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Historians of the universities have not always belonged to the avantgarde of historical research. On the contrary, many studies of the universities have tended to be rather traditional and narrow-minded. In recent years, however, the surge in the history of knowledge has opened up novel perspectives and given new impulses to how to write the history of the universities. In this presentation, Johan

https://www.sol.lu.se/media/utbildning/dokument/kurser/FIMT27/20241/ReadingFIMT27.pdf - 2026-04-21

I början av 1930-talet var nära 200 000 kvinnor anställda som hembiträden i svenska hushåll, men många var missnöjda med sin arbetssituation. Under hotet om deras flykt från yrket aktualiserades genom en motion i Sveriges riksdag 1931 den så kallade hembiträdesfrågan, som skulle bli ett hett debattämne in i nästa decennium. Året därpå fick den svenska ljudfilmen sin första stora braksuccé: Vi som

Hur formar vi framtiden och hur lär vi oss av historien? Vilken roll spelar konsten i ett framtida samhälle, hur fungerar framsynthet inom ekonomi och juridik, och hur kan framtidens komplexa forskningsresultat förmedlas och spridas till samhället utanför akademin?LU Futura var Lunds universitets tvärvetenskapliga tankesmedja för framtidsfrågor 2018 2021. Framtidskompasser är projektets slutpunkt,

I många forskares värld utgör seminarierummet en förtätad plats. Själva idén om det akademiska textseminariet är omhuldad, särskilt inom de humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga ämnesområdena. Seminariet är en väl förankrad arbetsform inom universitetet. Det är där de höga tankarna tänks och ventileras, det är där lärande och forskning går hand i hand, och det är där kollegialiteten praktiseras i

This article focuses on the early history of Northwestern European opinion polling (1940s–1950s), specifically the cases of the Netherlands and Sweden. The evolution of opinion polling and its influence on post-war politics and society should be understood in light of processes of international transfer and entanglement. The Dutch-Swedish comparison brings into focus the ways in which the national

According to Dayan and Katz, media events require live transmission, firmly dating their birth to the age of television. However, the application of such a media-centric criterion runs the risk of projecting an a-historical perspective to the phenomenon as such. By contrast, using the example of the public funeral of the Swedish King Oscar II in 1907, the purpose of this article is to scrutinize a

This article analyses the transnational production processes of foreign correspondence in the Cold War. It examines the double role of foreign correspondents as reporters and Cold War political agents. Recent scholarship has explored the activities of Western correspondents reporting from the Communist world. Little is known, however, about Eastern bloc correspondents in the West. Drawing on the r

Millions of Westerners went on holiday behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. This article considers the place of Eastern Europe in the international travel industry through the prism of Folkturist, a travel agency owned by the Communist Party of Sweden. By analysing Folkturist's business strategies and interactions with the East European tourist industries, the article shows the competing i

Twenty-first-century politics have been defined by celebrity leaders such as Tony Blair, Gerhard Schröder, and Barack Obama. How have ‘traditional’ politicians like ‘Mutti Merkel’, who embody the opposite of star status, still managed to compete with these celebrity politicians in an attention economy in which politicians continuously vie for media exposure? Scholarship on concepts such as ‘mediat

This article argues that the increasing use of press images around 1900 contributed to the construction of the political persona of the British Statesman Joseph Chamberlain. These images fused scenes from his public and private life and, paradoxically, the new focus on his private characteristics reinforced his public role. His private life did not replace his public side, nor was the private unre

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2022/sound-images-and-postcolonial-archives-polyvocal-interpretations - 2026-04-21