cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Make sure you sign up for our monthly newsletter, the Kaleidoscope! This month's issue, penned by Lamia Moghnieh, will be out tomorrow and talks about the psychological landscape of Israeli violence. cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/ 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Both Maura Cranny Ntow and @anaantic.bsky.social attended the book launch of fellow UCPH colleague, Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah's book launch. His new book is entitled 'Cosmologies of Mental Health: Pentecostal Prayer Camps and Indigenous Knowledge of Healing Mental Illness in Ghana'. 010
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Maura Cranny Ntow is attending the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry in Stockholm and presenting two posters! Read more here: cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attend... 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026All of September, @anaantic.bsky.social has been the visiting researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana and today she will give a lecture, which will be shown online as well. Read more here: inz.si/en/2026/09/1... 020
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Meet our new intern, Marie Leine! Marie is a social anthropologist who recently defended her PhD at the University of Copenhagen. Her research examines gendered violence, with a particular focus on how affliction becomes recognisable and cared for within the Danish welfare state. Welcome, Marie! 020
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Peter Leese and Katrina Bugaj are in Paris this week for the ADHC and ISCH Congress. They will co-present a paper on migrant pasts through performance, and will talk about ‘Turbulence’, the play that won Katrina a Reumert (Danish Theatre Prize) earlier this year💫 tinyurl.com/59ff5ync 030
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A new edition of the Cultmind Kaleidoscope penned by Katrina Bugaj is out on Wednesday! Katrina reflects on her arts based practice and the importance of slowing down. 💚 Subscribe here to get it delivered straight to your inbox! cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/ 011
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026She creates moving-image, photographic and sound work, and multimedia installations in an attempt to visualise traumatic experiences, memory of spaces/landscapes, unofficial archives & silent/silenced narratives. Her works are part of both gallery spaces and academic journals. Welcome, Krasimira! 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Say hello to our very first Artist in Residence, Krasimira Butseva! We are so pleased to have Krasimira join us this semester, in which she will focus on her artistic practice where she engages with ideas of trauma and political violence, remembering and forgetting. 100
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Jessica Carlsson Lohmann, Ida Poschmann and Hinuga Sandahl have published a new article entitled 'Group treatment with Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) for refugees and Danish civilians with PTSD: A clinical pilot study of acceptability and treatment outcomes'. Read it here: tinyurl.com/42vt38xf 011
Reposted by @cultmind.bsky.socialDanmarks Grundforskningsfond @dg.dk · 14/08/2026📸By joining the DNRF Photo Competition, you can showcase your research, help bring it to a wider audience, get the chance to be featured in a touring exhibition and invited to the DNRF Annual Meeting in October 🚀 👀Deadline August 27 Submit 👉https://dg.dk/en/dnrf-photo-competition-2026/ 094
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Sofia Poulia and Marilia Fotopoulou will be presenting at this year's Memory Studies Association Annual Conference, themed as 'Memory and Democracy' in Buenos Aires. Sofia will present her doctoral research and Marilia will launch her new PhD project. msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com/index.php 021
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Gabriel Abarca-Brown and Francisco Ortega have published an article titled 'Dismantling Health by Design: Social Medicine, US-Led Interventions, and the Political Neoliberal Economy of Care in Latin America' in the American Journal of Public Health. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... 010
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 24/07/2026With her colleagues from University of Virginia, @dittemunch.bsky.social has published an open access article on Moral injury research. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... Read more about their work here: www.christaacampora.net/about-the-lab 011
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 14/07/2026@anaantic.bsky.social and friend of Cultmind, Chris Sandal-Wilson are both at the 2026 History of Science Society Joint Meeting, held by The European Society for the History of Science held in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read more hssonline.org/page/Edinbur... 021
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026A special summer edition of our newsletter the Kaleidoscope will be out on Friday! This time it's all about the collaboration with the Observatory for Rights in the Field of Mental Health in Greece. Subscribe here so you don't miss it! cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/ 031
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Shilpi Rajpal, Gabriel Abarca-Brown and @anaantic.bsky.social are in Montreal this week to attend the 'Histories of Global Mental Health' conference at McGill University. The conference aims to bridge short and long histories of global mental health. www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/trai... 041
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 22/06/2026@dittemunch.bsky.social and Astrid Fly Oredsson were invited to the annual conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion (EPPSE), where they will present their research project in a panel entitled 'Critiquing Emotion Norms in Medicine'. www.epsse.org/_files/ugd/4... 040
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 18/06/2026On June 30th, please join us for an online presentation of a new anthology of poetry by Belarusian, Danish and Swedish writers, where our PhD fellow @y-though.bsky.social will present and talk about her poetry. Read more and register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 022
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Katrina Bugaj's theatre company Out of Balanz, won the Danish Theatre Reumert Award on Sunday for Special Performance of the Year 2026 for 'Turbulence', a production in which Katrina was the dramaturg and co-creator. Congratulations, Katrina! www.aaretsreumert.dk/pris/aarets-... 021
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 08/06/2026@dittemunch.bsky.social is attending the 'The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity' conference at @unibo.it June 8-10, where she will present her paper later today. You can see the program and follow the conference online through the link: www.tearsproject.it/tears-confer... 031
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Maura Cranny Ntow has a new article out in Transcultural Psychiatry, which is part of the upcoming special issue: 'The Politics of COVID-19 in Cultural Context: Implications for Mental Health', and focuses on Ghana and Nigeria. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 022
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 03/06/2026On June 4-6, @cfogarasi.bsky.social is going to attend a conference by the International Society for the Study of Narrative, which is an annual event that has been held at sites across the US, Canada, and Europe since 1986. conferences.au.dk/narrative2026 011
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Find the full program here and come join us. It's free to participate! cultmind.ku.dk/events/2026/... 2/2 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Consider this an invitation to come join us for our collaboration with the Greek Observatory for Rights in the Field of Mental Health on 8 and 9 June! The event consists of two workshops as well as an exhibition of works made by the members of both centres. 1/2 112
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 19/05/2026New publication alert! Gabriel Abarca-Brown and Francisco Ortega published an article titled 'Social medicine beyond the medical curriculum: A Latin American historical perspective' in Global Public Health. Read it here: tinyurl.com/wzc4xvy6 Image Credit: SNS Chile. Biblioteca Nacional de Chile 021
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 18/05/2026@dittemunch.bsky.social is in Zürich today, attending a workshop entitled 'Disgust and the Question of The Human' at @ethz.ch. Read more ethz.ch/content/dam/... 001
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The seminar will take place on May 20-21 and you're welcome to stop by if you're in Copenhagen. See the program here: memoryandheritage.ku.dk/events/cultu... 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Together with members of the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at Copenhagen University, Sofia Poulia is co-organising a seminar on education, commemoration and informal memory practices in the post-Yugoslav space. 132
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Yana’s work at Cultmind will explore the tensions of risky truth-telling in cross-cultural psy encounters. Welcome, Yana! 010
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Say hello to our newest PhD Fellow, @y-though.bsky.social, a social anthropologist and poet! Her previous research focused on gender, care, and solidarity, as well as ethnographic studies of psychological help practices and neurodiversity within the Belarusian diaspora. 121
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 11/05/2026@dittemunch.bsky.social will be part of a series of talks entitled 'Verden forsøgt forklaret' (Trying to Explain the World) and organised by Universitetsbiblioteket i Fiolstræde! Her talk, which is centered on feelings and how we verbalise them, is on June 11th. kub.ku.dk/fiolstraede/... 011
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Maura Cranny Ntow has won a KU Lighthouse grant to build a proof-of-concept developing an AI-supported digital platform for young people experiencing psychological distress in Denmark. Feel free to reach out to Maura if you want to know more. Congratulations, Maura! lighthouse.ku.dk/en/researche... 042
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 29/04/2026After 3 very productive days full of talks, discussions, plans and laughs, we leave the Cultmind retreat and Malmö inspired and tired! 022
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Over the next couple of weeks, @dittemunch.bsky.social is going on a research trip to Boston, to visit her collaborators at the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab. You can read more about their work here: affective-science.org 011
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 24/04/2026It's the last day of the 'Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 - present' conference happening in Croatia and co-organised by the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association. cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/... 031
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Today, Shilpi Rajpal is attending the 'Histories of Child Mental Health' workshop, organised by @sdu.dk in Copenhagen, where she will talk about childhood and mental hygiene in India. 011
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 21/04/2026A group of twenty international researchers – visual, writing, performance, humanities and medical – met in March for a workshop on the theme of ‘Creative Therapeutics’, organised by Cultmind. The focus was on how creative practices can help, or sometimes hinder, mental wellbeing. 001
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Tomorrow, Gabriel Abarca-Brown will give a talk entitled 'Migration and Mental Health in Latin America: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives' at the Danish Science Festival 2026! ddrn.dk/20102/ Photo Credit: tn.com.ar 010
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Today, Jessica Carlsson Lohmann is giving her inaugural lecture as professor. Congratulations, Jessica! 011
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Read it here: journals.plos.org/globalpublic... Image credit: elsiglo.cl / Artist: Santiago Nattino 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Gabriel Abarca-Brown and Francisco Ortega from the @urv.cat have published an article entitled 'Redefining Social Medicine from Latin America: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Directions' in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. 141
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Image credit: theclinic.cl 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Our former visiting PhD student Juan Pablo Pinto-Venegas and Gabriel Abarca-Brown have published an article entitled 'Use of Psychotropic Drugs Among Young People in Chile: Challenges for Research and Health Services From a Historical–Socioanthropological Perspective' in Nature Mental Health. ⬇️Link 131
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Say hello to our new intern, Asger! A philosophy student, Asger wrote his bachelor’s thesis on the feeling of climate grief. He's also active in the student’s union at UCPH. His work at Cultmind focuses on social construction of emotions and the constructions' effect on affective disorders. 💫 030
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 16/03/2026@dittemunch.bsky.social will be at Universität Osnabrück March 17-19 to participate in a workshop organised by the 'Critical Emotion Theory' network, which is supported by the @dfg.de. www.criticalemotiontheory.org/en/ 062
Reposted by @cultmind.bsky.socialDitte Marie Munch-Jurisic @dittemunch.bsky.social · 13/03/2026On a rainy afternoon here in CPH, I realized that another review of my OUP book came out in Journal of Moral Philosophy: "Any researcher interested in understanding the role of disgust in moral judgment would do well to engage seriously with the arguments of this book" 🙏 brill.com/view/journal... 051
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Registration for the 'Living in the Aftermaths conference is open! Organised by @anaantic.bsky.social and Goran Mijaljica, the conference will take place on April 23rd and 24th at the University of Rijeka. Register here: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/... 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Registration for the 'Living in the Aftermaths conference is open! Organised by @anaantic.bsky.social and Goran Mijaljica, the conference will take place on April 23rd and 24th at the University of Rijeka. Register here: cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/... 000
cultmind.bsky.social @cultmind.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Cultmind's organising its first summer school course! Join us August 24th- 28th for an amazing program co-created by all of Cultmind's members. The course is open to all, but we would especially like to encourage practitioners to sign up! ☀️ Register here: kurser.ku.dk/course/HEGRC... 030
