The Society for the History of the Humanities has announced an online workshop on Epistemic Transfer in the Humanities: 14-15 Nov 2023. Participation is free. For more information, including the preliminary program and line-up of speakers, see https://www.historyofhumanities.org/upcoming-meetings/workshop-epistemic-transfer/ Image: Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Postdoc in digital history in Lund
Lund University announces a vacancy for a two-year position as Postdoc in Digital Cultures with a Specialisation in Digital History. The position is based at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and Division of ALM and Digital Cultures, in close cooperation with the DigitalHistory@Lund platform. Last application date: 05 Nov. 2023 For more information…
New book: The humanities in postwar society
A new book, Humaniora i välfärdssamhället, highlights the diverse roles of the humanities in the history of the Swedish welfare society. This society has often been seen as dominated by an instrumental view of knowledge that rewarded the social sciences, natural sciences and technology, but the contributions in this book show the significant role that the…
Book launch: Knowledge Actors
LUCK’s first history of knowledge seminar this semester takes place on 18 September, 13.15–14.30 (CEST), and is a digital book launch. We will present and discuss Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge (2023), the third and final volume in our trilogy about the history of knowledge, which started with Circulation of Knowledge (2018) and continued with Forms of Knowledge (2020)….
History of Knowledge Seminar series @LUCK
18 September, 13.15–14.30 (Zoom)Book launch: Knowledge ActorsSven Dupré (Utrecht/Amsterdam), David Larsson Heidenblad (Lund), Christa Lundberg (Cambridge)Anna Nilsson Hammar (Lund) and Johan Östling (Lund) 3 October, 13.15–15.00 (hybrid: LUX:A332 & Zoom)Book launch (in Scandinavian languages): Humaniora i välfärdssamhälletEditors: Johan Östling, Anton Jansson and Ragni Svensson Stringberg.Discussants: Alexandra Borg (Uppsala) and Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde)Jointly organized with…
Fourth annual summer school underway
From August 22nd to 25th, the Centre for the History of Knowledge at Lund University (LUCK) hosts the fourth annual History of Knowledge Summer School. This year, we welcome doctoral candidates from across the Nordic region with interests in humanities and/or historical research, for a four-day event discussing pivotal concepts, theoretical frameworks, and ongoing research…
Online seminar: Post-truth and the conditions for public debate
Political scientist Shannon Bow O’Brien will hold a seminar titled ‘Political Performance: How Donald Trump Uses Professional Wrestling Strategies to Construct Loyalty’ in the online Populism and Religion seminar series, hosted by the project Beyond Truth and Lies: Conspiracy Theories, Post-truth and the Conditions for Public Debate,onSeptember 7, 16h15–18h00, Swedish time [CEST]; Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/62645329724. Donald Trump uses professional wrestling…
Welcome, Carl-Filip Smedberg!
Carl-Filip Smedberg will start his new project “Constructing the Un/Educated: Social Hierarchisation in the Rise of the Knowledge Society, c. 1968–1990” at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge during the fall of 2023, where he will be employed to explore the history of the knowledge society. Describing society in terms of the division…
The history of knowledge trilogy is completed
Knowledge Actors has been published. It is the third and final book in our trilogy on the history of knowledge. About Knowledge Actors In Knowledge Actors, we bring knowledge actors to the fore. Gathering researchers with diverse backgrounds and expertise, the guiding questions in this book centre on agency. Who were knowledge actors in different historical settings?…
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