The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology have appointed Björn Lundberg as Associate Professor in History at Lund University. Lundberg has been involved in research activities at LUCK since its inception in 2020, with a focus on the history of knowledge and education in the twentieth century. His research interests involves the history of childhood…

This year, the Centre for European Studies at Lund University, has awarded its Best Thesis Award to Olof Bärtås for his master’s thesis in history, “European discoveries: Cultural Europeanization on Swedish culture pages 1977–1989”. The thesis was written at the Department of History and within the framework of the history of knowledge. Read an interview…

Kajsa Weber has been appointed Associate Professor in history and Lund University. Her main areas of research are early modern Lutheranism, history of books and digital history. She is member of LUCK´s steering committee.   Currently she is writing a book on the translation and printing of Luther´s text in Swedish around 1600.   “History…

Lund Centre for Knowledge History (LUCK) invites applications for the fifth annual Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge, to be held at Lund University, August 20–23, 2024. The Summer School is open to doctoral students and recent PhD graduates with an interest in the history of knowledge, broadly understood.  The history of knowledge…

On 31 January, 13.15–14.30 (CET), Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad will present their new book The History of Knowledge at a digital seminar organised by LUCK. Please use this link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/2108272169 Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad’s book The History of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press) provides a general introduction to the history of knowledge as a new international field,…

Carl-Philip Smedberg has just published an article in History of the Human Sciences called “Taxonomical lives: The making of social divisions in the Swedish press during the golden age of social democracy, 1945–76”. The article can be downloaded here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09526951231213512 Abstract: This article investigates the media lives of a particular class taxonomy in the Swedish…

Johan Östling has written the article “History of Knowledge” for Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method, an online educational resource dedicated to historiography and the examination of historical theory and methods. In his article, Östling provides an overview of the field and discusses the background, context, importance and future of the history of knowledge. The DOI of…

Peer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge production and research evaluation in the present-day humanities. However, the origins and development of humanities peer review remain remarkably poorly understood, particularly in comparison to the history of peer review in the natural…

Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad have published a new book, The History of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press). The book provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. However, it is not primarily a state-of-the-art overview but rather an argumentative contribution that seeks to push the field…