On 1 September, Johan Östling takes up his position as Professor of History – the first ever in the Nordic countries to focus specifically on the history of knowledge. Congratulations! – It is a very nice recognition. It also puts Lund on the international historiographical map, Johan Östling says. At Lund the field of the…

Lorraine Daston has in recent years become one of the leading historians of science. In issue #87 of Slagmark – Journal for Intellectual History we will unfold and contextualize the themes, concepts, and theories that the writings of Daston have inspired. Articles are accepted in Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. Deadline for abstracts is October 1, 2022. Deadline…

On 12/9, 13.15-15, the LUCK seminar-series fall 2022 begins with an online gathering! We are visited by Klaus Petersen & Cecilie Bjerre from the University of Southern Denmark, who in recent years have worked with an innovative citizen science project that explores Danes’ experiences of the “family revolution” during the 1970s and 1980s, i.e. the…

The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University hereby announces vacancies for three two-year employment positions for postdoctoral research fellows in cultural history perspectives, one specialising in the media, one specialising in aesthetics and one specialising in the study of knowledge and science. For more information see https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:496586/type:job/where:4/apply:1

The EU-funded project Science at the Fair (www.scifair.eu) has a vacancy for a post doc (full-time position for 2 years  with the possibility of renewal for an additional year). They are looking for someone with a background in media, art or cultural history for the project: Panorama, Diorama and Cosmorama: Performing History and Geography.  Deadline for…

The network on the history of knowledge in Denmark, HoKDK, has received funding from the Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, to organize four seminars and a two-day workshop during the autumn of 2022. Behind the application are Johan Heinsen (Aalborg University) Laura Skouvig (University of Copenhagen), and Maria Simonsen (Aalborg University). The network…

A position as Associate Professor of History of Ideas is available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. History of Ideas/Intellectual History is an academic discipline comprising teaching and research, which is dedicated to the study of conceptions, values, and systems of knowledge in their historical contexts, from…

Stockholm+50 is right around the corner, but what is the history behind the first conference in 1972? Tune in to the Lund University Press podcast in which David Larsson Heidenblad talk with Isak Hammar about “The Environmental Turn: A New History of Knowledge” (2021). Link to the podcast: https://www.ht.lu.se/forskning/ht-samtal-podcasts-med-vara-forskare/ Image: Gouwenaar, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

In a new book, Johan Östling, Anton Jansson and Ragni Svensson Stringberg examine the circulation of humanistic knowledge in postwar Sweden and with West Germany as a point of comparison. The empirical chapters comprise comparative studies of public arenas of knowledge. Johan Östling analyses humanistic knowledge in postwar mass media. In a first study, he…