On 17 March, 13.15–15.00, LUCK is organizing the seminar “Peer Review in the Humanities: Evaluative Practices from the 19th to the 21st century”. It will be a hybrid seminar: LUX:A332 or Zoom (https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/2108272169) About the seminarPeer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge…
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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…
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…
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…
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