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.

The third issue of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) (De Gruyter) devotes a thematic section to experimental spaces for knowledge production. The articles in this section investigate the role of experimental environments as sites for knowledge production during the long nineteenth century, thereby extending the scope beyond the confines of traditional academic institutions such as…

10 October, 13.00–14.10 (Aula, LUX) Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana), “Learning from the Father of Lies: Herodotus’ Lessons for Modern Truth-Seekers” Nineteenth-century historians loved to contrast the ancient writers Herodotus and Thucydides, usually to the great detriment of the former.  Herodotus, the first half of whose Histories dealt with Near Eastern kings, customs, religions, geographies, fauna, and…

9 October, 09.15–10.15 (Aula, LUX) Helge Jordheim (Oslo), “Adam and Eve, Moses, Three Pyramids, and a Manned Balloon: Shifting Times and Spaces of Knowledge in the Long 18th Century” In a passage from Discours preliminaire, published in 1751, Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, mathematician and co-editor of the Encyclopédie, envisions the “encyclopedic arrangement of knowledge”: This…

Between 9 and 11 October 2024, the eleventh conference in this series on the history of the humanities will be hosted by the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). A number of scholars from a wide range of countries and universities will discuss various aspects of the history of the humanities. This year’s…

In September, the new project “The Europeanisation of the Universities: Transforming Knowledge Institutions from within, c. 1985-2010” was launched. Lead by Johan Östling, a research team will in the years to come analyse how a number of universities in different parts of Europe underwent processes of Europeanisation from the mid-1980s and what these transformations entailed….

Anton Sylvest Lilleør from SAXO Institute at University of Copehagen is a visiting doctoral student at LUCK 16 – 27 September. The stay is financed by the National Graduate School of Historical Studies and their scholarship program for PhD students. The scholarships make it possible for doctoral students to stay for two weeks at one…