Ann-Sophie Levidis was one of LUCK’s Visiting Fellows during a week in March–April. In a blogpost, she reports on her experiences of Lund and our environment: https://open.substack.com/pub/annsophielevidis/p/chronicles-of-academia?r=5iv6iv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Photo by Hamidreza Ardalani on Unsplash
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The Nordic University in the European Knowledge Society
On 24–25 April, the workshop “The Nordic University in the European Knowledge Society since the 1970s” was organised in Lund by Johan Östling and Stefan Nygård. They had gathered more than a dozen researchers affiliated with the centre Higher Education and Research as Objects of Study (HERO) in Uppsala, the Lund Centre for the History…
An active week for LUCK’s visiting fellows
Last week, five historians visited Lund as part of LUCK’s International Fellowship Programme: Barbara Hof (Lausanne), Laura Loporcaro (Ghent), Ann-Sophie Levidis (Australian National University), Floris Solleveld (Amsterdam) and Daniel Töpper (Berlin). During their time in Lund they had the opportunity to present their ongoing research, discuss history of knowledge articles, interact with various researchers in…
Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History
The Department of History at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History. After four years of research and teaching, this position may be turned into permanent employment as a Senior Lecturer. Read more about the position and the conditions here: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:798426/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Five visiting researchers in LUCK’s fellowship programme
In the first week of April, five researchers will be in Lund as visiting scholars: Barbara Hof (Zurich), Laura Loporcaro (Ghent), Ann-Sophie Levidis (Australian National University), Floris Solleveld (Bristol/Amsterdam) and Daniel Töpper (Berlin). They have been selected in fierce competition to be part of the LUCK’s International Visiting Fellowship Programme. During their stay in Lund,…
Serving Aristocracy on New Books Network
Last week Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem visited Miranda Melcher on New Books Network to talk about their book Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community (Routledge, 2025). Follow the link to listen: https://newbooksnetwork.com/serving-aristocracy
CfP: History of Intellectual Culture
The editors invite contributions to Vol. 5 of the scholarly yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter), to be published in autumn 2026. The contributions will be peer reviewed and available open access. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 5 May. See this document for more information: Photo by Vojtech Bruzek on Unsplash
Isak Hammar and Swen Steinberg new editors of History of Intellectual Culture
The scholarly yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) was founded by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling and Jana Weiss in 2021. After working with the yearbook for several years, they have decided to gradually hand over the editorship to two editors: Isak Hammar and Swen Steinberg. They will join Lerg, Östling and Weiss as editors this spring and…
Seminar: Peer Review in the Humanities
On 17 March, 13.15–15.00, LUCK is organizing the seminar “Peer Review in the Humanities: Evaluative Practices from the 19th to the 21st century”. It will be a hybrid seminar: LUX:A332 or Zoom (https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/2108272169) About the seminarPeer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge…