HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen

The Narrating Global Conflict Conference was a memorable event and a timely and fitting launch for HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen. With around 80 guests at the university campus and over 200 at UN City, we shared multiple perspectives on the narration of global conflict with talks and debates including: 🔊Denmark and the Nordic region in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 🔊 the treatment of the nightmares of trauma-affected people with refugee backgrounds 🔊 imaginings and reproductions of the future by Syrians who are moving into new terrains 🔊how images are used and reused in imaginaries of world-making 🔊how journalists, poets, writers and filmmakers use narration in making sense of conflict and how this impacts audiences and them as employees, entrepreneurs and individuals 🔊the environmental and human impact of global conflict 🙏🏽 A heartfelt thank you to all who attended and contributed to making this a dynamic and memorable occasion. In particular to Rasmus Glenthøj, Mette Sandbye, Kristian Handberg, Andreas Bandak, Ida Poschmann, Solveig Gade, Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD, Jan Pêt Khorto, Hugh Macleod and Katja Kjar-Levin for sharing your perspectives from academia, NGOs, journalism and as writers. 🙏🏽 Special thanks to Trine Kandborg for the permission to use your artwork for the conference poster, to our keynote speaker Shehan Karunatilaka for the engaging keynote and company, to Liz Jensen for the wonderful discussion with Shehan, and to our partners at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, Asian Dynamics Initiative, Centre for Culture and the Mind, Nordic Humanities Center 🙏🏽Thank you for the collaboration on the UN City Copenhagen docUNight screening of Big Water, to keynote speaker Jorge Moreira da Silva, to Nataliya Popovych for the partnership, coordination of the panel, and not least the invaluable perspectives prior to and during the discussion, Kvitka P. for such fluent translation work on stage, to the filmmakers Ghanna Mamonova and Anna Tsygyma for your dedication, bravery and courage, and not least for making the trip to Copenhagen; to Najam Ul Assar for facilitating the event, to Noa Valentin Katz Søgaard (FKA Flemming Johannesen) for the fluent moderation, to Veronika Wilhelm for the partnership and excellent communication of the event, and to Flemming Splidsboel Hansen and Tim Lardner for the honest, open and frank debate together with Nataliya Popovych - it was indeed a powerful discussion to end the conference with. 👉Read more on the Ukraine House perspective on the docUNight event here: https://lnkd.in/d_WnyKkf 👉Read more on the UN City perspective on the the docUNight event here: https://lnkd.in/d-iRXMyt 👉 List of all conference presenters: https://lnkd.in/dKtJM9e9 #narratingglobalconflict #humglobal #asiandynamics #nordichumanitiescentre #cultmind #uncity #docunight #GlobalConflict #narration #conference #interdisciplinarity #diversity #differentperspective

🌎Tomorrow we celebrate the launch of HUM:Global with our Narrating Global Conflict Conference. The day also marks the kick off of this semester's HUM:Global Talk! series. 🥳We are thrilled to collaborate with our colleagues at Centre for Culture and the Mind on this lecture by Jonathan Metzl, award-winning author, Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and Director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University. 🔊"What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms", Dr Metzl's book and lecture, explores the value of a public health approach to debates about #mass #shootings in America, and examines broader social, political and historical factors which make it so difficult to stop this form of violence despite its extreme toll on human lives. 👨🏽🎓Being a gun violence expert, professor, and psychiatrist is a unique combination that allows Dr. Metzl to speak and write about #gunviolence in America, and in particular to address #stereotypes that link guns with race or mental illness, or that blame mental illness for mass shootings and other #guncrimes. 👉 See the full description of the lecture and read more about the Centre for Culture and the Mind here: https://lnkd.in/d_VnPzad 👉 Read more about the conference and register here: https://lnkd.in/drWa9s6R 👉 Read more about the book here: https://lnkd.in/dWKBBQm8 👉 Read more about Jonathan Metzl here: https://lnkd.in/g6iRv3AH

👁 RESEARCH ON THE NARRATION OF GLOBAL CONFLICT 🗓️ Date: 12 Sept. 2024 📍 Location: South Campus, room 21.0.54 (Multisalen) 📣 See the full program here: https://lnkd.in/drWa9s6R 🌍 Dive deep into the multifaceted ways that global conflicts are narrated with 👨🏽🎓scholars and researchers at the University of Copenhagen during the Narrating Global Conflict Conference. 🕘 10:00-10:30 Presentation of Nordic Humanities Center forthcoming research project, "In the Shadow of War" by @Rasmus Glenthøj, Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Language, Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, Mette Sandbye, Professor, IKK Københavns Universitet/Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, UCPH, Kristian Handberg, Postdoc, IKK Københavns Universitet/Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, 🕘 10:45-11:10 Archiving the Future: Re-Collections of Syria in War and Peace + Q&A by Andreas Bandak, Associate Professor, TORS/Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH 🕘 11:10-11:35 Nightmares of trauma-affected refugees + Q&A by Ida Poschmann, Department of Health and Medical Sciences and Center for Culture and the Mind, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, UCPH 🕘 11:35-12:00 The Image as Evidence and Imaginary World-making + Q&A by Solveig Gade, Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, IKK Københavns Universitet/Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, UCPH 🧐The speakers will address these issues through academic lenses, offering profound insights and fostering critical discussions with the audience during Q&A. 👀Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with thought-provoking research and connect with experts in the field. See you there! 👉REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/drWa9s6R #NarratingGlobalConflict #GlobalConflict #Research #Conference #UniversityOfCopenhagen #HUMGlobal Photo by Johannes Schenk on Unsplash

'Now, more than ever, we owe it to the courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people to speak about, and act for the recovery of Ukraine.' 🎥 Visit UN City Copenhagen for a #docUNight screening of the documentary film 'Big Water' ➡️ https://lnkd.in/deGWc5E6 💬 Hear from Under-Secretary-General and UNOPS Executive Director, Jorge Moreira da Silva, and explore the realities and narratives of those operating in Ukraine with: • Tim Lardner (Director of the Europe and Central Asia Region, UNOPS) • Dr Flemming Splidsboel Hansen (Senior Researcher, DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies) • Nataliya Popovych (Co-founder and Chairperson, Ukraine House in Denmark) • and filmmakers Anna Tsyhyma and Ghanna Mamonova. 🇺🇦 In addition to catastrophic loss of life, livelihoods and record levels of displacement, the conflict is deepening the climate crisis, among its many global repercussions. 🇺🇳 UNOPS remains committed to supporting the people and the government of #Ukraine to respond, recover, and build back better, for a #sustainable, inclusive and resilient future for all Ukrainians. UNOPS echoes the UN Secretary-General's call for a just and sustainable peace in line with the UN Charter and international law. Working closely with the United Nations family, Ukraine's national and municipal governments, and other local and international partners, UNOPS has been working in multiple sectors and regions with a focus on responding to immediate #humanitarian and early #recovery needs. Join us for this special screening and discussion hosted in collaboration with HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen and Ukraine House in Denmark.

🌎We are thrilled to be partnering with UN City Copenhagen and Ukraine House in Denmark to bring the 🎞documentary film "BIG WATER" to the Narrating Global Conflict Conference next week Thursday, with a keynote speech from Under-Secretary-General and UNOPS Executive Director Jorge Moreira da Silva. 🗣The screening will be followed by an interview with the filmmakers,🎥 @Anna Tsyhyma (Director and Cinematographer) and Ghanna Mamonova (Journalist and Media Manager) and a panel debate with Tim Lardner (Director, Europe and Central Asia Region, UNOPS), Flemming Splidsboel Hansen (Senior Researcher, DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies and Nataliya Popovych (Co-founder and Chairperson, Ukraine House in Denmark) 👉 REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE HERE: https://lnkd.in/drWa9s6R 👉 GET YOUR TICKET FOR THE FILM SCREENING AT UN CITY HERE: https://lnkd.in/gBGkFuUk 💡Big Water is a film capturing the relentless efforts of Ukraine's Environmental State Service to document the aftermath of the Kakhovka dam & power station explosion, a catastrophic event with far-reaching environmental and human impacts. Dive deeper into the realities of conflict zones as we explore first-hand experiences of development work in volatile environments as well as the intersection of personal stories from conflict zones, media narratives, and policy-making & actionable change. Run time: 39 min Language: Original (Ukrainian) with English subtitles ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 👀💥Please bring a valid photo-ID to get through security at UN City and set aside time for the security check prior to the event. Please note that the check-in will open at 16:30 and close at 17:20. 👀💥Please reserve each ticket under each person's name (i.e., due to the security check, please do not book tickets under your name for someone else): https://lnkd.in/gBGkFuUk

🌎 WE WARMLY INVITE YOU to attend the HUM:Global conference and launch event, "Narrating Global Conflict".   📅 09:00 – 17:30, 12 September 2024 📌Multisalen, Room 21.0.54 Faculty of Humanities University of Copenhagen South Campus Copenhagen, Amager   📅 17:30-20:30, 12 September 2024 📌docUNight at UN City UN City Marmorvej 51 Copenhagen, Nordhavn 👉Photo ID required for entry to UN City   This is a public event and everyone is welcome to attend, however registration is required 👉 FULL PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION: https://lnkd.in/drWa9s6R   We warmly invite you to attend the official launch of HUM:Global, University of Copenhagen at the one-day conference, Narrating Global Conflict with a keynote lecture by 2022 Booker Prize Winner, Shehan Karunatilaka.   This public conference seeks to explore and connect how different professions narrate conflicts across time and space. It takes artistic expressions, personal accounts, and academic and professional analysis equally seriously. We do this both to unpack the innate qualities they possess as practices of sensemaking, and how they blend across a digitized, globalized interactive space to create sustained tropes of conflict and resolution in our time.   Our aim is to sustain a dialogue between perspectives on global conflict at a historical moment when professional compartmentalization, ideological schisms and political naming and shaming risk tearing apart the critical, free, frank and interrogative exchange that universities are meant to lift.   We have a full day of events incorporating research, journalism, literature, poetry and film planned, so please check out the program and register for the individual parts or the whole day.   We look forward to seeing you there! 👉 FULL PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION: https://lnkd.in/drWa9s6R 🙏🏽Thank you to our amazing line-up of speakers (see comments) for your cooperation and to Asian Dynamics Initiative, Centre for Culture and the Mind, Nordic Humanities Center, @Den A. P. Møllerske Støttefond UN City Copenhagen, Ukraine House in Denmark for your generous support and collaboration Image by artist Trine Kandborg

🌎As the summer holidays begin, we are thrilled to share news of our forthcoming launch event! We warmly invite you to 📅SAVE THE DATE and join us in conversation at the 🗣 conference "Narrating Global Conflict" taking place on Thursday 12 September 2024. "At a time when the world is ablaze with perilous conflagration, entrenched geopolitical struggles, and atrocious warfare – scholars, journalists, artists, activists, and civilians – whether up close or from afar – are trying to make sense of the senseless. Scholars might try to uncover the roots or dynamics of a conflict, while journalists cover the events on the ground and the human experiences of the same. Artists articulate the conflicted emotions or utter hopelessness of warfare, while activists may mobilize to shine a light on the oppressed, the suffering or the persecuted, or to instill moral indignation and hope amidst carnage. And civilians, citizens, human beings – we absorb, we consume, we engage, we share, we debate, we reject, we ignore, we act. 💡All of us partake in globally interwoven narrations of conflict ... " The conference celebrating the launch of HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen starts at 09:00, at the Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen Southern Campus (KUA) on Amager and ends at 20:00 at UN City Copenhagen, Nordhavn: It brings together: 👩🏾🎓 academics working on humanities projects that narrate conflict from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, 🎨artists, 📚writers, 🎤journalists, 🤝🏾cultural workers 🎥filmmakers and representatives from 👥humanitarian organisations. Check out the full conference description, the preliminary program and sign up for parts or the full day of stimulating conversations, presentations and contributions from the arts 👉🏾👉👉🏽https://lnkd.in/drWa9s6R 👀We'll be back with a full programme and information about our amazing collaborators after the break. Until then, have a great summer☀ Image: Painting by artist Trine Kandborg, "Nationer af Tavshed" (Nations of Silence) from the book of poetry "Edens Vugge" by Jan Pêt Khorto

🗣 We are delighted to announce that HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen is awarding four humanities projects 17,500 DKK in seed money in 2024. 🌎 We received fourteen solid applications from PhDs, Postdocs and Senior Researchers across the Humanities. The HUM:Global Professional Project Group (PPG) assessed the applications at a meeting on on 3 June 2024, and decided to award an equal amount of funding to four projects. 🥳CONGRATULATIONS to: Dendup Chophel, ToRS - Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet Building Buddhist worlds. Spiritual influence in creating sustainable urban infrastructures in Asia - A project development and writing-workshop to prepare a grant application for a major interdisciplinary and international research project. @Rasmus Christensen, The Saxo Institute Towards a trans-national history of the Caribbean - An international graduate seminar centering on Caribbean history in the spring of 2025. Barbara Wall, Jens Sejrup, Bo Aerenlund Sorensen, ToRS - Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet Mapping the Nation: Exploring Spatial Palimpsests in Asia - Part of the MA course “Approaches to Asia” (Asian Studies) in 2024/2025. Zachary Whyte, Saxo Institute Mapping as Method: A global approach - A public lecture and two workshops that will highlight the value and uses of mapping. 👉🏾Read more about the projects here: https://lnkd.in/dxh_KA-s

🗣 PUBLIC TALK: The Uprooted: Leon Roth, Richard Koebner and the circulation of knowledge between Britain and Mandatory Palestine 📅1 July 2024, 16:30-17:30 📍 University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Room 12-03-39 🌎 The final HUM:Global Talk! of the semester taking place next week is by The second HUM:Global Talks! taking place next week is by Professor Arie Dubnov of The George Washington University. Arie M. Dubnov is an essayist and historian specializing in twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli history. Among his works are the intellectual biography Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (2012) and the co-edited volume Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-century Territorial Separatism (2019). He teaches at the George Washington University, where he serves as the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies, and held research fellowships at the Library of Congress, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. His current research project, "Dreamers of the Third Empire/Temple," explores the ties between Zionist and British imperial thinkers in the interwar years, revealing overlooked federalist political schemes for the region's future. 👀The talk is part of the the workshop "Negotiating Refugee Identities" which is a collaboration between HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Global Biography Working Group and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. 👉🏾See the full day program here: https://lnkd.in/gJXGe6M6 👉Read more about HUM:Global here: https://lnkd.in/dDHpcrAn

🗣PUBLIC TALK: The Fictionalization of People in Cyberspace: A Character Study 📅 29 May 2024, 10:00 - 11:30 📌 University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Room 23.4.39 🌎The second HUM:Global Talks! taking place next week is by Guobin Yang, the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, the University of Pennsylvania. 💡In contemporary digital culture, there is an intriguing phenomenon of fictionalizing real persons on social media. Entertainment stars and politicians are always fictionalized in some ways, but ordinary people may also become the object of fictionalization. As a result, they take on features of fictional characters. The circulation of such fictionalized characters on social media has many ramifications. 🔊This talk explores the multiple ways in which real persons are fictionalized on social media and how the literary concept of character may be useful for understanding the significance of this digital practice. 👉 Register for the event here: https://lnkd.in/dWGJdRtC 👀The event is organised by Jun Liu at the Center for Tracking and Society at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, and funded by Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant "To Use or Not to Use? A Relational Approach to ICTs as Repertoire of Contention". 👉🏾Read more about HUM:Global here: https://lnkd.in/dDHpcrAn