On 16 November, 13.15–15.00 (CET), will Joshua Ehrlich (Macau) present his new book The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP). Discussants: Jessica Hanser (Copenhagen) and Lisa Hellman (Lund). This is a hybrid seminar (LUX:A332 & Zoom). Description of the book The East India Company is remembered as the world’s most powerful, not to say…

Can historical research benefit from AI? Since 2020 Nina Koefoed has been working on the Transkribus platform, using AI to train “models” that can read and transcribe handwritten Danish texts from the 18th century. In this talk, she will present the research project, questions and archival material that led her to work with Transkribus in…

The second volume of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) has been published. The volume comprises individual papers, a thematic section, a review essay and a conversation, all related to the history of knowledge. The volume is available open access: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111078038/html#contents The thematic section is dedicated to modes of publication. The articles attest to the great variety…

David Larsson Heidenblad’s new book “Ta din tid: Gör mindre men bättre” (Volante) will be launched in Lund on the 24th of November 13-15 in LUX C:126. He will moderate a panel discussion featuring Niklas Altermark, Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg, and Karolina Östbring. Read more about the book (and preorder it!) at: https://volante.se/bocker/ta-din-tid Welcome! (no preregistration required)

History and Sociology of the Social Sciences and the Humanities:Boundaries, Persona and Knowledge Circulation7.5 credits, pace of study 50%, weeks 3–12, Spring Term 2024, Uppsala University What?The course is a combined Master’s level and PhD course, organised by the Department of Historyof Science and Ideas. The course provides an overview and advanced introduction to recentresearch…

The Society for the History of the Humanities has announced an online workshop on Epistemic Transfer in the Humanities: 14-15 Nov 2023. Participation is free. For more information, including the preliminary program and line-up of speakers, see https://www.historyofhumanities.org/upcoming-meetings/workshop-epistemic-transfer/ Image: Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lund University announces a vacancy for a two-year position as Postdoc in Digital Cultures with a Specialisation in Digital History. The position is based at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and Division of ALM and Digital Cultures, in close cooperation with the DigitalHistory@Lund platform. Last application date: 05 Nov. 2023 For more information…

A new book, Humaniora i välfärdssamhället, highlights the diverse roles of the humanities in the history of the Swedish welfare society. This society has often been seen as dominated by an instrumental view of knowledge that rewarded the social sciences, natural sciences and technology, but the contributions in this book show the significant role that the…

LUCK’s first history of knowledge seminar this semester takes place on 18 September, 13.15–14.30 (CEST), and is a digital book launch. We will present and discuss Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge (2023), the third and final volume in our trilogy about the history of knowledge, which started with Circulation of Knowledge (2018) and continued with Forms of Knowledge (2020)….