As a part of LUCK’s seminar series, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem will on 13 May, 13.15–15.00 (CEST), present their new monograph: Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in An Early Modern Knowledge Community (Routledge). You will find a summary of the book as well an open access link below. The seminar is a hybrid event:…
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Seminar: Peer Review in the Humanities
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…
Christa Lundberg appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
We are thrilled that Christa Lundberg (University of Cambridge) has been appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow and will be joining the Department of History and be part of LUCK. Congratulations, Christa! Christa Lundberg describes herself and her research in this way: I hold a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge (2022) and specialize in…
Welcome, Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt!
In February 2025, Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt joined LUCK and for six months she will be part of Johan Östling’s project on the Europeanisation of the universities in the 1980s and 1990s. She describe herself in this way: I am a cultural historian and sociologist from Belgium, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Lund Centre for…
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 research environment: Secrets to Patents
We are delighted that Natacha Klein Käfer has secured major funding from the Swedish Research Council to create a new research environment with many connections to the history of knowledge. She will be joining our department next year together with her team. Congratulations! Natacha Klein Käfer describes the Research Envinoment “Secrets to Patents: Trans-Imperial Strategies…
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…
LUCK
We are very happy to announce that the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) will be opened in March 2020 at the Department of History, Lund University.
The Institutions of the Humanities in Australia
Joel Barnes is the first scholar to be part of our newly launched Visiting Fellowship Programme. Here he presents his research project.
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