LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

Call for Contributions: Third International History of Knowledge Conference

The third History of Knowledge Conference will be organized in Utrecht on 25–27 August 2027. The conference follows the first international History of Knowledge Conference in Porto in 2023, and the second edition, hosted by the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge in 2025. Read more about the conference here: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/call-for-contributions-third-international-history-of-knowledge-conference

New Centre for the Circulation of Knowledge and Contemporary History to be installed in Lund!

Sweden’s leading private financier of economic research, Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser, has decided to fund a new centre at the Department of History in Lund: Centrum för kunskapsspridning och samtidshistoria (CEKOS) [Centre for the Circulation of Knowledge and Contemporary History]. The centre will focus on fostering the circulation of knowledge in Swedish society and on conducting historical…

Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History

The Department of History at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History. After four years of research and teaching, this position may be turned into permanent employment as a Senior Lecturer. Read more about the position and the conditions here: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:798426/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Five visiting researchers in LUCK’s fellowship programme

In the first week of April, five researchers will be in Lund as visiting scholars: Barbara Hof (Zurich), Laura Loporcaro (Ghent), Ann-Sophie Levidis (Australian National University), Floris Solleveld (Bristol/Amsterdam) and Daniel Töpper (Berlin). They have been selected in fierce competition to be part of the LUCK’s International Visiting Fellowship Programme. During their stay in Lund,…

Serving Aristocracy on New Books Network

Last week Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem visited Miranda Melcher on New Books Network to talk about their book Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community (Routledge, 2025). Follow the link to listen: https://newbooksnetwork.com/serving-aristocracy

CfP: History of Intellectual Culture

The editors invite contributions to Vol. 5 of the scholarly yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter), to be published in autumn 2026. The contributions will be peer reviewed and available open access. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 5 May. See this document for more information: Photo by Vojtech Bruzek on Unsplash

Isak Hammar and Swen Steinberg new editors of History of Intellectual Culture

The scholarly yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) was founded by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling and Jana Weiss in 2021. After working with the yearbook for several years, they have decided to gradually hand over the editorship to two editors: Isak Hammar and Swen Steinberg. They will join Lerg, Östling and Weiss as editors this spring and…

Seminar: Peer Review in the Humanities

On 17 March, 13.15–15.00, LUCK is organizing the seminar “Peer Review in the Humanities: Evaluative Practices from the 19th to the 21st century”. It will be a hybrid seminar: LUX:A332 or Zoom (https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/2108272169) About the seminarPeer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge…

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…

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…