Carl-Filip Smedberg

Assistant Professor

Research

LiU hub for apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic imaginaries

The LiU hub for apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic imaginaries is a meeting point for a seminar series and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

En grupp människor som går längs en gata.

Constructing the Un/Educated

Describing society in terms of the division between “the well-educated” and “the less uneducated” is commonplace today, as present in social science research as in policy and broader media debate.

The Historical Studies Research Environment

How have people thought, felt, and acted throughout history? How have thoughts turned into actions, texts, and images, and how are these understood and used today? Our research focuses on humans as meaning-makers from a historical perspective.

Publications

2026

Carl-Filip Smedberg, Jonas Andersson, Klara Müller, Hampus Östh Gustafsson (2026) Vad är kunskapssamhället för ett samhälle?: ett begrepp och dess historiska kontexter Sverige som kunskapssamhälle: historiska perspektiv på en förväntad samhällsomvandling, p. 27-52 (Chapter in book)

Carl-Filip Smedberg (2026) Kunskapens skuggor?: den lågutbildades historia och kunskapssamhällets nyckelhierarki Sverige som kunskapssamhälle: historiska perspektiv på en förväntad samhällsomvandling, p. 53-80 (Chapter in book)

Carl-Filip Smedberg, Jonas Andersson, Klara Müller, Hampus Östh Gustafsson (Editorship) (2026) Sverige som kunskapssamhälle

2025

Carl-Filip Smedberg (2025) "A New Type of Aristocracy": Envisioning Educational Divides in the Swedish Conservative Party during the Birth of the Post-Industrial Society, ca. 1965-1972 History of Education, Vol. 54, p. 76-95 (Article in journal)

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2024

Carl-Filip Smedberg (2024) Class Divisions in Use: The Swedish Social Group Taxonomy as Difference Technology, 1911-1970 Contemporary European History, Vol. 33, p. 1352-1364 (Article in journal)

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Organisation

Division of History, Arts and Religious Studies (HKR)

We focus on how people think and act, how these thoughts are conveyed in texts, images, and artefacts in the past and the present, how they are understood and used, and how they are expressed in human actions, cultures, and politics.

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.