Ever since the birth of the modern state, the production of knowledge has been closely entwined with politics. From the early inscription registers, through the sanatoriums to the peoples- and same sex schools, production of knowledge has been defined by the needs of the nation-state and of citizenship. But education has also been discussed in…

We have the pleasure to introduce and welcome Ragni Svensson to our research environment in Lund. Ragni Svensson is a postdoctoral researcher in History. Since March 2019 she works with Johan Östling and Anton Jansson in a Wallenberg funded research programme focusing on societal knowledge circulation in Sweden and West Germany during the 1970s. Svensson’s…

In February and March 2019, Johan Östling has been a visiting scholar at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. During his stay in Sydney, he had the privilege of discussing the history of universities, the history of the humanities and, more generally, the history of knowledge with a number…

We wish to welcome our new colleague Anton Jansson to our research environment in Lund. Anton Jansson is a postdoctoral researcher in History. He holds a PhD in History of Ideas and Science from the University of Gothenburg, and has a special interest in historical perspectives on religion in modernity. From 2019 he works in…

The spring seminar series is here, with interesting guests, a workshop and a text seminar. For more information, contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se.

In the latest issue of Scandia, Staffan Bergwik discusses our edited volume  Circulation of Knowledge and its contribution to the field. “Som jag ser det skymtar en stor fråga i bakgrunden av det nya fältet, och den rör kunskapsorganisationens intressanta historia. Det disciplinära sätt som kunskap alltmer intensivt organiserades på under 1800- och 1900-talen har…

In his new article published in History of Education, Isak Hammar examines challenges to the classical paradigm in Sweden, 1828–1832. Read the full text on: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0046760X.2018.1543458   ABSTRACT This article examines challenges to the classical paradigm of education in Sweden that followed in the wake of state-initiated attempts at school reform in the first decades…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Politics of knowledge, between particularity and universalism

Nordic Summer University together with Department of History and Human Rights, Lund University