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From Knowledge to Impact
The Role of the Humanities and Universities in Shaping Change Agents for a Knowledge-Intensive World
(Provisional title)

In an era of rapid technological, cultural, and societal transformation, the need to critically reflect on the future has never been greater.
* How must knowledge-intensive companies evolve to stay relevant?
* What new competencies will their employees need to navigate the challenges ahead?
* And how can universities rise to the occasion—equipping future professionals with the right blend of skills in language, culture, cognition, and artificial intelligence?

Are we truly preparing the change agents of tomorrow—or is it time to push further, think deeper, and act more boldly?
🎤 Speakers include
From Alfa Laval: Hans Troiza, CTO, Lisa Johansson, VP Human Resources, Hanna Jeppson, External Communication Specialist
From Lund University: Jonas Granfeldt, Marianne Gullberg, Nicolò Dell’Unto, Valentina Fantasia
📍 Venue: LUX Aula
🕙 Time: 10:00–12:00
🔗 Register here: https://www.ht.lu.se/samverkan/samverkansradet/fokus-framtid

We are pleased to announce that the assistant professor and visiting professor positions within Lund University’s Shape the Future of Research initiative have now been published.
We kindly ask for your support in sharing these opportunities with interested colleagues and networks.

The following three vacancies at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology are part of this initiative:

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:829093/

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) in Humanities or Theology with specialisation in AI https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:829099/

Visiting Professor in Humanities or Theology https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:835460/


One or more of these three outstanding short films can be effectively used in your communications with international candidates:

Working in Lund
https://youtu.be/tfVqZjV6vII

Moving to Lund
https://youtu.be/ppDT8-UMNhQ

Liveability in Lund
https://youtu.be/7E6WGIzzI4A


About Shape the Future of Research
Assistant professor and visiting professor vacancies
Lund University is currently seeking assistant professors and visiting professors. Welcome to join a world-class university dedicated to understanding, explaining, and improving our world and the human condition.
Read more: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/shape-future-research

I just have to share my three favourite films with you:

Working in Lund
https://youtu.be/tfVqZjV6vII

Moving to Lund
https://youtu.be/ppDT8-UMNhQ

Liveability in Lund
https://youtu.be/7E6WGIzzI4A

I don’t know what it is, but they move me.

A thousand thanks, Barbara, Youngeun, and Peter
Johannes

Alltid spännande att se vilka de nya ledamöterna i Sveriges unga akademi blir. Nu är det beslutat, och från LU och HT kommer Björn Lundberg, docent i historia. Det blir mycket bra!

Trevlig helg,

Johannes

https://sverigesungaakademi.se/pressmeddelande/atta-nya-toppforskare-till-sveriges-unga-akademi

Stay tuned: Lund University is about to launch a new programme for international Guest professors and Associate senior lecturers

Within a month, Lund University is making a joint announcement that also aims to find candidates that the university can nominate to the Swedish Research Council at the end of 2025.

The HT-Faculties is part of the programme:

Do you want to define the future research frontier of humanities or theology through research leadership based on pioneering basic research? If so, we offer you the opportunity as Associate senior lecturer at Lund University. We are looking for one or several very promising researchers who can build and lead a research group within one of the following themes:

• Advanced 3D visualization in Archaeology (placed at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History)
• Analytic Philosophy or Cognitive Science (placed at the Department of Philosophy)
• Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic studies (placed at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies)
• Digital Culture in Times of Crises (placed at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences)
• Global History and History of Knowledge (placed at the Department of History)
• Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics or Language Variation (placed at the Centre for Languages and Literature)

You will develop your qualifications as a researcher and teacher over a period of 4 years. During your fourth and final year, you may then apply for promotion to permanent employment as a senior lecturer, and – depending on your future development – eventually professor.

There will be a parallel call for Associate senior lecturers in humanities with specialisation in AI.

Trevlig helg,

Johannes

Vi gratulerar de första utnämnda Meriterade lärarna i HT-fakulteternas modell för pedagogisk meritering!

Utmärkelsen lyfter fram och belönar lärare som inte bara har hög pedagogisk kompetens utan också arbetar reflexivt, utvecklingsinriktat och kollegialt med en vetenskapligt förankrad undervisning. Det är ett tydligt steg i fakulteternas långsiktiga satsning på pedagogisk kvalitet och utveckling och ett viktigt steg för att erkänna och belöna pedagogisk skicklighet inom våra fakulteter.

Vi vill särskilt gratulera de lärare som har blivit utnämnda i denna första omgång. Deras engagemang och insatser för att förbättra undervisningen är betydande och deras arbete visar på den höga standard som vi strävar efter vid HT-fakulteterna. De meriterade lärarna har visat att de arbetar utifrån en medveten pedagogisk grundsyn och att de bidrar till verksamhetens pedagogiska utvecklingsarbete genom att initiera och aktivt delta i kollegialt erfarenhetsutbyte.

Nästa tillfälle att ansöka om att bli Meriterad eller Excellent lärare är 1 oktober 2025. Vi hoppas så många som möjligt söker och bidrar till att bygga en stark och inspirerande högskolepedagogisk gemenskap vid HT-fakulteterna.

Återigen grattis till…

Ann-Sofie Klareld

Annika Wallin

Astrid Norén Nilsson

Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros

Ellen Turner

Eva Klingvall

Ing-Marie Back Danielsson

Joyce Kling

Lene Nordrum

Marcus Nyström

Maria Graziano

Martin Dackling

Mika Hietanen

Rachel Irwin

Sara Kärrholm

Sara Santesson

Satu Manninen

Ulrika Holgersson

Katarina Lundin

Mikael Nystrand

Mari Mossberg

& Med bästa hälsningar från Sara och Johannes

The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology are launching a new platform to highlight research relevant to war and conflict. This initiative aims to strengthen the position of humanities and theology in issues related to defence, war, and conflict. This is necessary in order to achieve fair and adequate representation in various contexts, both at university level as well as nationally and internationally. While languages are also central to this initiative, their importance is so self-evident that it need not be explicitly stated at this stage..
The most important way to position the humanities and theology is by participating in and being visible in existing contexts. This includes designing new educational programmes, producing high-quality publications, contributing to expert committees and think tanks nationally and internationally, and engaging in the forthcoming LU Centre for Preparedness and Resilience (LUPREP). Additionally, the HT faculties must build their own structure to refer to and lean on in contacts with funding bodies, academic institutions, authorities, and other stakeholders.
To take a step forward in this important work, we are now launching Lund Humanities in War and Conflict (provisional name) as a platform and project to be developed during 2025.
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Core members
Torbjörn Ahlström:
Torbjörn Ahlström is a Professor of Historical Osteology at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. His research focus on diverse aspects of past societies based on human skeletal tissues, recently DNA to identify infections. He has also studied interpersonal violence, trauma and warfare among hunter-gatherers and early farmers on the Scandinavian Peninsula (c. 10000 to 2000 BCE). Presently project leader for the Uppåkra excavations.

Elzbieta Drazkiewicz:
Ela Drazkiewicz specialises in political anthropology. She is leading the ERC CONSPIRATIONS project analysing conflicts over conspiracy theories in Europe, as well as the Nordforsk NORDREN project examining the preparedness of the Nordic societies to disinformation threats. Drazkiewicz has an experience of working in humanitarian and development aid sector. She is the author of ‘Institutionalised Dreams: The Art of Managing Foreign Aid’ (Berghahn).

Lisa Engström:
Lisa Engström is a senior lecturer at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University. She is leading the collaborative research initiative “Crisis and War Preparedness for Everyone? – Libraries as Arenas for Conversation Circles on Preparedness”, which aims to identify the challenges individuals with different abilities face in actively participating in preparedness work. She is also a member of the network NORDREN, investigating disinformation.
https://www.kultur.lu.se/person/LisaEngstrom/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-2050

Mikael Fauvelle:
Mikael Fauvelle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University. His research is focused on understanding ancient economic systems. He has studied how complex political and economic networks responded to stress from both internal and external factors in multiple world regions and time periods.
https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/persons/mikael-fauvelle

Elsa Hedling:
Elsa Hedling is an Associate Professor (Docent) and an Associate Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature. Her research focuses on the intersection of digitalization and international politics, particularly in the context of European Union foreign and security policy coordination, communication and diplomatic practice. This intersection currently highlights areas such as the international communication of rearmament, deterrence strategies and hybrid threats.

Björn Lundberg:
Björn Lundberg is Associate Professor (Docent) of History, specializing in childhood and youth, education, and the history of knowledge. His current research examines civil defense and preparedness education during the Cold War. His research also explores the use of historical narratives and imagery in contemporary preparedness education.

Tornike Metreveli:
Tornike Metreveli is an Associate Senior Lecturer in European Studies and an Associate Professor (Docent) in Sociology of Religions. He is working on how Orthodox churches engage in international relations and geopolitics, particularly in the religious dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine war, interconfessional relations in Ukraine, and the role of religion in disinformation/misinformation in Orthodox Christian diaspora.

Erik Sidenvall:
Erik Sidenvall is Professor of Practical Theology at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies. His research is currently centered on material and spatial expressions of religion and spirituality focusing on the existential dimensions of civil contingencies. He has also investigated the formation of low-level networks during the Cold War and is a founding member of the ReCoNet research initiative.

Annika Wallin:
Annika Wallin is associate professor in cognitive science with a special interest in judgment and decision making. Her research centers on how information (and uncertainty) is acquired, processed, and communicated in complex decisions and how this can be improved. Among others she collaborates with the Migration Agency and the Armed Forces.

Olof Sundin:
Olof Sundin is a Professor of Information Studies. His research focuses on the configurations, control mechanisms and social impacts of digital information, with a special interest in threats of disinformation. He has studied search engines and their role in everyday life, media and information literacy as forms of infrastructural meaning-making, and concequences of an increasingly AI-infused information infrastructure for expertise, evidence and trust.

Johan Östling:
Johan Östling is Professor of History, Director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) and Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Lund University. His research is devoted to the history of knowledge, but he has also a general interest in the history of modern and contemporary Europe. He is currently the PI of a comparative project about the Europeanisation of the universities.
More information: https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/johan-östling

Affiliated/coordinating
David Gisselsson Nord
Magnus Christiansson
Sara Håkansson (coordinating)
Johannes Persson (coordinating)
Paul Schrotti


Med önskan om en fin Påsk.
Johannes

The HT Faculties are delighted to welcome Jonas Monié Nordin as the new Professor of Rhetoric. Jonas started a few weeks ago and presents himself in the following way:


”I recently started my position as professor of historical archaeology at Lund University, after coming back to Sweden after half year stay as fellow at NIAS, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies. My research focus on the intersection of Sámi archaeology and global historical archaeology. Among other things, I study Sámi settlements in Southern Scandinavia from the Middle Ages to the modern period. I also examine issues of ecological and social sustainability and perseverance in resource extraction in Sápmi during the early modern period. Conflicts of land and water in Sápmi in a long-term perspective are among my main research interests.
After studies in archaeology, medieval archaeology, ethnology, and history in Lund and Stockholm I defended my doctoral thesis in archaeology at Stockholm University in 2005. My post-doc focused on early modern globalization and was hosted by the National Museum of Antiquities, Stockholm. In 2013 I was appointed docent in historical archaeology at Lund University. I have taught archaeology and historical archeology at the universities of Lund, Stockholm, and Uppsala. I also have a background in the cultural heritage management sector as a field archaeologist at the National heritage board and long experience from the museum sector.
Among my recent books are The Scandinavian Early Modern World: A Global Historical Archaeology (2020), and the textbook Mellan medeltid och modernitet. En introduktion till historisk arkeologi från högmedeltiden till idag (2021)
I am currently working on three research projects: Toxic Heritage? Ecological and Social Consequences of Early Modern Metal Mining in Sápmi (funded by the National heritage board) and Conflict or Collaboration? – Learning from history, tensions and conflicts around land use in Sweden’s Arctic region, RJ-program 2025–2030 – a collaboration between Lund University, Luleå University of Technology, Umeå University, and Ájtte – svenskt fjäll- och samemuseum.
Recently I initiated the project Borders of Sápmi, Surveying Sámi History in Southern and Central Scandinavia During the Medieval through to the Modern Period, Lund university, and funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, 2025–2029. I am also a member of the Truth Commission for the Sámi People (Ku2021.02). sanningskommissionensamer.se).”

Warmly welcome to Lund, Jonas!

Johannes 

The HT Faculties are delighted to welcome Christina Matthiesen as the new Professor of Rhetoric. Christina brings strong Nordic networks, and we aim to establish Lund University as a central hub in developing an internationally leading Nordic Rhetoric network. Additionally, Christina’s interest in building a centre for rhetoric didactics in Lund is particularly exciting, given our recent recruitments of Alastair Henry (Professor in Language Education, especially English), Anette Svensson (Professor in Comparative Literature with Specialization in Literature Education), Katarina Lundin (Professor in Language Education, especially Swedish), Mona Holmqvist (Professor in Educational Science with a specialization in school and the teaching profession), and Kristina Juter (Professor in Mathematics Education). Not to forget the strong research environments we have since before on educational technology (Agneta Gulz and the Educational Technology Group) and LAMINATE, Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Teaching (Marianne Gullberg). The professorship of Rhetoric was made possible by a generous donation from Christian W. Jansson, and I would like to take this opportunity to express my and Lund University’s gratitude.
Christina introduces herself as follows:

Vi kommer att försöka att arbeta in detta med Humanities Village på lite olika sätt, så får vi se om vi lyckas. Idén kommer ur Anette Anderssons arbete med Medvetenskapens hus. Förslaget kommer att vara en programpunkt på Unexpected-konferensen i Lund 4 juni .

”I Lund finns Science Village, Medicon Village och det planeras för ett Science Center. Vattenhallen förmedlar naturvetenskap och teknik till skolor och allmänhet. Men vart ska man gå om man vill komma i kontakt med kunskaper och forskning inom humanvetenskaperna? Forskning som spänner över många kunskapsfält; konst- och kulturvetenskap, filosofi, litteratur, historia, teologi osv. Om man t. ex. har frågor om det mänskliga medvetandet, eller hur känslor, tankar, beslut och övertygelser kan hänga ihop? Var finns en sekulär plats för existentiella frågor i en oviss tid, som visar de estetiska uttrycksformernas betydelse för en fördjupad förståelse? Allt fler röster – inte minst från näringslivet – lyfter betydelsen av humaniora, och flervetenskapliga kompetenser. Vi, de Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna (HT), tillsammans med Future by Lund, vill lansera Humanities Village i Lund, som det första innovationsdistriktet i världen (? vi får kolla upp detta lite noggrannare) där humaniora får en central och synliggjord plats. Humanities Village syftar även till att bli en integrerad del av Lund Innovation District, ett dynamiskt ekosystem där humanistiska och teologiska kunskapsfält efterfrågas. I Humanities Village möts olika kunskapsvägar i estetiskt utformade upplevelse- och lärandemiljöer.”

Lätt att säga en sån här fantastisk vårdag när Scilla av olika slag lyser upp UB-parken som vore den ett skimrande hav. Men nu har ni hört det iallafall, så får vi försöka realisera planerna – gärna tillsammans – och det är en viss fördel att Humanistlaboratoriet, DArklab, Robotlabbet, Skissernas museum och en hel del annat redan finns på plats att bygga vidare kring.

Bästa hälsningar,
Johannes