Carlsberg Foundation grants to three DIIS researchers
Senior researcher Johannes Lang receives a ‘Young Researcher Fellowship’ of DKK 3,5 million for his project ‘Wars, Pandemics, and the Human Mind: Competing Conceptions of Trauma in the 21st Century,’ which will explore the science and politics of trauma in the decades since September 11, 2001. The project will produce empirical and theoretical insights into how trauma is understood and governed today, as well as critical reflections on how the psychological sciences shape the way societies perceive and try to manage the human effects of extreme events.
The project is divided into three case studies. Case study 1 looks at how ideas about resilience and moral injury have reshaped the American mental health establishment’s thinking on trauma since 9/11. The case study focuses on the scientific debates and politics surrounding these concepts in both military and civilian contexts. Case study 2 explores how the concepts are being taken up by humanitarian organizations working in the field of conflicts and catastrophes. Case study 3 looks at how notions of resilience and moral injury affect the way specialists and policymakers perceive the psychological effects of traumatic events in civilian healthcare in the front-line response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Carlberg Foundation’s ‘Young Researcher Fellowships' are three-year grants for outstanding newly appointed associate professors with international experience to establish an independent research group. Read more about the project here.
Senior researcher and anthropologist Sine Plambech receives the Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship for her book project Global Sex: ‘Women’s Stories from Brothels, Beds and Borders around the World’. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, Plambech explores the contemporary transformations of labor, feminism, migration and human life through the prism of sex as commodity and as parts of exchanges for money, visa, love and care. Highlighting the perspectives of migrant women the book weaves together women’s voices to analyze larger structures of global migration.
The Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship is a one-year full-time fellowships of DKK 650.000 awarded to leading, visionary researchers within the humanities or social sciences with a project aimed at producing a ground-breaking monograph. Read more about the project here:
Charlotte Epstien - currently associated professor at The University of Sydney receives The special research grant for the project ‘Decolonizing Political Action.’
The project explores the nature of postcolonial agency through a comparative analysis of the modes of doing political action of four exemplary figures who are positioned very differently within the space of postcoloniality: Ho Chi Minh, the anti-colonial revolutionary communist fighter turned statesman who founded modern Vietnam; Frantz Fanon, the French résistant who diagnosed the pathologies of colonialism and joined the Algerian war of independence against France; Dr Wangarī Maathai, the Kenyan women's rights and environmental activist and Nobel peace prize recipient who stood up against the predatory practices of an authoritarian postcolonial state; and Tsvetan Todorov, the Bulgarian-French anthropologist and critic of both colonialism and totalitarianism. Read more about the project here.
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