by Dennis Lundström The subject of my master thesis originated from a personal interest of mine, the murder of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in February 1986. The murder investigation is one of the largest police investigations in history and was closed in June 2020, but a killer is yet to be convicted. In…

All are invited to join the next meeting of the History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University with Nicola Miller (UCL).   > Nicola Miller ‘Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America’ Date: Thursday 23 September 2021Time: 15:30-17:00 (CEST)Place: Online (Microsoft Teams)* Registration is not required. Please find the link to the meeting below *  > Description My talk will…

The Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) will offer a digital seminar series this autumn. Last semester we were fortunate to have many researchers who participated in our seminars, and we hope that this also will be the case this academic year.  Registration is not required, but please contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se to receive the permanent Zoom link.

New doctoral thesis: Heightened everydayness: Young people in rural Sweden doing everyday life Reduced to its essentials, everyday life is repetitive and mundane, accomplished through routine activity. It is ordinary, trivial, and often left unnoticed. It is not surprising, then, that most people do not pay much attention to their everyday life knowledge. My thesis,…

On Thursday we concluded the second annual Summer school in the history of knowledge at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, this year held as a zoom event. The summer school gathered 14 PhD students from different disciplines in nine universities, in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Together with six researchers from LUCK, who…

On Monday we will kick off our second iteration of the Summer school in the history of knowledge at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). Due to the corona virus, the Summer school has had to move online in 2021. We still however, have been able to gather participants from four Nordic…

by Olof Bärtås Ever since I first read Habermas “Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit” I have been interested in the concept of “the public sphere” or “die Öffentlichkeit” in modern society. The concept is as intriguing as it is intimidating; it is as abstract as it is involved in our everyday life. It is a concept which…

by Asger Wienberg Which were the prerequisites for social mobility in the Early Modern period? What was the role of different forms of knowledge in this context, and how did this relate to the impact of personal relations? It is well known that the expansion of the Swedish Empire in the 17th century resulted in…

All are invited to join the next meeting of the History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University organized by Lukas M. Verburgt (UU) and Elske de Waal (UU).  Christine von Oertzen (MPIWG, Berlin) and Sebastian Felten (University of Vienna) “Bureaucracy as Knowledge” Date: Thursday 10 June 2021Time: 15:30-17:00 (CEST)Place: Online (Microsoft Teams)* Registration is not required. Please find the link to the meeting below * …