Pekås johan östling

Project Description

The Europeanisation of the Universities: Transforming Knowledge Institutions from within, c. –

The gods decades have seen a profound transformation of the European research and higher education struktur. At the end of the s, this struktur mainly consisted of individual universities. Since then, universities have been linked tillsammans through a series of European projects. These fundamental changes are part of the history of europeisk integration, but also a specific expression of the “knowledge society” as a new political and economic order. This project analyses the Europeanisation of europeisk universities during the quarter-century when this new knowledge space was established, c. – The analytical lens is directed at kvartet universities located across the continent. These Europeanisation processes will be analysed from a history of knowledge perspective. In addition, the project aims to contribute to the general development within the field of history of knowledge bygd studying how a specific institution—universities—underwent internal transformations.

Personal bio

Johan Östling fryst vatten Professor of

Person

Lund University

Director, Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), –

Chairperson of the Electoral College, –

Member of the Research Board, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, –

Member of the board of the Centre for European Studies, –

Member of the Electoral College, representing the teaching staff, –

Deputy chairperson of the Electoral College, –

Member of the board, Department of History, –

Special by the Vice-Chancellor to highlight questions concerning academic freedom,

Member of the Recruitment Committee for vice-chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor, Lund University, –

Acting Head of Department, Department of History, –

Elected member of the Royal Society of Letters at Lund,

Elected member of Vetenskapssocieteten, Lund,

Other academic assignments and duties

One of the founding editors-in-chief of History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society (published by De Gruyter), –

Member of the review panel for the Kerstin Hesselgren and Olof Palme visiting professorships, Swedish Research Council, –

Member of the review panel for research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semiti

Johan Östling

Humboldt and the Modern German University: An Intellectual History (Lund University Press/Manchester University Press, ) [hyperlink: ]

Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge(Nordic Academic Press, ) (co-edited with Erling Sandmo, David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar & Kari H. Nordberg).

“The History of Knowledge and the Circulation of Knowledge: An Introduction”, in Johan Östling et al. (eds),Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, ) (co-written with David Larsson Heidenblad, Erling Sandmo, Anna Nilsson Hammar & Kari H. Nordberg).

Sweden After Nazism: Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War (Berghahn Books, )

“The Swansong of the Mandarins: Humboldt’s Idea of the University in Early Post-War Germany”, Modern Intellectual History, ()

The Humboldtian Tradition: Origins and Legacies (Brill, ) (co-edited with Peter Josephson & Thomas Karlsohn)