Hampus Östh Gustafsson’s research has covered broad aspects of the modern history of the humanities and/or knowledge, and more recently, temporal conflicts and the work of synchronization in the history of universities. He defended his doctoral dissertation, Folkhemmets styvbarn (Daidalos, 2020), on the legitimacy of the humanities in the context of Swedish politics of knowledge 1935–1980 at…
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“Knowledge Actors” has arrived!
Our new book Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge has been published. It is the third book in our trilogy on the history of knowledge, which began with Circulation of Knowledge (2018) and continued with Forms of Knowledge (2020). Knowledge Actors will be available shortly as a digital open access publication as well as a printed book.
PhD course: Public humanities
PhD course (7 5 HP), offered in collaboration between the departments of History and History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University autumn 2023 – spring 2024. The course is open for PhD candidates in the humanities and aimed in particular at those working on historical topics. The course starts in October 2023 and ends in…
Europeanization and the history of knowledge
In early June, Olof Bärtås defended his master thesis at the Department of History, Lund University. It is a study of the processes of cultural Europeanization in Sweden 1977–1989, drawing on perspectives from the history of knowledge. Does Sweden belong to Europe? The question itself has a unique position in Swedish historiography; it arose in…
Johan Östling is Simone Veil Fellow in Munich
This summer Johan Östling will be a Simone Veil Fellow at the research institute Project House Europe at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munch. During his time in the Bavarian capital, he will be preparing his new project on the Europeanisation of universities since the 1980s and the emergence of the knowledge society. His fellowship…
Funding for new project on financial knowledge and market communicators
David Larsson Heidenblad has received funding for a new project on the popularisation of stock saving in Sweden. Together with Axel Vikström, (currently PhD-student at Örebro University) he will investigate the role of ”Market communicators”, such as stock market columnists, private finance advisors, and so called ’savings economists’, tracing developments from 1980 to 2020. The…
The Swedish Exception? The Humanities in the Modern Welfare State
In a review essay in the journal History of Humanities, Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen discusses three new books dealing with the humanities in the modern welfare state: Folkhemmets styvbarn by Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Humanister i offentligheten by Johan Östling, Anton Jansson, and Ragni Svensson Stringberg, and The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge which is edited by Anders Ekström and Hampus Östh…
New article on knowledge and female agency in early modern Sweden
In a new article in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem discuss learning and knowledge circulation in “Knowing How: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency among Aristocratic Women in Early Modern Sweden”. In the seventeenth Century, Swedish aristocratic women successfully acted as managers of landed estates, mills and iron…
Master course in the history of knowledge
This week a course in the history of knowledge (7.5 ECTS) starts as part of the master programme in historical studies at the Department of History, Lund University. The teachers, David Larsson Heidenblad and Johan Östling, provide this course for a third time. Due to the rapid development of the field, they have revised the…
LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge 