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. 🌟

The DECOLMAD team is in the UK attending the Psychiatry, Confinement and Racialisation Workshop, which ends today.

Today and tomorrow, Ana Cergol Paradiž is in Croatia, participating in the conference Dani Andrije Štampara – Challenges in Public Health, Past and Present. She will talk about Slovenian psychatry and juvenile delinqents during the postwar period.

[email protected] Ariel Swyer is visiting @durhamimh.bsky.social, where she will be giving a talk on Monday, March 31st on the history of definitions and measurement of hallucination, and their impacts on scientific and clinical understandings. The talk will be online:

Peter Leese is visiting the University of Toronto next week, where he will give a talk entitled What is Resilience in History? on Monday, March 24th. Do join the talk, if you're in Toronto! Read more: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/what-r...

The March newsletter is out! It's about Sofia Poulia's reflections on her fieldwork. newsletter.info.ku.dk/mail/obs/641... You can subscribe here: cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/

Join Ana Antic's webinar, 'Entangled Histories of Transcultural Psychiatry and Decolonisation,' on March 19th at 15:00 and discover how social psychiatry and non-Western voices redefined 'common humanity' in the 20th century. Register by March 15th: tinyurl.com/mrh2ru82

A reminder to come join us on Friday for Peter Leese's book launch!

Ana Cergol Paradiz, Matteo Perissinotto, and Irena Selisnik contributed to 'Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic.' Their chapter examines post-war political shifts' impact on women's employment in two key cities. Read more: ceupress.com/book/women-a...

Join us on March 7th at Copenhagen University for the launch of Peter Leese's new book 'Migrant Emotions', which talks about the complex emotions of migrants and their experiences: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/... Also check out Peter's latest Substack post: afterzero.substack.com/p/the-rings-...

Say hello to our new intern, Johanne! She's pursuing a Master’s in Anthropology, and works at University College Copenhagen. After her internship, she'll write her thesis on creative writing and mental health, based on research with Writer's School for Mentally Vulnerable. Welcome, Johanne!

As part of their open lunch webinars, Lamia Moghnieh is giving a talk entitled 'Trauma, Sumud and the Politics of Suffering in Lebanon' tomorrow from 12-13 CET at the Transcultural Center Stockholm. Register here: events.magnetevents.com/Event/lunchf...

@arielswyer.bsky.social recently went to Durham to attend her graduation ceremony. Her thesis involved looking at the ways in which the broader contexts of voice-hearers lives interacted with their experiences of voices. You can see a very tiny version of it here, made by Arya Ray. Congrats, Ariel!

The February edition of Cultmind Kaleidoscope is out! This month, Lamia Moghnieh reflects on how we can heal and recover from the violence in the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region today. Read it here newsletter.info.ku.dk/mail/obs/641... and sign up here cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/