HUM:Global Seed Money
HUM:Global Seed Money offers grants of between DKK 10,000 and DKK 35,000 for activities carried out by students and researchers at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. Activities should fall under the categories of research, teaching and stakeholder/public/policy engagement – for instance, guest lectures, workshops, symposiums, or seminars in connection with writing applications for external funding.
HUM:Global has now opened for applications for Seed Money for activities planned to take place in the academic year 2025/26. The submission deadline is 23:59, Monday 28 April. Read the full call and access the guidelines.
In the academic year 2024/25, the PPG assessed the applications at a meeting on on 3 June 2024, and decided to award DKK 17,500 to four projects outlines below.
Towards a trans-national history of the Caribbean
Rasmus Christensen, PhD fellow
The Saxo Institute
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.
Building buddhist worlds. Spiritual influence in creating sustainable urban infrastructures in Asia
Dendup Chophel, postdoctoral fellow
Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS)
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.
Mapping the nation: exploring spatial palimpsests in Asia
Barbara Wall, associate professor
Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies
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.
Collaborators: Jens Seirup, Bo Ærenlund Sørensen
Mapping as method: a global approach
Zachary Whyte, associate professor
The Saxo Institute
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.