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…

11 May, 13.15–15.00 . For a zoom link, contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se Chelsea Rodriguez (Groningen) & Moa Lindqvist (Uppsala) (Time zone: CET/CEST) The history of education is a burgeoning field of historical inquiry. Since knowledge lies at the heart of institutional and non-institutional education, we believe that historians of knowledge and education have much to learn from each…

Many researchers want to write for more than just their colleagues. But what does it take to write essays and columns for newspapers, take part in podcasts, and publish books at major publishing houses? What is required? What challenges do you face? And how do you switch between different modes of writing and thinking? And what…

On April 20th the History of Knowledge seminar will be visited by Nele Wynants and Eva Andersen (University of Antwerpen), who will talk about the research programme Science at the Fair: Performing Knowledge and Technology in Western Europe, 1850-1914, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. …

Lund 14–15 November 2022 Submission deadline: 1 September 2022 Historians in the digital age need to navigate between multiple forms of abundance. Most evident is the abundance of sources as libraries, museums, and archives continue to digitize and open their collections while the amount of born-digital sources grows exponentially. However, to be a (digital) historian…

Welcome to the higher seminar in Book History Wednesday 20 April, 3:15 pm to 5 pm CET, with invited guest Professor Thomas Munck, Glasgow. The seminar will be on Zoom through the following link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/62339647753 Professor Munck will open the discussion with a presentation entitled ’What techniques might help authors and publishers of radical texts avoid the threats of censorship…