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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…

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.

Cfa: Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge

The Visiting Fellowship Programme We award short-term fellowships to international postdoctoral scholars to pursue research in the history of knowledge at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). We are particularly dedicated to support research with an ambition and a capacity to develop the history of knowledge. We invite scholars to join us…

New issue: History of Intellectual Culture

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…

Keynote Lecture at the Making of the Humanities Conference

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…