcome Isak Hammar and Kajsa Weber as the new deputy directors of LUCK. They succeed Anna Nilsson Hammar and David Larsson Heidenblad. Johan Östling remains the director. Isak Hammar and Kajsa Weber, who have long been part of LUCK’s inner circle, will work alongside Johan Östling to lead…
Month: March 2026
Thank you, Anna and David!
When LUCK was launched in March 2020, it did not emerge in a vacuum. It developed from a series of collaborations (reading groups, seminars, workshops, grant applications) at the Department of History during the second half of the 2010s, aimed at exploring the history of knowledge and introducing it as a new field in the…
New editors-in-chief of HIC: Andersen, Hammar & Steinberg
From 2021 to 2026, History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society has been edited by Charlotte A. Lerg (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich), Johan Östling (Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), Lund University), and Jana Weiß (The University of Texas at Austin). In 2025, Isak Hammar (Lund Centre for the…
CfP: History of Intellectual Culture vol. 6
The editors of the scholarly yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) invite contributions to Vol. 6, to be published in autumn 2027. All contributions will be peer reviewed and available fully open access. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 8 May. See this document for more information:
LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge 