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

Several new projects affiliated with the History of Knowledge@Lund have received funding. We congratulate Björn Lundberg, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar!

Karolina Enquist Källgren is a postdoc at the Department of History. She studies intellectual history with a particular interest in epistemology, exile and the circulation of knowledge. In her current project she is investigating the relationship between theology and quantum physics between the years 1925-1934. Her study focuses on the interaction between Spanish catholic theologian…

Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge By: Johan Östling, Erling Sandmo, David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar, Kari Hernæs Nordberg (red.) Nordic Academic Press (2018) >>> Available open access here. Historians have long been interested in knowledge—its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created—but it has only been…