The Strange Decline of the Global Imaginary
What has happened to the post-war global imaginary? Find out in this blog post by Björn Lundberg.
Common and Not So Common Serendipities of Research
To what extent do serendipitous encounters shape our research? This author met her local collaborators by chance on the internet.
Why Write the History of Ignorance?
No one would like to be called a "Professor of Ignorance," yet we know that ignorance has a history. This suggests that historians should find a way to write it.
Natural Science as Humanistic Knowledge: Negotiating Epistemic Legitimacy in Sweden, 1800–1850
Scientists, physicians, and state officials argued that the mental and moral development of students resulted from studying nature—just like their peers in philology and classical languages.
