Great news! Johan Östling has received a prestigious prolongation of his Wallenberg Academy Fellow Grant for the new five years (2024–2029), funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. In short, this means two things. Firstly, he can continue to develop the history of knowledge and LUCK, including our seminar series, visiting fellowship programme and…

On Tuesday 13 December, 13.15­–15.00 (CET), we will organize this semester’s last history of knowledge seminar. Earlier this autumn, the first volume of the new yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) was published. It is devoted to the history of knowledge. To celebrate this, we will present the yearbook at the seminar and discuss what it…

The new issue of the History of Education Review (vol. 51, no. 2, 2022) has a themed section devoted to the relations between the history of knowledge and the history of education. In the first article, Joel Barnes and Tamson Pietsch introduce the theme by discussing how the history of education can be brought into fuller dialogue with…

Studies in the History of Knowledge is a book series at Amsterdam University Press, publishing monographs and edited volumes on the history of knowledge. The series has a global scope, with a preference for studies transcending disciplinary and geographical boundaries or tracing how academic and non-academics actors cooperated in the making, teaching, and circulation of…

In a new article in Reformation & Renaissance Review Kajsa Weber investigates reference notes (what in the 18th century would become the footnote) in Lutheran Swedish print 1570–1630. By investigating a yet unexplored medium for representing Luther in print it expands on scholarly work regarding how Lutherans at the turn of the sixteenth century chose to represent…

Isak Hammar, associate professor of History and member of LUCK’s Nordic Advisory Board has received funding for a three-year project entitled Scholarly journals and the disciplinary formation of the modern humanities in Sweden, c. 1850-1920 from the Swedish Research Council. The project explores the impact of changing publishing patterns in the humanities in Sweden between…

by Andreas Granberg (Åbo Akademi University) When I started my journey towards my PhD in 2015, the field of history of knowledge was completely unknown to me. In the beginning, I was mainly operating with different methods and theories related to different uses of history. It was quite early on, however, that I started to…

The first volume of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) has been published. HIC is a new international and interdisciplinary open access yearbook for peer-reviewed papers, published by De Gruyter and edited by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling and Jana Weiß. The yearbook emphasizes cultural dimensions of the history of knowledge and underscores that knowledge must be regarded…

Earlier this year, Johan Östling, Anton Jansson & Ragni Svensson Stringberg released their joint monograph “Humanister i offentligheten” which takes a fresh view on the public role of the humanities in postwar Sweden. This period is typically describes as a crisis-era for the humanities. But were scholars really that marginalized and invisible in Swedish society?…