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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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…

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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…

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