New article in History of European Ideas on the marginalisation of philosophy of history in interwar Sweden: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you know anyone looking for a funded PhD, Uppsala Idéhistoria is recruiting two - in "history of ideas" and "history of science" (both *very* broadly defined).
International applicants welcome! You can write in English or Swedish. 1/4
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Next to our special issue on the Classics of the Humanities in Africa, the latest issue of History of Humanities also contains 4 research articles by Jakub Stejskal, Ori Sela, Kriston R. Rennie and Gerben Zaagsma, as well as 12 book reviews!
See www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2024...
Hampus Östh Gustafsson
Andrew Burchell
Our ongoing research project, "Funding Effects: The Emergence of Public Research Councils and the Formation of the Human Sciences in Sweden, 1947–1977", now has a website (which will be expanded over time): fundingeffects.com
”Lurer du på hva som skjedde i tiårene da tanker og politikk om modernisering skiftet karakter og logikk i Sverige og Norden, er Sverige som kunskapssamhälle boken du skal lese.”
Fin recension av vår antologi i Forskningspolitikk.
New article on the acceleration and standardisation of time in 1960s Swedish higher education: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WPRIW...
What was the Swedish ”docent grade”? In a new article in Minerva, @isakhammar.bsky.social and I explore evaluative cultures in the history of the humanities: link.springer.com/article/10.1... This will be part of an upcoming special issue on the history of peer review in the humanities.
För inte så längesedan började det talas om att vi levde i ett kunskapssamhälle; idag kan man undra om vi snarare är på väg in i ett okunskapssamhälle. Den och många andra frågor ställs i antologin Sverige som kunskapssamhälle som precis utkommit: nordicacademicpress.se/product/sver...
Rens Bod
Passade på att skriva några rader om humanisters karriärvägar då och nu utifrån pågående forskningsprojekt: humtank.se/hampus-osth-...
Hampus Östh Gustafsson
Hampus Östh Gustafsson
In this new article in History of Education, I have been analysing career trajectories of humanists beyond universities a hundred years ago: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Historiska perspektiv på en förväntad samhällsomvandling Carl-Filip Smedberg, Jonas Andersson, Klara Müller & Hampus Östh Gustafsson (red.) I 1900-talets slutskede började man i Sverige, liksom på an...
At the height of nineteenth-century idealism, philosophy of history had a firm place among the Swedish humanities, but in the following century, disciplinary alliances of history and philosophy see...
The acceleration of academic time has been a persistent theme in debates on higher education, fuelled by politicians as well as students. In this article, we analyse and discuss acceleration and st...
In the late nineteenth and for much of the twentieth century, an academic career in Sweden was highly dependent on what grade a scholar’s doctoral dissertation was awarded. Unless receiving a so-calle...
I Sigfrid Siwertz bildningsroman Jonas och draken(1928) får vi följa Jonas von Dankvarts studieår i det tidiga 1900-talets akademiska Uppsala. En av hans studiekamrater bär namnet Vergelin. När huvudk...
Based on a prosopographic survey of 157 docents in the humanities, this article explores the dynamics of a broader societal epistemic ecosystem in Sweden from 1876 to 1927. Examining the collective...
Just published: our special issue of History of Humanities on the Classics of the Humanities in Africa!
With introductions to foundational texts from the 11th to the 21st century:
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Rens Bod
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Abstract This theme section brings together introductions to some of the seminal texts by African authors that have shaped the African humanities from at least the twelfth century throughout Africa an...
