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…
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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?…
Welcome, Hampus Östh Gustafsson!
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…
“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…
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