While the writing of the history of the humanities is an old practice, it is only in the last decade that it has been formalized as a coherent field of research. Interestingly, this has more or less occurred parallel to the development of the new history of knowledge. After a period of rapid expansion, including…

When a 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began her Skolstrejk för klimatet (school strike for climate) outside the Swedish parliament in 2018, she sparked a wave of global protests. Do these protests mark a new form of youthful agency on global political issues? In our research project Knowing the world: Children, global education and environmental activism in…

The Journal for the History of Knowledge has published a new special issue on “histories of ignorance”, edited by Peter Burke and Lukas M. Verburgt. The issue is available open access: https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/collections/special/histories-of-ignorance/

All are invited to join the next meeting of the monthly History of Knowledge Seminar Series. > Sietske Fransen (Bibliotheca Hertziana)‘Visualizing the Unknown: Visual Studies and Re-Enactment’  Date: Thursday 9 December 2021Time: 15:30-17:00 (CET/Amsterdam-time)Place: Online (Microsoft Teams) * No registration needed. Please click here to attend the meeting *  > AbstractMost of us will recognize the images of a flea and a louse…

A Doctoral Research Fellowship in history of ideas/history of knowledge is available at the Department of philosophy, classics, history of art and ideas, University of Oslo. The fellowship is part of the research project “Maritime Modernities: Formats of Oceanic Knowledge”, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project investigates the history of knowledge and…

History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) is seeking new contributions for publication in Volume 2 (2023). We are inviting proposals for (1) individual articles for sections I & III as well as (2) guest editors for the thematic section II. HIC focuses on the modern period (from the long 19th century onward) and takes on a decidedly transatlantic and/or…

All are invited to join the next meeting of the History of Knowledge Seminar Series.  > Elaine Leong (UCL) ‘Vernacular Medicine and “Agents of Knowledge” in Late Seventeenth-Century London’ Date: Wednesday 24 November 2021Time: 15:30-17:00 (CET)Place: Online (Microsoft Teams* Please click here to attend the meeting *  > Abstract ‘This talk focuses on two historical figures – George Hartman (fl. 1668-82) and Christopher Packe (fl. 1670-1711) – largely…

Isak Hammar and Johan Östling have edited a forum section in the new issue of the journal History of Humanities (6:2 2021). It is devoted to “The Circulation of Knowledge and the History of the Humanities” (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/current). The forum section seeks to explore a prominent concept in the history of knowledge—circulation—as well as to demonstrate the value…

We are pleased to announce that Johan Östling, director of LUCK, has received the Einar Hansen research award of 2021. A dedicated defender of the humanities, Östling is rewarded for his efforts to bring humanities into the public conversation. Warm congratulations from all of us at LUCK! https://www.ht.lu.se/article/forskning-som-staar-upp-foer-humaniora-faar-einar-hansens-forskningspris/