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…
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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 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…
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…
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