From 2 April to 4 June 2021 the ERC-funded SKILLNET project at Utrecht University will organise a series of webinars. A string of historians will give presentations about early modern transnational learned communities in the Eurasian continent, shedding light on the essence of what constitutes a transnational scholarly and scientific community. The webinars will be…

The postdoc position (24 months) is affiliated with COMPASS, a new initiative at Linköping University aimed at establishing a research hub on the circulation of knowledge, led by Professors Eva Hemmungs Wirtén and Jesper Olsson.  For more information see: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=15825&rmlang=UK Photo by Michael Coury on Unsplash

David Larsson Heidenblad’s book about academic writing and postdoctoral experiences is now available in English! A Year of Academic Writing: Experiences and Methods for Early Career Researchers (Studentlitteratur, 2021) began its life as a blog that sought to document the writing of a “second book” (in Sweden PhD-thesis in history are published as books). David…

Digital history is an emerging field of historical practice that draws on digital technology and computational methods to explore, understand and represent the past. At this Umeå Humlab talk, Hannu Salmi (Turku) presents his new book, What is Digital History? (Polity 2021), and engages in a discussion with Sune Bechmann Pedersen (Lund) about the potentials of digital history…

Maria Simonsen, Nordic advisory board member, is pleased to announce a new exciting project about the history of knowledge and university history, Knowledge for the World: The history of Aalborg University, 1974-2024. In 2024, Aalborg University celebrates its 50th anniversary. For this up-coming anniversary, the two Danish historians, Maria Simonsen and Mogens Rüdiger, is writing…

Charlotte Nilsson is a postdoctoral researcher in Media History at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. From January 2021, she holds a post-doc position within the project A nation of everyman investors: Stock saving and the circulation of financial knowledge in Sweden 1978–2018 (PI David Larsson Heidenblad). Her analytical focus is on how…

Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad have been asked to write a concise and up-to-date account of the history of knowledge in the new series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice, published by Cambridge University Press. They have signed the contract and the book is due to be released in 2023. In their book The…

Tamson Pietsch and Joel Barnes have participated in the History of Education Society UK Podcast to talk about their work on the connections—and tensions—between the fields of the history of knowledge and the history of education. They discuss how the focus and methods of the history of knowledge can help us think through how knowledge…

Maria Bach has made an interview with Kapil Raj about his approach in the history of science. Dr. Raj is Professor of the History of Science at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris. In particular, they discuss Raj’s book Relocating Modern Science.  https://ceterisneverparibus.net/relocating-modern-science-with-kapil-raj-episode-24/…