In June 2020, our new edited volume Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations (Routledge) will be published. In the weeks to come, we will publish a series of samples from the book. This one is based on Björn Lundberg’s chapter. In 1958, Canadian-born American economist John Kenneth Galbraith published The Affluent…

In June 2020, our new edited volume Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations (Routledge) will be published. This book is the outcome of a joint Scandinavian project. We have met for two productive workshops, one in Lund in June 2018 and one in Copenhagen in December 2018, both generously funded by…

David Larsson Heidenblad’s new book Ett år av akademiskt skrivande: Erfarenheter och arbetstekniker för unga forskare (Studentlitteratur, 2020) is out! The book draws on his popular blog on academic writing and postdoctoral experiences. The blog was written in symbiosis with his book project on the environmental turn in Sweden around 1970, and provides unique insights…

This spring the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge will organize a digital seminar series via Zoom. The language will be Swedish. For the schedule and more information, see Digitala kunskapshistoriska seminarier VT 2020 Welcome!

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge has to be postponed. The three scholars who should have been visiting the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge this spring—Marina Bezzi, Joshua Ehrlich and Thomas Ruoss—can hopefully join us at a later stage. It is our intention that…

History of Education Review (published by Australian & New Zealand History of Education Society) seeks submissions for a special issue, to be co-edited by Tamson Pietsch and Joel Barnes (Australien Centre for Public History, University of Technology Sydney). The issue will explore the relations and interconnections between the history of knowledge and the history of…

In a recent article in the Swedish journal Historisk tidskrift, Johan Östling analyses the daily essay “Under the Line” (Under strecket) of the liberalconservative newspaper Svenska Dagbladet from the point of the view of the history of knowledge. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, 400 articles and some of the leading authors are classified and studied…

“Many fellow historians of knowledge are currently using a wide variety of media to share their experience and research in an effort to put the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic into context”, the historian Dominik Hünniger writes in a rich and ambitious blogpost [https://historyofknowledge.net/2020/03/23/viral-hive-knowledge-twitter-historians-and-coronavirus-covid-19/] in History of Knowledge. In his contribution, Hünniger highlights ongoing…

Last week, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) was inaugurated with pomp and circumstance. Some eighty people—colleagues, students, representatives of the university, funding bodies, publishing houses, etc.—took part in the ceremony. After an introduction by the directors of the centre Johan Östling, Anna Nilsson Hammar and David Larsson Heidenblad, our new edited…