The third History of Knowledge Conference will be organized in Utrecht on 25–27 August 2027. The conference follows the successful 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. Utrecht University is home of the Descartes Centre for the History…
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CfP: Merit, Worth, and Social Advancement in the Early Modern World
Call for Papers Merit, Worth, and Social Advancement in the Early Modern World: Rethinking Meritocracy as a Category of Historical Analysis University of Hamburg, 7–8 September 2026 Organised by Carolin Gluchowski (Universität Hamburg) and Asger Wienberg (Lund University) Conceptual Framework The term meritocracy is a modern one. Coined in the twentieth century and shaped by…