HUM:Global awards seed money to four projects at the Humanities
We are delighted to announce that HUM:Global is awarding four humanities projects 17,500 DKK in seed money in 2024.
We received fourteen solid applications from PhDs, Postdocs and Senior Researchers across the Humanities. The PPG assessed the applications at a meeting on on 3 June 2024, and decided to award an equal amount of funding to the following projects:
Rasmus Christensen, Saxo Institute
Towards a trans-national history of the Caribbean
An international graduate seminar centering on Caribbean history in the spring of 2025.
Currently, most European scholars working on Caribbean history find themselves somewhat isolated from each other, from those based in the Caribbean, and from the leading node of Caribbean historical research in North America. The motivation behind the seminar is to bring together a group of young and senior scholars from different countries and universities to lay the foundation for a stronger future collaboration on and exchange of Caribbean historical research across national and institutional boundaries.
Dendup Chophel, ToRS
Building Buddhist worlds. Spiritual influence in creating sustainable urban infrastructures in Asia
A project development and writing-workshop to prepare a grant application for a major interdisciplinary and international research project.
Tremendous urban infrastructure aspirations and needs face Asia, the most populous continent. Yet it is also limited by its vulnerable socio-climatic conditions. The funding will enable an interdisciplinary and international consortium of scholars and partners from the government, industry and community to come together to imagine and co-create visions, policies and scholarships for sustainable urban futures. It will focus primarily on a new international Buddhist city being developed in Bhutan.
Barbara Wall, Jens Seirup, Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, ToRS
Mapping the Nation: Exploring Spatial Palimpsests in Asia
Part of the MA course “Approaches to Asia” (Asian Studies) in 2024/2025.
The aim of the project is to produce maps of Asia that counter essentialist attempts to reduce the largest continent of the world to the exotic “East”. We set out to find new ways to map Asia that break with the orientalist matrix of power. In the fall semester students will focus on hands-on skills exploring places in Copenhagen related to Asia (esp. China, India, Japan, Korea) and creating GIS maps of Copenhagen based on their findings. In the spring semester students will apply their practical skills and merge them with the theoretical concept of spatial palimpsests.
Zachary Whyte, Saxo Institute
Mapping as Method: A global approach
A public lecture and two workshops that will highlight the value and uses of mapping.
While citing arts-based and participatory research has become a common feature of emerging literature in the humanities, how many academics have the knowledge or experience to engage with these methods? As part of a global approach to reduce inequalities in academic research and increase its transformative potential, we at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) shall hold a full-day public event to explore Mapping as Method.