1. INTERNATIONAL ONLINE SEMINAR ON THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF HIGHER LEARNING
2. UDDANNELSESHISTORIE 2025: MELLEM OFFENTLIG OG PRIVAT
3. REMINDER: REGISTRATION NASJONALE KONFERANSEN FOR UTDANNINGSHISTORIE I NORGE, 28-30 JANUAR 2026
4. PUBLIKATIONER
1. INTERNATIONAL ONLINE SEMINAR ON THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF HIGHER LEARNING
The online seminar will take place on 11 March at 13.15–14.30 (CET). We will be using this Zoom link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/2108272169
This online seminar is hosted by the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). LUCK is a scholarly centre devoted to developing and facilitating the history of knowledge. It brings together some fifteen researchers in Lund and has extensive global networks. LUCK is a forum that stimulates new research and collaboration through research projects, publications, a seminar series, a visiting fellowship programme, a summer school, etc.
The seminar will introduce and celebrate the publication of the six volume A cultural history of higher learning by Bloomsbury. The volumes ask how has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? The volumes span 2,500 years, 67 experts from six continents chart across the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries. Professor Johan Östling, LUCK has contributed with a chapter on Disciplines in Volume 6, while Professor Ning de Coninck-Smith, Aarhus University has served as an anthology editor together with Professor William Whyte, Oxford University and Professor Julia Horne, University of Sydney
The online seminar will open with two short presentations by Ning de Coninck-Smith, describing the overall idea, and Associate Professor in History of Education at the University of Sheffield, Heather Ellis about editing together with Associate professor Tamson Pietsch, University of Technology Sydney volume 5, A cultural history of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry.
Then follows two longer presentations. One by associate professor Micol Long, University of Padua, Italy, who has contributed to a chapter in volume 2 about Monastic Perceptions of Discipline in the Long Twelfth Century; Second comes lecturer Samuel Rutherford, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He has contributed to volume 5 with a chapter on Contestations about domestic sciences and women’s right to education around 1900.
For more information about the published volumes, see https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-history-of-higher-learning-9781350232204/
2. UDDANNELSESHISTORIE 2025: MELLEM OFFENTLIG OG PRIVAT:
Redigeret af, Lucas Cone, Jonathan Bjerre Aagesen, og Christian Larsen
Introduktion
Private aktører, interesser og rationaler i uddannelseshistoriske
Perspektiver, Af Jonathan Bjerre Aagesen, Lucas Cone og Christian Larsen
“Forstand og Hierte” – forventninger til pigerne på Døttreskolen af 1791 og skolen for Det Søsterlige Velgjørenheds Selskab i overgangen
fra det 18. til det 19. Århundrede, Af Emilie Hede Mikkelsen
Oplysning, kvalificering og kønsroller – De Danske Landboforeningers støtte til udviklingen af husholdningskurser i privat regi, Af Karen Egedal Andreasen og Annette Rasmussen
Hvem skulle højskolen tjene? – En begrebshistorisk analyse og Perspektivering af højskolelovgivningen af 1942, Af Simon Langkjær
De merkantile uddannelser – en hybrid mellem erhvervsuddannelser, arbejdsmarkedsuddannelser og videregående uddannelser, Af Marianne Høyen
Den svenska marknadsskolan – en historia för sig, Af Lisbeth Lundahl
For mer info, se https://uddannelseshistorie.dk/#
3. REMINDER: REGISTRATION NASJONALE KONFERANSEN FOR UTDANNINGSHISTORIE I NORGE
Vi ønsker velkommen til den andre nasjonale konferansen for utdanningshistorie i Norge. Denne gangen vil fagmiljøet rundt BARNkunne – Senter for Barnehageforskning ved Høgskolen på Vestlandet være vertskap for konferansen, som vil finne sted på campus Kronstad, Bergen, 28.-30. januar 2026. Keynotes: Pieter Verstraete (Leuven), Kirsten Nawrotski (Heidelberg) and Elise Djupedal (NTNU)
Register here: https://www.hvl.no/forsking/konferanse/nasjonal-konferanse-for-utdanningshistorie/
4. PUBLIKATIONER
Boije, E. (2025). En ny luthersk nation: Ideal och motbilder i Fältskärns berättelser av Zacharias Topelius (PhD dissertation, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis). Retrieved from https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-571211
Laurin, Emma. (2025). Contesting doxa: The Swedish National Association of the Deaf’s Resistance to School Integration, 1963–1993. European Educational Research Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041251397745
Lindgren, Anne-Li., & Prytz, Sara. Backman. (2025). Body and risk: Health promotion in Swedish school sex education 1900–2020s. Global Studies of Childhood, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106251398505
Lundberg, Björn, and Frida Nilsson. 2025. “The Dawn of Rights: Early Efforts to Promote Human Rights Education in Sweden 1948–1966.” Nordic Journal of Human Rights, December, 1–20. doi:10.1080/18918131.2025.2592411.
Melby, Christian K. 2025. “Military History in Nineteenth-Century Norwegian Military Education.” Scandinavian Journal of History 50 (5): 517–37. doi:10.1080/03468755.2025.2547697.
Saling, Kieve Stone (2025). Iron Cages; Liquid Scholars: Exploring the valuable coordination of higher education scholarships in the international knowledge society (PhD dissertation, KTH Royal Institute of Technology). Retrieved from https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-372261
Sandin, Bengt. 2025. Voting and Eligibility Age in Sweden, 1866-1921 : Democracy with Guarantees. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95276-0
Yang Hansen, Kajsa, Panagiotis Patsis, and Jan-Eric Gustafsson. 2025. “How Does School Composition Mitigate Socioeconomic and Ethnic Gaps in Students’ Achievement in Sweden: A Long-Term Trend between 1988 and 2020.” Educational Review, December, 1–26. doi:10.1080/00131911.2025.2599761.
Östh Gustafsson, Hampus., & Geschwind, Lars. (2025). Setting the ‘normal study time’: temporal acceleration and standardisation in 1960s Swedish higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2601879