In March 2026, we are delighted to welcome Isak Hammar and Kajsa Weber as the new deputy directors of LUCK. They succeed Anna Nilsson Hammar and David Larsson Heidenblad. Johan Östling remains the director. Isak Hammar and Kajsa Weber, who have long been part of LUCK’s inner circle, will work alongside Johan Östling to lead…

When LUCK was launched in March 2020, it did not emerge in a vacuum. It developed from a series of collaborations (reading groups, seminars, workshops, grant applications) at the Department of History during the second half of the 2010s, aimed at exploring the history of knowledge and introducing it as a new field in the…

From 2021 to 2026, History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society has been edited by Charlotte A. Lerg (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich), Johan Östling (Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), Lund University), and Jana Weiß (The University of Texas at Austin). In 2025, Isak Hammar (Lund Centre for the…

The editors of the scholarly yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) invite contributions to Vol. 6, to be published in autumn 2027. All contributions will be peer reviewed and available fully open access. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 8 May. See this document for more information:

A new book on the history of the knowledge society in Sweden has been published, Sverige som kunskapssamhälle: Historiska perspektiv på en förväntad samhällsomvandling (Nordic Academic Press), edited by Carl-Filip Smedberg, Jonas Andersson, Klara Müller and Hampus Östh Gustafsson. It brings together some twenty researchers from a number of disciplines and universities who together explore aspects of…

13 February, 12:00–13:00 (LUX:A331) Reading seminar: Vera Keller et al., “Projects in the History of Knowledge”, Journal for the History of Knowledge (2025) Introduction: Christa Lundberg 4 March, 12:00–13:00 (Zoom)  Book presentation: Sverige som kunskapssamhälle Carl-Filip Smedberg (Linköping), Klara Müller (Stockholm), Hampus Östh Gustafsson (Uppsala) and Jonas Andersson (Södertörn) 11 March, 13:15–14:30 (Zoom) Book presentation: The Cultural History of Higher Learning Ning…

The Journal for the History of Knowledge features an annual special issue, compiled by guest editors, which explores a theme central to the journal’s scope. The journal is currently accepting proposals for the 2028 Special Issue. Proposal deadline: 1 May 2026. More information: https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement/view/317

Lund Centre for Knowledge History (LUCK) invites applications for the seventh annual Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge, to be held at Lund University, August 17–20, 2026. The Summer School is open to doctoral students and recent PhD graduates with an interest in the history of knowledge, broadly understood. The history of knowledge…

On 16 June, 2026, the workshop “Lost in Translation: Historical Perspectives on Language and Student Mobility from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century” is organized at the University of Geneva. Read more about the workshop here:  Photo: Dmitry A. Mottl – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42089750