Professor of history • Knowledge, ideas, people, universities, the humanities, Europe – past and present • Director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK)
Johan Östling
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CfA: 2026 Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge
We invite applications for the seventh annual Doctoral Summer School in the History of Knowledge: Lund University, 17–20 August, 2026. Deadline for applications: 15 March.
More information: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/02/03/c...
New special issue: “Mapping the Europeanisation of Universities in the 1980s and 1990s”
The issue consists of case studies of the Europeanisation of the universities of Ghent, Aalborg, Valladolid, Berlin (Humboldt) and Lund.
Available OA here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/EER/curr...
CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund)
We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026.
Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/13/c...
(The image shows the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, founded in 1551 as one of the first universities in Latin America. In 1910, it was re-established as a secular scientific institution and given the name the National Autonomous University of Mexico.)
Johan Östling
Johan Östling
Generationsuppgörelser är dagens tema.
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I am happy to announce that my book on the history of the university will be published in English. I have signed a contract with Routledge and will revise the text before a translator turns it into English. One challenge will be to make the book more global without losing its concise structure.
Last October, we organised the second History of Knowledge Conference in Lund. It has now been confirmed that the third conference in this series will be held in Utrecht on 25–27 August 2027.
Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/09/t...
Hopefully, the English translation of the book will be published at the end of this year or early next year.
Universitetet har lång, vindlande historia, men hur ser dess framtid ut som kunskaps- och samhällsinstitution. Den frågan fick jag och jag fick lägga ut texten om akademisk frihet, det historiska arvet, dagens hot och åtskilligt annat.
Här finns intervjun: www.lu.se/artikel/univ...
Ett nytt centrum inrättas i Lund: Centrum för kunskapsspridning och samtidshistoria (CEKOS). Det finansieras genom Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser och kommer att ha @dlheidenblad.bsky.social som föreståndare.
Läs mer här: handelsbankenfoundations.org/sv/stiftelse...
