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….

Anton Sylvest Lilleør from SAXO Institute at University of Copehagen is a visiting doctoral student at LUCK 16 – 27 September. The stay is financed by the National Graduate School of Historical Studies and their scholarship program for PhD students. The scholarships make it possible for doctoral students to stay for two weeks at one…

18 September, 13.15–15.00 (LUX:A:331)“New Research in the History of Polling”Eskil Vesterlund (Lund) and Anton Sylvest Lilleør (Copenhagen)  25 September, 12.15–13.00 (Läsesalen, LUX)“Samtal om universitetshistoriens huvudlinjer” Johan Östling (Lund) and Per Mickwitz (Lund) 9 October, 09.15–10.15 (Aula, LUX)*“Adam and Eve, Moses, Three Pyramids, and a Manned Balloon: Shifting Times and Spaces of Knowledge in the Long…

The fifth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge at Lund University concluded successfully, bringing together 24 participants from 20 universities. Over four intensive days, these scholars engaged in a rich program of lectures, seminars, and discussions, delving into key concepts and approaches within the history of knowledge. Hosted by the Lund Centre for…

Today, August 20, 2024, LUCK proudly welcomes Ph.D. students from 12 different countries to the fifth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge at Lund University. Over the next four days, the participants will immerse themselves in discussions and activities centered around key problems and methodological approaches in this expanding research field. The Summer…

Anna Nilsson Hammar writes about actors, marginality and forms of knowledge in the latest special issue from Global Intellectual History: Who Were the Ignorant? Reflections on Actors, Marginality, and Forms of Knowledge

Jonas Thorup Thomsen has received funding by the Carlsberg Foundation to go to Oxford as a postdoc researcher. Congratulations! About the project In 1770–1830, a media revolution took place in Denmark: Newspapers, libraries, and a lively book trade expanded the reading public and accelerated the circulation of knowledge, but it also segmented the population based on…

Johan Östling has published a book on the global history of the university. Kunskapens stora hus (“The Great House of Knowledge”) offers a concise and vivid account of the long history of the university. It focuses on three overarching academic models that dominated during certain epochs and exerted an influence as a kind of model for the…

From the late 1970s onwards, a group of researchers in Sweden worked to make “future preparedness” a unifying knowledge object and school subject. The ability to think, adapt to and shape a still uncertain future, in what was now repeatedly described as a changing present, was described as a key competence in a way that…