Andreas Tranvik, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Lund University and an associate researcher at LUCK, has published the article “Specialization on Stage: The Formation and Deformation of Knowledge in Hedda Gabler and A Dream Play” in Modern Drama. The article examines two of the most canonical plays in all of Scandinavian and European modern drama – Henrik…

Today, August 19, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge opens. Over the next four days, an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers will gather for lectures, seminars, and discussions. This year’s program features contributions from Johan Östling & David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar, Maria Simonsen & Karl Haikola, Natasha…

Last year, Björn Lundberg, David Larsson Heidenblad and LUCK arranged the conference “Forskaren i framtidens offentlighet”, which was a great  success. On the 27 of August, the conference returns and registration is now open. It is free of charge, but attendance slots are limited. So if you are interested – please register quickly! http://tinyurl.com/mryak2v5 Programme:  9.15…

Lund University is looking for a promising, academically young, researcher with an international background who can build and lead a research group within the field of Global History of Knowledge. The person will be employed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of History for four years, and after that the person may apply for promotion…

LUCK’s Director and Wallenberg Academy Fellow Johan Östling has been interviewed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, which funds his ongoing project on the Europeansation of the universities since the 1980s. Read the interview here: https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/europeanization-transformed-universities

Ann-Sophie Levidis was one of LUCK’s Visiting Fellows during a week in March–April. In a blogpost, she reports on her experiences of Lund and our environment: https://open.substack.com/pub/annsophielevidis/p/chronicles-of-academia?r=5iv6iv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Photo by Hamidreza Ardalani on Unsplash

On 24–25 April, the workshop “The Nordic University in the European Knowledge Society since the 1970s” was organised in Lund by Johan Östling and Stefan Nygård. They had gathered more than a dozen researchers affiliated with the centre Higher Education and Research as Objects of Study (HERO) in Uppsala, the Lund Centre for the History…

Last week, five historians visited Lund as part of LUCK’s International Fellowship Programme: Barbara Hof (Lausanne), Laura Loporcaro (Ghent), Ann-Sophie Levidis (Australian National University), Floris Solleveld (Amsterdam) and Daniel Töpper (Berlin). During their time in Lund they had the opportunity to present their ongoing research, discuss history of knowledge articles, interact with various researchers in…