CALL
New call open for Nordic Humanities Center
Applications are now open for the next research project at the Nordic Humanities Center. Permanent academic staff at the faculties of the humanities at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark are eligible to apply. The project period runs from 1 February 2025 to 31 January 2026. We are looking for 6 Senior Fellows and 2 Junior Fellows.
The focus is on collaboration and new ways of generating knowledge in the humanities. The goal of the Center is to come up with new understandings and options for action in relation to major societal challenges, such as inequality, misinformation, war, the climate crisis, health challenges or developments in artificial intelligence.
We need a more accurate understanding of the historical and cultural conditions that underlie the major societal challenges. New humanities visions for our future coexistence must be brought forward, and at the same time there is a need to integrate knowledge from the humanities with other fields of knowledge, the surrounding society and civil organisations, says Anders Engberg-Pedersen, professor of literature and head of the Nordic Humanities Center.
Knowledge united
Every year, the steering committee of the Center will select a group of researchers from the two faculties of the humanities at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen who will have the opportunity to work together for one year on a collective project across disciplines. A project that unites knowledge, combining deep knowledge of language, culture, philosophy, history or communication to provide alternative perspectives – and potentially possible solutions – to the so-called ‘grand challenges’ of our time.
The first team of researchers, which started work in January 2024, is currently working on the challenges facing the Nordic social model. The project is called ‘Legitimacy under Pressure – The Past and Future of the Nordic Model’ and is headed by Karen Vallgårda, professor of history at the University of Copenhagen and Klaus Petersen, professor of history at the University of Southern Denmark.
Outward-oriented centre
The Nordic Humanities Center, established with a grant of DKK 60 million from The A.P. Moller Relief Foundation, has a strong ambition to be oriented toward and engage with the surrounding world, and therefore the researchers will cooperate closely with the head of the centre, the centre coordinator and the communications manager at the Nordic Humanities Center.