Nordic Humanities Center

Welcome to Nordic Humanities Center

Nordic Humanities Center is a research center at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen that brings humanistic perspectives to major societal challenges. Each year, the steering group behind the center appoints a group of researchers from both universities who collaborate for a year on a specific theme.

On this page, we bring news about the research work and about workshops, presentations and conferences organized by the centre.

The Nordic Humanities Center (NHC) is funded by The A.P. Moller Relief Foundation.

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About the center

Hear about the center from Center Director, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, and Dean, Simon Møberg Torp.

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# Perspective – Stories from NHC

Defence cooperation in the Nordic region

Professor of History, Rasmus Glenthøj, highlights the security policy cooperation in the Nordic region.

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News

Research project

29.01.2025

Researchers examine the consequences of the Ukraine war for the Nordic Region

The war in Ukraine has challenged the idea of Denmark and the Nordic countries as a peaceful corner of the world where war is confined to history books. The conflict has come close to home and has already reshaped security policies. But what can we learn from history as we navigate a new world order, and what impact does it have on our sense of identity? These are the key questions in this year’s research project at the Nordic Humanities Centre.

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Nordic collaboration

10.09.2024

New recommendation for the Nordic Council of Ministers: Get a clearer insight into what adds value to your collaboration

A key concept in the Nordic Co-operation is ‘Nordic added value’ and its Scandinavian version ‘nordisk nytte’. But what really adds value when it comes to cross-border co-operation on climate, culture and research? A new report written by a researcher at the Nordic Humanities Centre shows that it is important to have a clearer understanding of the different interpretations of the term.

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Research project

05.07.2024

The shadow of war - Denmark, the Nordic countries and the return of geopolitics

This is the title of the research project that eight new fellows in the Nordic Humanities Center will embark on from February 1, 2025. The project has just been selected as the center's second research relay.

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Symposium

04.06.2024

Symposium with Nordic colleagues

On September 12 to 13, researchers from the Nordic Humanities Center will gather for a symposium with Nordic colleagues. The title of the symposium is "Individual and state in the Nordic model - historical experiences and future social legitimacy", and it takes place at Linnaeus University in Växsjö, Sweden.

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study visit

04.04.2024

On a guided tour of the Nordic welfare model

For a week, students from Princeton have visited Danish ministers, grassroots organizations and researchers. At the Nordic Humanities Center, Professor Klaus Petersen took them on a guided tour of the history behind the Danish welfare model, and we had a chat with a couple of the young Americans.

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CALL

19.03.2024

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.

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Invitation

07.02.2024

Join us for the official opening of the Nordic Humanities Center

The Nordic Humanities Center is a new research centre at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen that brings humanities perspectives to major societal challenges. The first research project at the Center will be ‘Legitimacy under Pressure – the Past and Future of the Nordic Model’.

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Welfare

01.02.2024

First research team at the Nordic Humanities Centre assembled

The Nordic region and the Nordic social model will be in focus when researchers from SDU and UCPH unite their expertise in a joint project over the next year. Drawing on history and literature, they focus on how the Nordic model can stand up to the challenges of the future.

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Grant

26.05.2023

Literature professor to head ambitious research centre

SDU Professor Anders Engberg-Pedersen will become head of the Nordic Humanities Center for Challenge-Based Inquiry on 1 June.

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Donation

01.09.2022

New Nordic humanist centre to create new understandings of the world’s societal challenges

Thanks to a donation from The A.P. Moller Support Foundation, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark will establish a new research centre: the Nordic Humanities Centre for Challenge-Based Inquiry. Based on humanistic disciplines, the Centre will contribute nuances, perspectives, new understandings and opportunities for action in relation to the major societal challenges such as the climate crisis and pandemics.

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We need a more precise understanding of the nature of the challenges we face and their historical and cultural preconditions, and we need new visions for our future coexistence and actionable models that are based on the knowledge produced in the human sciences.

Anders Engberg-Pedersen, professor and Head of NHC

Partners

The Nordic Humanities Center has been established in a collaboration between the faculties of the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark with the generous support of the A.P. Moller Relief Foundation

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