Date: 14th October 2021 14.00-15.30 CEST This seminar is dedicated to surveillance. David Lyon, prominent scholar of surveillance studies, has over the years argued that all societies relying on communication and information technologies for administrative and control processes are surveillance societies. Yet, the English historian, Edward Higgs warns against a superficial equation between gathering of information…

Although the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities has become a defining characteristic of research, teaching and publishing practices (Heilbron et al. 2017: 131), national academic labor markets tend to turn in on themselves in times of crisis (Gruzinski 2016; Adelman 2017). Moreover, the global dimension of wealth inequalities (Piketty 2014, 2020; Savage 2021)…

On 21 September 13.15–15.00 (CEST), LUCK organizes the online seminar “The History of Ignorance” with Peter Burke (Cambridge) and Lukas Verburgt (Utrecht). Please contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se to receive the Zoom link. Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash

David Larsson Heidenblad’s new book The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge is fresh off the presses! The book is published by Manchester University Press and free to download at:  https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9789198557749/9789198557749.xml The book tells the story of how modern environmentalism emerged in postwar Sweden and shaped world events. It is the first full-length study…

by Dennis Lundström The subject of my master thesis originated from a personal interest of mine, the murder of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in February 1986. The murder investigation is one of the largest police investigations in history and was closed in June 2020, but a killer is yet to be convicted. In…

All are invited to join the next meeting of the History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University with Nicola Miller (UCL).   > Nicola Miller ‘Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America’ Date: Thursday 23 September 2021Time: 15:30-17:00 (CEST)Place: Online (Microsoft Teams)* Registration is not required. Please find the link to the meeting below *  > Description My talk will…

The Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) will offer a digital seminar series this autumn. Last semester we were fortunate to have many researchers who participated in our seminars, and we hope that this also will be the case this academic year.  Registration is not required, but please contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se to receive the permanent Zoom link.

New doctoral thesis: Heightened everydayness: Young people in rural Sweden doing everyday life Reduced to its essentials, everyday life is repetitive and mundane, accomplished through routine activity. It is ordinary, trivial, and often left unnoticed. It is not surprising, then, that most people do not pay much attention to their everyday life knowledge. My thesis,…

On Thursday we concluded the second annual Summer school in the history of knowledge at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, this year held as a zoom event. The summer school gathered 14 PhD students from different disciplines in nine universities, in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Together with six researchers from LUCK, who…