In early 2022, the “Center History of Knowledge” (ZGW) in Zurich will close its (virtual) doors. In a statement on its website, the ZGW writes: “After seventeen years of highly productive and creative work with countless events, publications and collaborations, the members of the ZGW have decided to close the center at the beginning of…

Rasmus Törnblom has been a doctoral student at the Department of History at Lund University since the autumn of 2021. In his thesis, he examines how experiences and expectations of “consensus” (samförstånd) in Swedish society during the 20th century have contributed to shaping a great narrative about a Swedish “spirit of consensus” (samförståndsanda). His purpose…

This semester’s first seminar will be “Histories of Surveillance: From the Antiquity to the Digital Era”. It will be held on 31 January 2022, 13.15–15.00 (CET). The point of departure of this seminar is the new book Histories of Surveillance: From the Antiquity to the Digital Era. The Eyes and Ears of Power (Routledge Studies in Modern…

The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at Oslo University is announcing two PhD Research Fellowships:  1. Contested knowledge: decolonization and European history of knowledge. Applicants must develop a history of knowledge research project that examines historical encounters, conflicts, or translations between European and non-European knowledge systems, and relate the historical material to theoretical questions concerning cultural and…

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…