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)….

18 September, 13.15–14.30 (Zoom)Book launch: Knowledge ActorsSven Dupré (Utrecht/Amsterdam), David Larsson Heidenblad (Lund), Christa Lundberg (Cambridge)Anna Nilsson Hammar (Lund) and Johan Östling (Lund) 3 October, 13.15–15.00 (hybrid: LUX:A332 & Zoom)Book launch (in Scandinavian languages): Humaniora i välfärdssamhälletEditors: Johan Östling, Anton Jansson and Ragni Svensson Stringberg.Discussants: Alexandra Borg (Uppsala) and Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde)Jointly organized with…

From August 22nd to 25th, the Centre for the History of Knowledge at Lund University (LUCK) hosts the fourth annual History of Knowledge Summer School. This year, we welcome doctoral candidates from across the Nordic region with interests in humanities and/or historical research, for a four-day event discussing pivotal concepts, theoretical frameworks, and ongoing research…

Political scientist Shannon Bow O’Brien will hold a seminar titled ‘Political Performance: How Donald Trump Uses Professional Wrestling Strategies to Construct Loyalty’ in the online Populism and Religion seminar series, hosted by the project Beyond Truth and Lies: Conspiracy Theories, Post-truth and the Conditions for Public Debate,onSeptember 7, 16h15–18h00, Swedish time [CEST]; Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/62645329724.  Donald Trump uses professional wrestling…

Carl-Filip Smedberg will start his new project “Constructing the Un/Educated: Social Hierarchisation in the Rise of the Knowledge Society, c. 1968–1990” at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge during the fall of 2023, where he will be employed to explore the history of the knowledge society. Describing society in terms of the division…

Knowledge Actors has been published. It is the third and final book in our trilogy on the history of knowledge. About Knowledge Actors In Knowledge Actors, we bring knowledge actors to the fore. Gathering researchers with diverse backgrounds and expertise, the guiding questions in this book centre on agency. Who were knowledge actors in different historical settings?…

Hampus Östh Gustafsson’s research has covered broad aspects of the modern history of the humanities and/or knowledge, and more recently, temporal conflicts and the work of synchronization in the history of universities. He defended his doctoral dissertation, Folkhemmets styvbarn (Daidalos, 2020), on the legitimacy of the humanities in the context of Swedish politics of knowledge 1935–1980 at…

Our new book Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge has been published. It is the third book in our trilogy on the history of knowledge, which began with Circulation of Knowledge (2018) and continued with Forms of Knowledge (2020). Knowledge Actors will be available shortly as a digital open access publication as well as a printed book.