LUCK’s Director and Wallenberg Academy Fellow Johan Östling has been interviewed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, which funds his ongoing project on the Europeansation of the universities since the 1980s. Read the interview here: https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/europeanization-transformed-universities

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

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…

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…

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

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,…

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

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