Research Projects and Programmes

Below are listed in in alphabetical order current and some closed projects and programmes at the department.

Current Projects

• Acting Out Disease: How Patient Organizations Shaped Modern Medicine (ActDisease)
• A History of Ecological Economics as Political Thought, 1980–2000
• A Slow Form of Governance? Collegial Organization, Temporal Synchronization, and University Reforms in Sweden, c. 1850–1920
• Collecting Humanity: Prehistory, Race and Instructions for "Scientific" Travel, 1750-1850
• 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
• Experimental History of Science
• The Family Tree: A History of Scientific Imagination
• History and Identity
• International Ideas at UNESCO: Digital Approaches to Global Conceptual History
• Knowledge Traditions and Scientific Change
• 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
• Medicine at the Borders of Life: Foetal Research and the Emergence of Ethical Controversy in Sweden
• Merchants of Enlightenment. Making knowledge move between England and Sweden 1700-72.
• 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 Rise of Infodemiology
• Science and the Changing Senses of Reality circa 1900
• Science and the Knowing Body
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• The History of Uppsala University
• Homo Elector: The Voter in Social Science, Politics and Propaganda in the Interwar Years
• The Latin Texts of Benjamin Höijer
• Mapping the Emotions of Higher Education
• 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)
• Science and Modernization in Sweden: An Institutional Approach to Historicizing the Knowledge Society
• Utomordentliga kroppar i naturens utkant: monster i svensk naturalhistoria, 1630-1830 (in Swedish)