HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen

🗣HUM:Global co-establishes new global outreach project, META-UN 🌎HUM:Global together with Flagship 2 of the 4EU+ Alliance at the Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen have taken the initiative to launch a global outreach project called META-UN to collaborate with the United Nations (UN) system. 🎯The aim is to create ties between the UN system and researchers at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen and 4EU+ researchers from social sciences, the humanities and law who work with the UN and global governance. META-UN will collaborate with the Geneva Science-Policy Interface and involve both senior and junior researchers as well as students. 👀Visit the pages below to get a deeper insight into the collaboration and do get in touch if there is a particular aspect of the project that sparks your interest - we welcome the conversation! 👉News item on the project at HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen: https://lnkd.in/dcyxMDsz 👉🏾Full details about the project on the 4EU+ Alliance page here: https://lnkd.in/d9dzrMnv 👉🏽More about Flagship 2 - Europeanness: multilingualism, pluralities, citizenship: https://lnkd.in/dX7BDyhe

🗣 HUM:GLOBAL ANNUAL REPORT 2024/25 IS OUT! 🌎 HUM:Global came into being in January 2024 and since then we have successfully launched initiatives that support the dissemination of research from both UCPH and international scholars; established collaborations internally with centers and clusters at the Humanities and with globally oriented external partners in and outside of academia; held an interdisciplinary cross-sectoral international conference at the department … and more! 👉To get the full overview of the evolution of HUM:Global, download our annual report: https://lnkd.in/d7WCyPWc

🌎 Next week we kick off the week with the fully booked semester lecture with Ilan Pappé and round the week off with the next HUM:Global Talk! at the exhibition, Belonging Flexibly: Non-Muslim migrants from Muslim Asia Photographer and curator Moska N. (Moska Najib) will be in dialogue with Associate Professor Vera Skvirskaja and Professor Mette Sandbye. 📆 Opening 8. November 2024 ⌚ 15:00-17:00. 📌 UCPH Library, South Campus 👉 Registration necessary. Please scan the QR in the photo below or visit https://lnkd.in/dQ9cXmqD “Belonging Flexibly” is an exhibition that tells the story of non-Muslim communities from historically Muslim-majority cities in Asia, including post-Soviet Central Asia, who migrated due to the political instability, international interventions, economic pressures and civil conflicts. This event has been arranged by Associate Professor Dr Vera Skvirskaja in cooperation with ToRS - Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet, Asian Dynamics Initiative and HUM:Global - University of Copenhagen For further information on the program, pariticpants, the research project and registration, please see: https://lnkd.in/d-CpCE9e

🌍 We warmly invite you to join the next in the series of HUM:Global Talks! at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen. 🎙 PUBLIC LECTURE: Modern-Day Crusaders: Religious Extremism and the Erosion of Democracy in Europe with Neil Datta 🕘Time: 28 Oct. 2024, 13:00-15:00 📍 Place: Room 24.4.01, University of Copenhagen, South Campus, You can also join on 🖥 Zoom with Meeting ID: 654 3805 2080 and Passcode: 271761 🧐Neil Datta has been at the helm of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights since 2004. Neil founded the organisation with a select group of parliamentarians and with the support of IPPF in 2000 and has been responsible for its growth to its current membership of over 30 all-party parliamentary groups on population and development issues. 👉More info and directions: https://lnkd.in/dgyFSmfq 👉This event is organized by Associate Professor Georg Walter Wink and Center for Study of Nationalism at the Department of English, German and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen

🌎HUM:Global Semester Lecture: PALESTINE 2024 IN CONTEXT 📅 14:00 - 16:00, Monday 4 November 2024 📌 Room 9A.3.01, South Campus, University of Copenhagen We warmly welcome you to engage with world-renowned Professor Ilan Pappé - one of the leading global voices on Palestine and Israel. Ilan Pappe is the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. and has published 15 books on the Middle East and on the Palestine Question. 👉 See a recent article written by Pappé: https://lnkd.in/dPrRMEbJ 👉🏽 See Pappé's latest book publication: https://lnkd.in/dnzJwcmr 💥 You are encouraged to register as soon as possible as the seats are filling up very fast and are limited: https://lnkd.in/dAVEzevT We look forward to seeing many of you at this public lecture!

☀Happy Monday! You are all cordially invited to participate in this semester's line up of HUM:Global Talks. I look forward to seeing many of you there!

👁 SAVE-THE-DATES for upcoming HUM:GLOBAL TALKS! We are excited to share with you our calendar of HUM:Global Talks for the fall semester. our partners this semester are based at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK), the Department of English, German and Romance Languages (EnGeRom), the Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies // ToRS - Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet, the Department of Communications, and the Saxo Institute at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen. 🌎 This week we invite you to an interactive seminar in which an international panel of experts will discuss #art and #migration from an institutional perspective at one of Copenhagen's central, accessible and inclusive arts and culture institutions The Union. We hope to see you there! 👉🏾Read more and register for this week's Talk!: https://lnkd.in/dv5fvBg8 👉See HUM:Global's full calendar of events: https://lnkd.in/dPB4tkYe 👉🏽Visit The Union: https://union.kk.dk/

🌎It is Friday ... again ... and we are happy to leave you with a wonderful interview with Shehan Karunatilaka that we were honored to facilitate with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art when Shehan was here for the Narrating Global Conflict conference. 🙏🏽Special thanks to Lene Asp from the team at Research and Impact at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen for making the arrangements and to Shaanea Mendis for accompanying Shehan during his time here. We wish you all a great weekend and enjoy the interview! ✍🏽Louisiana writes: "The award-winning Novelist Shehan Karunatilaka talks about growing up in a conflicted and violent Sri Lanka, about finding his literary voice and making sense of the past through fiction. "Karunatilaka grew up in Sri Lanka, during the civil war that lasted from 1983 to 2009 and killed at least 100,000 people. Karunatilaka explains how he experienced the war “Whatever is said about Sri Lanka, there is plenty of material for novelists who are writing dystopian novels … growing up in Colombo it was a city of checkpoints, assassinations, bomb blasts, curfews … going to school you would see bodies lying on the side of the street, bodies burning on tires these are my memories of your mom telling me “don’t look to that side!” and you’d ask curiously “who was that person why were they killed?” And there wasn’t always an answer, because it could have been anyone.” "He goes on to explain how he found his literary voice: “With Carl Muller, suddenly I thought, I may not be able to wright as elegantly as Ondaatje, but I can certainly write like a drunken uncle” And how fiction writers can narrate global conflicts and fill out the gaps that exist in our history: “We can go back to the past, and we don’t necessarily have to pick a side, but we can present the different narratives of the past.” "Shehan Karunatilaka (b. 1975) grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand, and later lived and worked in London. Now, he is back in Colombo, writing critically acclaimed novels and children’s books. His first novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, won the Commonwealth Book Prize in 2012, the Gratiaen Prize, as well as the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, followed the success of his first and won the 2022 Booker Prize. "Shehan Karunatilaka was interviewed by Astrid Agnes Hald at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in September 2024. In the video, Shehan Karunatilaka reads an excerpt from his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Camera: @Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan Produced and edited by @Astrid Agnes Hald Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2024 https://lnkd.in/dm9-_29D

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