Dr. Martin Kristoffer Hamre is a historian of modern European history in transnational and global perspectives based at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge. His research interests include the history of European fascism and the far right, the history of internationalism and Europeanization, and the history of German reunification. He has published among…
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Call for Contributions: Histories of Expertise
Following the symposium on the Histories of Expertise in September 2024 at the University of Turku in Finland, the organizers are delighted to announce the call for contributions for an edited volume. This collection is dedicated to analysing the making of experts, expertise, and expert knowledge in human societies from historical perspectives. We invite contributions…
Save the date: History of Knowledge Conference in Lund, 8–10 October, 2025
The second international History of Knowledge Conference will take place in Lund on 8–10 October, 2025. It is thus a sequel to the first conference organized in Porto in the autumn of 2023. Please save the date – more information will come later this year or early next year.
Cfa: Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge
The Visiting Fellowship Programme We award short-term fellowships to international postdoctoral scholars to pursue research in the history of knowledge at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). We are particularly dedicated to support research with an ambition and a capacity to develop the history of knowledge. We invite scholars to join us…
New issue: History of Intellectual Culture
The third issue of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) (De Gruyter) devotes a thematic section to experimental spaces for knowledge production. The articles in this section investigate the role of experimental environments as sites for knowledge production during the long nineteenth century, thereby extending the scope beyond the confines of traditional academic institutions such as…
Keynote Lecture at the Making of the Humanities Conference
10 October, 13.00–14.10 (Aula, LUX) Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana), “Learning from the Father of Lies: Herodotus’ Lessons for Modern Truth-Seekers” Nineteenth-century historians loved to contrast the ancient writers Herodotus and Thucydides, usually to the great detriment of the former. Herodotus, the first half of whose Histories dealt with Near Eastern kings, customs, religions, geographies, fauna, and…
Keynote Lecture at the Making of the Humanities Conference
9 October, 09.15–10.15 (Aula, LUX) Helge Jordheim (Oslo), “Adam and Eve, Moses, Three Pyramids, and a Manned Balloon: Shifting Times and Spaces of Knowledge in the Long 18th Century” In a passage from Discours preliminaire, published in 1751, Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, mathematician and co-editor of the Encyclopédie, envisions the “encyclopedic arrangement of knowledge”: This…
Conference: The Making of the Humanities XI
Between 9 and 11 October 2024, the eleventh conference in this series on the history of the humanities will be hosted by the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). A number of scholars from a wide range of countries and universities will discuss various aspects of the history of the humanities. This year’s…
The Europeanisation of the universities: new project launched
In September, the new project “The Europeanisation of the Universities: Transforming Knowledge Institutions from within, c. 1985-2010” was launched. Lead by Johan Östling, a research team will in the years to come analyse how a number of universities in different parts of Europe underwent processes of Europeanisation from the mid-1980s and what these transformations entailed….
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