In a rich overview of the development of the history of education in the Nordic countries, Johannes Westberg argues that it is marked by three phases, based on its institutional setting. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the history of education was written by schoolmen for schoolmen. In the post-war era, the discipline…

A new special issue of the Nordic Journal of Educational History, devoted to the history of knowledge and education, has been published. Edited by one of LUCK’s affiliated researches, Björn Lundberg, the purpose of the special issue is to bring the history of knowledge and the history of education in close dialogue, developing new perspectives…

Enlightened Libraries: Natural Law Collections and their Role in the Intellectual Infrastructure between Lund, Copenhagen and Northern Germany 1650-1800 On 9 and 10 February 2023 the workshop Enlightened Libraries: Natural Law Collections and their Role in the Intellectual Infrastructure between Lund, Copenhagen and Northern Germany 1650-1800 will take place at the Saxo Institute, University of…

Great news! Johan Östling has received a prestigious prolongation of his Wallenberg Academy Fellow Grant for the new five years (2024–2029), funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. In short, this means two things. Firstly, he can continue to develop the history of knowledge and LUCK, including our seminar series, visiting fellowship programme and…

On Tuesday 13 December, 13.15­–15.00 (CET), we will organize this semester’s last history of knowledge seminar. Earlier this autumn, the first volume of the new yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) was published. It is devoted to the history of knowledge. To celebrate this, we will present the yearbook at the seminar and discuss what it…

The new issue of the History of Education Review (vol. 51, no. 2, 2022) has a themed section devoted to the relations between the history of knowledge and the history of education. In the first article, Joel Barnes and Tamson Pietsch introduce the theme by discussing how the history of education can be brought into fuller dialogue with…

Studies in the History of Knowledge is a book series at Amsterdam University Press, publishing monographs and edited volumes on the history of knowledge. The series has a global scope, with a preference for studies transcending disciplinary and geographical boundaries or tracing how academic and non-academics actors cooperated in the making, teaching, and circulation of…

In a new article in Reformation & Renaissance Review Kajsa Weber investigates reference notes (what in the 18th century would become the footnote) in Lutheran Swedish print 1570–1630. By investigating a yet unexplored medium for representing Luther in print it expands on scholarly work regarding how Lutherans at the turn of the sixteenth century chose to represent…

Isak Hammar, associate professor of History and member of LUCK’s Nordic Advisory Board has received funding for a three-year project entitled Scholarly journals and the disciplinary formation of the modern humanities in Sweden, c. 1850-1920 from the Swedish Research Council. The project explores the impact of changing publishing patterns in the humanities in Sweden between…