Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please email us your own items.
Job Opening
Lund University: Associate Senior Lecturer in Global History of Knowledge. Lund University’s Department of History is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in Global History of Knowledge to deepen and further develop the research lines that have proven to be particularly strong there and to create new synergies and cutting-edge research. Application deadline: 17 August 2025.
Calls for Papers
Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century. Deadline: 1 July 2025. Organized as Early Career Seminar of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), this conference will take place from 17-20 June 2026 in Trier (Germany). Committed to discussing cultural and intellectual change as a response to the increasing connectivities in the early modern world, the conference adopts a broad geographical and chronological view on intereractions between the universalist religious, ethical and intellectual systems that prevailed in large parts of Afro-Eurasia in the 18th Century.
The Moralization of Science. Deadline: 25 Sept 2025. The conference will take place from 17-18 September 2026 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. It aims at discussing the intricate intersection of scientific work and moralization from a historical perspective.
Workshop History of Digital History between East and West. Deadline: 27 June 2025. This two-day workshop (5–6 February 2026) at the Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxemburg, is searching for contributions on the Early History of Digital History. Focusing on the different political and epistemological preconditions and of early historical computing in the Cold War period, it particularly welcomes case studies on scholarly exchange, pioneers, projects, groups or schools within a wider transnational and East-West context.
Conferences and Panels
Lost Knowledge and Migration. 24 June 2025, 5-6 p.m. CET. Online discussion with Eliyana R. Adler (Binghamton University), Susanne Korbel (University of Graz), Angelika Laumer (University of Bonn) and Matteo Sartori (Universidad de Concepción), organized and moderated by Philipp Strobl (University of Vienna) and Swen Steinberg (Queen’s University, Kingston) to present the results of the “Lost Knowledge” research group, organized by Swen Steinberg.
History of Knowledge in the History of Education. The 46th International Standing Conference for the History of Education will take place on 8–11 July 2025 (in-person at Lille, France, and on 15–16 July 2025 as an online event. It will address the history of teachers and teaching, from the earliest times to the beginning of the 21st century, in all their diversity with a particular focus on the themes of “Knowledge and the Individual” and “Exploring Histories of Knowledge”.
This list was compiled by current intern Clemens Wager at the German Historical Institute Washington. The featured image is from the Lund University website advertising the current opening there.
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Editors (June 16, 2025). Knowledge Notes. History of Knowledge. Retrieved May 17, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/1458o
