LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre Aulan) Backlash: On Recycling and Reaction in the History of Knowledge* Susanne Schmidt (Basel) 10 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre Aulan) Plenary Discussion: The History of Knowledge and…

On the 14th of August, LUCK’s Evelina Kallträsk organized a session on the history of knowledge in action at the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians in Reykjavik. The idea that inspired that session was that, in order for the field to develop further, there is a need for more examples of how the history of…

Last week, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge brought together an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers for four days of lectures, seminars, and discussions in Lund. The program featured contributions from Johan Östling & David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar, Maria Simonsen & Karl Haikola, Natasha Klein Käfer, Christa…

The research project Edutopias. Reforms of everyday school practices. Denmark 1945–1975, funded by the Danish independent research fund and hosted by the Department of education at Aarhus University, invites you to join four digital, international, explorative seminars. They are also open to extra contributions/contributors, please notify them about which dialogue you would like to be a…

Andreas Tranvik, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Lund University and an associate researcher at LUCK, has published the article “Specialization on Stage: The Formation and Deformation of Knowledge in Hedda Gabler and A Dream Play” in Modern Drama. The article examines two of the most canonical plays in all of Scandinavian and European modern drama – Henrik…

Today, August 19, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge opens. Over the next four days, an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers will gather for lectures, seminars, and discussions. This year’s program features contributions from Johan Östling & David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar, Maria Simonsen & Karl Haikola, Natasha…

Last year, Björn Lundberg, David Larsson Heidenblad and LUCK arranged the conference “Forskaren i framtidens offentlighet”, which was a great  success. On the 27 of August, the conference returns and registration is now open. It is free of charge, but attendance slots are limited. So if you are interested – please register quickly! http://tinyurl.com/mryak2v5 Programme:  9.15…

Lund University is looking for a promising, academically young, researcher with an international background who can build and lead a research group within the field of Global History of Knowledge. The person will be employed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of History for four years, and after that the person may apply for promotion…

LUCK’s Director and Wallenberg Academy Fellow Johan Östling has been interviewed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, which funds his ongoing project on the Europeansation of the universities since the 1980s. Read the interview here: https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/europeanization-transformed-universities