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…

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…