The fifth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge at Lund University concluded successfully, bringing together 24 participants from 20 universities. Over four intensive days, these scholars engaged in a rich program of lectures, seminars, and discussions, delving into key concepts and approaches within the history of knowledge. Hosted by the Lund Centre for…

Today, August 20, 2024, LUCK proudly welcomes Ph.D. students from 12 different countries to the fifth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge at Lund University. Over the next four days, the participants will immerse themselves in discussions and activities centered around key problems and methodological approaches in this expanding research field. The Summer…

Anna Nilsson Hammar writes about actors, marginality and forms of knowledge in the latest special issue from Global Intellectual History: Who Were the Ignorant? Reflections on Actors, Marginality, and Forms of Knowledge

Jonas Thorup Thomsen has received funding by the Carlsberg Foundation to go to Oxford as a postdoc researcher. Congratulations! About the project In 1770–1830, a media revolution took place in Denmark: Newspapers, libraries, and a lively book trade expanded the reading public and accelerated the circulation of knowledge, but it also segmented the population based on…

Johan Östling has published a book on the global history of the university. Kunskapens stora hus (“The Great House of Knowledge”) offers a concise and vivid account of the long history of the university. It focuses on three overarching academic models that dominated during certain epochs and exerted an influence as a kind of model for the…

From the late 1970s onwards, a group of researchers in Sweden worked to make “future preparedness” a unifying knowledge object and school subject. The ability to think, adapt to and shape a still uncertain future, in what was now repeatedly described as a changing present, was described as a key competence in a way that…

During two weeks in April, four visiting fellows have been staying at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge: Jona Garz (University of Zurich), Heikki Kokko (Tampere University), Kirsten Macfarlene (University of Oxford) and Pascale Siegrist (German Historical Institute in London). Together, we have discussed their exciting ongoing research and taken part in different…

Aalborg University celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In connection with the jubilee, a new Danish book At bygge et universitet [eng. Building a University] tells the history about Aalborg University from the first visions until today, where the university is making  its mark both home and abroad. At bygge et universitet is written by…

Conference 19th– 20th September 2024, University of Turku, Finland. Historical research on experts and expertise has burgeoned during the past decades. This research has shown the need to consider how expert knowledge is made and given meanings, the polarisation of expertise, the regional and cultural differences in defining expertise, the social statuses of experts, as well…