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/…

DigitalHistory@Lund is a platform that aims at promoting digital history and to support the development of new digital history research projects. It is a collaboration between the Section for Media History, and Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) and funded by The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, 2021–2022. Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Kajsa Weber…

On 23–26 August 2021, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) will for the second time offer a summer school in the history of knowledge. The course will be held in Swedish/Scandinavian languages, and we welcome PhD students and early postdocs to apply. Photo by Oscar Nord on Unsplash

Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS) is a meeting-place for European media historians since 2013. The network is co-ordinated by Media History at Lund University, also a node within the framework of LUCK. EMHIS was financed for six years by STINT Institutional Grant, and guiding ideas have been internationalization and the support of early career researchers. In…

David Larsson Heidenblad’s new book, Den gröna vändningen,(Nordic Academic Press, 2021), tells the history of how modern environmentalism emerged in postwar Sweden. It is the first monograph to emerge from LUCK and demonstrates a specific take on the history of knowledge. The English version of the book, The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge, will…

All seminars will be conducted via Zoom. Please contact johan.ostling@hist.lu.se for a link. Poster photo by Andrew Ridley on Unsplash 4/2, kl. 13.15–15.00: ”Den gröna vändningen”David Larsson Heidenblad presenterar sin nya bok om miljöfrågans genombrott(tillsammans med högre seminariet i historia) 18/2, kl. 13.15–15.00: ”Från religiös kultur till konfessionell kunskap”Anna Nilsson Hammar & Kajsa Weber (Lund) (tillsammans med högre…

In the doctoral thesis Folkhemmets styvbarn. Humanioras legitimitet i svensk kunskapspolitik 1935–1980 (Daidalos, 2020), Hampus Östh Gustafsson (Uppsala University) investigates the renegotiated role of the humanities in the context of Swedish politics of knowledge, a period that saw the establishment of a new regime of legitimacy based on rational planning. While higher education and research…

The first special issue of the Journal for the History of Knowledge is here: “Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge”, with guest editors Sebastian Felten and Christine von Oertzen.  In the introduction the editors explain the overall approach taken in this special issue.  ‘It is the collective result of a working group of historians who focus on very different…