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The biennal History of Knowledge Conference aims to gather scholars from different backgrounds (History of Knowledge, History of Science, Colonial Studies, Maritime History and Global History)to show their ongoing research or consolidated results and to continue to develop the field of the history of knowledge and inspire international collaboration.
The conference is coordinated by the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), Department of History, Lund University
Conference History:
3rd History of Knowledge Conference 2027, 25–27 August 2027, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Conference Theme: Decentering the History of Knowledge
(Host: Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University)
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Conference program TBD
2nd History of Knowledge Conference 2025, 8–10 October 2025, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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(Host: Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, Department of History, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University)
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Keynotes:
An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime
Backlash: On Recycling and Reaction in the History of Knowledge
Panels:
The Power of Knowledge: Knowledges, Knowledge Practices and the Subjects, Objects and Contents of Schooling and Education
The Theologian as Expert: The Societal Function of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Towards A Political History of Empiricism: Enquête Practices in the History of Knowledge
Knowledge Without Borders: Untangling University Internationalisation, 1945–2000
Managing Seasonality: Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Food Supply
Health Economy in the Early Modern Period: New Perspectives on Health Ideals, Practices, and Knowledge Agents
The Effects of New Research Policies: Financial Infrastructures of Knowledge and the Shaping of the Swedish Postwar Research Landscape
Knowledge Networks and the History of Humanities Computing
Histories of Objects of Knowledge: Circulation, Media, and Infrastructure
UNESCO – Histories of Knowledge
Records, Tables, Charts and Journals: Formats of Knowledge and the Long History of Knowledge and Awareness of Natural Environments
Expertise, Knowledge and Scientific Travel Writing in Translation (1800–1850)
Paper Sessions:
Histories of Knowledge in Colonial Contexts
The Materiality and Mediality of Knowledge During the 18th and 19th Centuries
Developing New Frameworks and Approaches in the History of Knowledge
New Perspectives on the Circulation of Knowledge
Roles and Social Relations in the History of Knowledge
Histories of Migrant Knowledge
New Global Histories of Knowledge
Arenas and Sites of Knowledge
Scandinavian Postwar Knowledge Societies
Socialist and Postsocialist Knowledge Societies
Histories of the Humanities
Plenary Discussions:
The History of Knowledge and its Publishing Landscape
1st History of Knowledge Conference 2023, 22–24 November 2023, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Conference Theme: Circulation of Knowledge – Epistemic, Social and Material Dimensions
(Host: CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Research Centre “Culture, Space and Memory”), Faculty of Arts, University of Porto)
Keynotes:
The history of the history of knowledge: The emergence of a new field (opening lecture)
Has history of knowledge become too nice? Fractures and inequality when applying a global history perspective
Environmental Expertise, Practical Knowledge, and the Conservation of Art and Nature
The Pharmacopoeia Londinensis and its Afterlives: Histories of Knowledge Maintenance in Early Modern Britain
Global lines, mathematical cosmography and the emergence of a global Earth
Knowledge Born in Global Transit? Revisiting Migrants’ Histories (closing lecture)
Panels:
Historicising knowledge societies
Translations, selective permeabilities and misunderstandings
Circulation Mechanisms
Public Knowledge Circulation
Knowledge and Globalization
Translations, selective permeabilities and misunderstandings
Migrant Knowledge
Book Launch:
Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge
Social Event:
Soirée Knowledge and Culture