LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

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…

New article: The role of education in the post-industrial society

Carl-Filip Smedberg, who was a postdoctoral researcher at LUCK in 2023–2024, has published the article “‘A New Type of Aristocracy’: Envisioning Educational Divides in the Swedish Conservative Party during the Birth of the Post-Industrial Society, ca. 1965–1972” in History of Education. The article’s abstract: In the 1960s, people across the West started imagining that they were…

Welcome, Christian Hoekema!

Christian Hoekema is a visiting researcher at LUCK this autumn. He presents himself in this way: “I am a Dutch researcher working in the history of philology. After previously having spent time abroad at the University of Oslo and the Free University of Berlin during my Dutch BAs and MA, I am now doing my…

Call for Papers: History of Knowledge in the History of Education (ISCHE 46)

The Standing Working Group (SWG) History of Knowledge in the History of Education (HKHE) invites submissions to the upcoming conference ISCHE 46 in Lille, 8 – 11 July 2025 (in-person conference) or 15 – 16 July, online conference The ISCHE Standing Working Group (SWG) History of Knowledge in the History of Education (HKHE) explores how…

New Research Project Secures Funding

Björn Lundberg, Associate Professor of History at Lund University and coordinator of the LUCK focus area “Knowledge and Education,” has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for his project, Preparing children for war: Swedish preparedness education in transition 1945–2000. Building on his research at the intersection of the history of knowledge, education, and the…

Research grants to Christa Lundberg

We are delighted to announce that Christa Lundberg has received funding from both the Swedish Research Council and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project “Plagiarism hunting in early modern Europe (c. 1665–1730): Knowledge circulation and its limits” – an impressive achievement. She is currently based at the University of Cambridge but this new project will be hosted…

Welcome, Martin Hamre!

Dr. Martin Kristoffer Hamre is a historian of modern European history in transnational and global perspectives based at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge. His research interests include the history of European fascism and the far right, the history of internationalism and Europeanization, and the history of German reunification. He has published among…

Call for Contributions: Histories of Expertise

Following the symposium on the Histories of Expertise in September 2024 at the University of Turku in Finland, the organizers are delighted to announce the call for contributions for an edited volume. This collection is dedicated to analysing the making of experts, expertise, and expert knowledge in human societies from historical perspectives. We invite contributions…

Save the date: History of Knowledge Conference in Lund, 8–10 October, 2025

The second international History of Knowledge Conference will take place in Lund on 8–10 October, 2025. It is thus a sequel to the first conference organized in Porto in the autumn of 2023. Please save the date – more information will come later this year or early next year.