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Special Issue 2025 - Upcoming Release

2025-09-18

The Journal for the History of Knowledge is pleased to announce the upcoming Special Issue, "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World", with guest editors Vera Keller, Ted McCormick, and Kelly Whitmer. Articles will be made accessible through our webpage in the next weeks, and paper copies of the Issue will be available from early 2026.

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Vacancy: Editor-in-chief for Journal for the History of Knowledge

2025-07-01

Call for Proposals - Special Issue 2027

2025-02-13

Current Issue

Vol. 6 (2025)
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Published: 2025-07-11

Research Articles

  • Global Knowledge Rituals United Nations Day and the Global Fifties

    Björn Lundberg
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Special Issue

  • Unstable Ground Projecting Natural Histories in the Seventeenth-Century

    Ted McCormick
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  • Great Designs and Global Colonialism Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592–1663), El Dorado, and the Transnational Politics of Knowledge

    Vera Keller
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  • Population Projections Demographic Fearmongering and “Uterine Colonization” during the Age of Gradual Emancipation

    Meagan Wierda
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  • The Nuclear Sea-Level Canal Engineering Feasibility Field Studies and Epistemic Risk in the Darién, 1965–1970

    Christine Keiner
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  • Projects of Nutmeg and Indigo Knowledge and Ignorance in a Late-Seventeenth-Century Slaving Company

    Kathleen S. Murphy
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The hard copy version of the Journal for the History of Knowledge 2024 volume is available via Brepols Publishers.

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The Plasticity of Social Knowledge

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