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.

@anaantic.bsky.social is taking part in the celebration of a 100 years of Frantz Fanon at @ucph.bsky.social on November 21st. Come and join us!

What an incredible day yesterday! The Centre hosted its very first PhD defence, presented by the wonderful Maura Cranny Ntow, who can now proudly call herself Dr. Ntow!

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...