In June 2020, our new edited volume Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations (Routledge) will be published. In the weeks to come, we will publish a series of samples from the book. This one is based on Ragni Svensson’s chapter. Due to reasons that were both political, cultural and dependent on processes on…

In June 2020, our new edited volume Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations (Routledge) will be published. In the weeks to come, we will publish a series of samples from the book. This one is based on Anton Jansson’s chapter. The 1960s and 1970s are widely regarded as the heyday of secularisation theory….

Working with uncatalogued archival collections is hard and time-consuming to the point of despair. Occasionally, however, the historian finds rare empirical treasures – at least it can be treasures if scrutinized against the right analytical background. While researching the early Swedish history of credit cards, I encountered the documentation of a book project from the…

In June 2020, our new edited volume Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations (Routledge) will be published. In the weeks to come, we will publish a series of samples from the book. This one is based on Björn Lundberg’s chapter. In 1958, Canadian-born American economist John Kenneth Galbraith published The Affluent…

In June 2020, our new edited volume Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations (Routledge) will be published. This book is the outcome of a joint Scandinavian project. We have met for two productive workshops, one in Lund in June 2018 and one in Copenhagen in December 2018, both generously funded by…

David Larsson Heidenblad’s new book Ett år av akademiskt skrivande: Erfarenheter och arbetstekniker för unga forskare (Studentlitteratur, 2020) is out! The book draws on his popular blog on academic writing and postdoctoral experiences. The blog was written in symbiosis with his book project on the environmental turn in Sweden around 1970, and provides unique insights…

This spring the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge will organize a digital seminar series via Zoom. The language will be Swedish. For the schedule and more information, see Digitala kunskapshistoriska seminarier VT 2020 Welcome!

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge has to be postponed. The three scholars who should have been visiting the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge this spring—Marina Bezzi, Joshua Ehrlich and Thomas Ruoss—can hopefully join us at a later stage. It is our intention that…

History of Education Review (published by Australian & New Zealand History of Education Society) seeks submissions for a special issue, to be co-edited by Tamson Pietsch and Joel Barnes (Australien Centre for Public History, University of Technology Sydney). The issue will explore the relations and interconnections between the history of knowledge and the history of…