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
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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…
Two doctoral positions in Uppsala
The Department of the History of Ideas and Science, Uppsala University, Sweden, is offering two doctoral positions starting on September 1, 2025. Deadline for both positions is April 7. A doctoral position in the history of ideas and science: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=803030 A doctoral position in the history of science: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=803109 Photo: By ScanianDragon – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132246889
Christa Lundberg appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
We are thrilled that Christa Lundberg (University of Cambridge) has been appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow and will be joining the Department of History and be part of LUCK. Congratulations, Christa! Christa Lundberg describes herself and her research in this way: I hold a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge (2022) and specialize in…
Welcome, Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt!
In February 2025, Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt joined LUCK and for six months she will be part of Johan Östling’s project on the Europeanisation of the universities in the 1980s and 1990s. She describe herself in this way: I am a cultural historian and sociologist from Belgium, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Lund Centre for…
New book: Serving Aristocracy
Fresh off the press and available as open access is Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community by Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem. Being one of the results of a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an…
The History of Knowledge Conference
Lund University, 8–10 October, 2025 In November 2023, the first ever international History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Porto, bringing together experts from a wide range of historical research fields. Following this successful event, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) is proud to host the second international History of Knowledge Conference…
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