@anaantic.bsky.social and friend of Cultmind, Chris Sandal-Wilson are both at the 2026 History of Science Society Joint Meeting, held by The European Society for the History of Science held in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read more hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...

A special summer edition of our newsletter the Kaleidoscope will be out on Friday! This time it's all about the collaboration with the Observatory for Rights in the Field of Mental Health in Greece. Subscribe here so you don't miss it! cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/

Shilpi Rajpal, Gabriel Abarca-Brown and @anaantic.bsky.social are in Montreal this week to attend the 'Histories of Global Mental Health' conference at McGill University. The conference aims to bridge short and long histories of global mental health. www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/trai...

@dittemunch.bsky.social and Astrid Fly Oredsson were invited to the annual conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion (EPPSE), where they will present their research project in a panel entitled 'Critiquing Emotion Norms in Medicine'. www.epsse.org/_files/ugd/4...

On June 30th, please join us for an online presentation of a new anthology of poetry by Belarusian, Danish and Swedish writers, where our PhD fellow @y-though.bsky.social will present and talk about her poetry. Read more and register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Katrina Bugaj's theatre company Out of Balanz, won the Danish Theatre Reumert Award on Sunday for Special Performance of the Year 2026 for 'Turbulence', a production in which Katrina was the dramaturg and co-creator. Congratulations, Katrina! www.aaretsreumert.dk/pris/aarets-...

@dittemunch.bsky.social is attending the 'The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity' conference at @unibo.it June 8-10, where she will present her paper later today. You can see the program and follow the conference online through the link: www.tearsproject.it/tears-confer...

Maura Cranny Ntow has a new article out in Transcultural Psychiatry, which is part of the upcoming special issue: 'The Politics of COVID-19 in Cultural Context: Implications for Mental Health', and focuses on Ghana and Nigeria. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On June 4-6, @cfogarasi.bsky.social is going to attend a conference by the International Society for the Study of Narrative, which is an annual event that has been held at sites across the US, Canada, and Europe since 1986. conferences.au.dk/narrative2026

Consider this an invitation to come join us for our collaboration with the Greek Observatory for Rights in the Field of Mental Health on 8 and 9 June! The event consists of two workshops as well as an exhibition of works made by the members of both centres. 1/2

New publication alert! Gabriel Abarca-Brown and Francisco Ortega published an article titled 'Social medicine beyond the medical curriculum: A Latin American historical perspective' in Global Public Health. Read it here: tinyurl.com/wzc4xvy6 Image Credit: SNS Chile. Biblioteca Nacional de Chile

@dittemunch.bsky.social is in Zürich today, attending a workshop entitled 'Disgust and the Question of The Human' at @ethz.ch. Read more ethz.ch/content/dam/...

Together with members of the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at Copenhagen University, Sofia Poulia is co-organising a seminar on education, commemoration and informal memory practices in the post-Yugoslav space.

Say hello to our newest PhD Fellow, @y-though.bsky.social, a social anthropologist and poet! Her previous research focused on gender, care, and solidarity, as well as ethnographic studies of psychological help practices and neurodiversity within the Belarusian diaspora.

@dittemunch.bsky.social will be part of a series of talks entitled 'Verden forsøgt forklaret' (Trying to Explain the World) and organised by Universitetsbiblioteket i Fiolstræde! Her talk, which is centered on feelings and how we verbalise them, is on June 11th. kub.ku.dk/fiolstraede/...

Maura Cranny Ntow has won a KU Lighthouse grant to build a proof-of-concept developing an AI-supported digital platform for young people experiencing psychological distress in Denmark. Feel free to reach out to Maura if you want to know more. Congratulations, Maura! lighthouse.ku.dk/en/researche...

After 3 very productive days full of talks, discussions, plans and laughs, we leave the Cultmind retreat and Malmö inspired and tired!

Over the next couple of weeks, @dittemunch.bsky.social is going on a research trip to Boston, to visit her collaborators at the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab. You can read more about their work here: affective-science.org

It's the last day of the 'Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 - present' conference happening in Croatia and co-organised by the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association. cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Today, Shilpi Rajpal is attending the 'Histories of Child Mental Health' workshop, organised by @sdu.dk in Copenhagen, where she will talk about childhood and mental hygiene in India.

A group of twenty international researchers – visual, writing, performance, humanities and medical – met in March for a workshop on the theme of ‘Creative Therapeutics’, organised by Cultmind. The focus was on how creative practices can help, or sometimes hinder, mental wellbeing.

Tomorrow, Gabriel Abarca-Brown will give a talk entitled 'Migration and Mental Health in Latin America: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives' at the Danish Science Festival 2026! ddrn.dk/20102/ Photo Credit: tn.com.ar

Today, Jessica Carlsson Lohmann is giving her inaugural lecture as professor. Congratulations, Jessica!

Gabriel Abarca-Brown and Francisco Ortega from the @urv.cat have published an article entitled 'Redefining Social Medicine from Latin America: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Directions' in @plosglobalpublichealth.org.

Our former visiting PhD student Juan Pablo Pinto-Venegas and Gabriel Abarca-Brown have published an article entitled 'Use of Psychotropic Drugs Among Young People in Chile: Challenges for Research and Health Services From a Historical–Socioanthropological Perspective' in Nature Mental Health. ⬇️Link

Say hello to our new intern, Asger! A philosophy student, Asger wrote his bachelor’s thesis on the feeling of climate grief. He's also active in the student’s union at UCPH. His work at Cultmind focuses on social construction of emotions and the constructions' effect on affective disorders. 💫

@dittemunch.bsky.social will be at Universität Osnabrück March 17-19 to participate in a workshop organised by the 'Critical Emotion Theory' network, which is supported by the @dfg.de. www.criticalemotiontheory.org/en/

On a rainy afternoon here in CPH, I realized that another review of my OUP book came out in Journal of Moral Philosophy: "Any researcher interested in understanding the role of disgust in moral judgment would do well to engage seriously with the arguments of this book" 🙏 brill.com/view/journal...

Registration for the 'Living in the Aftermaths conference is open! Organised by @anaantic.bsky.social and Goran Mijaljica, the conference will take place on April 23rd and 24th at the University of Rijeka. Register here: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Registration for the 'Living in the Aftermaths conference is open! Organised by @anaantic.bsky.social and Goran Mijaljica, the conference will take place on April 23rd and 24th at the University of Rijeka. Register here: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Cultmind's organising its first summer school course! Join us August 24th- 28th for an amazing program co-created by all of Cultmind's members. The course is open to all, but we would especially like to encourage practitioners to sign up! ☀️ Register here: kurser.ku.dk/course/HEGRC...

@cfogarasi.bsky.social will be at the Northeast Modern Language Association conference March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. presenting on Sally Rooney. 🌟 www.nemla.org/convention.h...

This is your reminder to sign up for Cultmind Kaleidoscope, so that you can read the new edition when it's out on Friday - this month penned by Henriette Laugesen Attardo!💫 cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/

@cfogarasi.bsky.social is attending the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montreal, Canada from today until March 1st. She will be presenting on character backstory in contemporary anglophone fiction. www.acla.org/annual-meeting

Come join us for a talk with Marta Verginella and Francesco Tonchich next Friday! They will both give presentations of their current work. cultmind.ku.dk/events/2026/...

[email protected] has written two articles, which constitute some of the results of the recently concluded ERC StG project ‘Decolonising Madness’. Read them here: tinyurl.com/5zcpx6ht tinyurl.com/azwj6wvp

We've updated our website with two projects - CULTEMO and RETROCHILD, run respectively by @dittemunch.bsky.social and Ana Cergol Paradiž. Read more about the projects here: cultmind.ku.dk/research/

The first Kaleidoscope of 2026 is out! Maura Cranny Ntow reflects on the film 'A Beautiful Mind'! Read it here: newsletter.info.ku.dk/mail/obs/641...

Ana Cergol Paradiz is organising a conference in Ljubljana on January 29th & 30th. Entitled 'Imagining the Child's Mind' and focusing on the issue of children's mental health, the conference is the conclusion of her Marie Cure project 'Retrochild'. Read more: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Shilpi Rajpal is in Tampere today giving a talk entitled 'Psychiatry and Mental Health: The Making of Modern Indian Psychiatry in India' at the Centre for the History of Experiences. research.tuni.fi/hex/events/

Wishing you all a happy end of year 💫 See you in 2026!

Fellowship news! @anaantic.bsky.social will be the visiting fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia, in September 2026: inz.si/en/gostujoci... and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) in 2027/28. 👏

Both @dittemunch.bsky.social and Jessica Carlsson Lohmann have articles in the new issue of the Danish magasine Bibliotek for læger! Jessica's article is online ugeskriftet.dk/bfl/ptsd-og-... and you can get a PDF of Ditte's article by sending her an email/message. The articles are in Danish.

Our former intern and research assistant, Marilia Fotopoulou, was awarded the Best Thesis Award of 2025 by @AMIS - Centre for Advanced Migration Studies today. Congratulations, Marilia! 💫

💫 Highly recommend diving into the new amazing work on the mental hygiene movement in India by my colleague Dr. Shilpi Rajpal. From her concluding remarks: "This research has investigated an era when the mind sciences gained control and defined every aspect of the so-called ‘ideal citizen’.... ⏬

Shilpi Rajpal has written an article on the birth of global mental health in India! Read it at the link below. 💥 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The final newsletter of the year is out! This month, @anaantic.bsky.social reflects on the legacy of Frantz Fanon. Remember to subscribe to get all the newsletters straight to your inbox! cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/n...

@dittemunch.bsky.social was on the @universitypress.cambridge.org's podcast 'Hot off the Press' to talk about disgust and perpetrators. Listen through the link below and read more about Ditte's book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Cultminders Jessica Carlsson Lohmann, Henriette Laugesen Attardo, Ida Sophie Poschmann and Hinuga Sandahl from Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry will be attending the Nordic Conference on Trauma Treatment in Copenhagen today and tomorrow. www.conferencemanager.dk/24thnordicco...

[email protected] will be attending the conference 'Negative Emotions, Hatred, and Discrimination', which will take place at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'​ from 19 to 21 November, where she will talk about weaponising neurodivergence.