David Larsson Heidenblad, Associate Professor of History and Deputy Director of LUCK, has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for his project “’California Dreamin’: Silicon Valley Knowledge, Culture, and Capital in Late 20th Century Sweden”. The project will study how the model of Silicon Valley came to influence Swedish society through decisive innovations such…

Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities, 1700-2000 Call for AbstractsDeadline for abstracts (500 words): 31 January, 2026. Organising Committee: ● Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (Ghent University) ● Sjang ten Hagen (Utrecht University) ● Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven) ● Els Minne (KU Leuven) Evaluation, i.e. assessing how an entity attains a certain time of worth,…

On 8–10 October, the second History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Lund by LUCK. Over three intense days, around a hundred researchers from different universities and countries explored the history of knowledge from various perspectives. The first day started with a wonderful keynote lecture by Robert Darnton (Harvard) and continued with sessions on everything…

8-10 November 2025 In November 2023, the first ever international History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Porto, bringing together experts from a wide range of historical research fields. Following this successful event, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) is proud to host the second international History of Knowledge Conference on 8–10…

Last year, Peter Jönsson successfully defended his Master’s thesis at Lund University’s Department of History. This has now been rewritten and published as an article in the 2024 Yearbook of The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. The article is written in Swedish, accompanied by an English abstract. It has been published with the approval…

LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre Aulan) Backlash: On Recycling and Reaction in the History of Knowledge* Susanne Schmidt (Basel) 10 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre Aulan) Plenary Discussion: The History of Knowledge and…

On the 14th of August, LUCK’s Evelina Kallträsk organized a session on the history of knowledge in action at the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians in Reykjavik. The idea that inspired that session was that, in order for the field to develop further, there is a need for more examples of how the history of…

Last week, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge brought together an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers for four days of lectures, seminars, and discussions in Lund. The program featured contributions from Johan Östling & David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar, Maria Simonsen & Karl Haikola, Natasha Klein Käfer, Christa…

The research project Edutopias. Reforms of everyday school practices. Denmark 1945–1975, funded by the Danish independent research fund and hosted by the Department of education at Aarhus University, invites you to join four digital, international, explorative seminars. They are also open to extra contributions/contributors, please notify them about which dialogue you would like to be a…