Two doctoral positions in Uppsala

The Department of the History of Ideas and Science, Uppsala University, Sweden, is offering two doctoral positions starting on September 1, 2025. Deadline for both positions is April 7.  A doctoral position in the history of ideas and science: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=803030 A doctoral position in the history of science: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=803109 Photo: By ScanianDragon – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132246889

Christa Lundberg appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow

We are thrilled that Christa Lundberg (University of Cambridge) has been appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow and will be joining the Department of History and be part of LUCK. Congratulations, Christa! Christa Lundberg describes herself and her research in this way: I hold a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge (2022) and specialize in…

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Welcome, Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt!

In February 2025, Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt joined LUCK and for six months she will be part of Johan Östling’s project on the Europeanisation of the universities in the 1980s and 1990s. She describe herself in this way: I am a cultural historian and sociologist from Belgium, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Lund Centre for…

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New book: Serving Aristocracy

Fresh off the press and available as open access is Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community by Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem. Being one of the results of a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an…

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The History of Knowledge Conference

Lund University, 8–10 October, 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…

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2025 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge

Lund Centre for Knowledge History (LUCK) invites applications for the sixth annual Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge, to be held at Lund University, August 19–22, 2025. The Summer School is open to doctoral students and recent PhD graduates with an interest in the history of knowledge, broadly understood. The history of knowledge is…

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History of Knowledge seminar series @ LUCK

11 February, 13.15–15.00 (LUX:A332) Besvärliga fruntimmer: Sveriges första kvinnliga jurister och deras utbildnings- och yrkesvägar Elsa Trolle Önnerfors (Lund) (jointly organised with the seminar series “Property and Provision”) * 17 March, 13.15–15.00 (LUX:A332 + Zoom) Peer Review in the Humanities: Evaluative Practices from the 19th to the 21st Century Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (Ghent/Lund), Hampus Östh Gustafsson…

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New Danish network for the History of Knowledge

Maria Simonsen (Aalborg University) and Laura Skouvig (University of Copenhagen) have received funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a network: Objects of Knowledge: Advancing the History of Knowledge. The network runs from February 2025 and ends in October 2027. The network gathers Danish established scholars as scholars in the beginning of their career…

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New research environment: Secrets to Patents

We are delighted that Natacha Klein Käfer has secured major funding from the Swedish Research Council to create a new research environment with many connections to the history of knowledge. She will be joining our department next year together with her team. Congratulations! Natacha Klein Käfer describes the Research Envinoment “Secrets to Patents: Trans-Imperial Strategies…

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