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…

The journal History and Theory is devoting a new theme issue to the History of Knowledge. It is edited by Helge Jordheim and David Gary Shaw. The issue includes articles by Federico Marcon, Jeremy A. Greene, Lisa Gitelman, Vera Keller, Johan Östling, Shadi Bartsch, Suzanne Marchand and Clifford Siskin. The editors introduce the theme in a jointly…

Two new projects are developing in close connection with our research environment. We are very much looking forward to follow your work!

CfA: “Motions of Knowledge – Knowledge in Motion: Conceptualizing ‘Knowledge Circulation’ for Historical Research” – The 15th Annual Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH) to be held at the University of Vienna, April 7–9 2021.  This conference will be centered around the four following analytical aspects of “knowledge circulation”, which are themselves intrinsically entangled: (1)…

All are invited to join the third (online) meeting of the History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University, with a lecture by prof. Jim Secord (University of Cambridge) on Thursday 26 November 2020.    Bringing together leading scholars of both older and younger generations with different backgrounds and approaches, this bimonthly seminar series explores the past, present and future of the promising new scholarly field of the history of knowledge. More than…

We are looking forward to co-hosting the seminar “History of Knowledge Meets History of Education” with the Australian Centre Public History, University of Technology Sydney. This seminar will explore the connections between the history of knowledge and the history of education. The online event will take place 8–10am (Central European Time) on 18 November 2020. Program: Tamson…

Next wednesday, Isak Hammar will present an article at the higher seminar in the History of ideas in Stockholm. The seminar will be held in Swedish. If you wish to participate, contact isak.hammar@historia.su.se for text and link to the Zoom-meeting. När Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien 1798 började dela in sina ledamöter i klasser inrättades även en för ”Vitterhet,…

Susann Holmberg defended her thesis, Contracting Knowledge: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Norway, at the University of Oslo on October 2 2020. The thesis is a contribution to the field of early modern knowledge history and was supervised by Erling Sandmo and Morten Fink-Jensen. This thesis explores the knowledge of venereal disease in eighteenth-century Norway. This is…