We had a very inspiring day yesterday when @dg.dk came for their yearly visit. The theme this year's was 'risk-taking in research' and the discussion it produced was very interesting. 🌿

Lamia Moghnieh’s research 'the politics of global mental health initiatives in the Israeli War on Lebanon (2023-2024)' has received funding from the Agence Nationale de Recherche (ANR), as part of a collective research project entitled SAHA. www.ifporient.org/anr-saha/#en

The November newsletter is out! This time written by Ana Cergol Paradiž about Slovenia's first child psychiatrist Bazilija Pregelj. cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/n...

The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to November 30th! cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Come join us for the Centre's first PhD defence! Maura Cranny Ntow will defend her PhD thesis next Wednesday, November 12th at the University of Copenhagen 🤩 cultmind.ku.dk/research/cov...

The book volume 'Gendering the Arab Archive' (جندرة الارشيف العربي), co-edited by Lamia Moghnieh, is now published! The book is open access: theacss.org/ar/%D9%83%D8... And If you are in Beirut, make sure to attend the book launch event this Thursday! www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Say hello to our intern Mathias Bogø! He's just completed his master's degree in French, Literature and Culture at the University at Copenhagen, with a thesis on Michel Houellebecq's idea of the crisis of love in contemporary western societies Welcome, Mathias!

We're looking for a new PhD! Read more below and apply before November 23rd. jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Peter Leese has, together with Jason Crouthamel, co-organised the ‘Climate, Environment, Psyche and History’ conference taking place October 17-18 at Grand Valley State University. gvsu.edu/glhc/

Join us on Monday, October 20th for a lecture by Andreas Mayer, Research Professor at the CNRS. He will explore how a philological-historical lens—focusing on editions and translations—can reshape our understanding of Freud’s work. cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

[email protected] is visiting @columbiauniversity.bsky.social this week to participate in a workshop organised by the Center for International History. Read more here: blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/cih/

Lamia Moghnieh is in Beirut for a workshop entitled 'Sensitive Mapping Workshop ion Mental Health', which brings together researchers from different disciplines, practitioners, and other knowledge producers to reflect on mental health in Lebanon. www.ifporient.org/saha-worksho...

The October Edition of the Kaleidoscope is out, written by @arielswyer.bsky.social! Read it here cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/n... and don't forget to subscribe 🤩

Say hello to another guest of the Centre, PhD candidate Juan Pablo Pinto! Juan Pablo joins us from Chile, where he is a PhD candidate at Universidad Diego Portales and a Doctoral Fellow of the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID). Welcome, Juan Pablo!

Join us on October 9th for a lecture by @AndrewBurchell from Uppsala University! He will talk about how stammering came to be psychologised in Britain. cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Today, Ana Cergol Paradiž will present a paper entitled 'Suicide and Women’s Mental Health: Psychiatric Diagnoses and the Treatment of Women in Slovenia (1910–1945)', at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association of Slovenian Historians. zzds.si

Today was Katrina Bugaj's very first day of teaching! 👏

Shilpi Rajpal, Ana Cergol Paradiž, @anaantic.bsky.social and honorary Cultminder Susan Grayzel are all in Ljubljana this week for the 'Reproductive Politics and Motherhood in Historical Perspective' conference at University of Ljubljana. ikz.zrc-sazu.si/en/dogodki/r...

Our newest intern is Sara Brizio, who is pursuing a master's degree in Migration Studies. She is completing her master's thesis on the intersection of language and culture in trauma therapy, with a focus on the professional encounters between interpreters and therapists. Welcome, Sara!

Say hello to Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, who is joining us as a visiting researcher for the next six weeks. She will give her guest lecture at the University on Thursday, so come join us! cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

@anaantic.bsky.social is in Berlin, visiting BIRD - Berlin Institute for Research and Dialog, where she will give a lecture later today! Read more about BIRD here: b-i-r-d.de#intro

Please help us give a warm welcome to @dittemunch.bsky.social and Astrid Fly Oredsson to the Centre! They'll be working on the DFF-Sapere Aude research project: "Cultured Emotions: A Conceptual History of Alexithymia" (CULTEMO).

Interview with Professor Ana Antic, @cultmind.bsky.social, on how she is working to improve the understanding of mental illness and positively influence treatment 👇 dg.dk/en/a-differe...

The September issue of the Kaleidoscope is out with thoughts from our @cfogarasi.bsky.social! Read it here cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/n... and subscribe here cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/ 💫

We’re back and excited to invite you to a range of upcoming events. Explore the full program here: cultmind.ku.dk/events/ We’re kicking things off with a lecture by Meta Remec on September 18, where she will discuss the phenomenon of suicide in socialist Slovenia during the post–World War II era.

Call for papers! Ana Cergol Paradiž is organising a symposium entitled 'Imagining the Child's Mind' at the University of Ljubljana in January 2026. The submission deadline is October 30th! Read more here: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Sofia Poulia is in Prague for the Ninth Annual Meeting of the memstudiesassoc.bsky.social‬‬, titled 'Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability', where she will present 'Urban Memories and the Making of a Post-War City: Anthropological Insights from East Sarajevo'.

Lamia Moghnieh is participating in the ‪@isa-sociology.org‬’s 5th conference 'Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene', held in Rabat, Morocco from July 6-11, with a co-organized panel on 'Researching Responses to Distress' held on July 10th. Read more here: www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc...

Before we leave for the summer, we have compiled a list of highlights from the semester and some news in this special summer edition of the Cultmind Kaleidoscope! ☀️ Read it here: cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/n...

We've opened our very first Call for Artists as a part of our new Artists in Residence program in 2026! Are you an artist or know someone who would like to collaborate with us, please send them our way. Read more here cultmind.ku.dk/news/call-fo... and please consider sharing this post 🎨

Call for papers! We are co-organising the conference 'Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 - present', which will take place in April of next year i Rijeka. Read more and submit your abstract: tinyurl.com/bdenvam6

Gabriel Abarca-Brown is in Oslo for the European Conference on Social Medicine at University of Oslo. He is going to examine the historical and political aspects involved in the interactions between Evangelical churches, community mental health and migration in Chile. tinyurl.com/489ypac4

On the 18th of June, Gabriel Abarca-Brown will participate inthe workshop 'Culture and Psychiatric Paradigms during the Cold War' @bihatcharite.bsky.social‬, where he will talk about afterlives of radical psychiatry projects developed during the Chilean Road to Socialism (1970-73).

A two-day interdisciplinary and multi-regional workshop on resilience was organised at CULTMIND recently. The group engaged in a mapping and visualising exercise of resilience. You can see a summary of their conversation here: ucph.padlet.org/lamiamoghnie...

Lamia Moghnieh is giving a talk entitled 'Psychiatric Afterlives: Narrating Illness, Gender and Violence in Lebanon' on June 4th, as part of a research seminar organized by Melanie Henry at CEDEJ-Cairo. Register now to attend online: cnrs.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Last week, Lamia Moghnieh and Michael Pettit co-organised a workshop on Resilience. Participants from history, anthropology, art, literature and psychology disciplines reflected on the different approaches, critiques and practices of resilience and engaged in mapping the concept together.

Don't forget to join us for Mike Pettit's talk, which will also be online! Read more: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/... Webinar link: ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/61513499889

On May 22nd and 23rd, @arielswyer.bsky.social will be participating in a workshop organised by the Center for Subjectivity at University of Copenhagen. It's called Sense of Reality and is open to anyone who is interested. Read more here: cfs.ku.dk/research-act...

Lamia Moghnieh is participating in Arab Council for the Social Sciences’s 7th conference 'Devastation, Imaginaries and Knowledge: Regional Junctures and Global Repercussions' in Beirut, and is presenting a paper on 'The Psychic Landscape of Israeli Violence and Genocide' theacss.org/seventh-conf...

During the next few weeks, we have the pleasure of hosting Michael Pettit, a historian and professor at York University in Toronto. As a part of his stay, on May 23rd, he will give a lecture, which will also be online. Read more here: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Ana Cergol Paradiž is attending a conference at the @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social organised by a former Cultminder, Anna Toropova, about the cultures of trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Yesterday was the first time we had a writing day at Cultmind! A whole day dedicated to writing various articles, book chapters and other things and we plan on doing it monthly. Here's a bunch of Cultminders and guests enjoying lunch during the writing day. 🦋

A reminder to not miss this lecture on Wednesday! If you can't come in person, please join us online ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/6644925741... with the passcode: 965146

Easing you into the weekend is this month's Kaleidoscope! Written by Shilpi Rajpal, it's about the mental hygiene movement. Read it here cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/n... and don't forget to subscribe!

We've had the pleasure of having Susan Grayzel from @ustatescience.bsky.social as a visiting researcher since March 1st. Susan will give a lecture on May 7th, which will be about the term 'Home Front' and if it is useful to use in understanding modern war. Read more: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Say hello to the newest Cultminder, Katrina Bugaj! Katrina is joining Cultmind to pursue her PhD. She brings a wealth of experience as a director, performer/creator, writer, and dramaturge. Additionally, she is the co-founder of the performing arts company, Out of Balanz. Welcome, Katrina!💫

Lamia Moghnieh's essay 'Revenants' in the Society of Cultural Anthropology explores family, nature, and resistance in South Lebanon amidst war. She writes about grandfathers and against Israel's erasure of life and livelihood. culanth.org/fieldsights/...

The new edition of Cultmind Kaleidoscope is out, written by Gabriel Abarca-Brown. You can read it here: cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/n... and subscribe to get it delivered straight to your inbox every month. 💥

That's a wrap! It's been a lovely couple of days of discussing ideas in groups, writing on a whole lot of post its and drinking way too much coffee ☕️ Here is a picture of a bunch of happy and slightly tired Cultminders.

Our yearly retreat has brought us to Malmö, Sweden! Over the next two days, we will engage in discussions on numerous subjects and themes. We kicked off by reflecting on the inspiring moments we've experienced through our work at the Centre. 🌟