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)