Författare: Sebastian Hanold

Amy C. Offer, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Princeton University Press, 2019) Amy C. Offner (assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania)) studies twentieth-century US history in global perspective, with special focus on Latin America. Her research and teaching address the history of…

Francesco Boldizzoni, Foretelling the end of capitalism. Intellectual misadventures since Karl Marx. (Harvard University Press, 2020) Francesco Boldizzoni is an economic and intellectual historian, Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. His 2011  book, The Poverty of Clio. Resurrecting Economic History, won much acclaim in both fields of economic and intellectual history. He is…

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, researchers and intellectuals started claiming that the West had entered a new stage beyond industrial society. Gradually, the concept of “the knowledge society” took a special hold in postwar Scandinavia, with its particular emphasis on rational planning and apolitical expertise. But what was the place and significance of…

The Department of the History of Ideas and Science welcomes Swedish and international postdoc applications, for instance with funding from Swedish Research Council’s international postdoc grant or Marie Curie fellowships. Several on-going research programs at the Department are eager to integrate postdoctoral scholars. Applicants should consider their insertion into ongoing research for the project ”Neoliberalism…

Webinar: Explaining Swedish Exceptionalism on COVID-19: Nordic Perspectives Is the Swedish approach to Covid-19 exceptional? Can we explain the approach based on history or the political system? In this webinar we bring together scholars and scientists from the Nordic countries to try to explain the divergence. Time and place: May 28, 2020 3:00 PM–4:00 PM, https://uio.zoom.us/j/68916251448…