On 24 May, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) organized this spring’s last seminar. This academic year we have all in all hosted 13 digital seminars (1 was cancelled), ranging from big international events on the relationship between the history of knowledge and the history of education to in-depth discussions of new…

Title:“Knowledge Regimes of Economic Inequality: Statistics and Narratives in Thatcher’s Britain” Felix Römer (Humboldt University, Berlin) 24 May, 13.15–14.15 (Zoom) It is widely known that economic inequality in 1980s Britain surged to historic levels, but it has often been overlooked that this trend was less evident to contemporaries under Thatcher. This talk will discuss how…

All are invited to attend the online symposium Debating New Approaches to Histories of the Sciences, organized as part of the History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University.  Date: Friday 21 May 2021 Time: 9:30-17:30 (CEST)Place: Online (Microsoft Teams)* Registration not required. Please find the link to the meeting below *  > SpeakersTheodore Arabatzis (Athens)Peter Burke (Cambridge) Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech)Kapil Raj…

All are invited to register to participate in the workshop with prof. Naomi Oreskes (Harvard), organized as part of the “History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University”.  Date: Thursday 20 May 2021Time: 15:30-17:00 (CET)Place: Online (Microsoft Teams)Places are limited and registration is required (see below) DescriptionNaomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s The Magic of the Marketplace: The True History of a False…

The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, offers a two-and-a-half-year position as postdoctoral fellow with the project “Historizicing Intelligence: Tests, Metrics and the Shaping of Contemporary Society”. This three-year research project is funded by The Research Council of Norway, and the postdoctoral position starts in October/November 2021. The overall goal of the research project…

Date: Tuesday May 18, 2021, 15-18 CET (on Zoom) The aim of this seminar is to gather researchers from different communities with an interest in the history of information in order to explore and further the discussion of information as a concept that designates a particular way of studying history. The hope is to continue…

On May 3d, 13–15, LUCK will arrange a Zoom-seminar were two freshly minted Norwegian PhD:s, Susann Holmberg and Sine Halkjelsvik Bjordal, present their fascinating research on the early modern history of knowledge. Their respective studies demonstrate that the history of knowledge is no longer just something scholars talk about – it is something that historians…

On 29–30 April 2021, the digital workshop “Language in the Global History of Knowledge” is organized at the Centre for the Historiography of Linguistics, KU Leuven. The workshop discusses various ways in which language and the study of language figured in the global history of knowledge, from the 16th to the early 20th century. In…

To celebrate the launch of the new Oxford Centre for Intellectual History, a digital event is organized on 20 April in the form an interdisciplinary conversation about “The Futures of Intellectual History”. The first panel is devoted to the history of knowledge. The event is open to all. For more information and registration see https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/futures-intellectual-history#/ Interieur…