Registration is now open for the eleventh Making of the Humanities conference (Lund University, 9-11 October). Visit the conference webpage for preliminary program and conference details.

Lund University, 9–11 October, 2024

After the pandemic and a number of online meetings, the Making of the Humanities conference will finally be held on site again! In 2024, the eleventh conference in this series on the history of the humanities will be hosted by the Lund Center for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), Lund University from 9 till 11 October 2024.

This year’s conference theme is Shifting Cultures of Knowledge in the History of the Humanities.

Find more information on the conference page here.

The call is now open.

Submit abstract for papers.

Submit abstract for panels.

We are delighted to announce the publication of issue 8.2 of History of Humanities. The latest issue has a Forum section on the possible futures of the field with contributions from Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Isak Hammar, Rens Bod, Herman Paul, Suzanne Marchand, Kevin Chang, Helen Small and Sverker Sörlin. The issue also contains two review essays by David Marshall and Bas van Bommel, as well as eight book reviews. Click here for reading issue 8.2. Enjoy!

The Board of Events is announcing that the next Making of the Humanities conference will be held at Lund University, Sweden from October 9-11, 2024. Conference details to follow.

The MoH conferences bring together scholars and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.