Rosanna Farbøl, co-PI of the MELICA project, delivered a keynote lecture at this year’s Danish Historians’ Meeting (Danske Historikermøde).
The lecture explored the history of civil defence and emergency preparedness during the Cold War, examining how Denmark imagined, organised and prepared for crises and catastrophe. Drawing on research from MELICA, Farbøl discussed the relationship between historical preparedness practices and contemporary debates about societal security and resilience. The keynote will appear in the upcoming issue of Historisk Tidsskrift.
Media contributions
TV-appearance: Rosanna Farbøl participated in Huse med hemmeligheder on DR 18 Oct 2026 https://www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/huse-med-hemmeligheder_-hengemte-beskyttelsesrum-og-truslen-fra-sovjet_623433
Op-ed by Rosanna Farbøl: Derfor prepper danskerne ikke, Jyllands-Posten 17.05.2025, https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik/ECE18095676/derfor-prepper-danskerne-ikke/
Op-ed by Rosanna Farbøl: Hvis krigen kommer. Dansen mellem angst og beroligelse, Jyllands-Posten 08.03.2024 https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik/ECE16903802/hvis-krigen-kommer-dansen-mellem-angst-og-beroligelse/
Rosanna Farbøl, Interview ’Nye tal viser at halvdelen af landets bunkere ikke kan tages i brug ved behov’, Kristelig Dagblad 13 August 2026.
Rosanna Farbøl, Interview Eftermiddag Radio IIII, 28 October 2025.
Rosanna Farbøl, Interview ‘Vi står (måske) i en historisk farlig situation’, Radio IIII, 6 October 2025.
Rosanna Farbøl, Interview ‘Hvordan forbereder man samfundet på krise eller krig?” Krigskunst 24 June 2025
Rosanna Farbøl, Interview TV-avisen DR, 28 May 2025.
Rosanna Farbøl, Interview ‘Det nye beredskabsministerium ligner lidt et kludetæppe – og det er faktisk pointen’, Information, 30 August 2024.
Rosanna Farbøl, Interview Kulturen, P1 30 May 2024.
Rosanna Farbøl, Interview RadioIIII morgen, Radio IIII 7 March 2024.
Lectures, presentations and talks
Rosanna Farbøl: ‘Nukleart beredskab og civilforsvar under den Kolde Krig’, presentation at Dansk Teknologihistorisk Selskab, DTU Risø (DK), 25 September 2026.
Rosanna Farbøl: Keynote ‘Når dommedag bliver hverdag’ at the Danish Historians’ Meeting, Copenhagen University (DK) 25 August 2026.
Rosanna Farbøl: ‘Hvad skal vi preppe til fremtiden?’, PARK festival, Folkeuniversitetet Aarhus, Aarhus (DK) 22 August 2026.
Rosanna Farbøl: 'Sealed worlds(?) Cold War bunkers and the fantasy of the interior’, Rethinking domestic interiors, University of Oslo (NO), 28 May 2026.
Rosanna Farbøl and Tommy Cassøe: '‘Pride and Prejudice – Productive Friction in Co-produced Cold War History’ (w. Tommy Cassøe), Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past, C2DH, University of Luxembourg 11 May 2026.
Adela Sobotkova and Rosanna Farbøl: 'Find your shelter’, Geoforum, Aalborg, DK, 13 November 2025.
Rosanna Farbøl: Bunkers, Museums and Cold War Memories: Memory and Materiality in Danish Cold War Museums’, virtual roundtable “The Cold War in the Museum”, organized by the National Cold War Center, Blytheville, Arkansas (US), 10 July 2024.
Rosanna Farbøl: ‘Bunkers re-visited. Co-producing Memory, Meaning and Materiality in Danish Cold War Museums’, Commemorating the Cold War in Europe. Memorialization, Adaptation, and Exhibits, University of Udine/Harvard University, Udine, IT, 15 June 2024.
Rosanna Farbøl: ‘With the past as a guide? Uses of history in Danish foreign policy 1989-2024’, Geopolitics and deterrence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary and Historical Contexts’, Aarhus University (DK), 7 May 2024.
Rosanna Farbøl: ‘Bunker legacies. Myths, Memories and Materialities in Danish Cold War Museums’, “The Cold War: impacts, legacies, stakes", the University of Limoges/online (FR), 2 May 2024.
Adela Sobotkova and Rosanna Farbøl: ‘Digital approaches to Civil Defence History’, Geospatial Methods in Cold War History’ Royal Danish Library, DK, 1 May 2024.
Rosanna Farbøl: ‘Den Kolde Krig: Forskning og formidling [The Cold War: Research and Dissemination]’, Official inauguration of The New Nordic Lexicon, Aarhus Katedralskole (DK), 11 March 2024.
Rosanna Farbøl: 'Kriseinformation: Psykologisk forsvar og presseberedskab i Danmark under den Kolde Krig [Information about crises. Psychological defence and media preparedness in Denmark during the Cold War]’, Hærens Officersskole/Royal Danish Military Academy, Copenhagen (DK), 7 March 2024.
Rosanna Farbøl: 'The Cold War Bunker as Cold War Museum. The co-production of materiality, memory and meaning’, Swansea University (Wales), 15 February 2024.
Farbøl, R. Civilforsvaret under den kolde krig – håbets og pragmatismens projekt i atomalderen’. In Rasmus Dahlberg & Niels Klingenberg Vistisen (eds.), Totalforsvar 2.0. Erfaringer fra den kolde krig til i dag (Cph: Djøf Forlag, 2025), 155-76
Sobotkova, A. and Farbøl, R. Mapping Cold War Civil Defense in Aarhus, Denmark. Int J Histor Archaeol (2025). https://doi-org.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/10.1007/s10761-025-00790-w
Farbøl, R. and Casper Sylvest. Sensitive Information. Knowing and Preparing for Nuclear War during the Cold War. In Alistair Black, Bonnie Mak, Laura Skouvig and Toni Weller (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Information History (Abingdon on Thames: Routledge, 2025), 295-307, doi: 10.4324/9781003310532-21
Farbøl, R. Bunkers revisited: Co-producing Memory, Meaning and Materiality in Danish Cold War museums. In Jessica Douthwaite, Holger Nehring and Samuel J.M.M. Alberti (eds.), Cold War Museology (Abingdon on Thames: Routledge, 2024), 111-28, doi 10.4324/9781032690414-9.
Farbøl, R. "Frygtløse møder vi ødelæggelserne” – med 20 ruinbyer forberedte Danmark sig på det utænkelige, ÆRA – mød historien! (2024) 4:1, 58-66
