Research Projects and Programmes
Below are listed in in alphabetical order both current and closed research projects and programmes at the Department.
Current Projects
- Acting Out Disease: How Patient Organizations Shaped Modern Medicine (ActDisease)
- At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present
- Between Openness and Secrecy: Controlling Medical Communication in Twentieth Century Sweden
- Changing Climate Histories: Institutionalising Swedish Climate Knowledge, 1950–2000
- Collecting Humanity: Prehistory, Race, and Instructions for "Scientific" Travel, 1750–1850
- Communicating Medicine: Digitalisation of Swedish Medical Periodicals, 1781–2011 (SweMPer)
- The Culture of International Society: Cultural Treaties and the Emergence of a Global Culture Concept, 1919–1972
- Early Citizen Science: How the Public Used Linnaean Instructions to Collect the World, c. 1750–1850
- The Emotional Citizen: Quality of Life Debates and the Transformation of Democracy in 1970s Sweden
- The Family Tree: A History of Scientific Imagination
- A History of Ecological Economics as Political Thought, 1980–2000
- International Ideas at UNESCO: Digital Approaches to Global Conceptual History
- Making a European People Visible: The Birth of Illustrated News and Transnational Political Subjectivity in the 1840’s
- Mapping the Geographies of Early Modern Mining Knowledge: A Digital History of the Study Tours of the Swedish Bureau of Mines, 1691–1826
- Merchants of Enlightenment: Making Knowledge Move between England and Sweden, 1700–1772
- The Mobilization of Patients in 20th Century Medicine
- Neoliberalism in the Nordics: Developing an Absent Theme
- Nordic Naturalists as Fashionistas: Interpreting Taste and Substituting Global Goods with Local in the Long 18th Century
- Provenance in 19th-Century Europe: Research Practice and Concept
- The Scientific Conference: A Social, Cultural, and Political History
- Self-Erasure and Practices of Motivated Forgetting in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Self-Knowledge and the Emergence of Modern Objectivity
- A Slow Form of Governance? Collegial Organization, Temporal Synchronization, and University Reforms in Sweden, c. 1850–1920
- Unmapping Africa: Enlightenment Geography and the Making of Blank Spaces
Closed Projects
- Anspråk och motstånd: Studier i liköppningarnas etableringshistoria (in Swedish)
- Brown Networks among Swedish Intellectuals during the Interwar Period and World War II
- An Example for All Seasons? The Theory of History in Contemporary Economic Thought
- Experimental History of Science
- Exploring Global Paths of Knowledge: A Brazilian-Swedish Research Collaboration in the History of Science and Medicine
- From Facts to Identity: The Swedish AIDS Poster, 1987–1994 (in Swedish)
- History and Identity
- The History of Uppsala University
- Homo Elector: The Voter in Social Science, Politics and Propaganda in the Interwar Years
- Knowledge Traditions and Scientific Change
- The Latin Texts of Benjamin Höijer
- Mapping the Emotions of Higher Education
- Medicine at the Borders of Life: Foetal Research and the Emergence of Ethical Controversy in Sweden
- Människans metamorfos: kulturhistoriska perspektiv på ålder och den mognande kroppens politik
- Political Representation of Future Generations: Sustainability in Political Language, France 1780–1850
- Promoting the Contraceptive Revolution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Age of Global Overpopulation
- Publications, Priority, and Defining the Scientific Community: Berzelius and the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1800–1848
- Reconstructing Early Modern Pharmacy: Global Trade Networks, Substances, and Practices
- Reklam för demokrati? Normbildning kring politisk reklam under mellankrigstiden (in Swedish)
- The Rise of Infodemiology
- Science and Modernization in Sweden: An Institutional Approach to Historicizing the Knowledge Society
- Science and the Changing Senses of Reality c. 1900
- Science and the Knowing Body
- Utomordentliga kroppar i naturens utkant: Monster i svensk naturalhistoria, 1630–1830 (in Swedish)
Last modified: 2023-01-25