Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge unfortunately has to be postponed again. It is our intention that a call for the Visiting Fellowship Programme for the spring 2022 can be published in October 2021. More information will be posted on this website in due course.

History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) is a new international and interdisciplinary open access yearbook for peer-reviewed papers, published by De Gruyter. The yearbook is also a continuation of the journal by the same name founded in 2001. Our approach emphasizes the cultural dimension in the history of knowledge and underscores that knowledge must be regarded…

On 15 April at 15:30–17:00 (CET), Johan Östling will give a talk at the History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University.  Abstract: “Circulation, Arenas, and the Quest for Public Knowledge” The recent surge in publications on the history of knowledge may obscure the fact that there are several parallel understandings of what the field is. In…

Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (University of Cambridge | http://www.gloknos.ac.uk) (for bookings and Zoom links, please contact Samantha Peel: sjp229@cam.ac.uk) 15 April | Shadi Bartsch-ZimmerStrauss in Beijing The popularity of the political philosopher Leo Strauss among a group of Chinese public-facing academics has been noted with bemusement in the West. This lecture takes a deeper…

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…