Peter Bugge – Christian Axboe Nielsen
deltager i forskningsnetværket NEMMA – Network on European Memories of Mass Atrocities – et interdisciplinært netværk af seniorforskere og ph.d.-studerende finansieret af FKK i perioden 2011-2013 med i alt kr. 994.745,00. NEMMA ledes af seniorforsker ved DIIS Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke.
NEMMAs hovedmål er med afsæt i stalinismen og nazismen at adressere den diskussion, der pt. foregår i Europa omkring opgøret med nazismens og kommunismens forbrydelser samt andre grove menneskerettighedskrænkelser, herunder også det armenske folkedrab.
For nærmere oplysninger se: http://www.diis.dk/sw112722.asp
Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen
Granting institution: Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation, Kvindelig forskningslederprojekt.
Grant: ca. 4.700.000 kr.
Duration: 1.2.2010-15.7.2013.
Project director: Ann-Christina L. Knudsen
Brief Presentation: Research into international political history typically works pre-defined understanding of the national vis-à-vis the international. Yet post-1945 western Europe was characterised by both the consolidation of democracies and the creation of international organisations and institutions such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Community and European Union. One result is a political and administrative landscape with partially overlapping national and supranational parliamentary assemblies, administrations and legal orders. The project explores the interfaces of democracy’s institutions have been affected after politicians and civil servants have begun to act in these new transnational spaces. The core of the project is new historical research. In order to track down the “transnational”, the project departs in the metaphor of the constitution of transnational fields. The aim of the project is moreover to contribute to the continous development of theoretical and methodological approaches used in history, also with the aim of enabling the discipline to study international and global phenomena.
The core participants funded by the project are:
Ann-Christina L. Knudsen, Associate Professor, European Studies, AU
”Transnational political space and double-agents in the European Parliament, 1958-1979”
Morten Johannes Winstrup Hansen, Ph.D.-candidate
”Danes in Europe’s transnational parliamentary spaces”
Claudia Leskien, Ph.D.-candidate
“Hosting Europe. The Seat Question of the European Parliament and Local Politics”
Silvia Giulia Pirola, Ph.D.-candidate
Project: A Communist Struggle for Europe? Italian Communists and Delegation to the European Parliament during the Cold War
Kristine Midtgaard, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark:
”Bodil Begtrup - woman in a world society. Positioning in an emerging field of international political rights”
Mette Frisk Jensen
ANTICORRP is a large-scale research project funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Program with 8 million euro. The project consists of twenty-one research groups in sixteen European countries - starting in March 2012 and lasting till February 2017. As part of the research team from The Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg Mette Frisk Jensen contributes to the work package: History of corruption in comparative perspective. Within this framework Mette Frisk Jensen will be doing two main surveys of the Danish history of anti-corruption – state-building and the establishment of an increasingly Weberian type of bureaucracy
Period of project: Sep. 2012 – July 2014 (part time)
In contemporary Europe, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) functions as a uniquely authoritative international court. This observation is the point of departure for this collective project. Whereas legal and social science research has studied the ECJ and the development of European law for decades, the historiography of European integration has until recently ignored the role of law in the European construction. This collective research project will make a contribution towards establishing the history of European law as a new field of historical inquiry on the basis of a systematic use of never before utilised documentary evidence from private, state and European archives.
The research project is funded by the Danish National Research Council (FKK) and led by Morten Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen. The project period is 01.02.2013-31.12.2015
Three researchers from AarhusUniversity conduct individual research projects within the framework of this project:
Senior researchers:
Ann-Christina L. Knudsen: “On the Edge of Law? The European Parliament in Transnational Legislative Politics, 1955-1979”
Karen Gram-Skjoldager: “Europeanization on the Outside? Denmark’s Reception of European Law 1950-1972”
PhD researcher:
Jonas L. Pedersen: “The Odd Man Out Again: Denmark and the Reception of European Public Law, 1973-1993”
The project aims at providing a history of the key concepts that coined economic thought’s social imagination, the ‘good society’, from the 1930s until today by analyzing the transnational coinage of key economic concepts in networks and institutions as well as their national and international implementations. Five sub-projects deal with economists’ networks and the interplay between them and national as well as transnational arenas in which the conceptualizations of economic order and social imagination unfold.
To get a full European grasp, four projects deal with different parts of Europe (North, South-West, Central and East), and one sub-project connects European history and historical agency to its colonial heritage through an analysis of Ghana and another, French-speaking African country and how they connect to Europe and the wider world. We follow a twofold approach in order to reach an analysis of the normative conceptualization of society through economic thought: 1) concrete historical networks will be followed from the 1930s until today; 2) the semantics of economic thought are under scrutiny by looking at key works, debates, and dialogues.
Principle Investigator: Hagen Schulz-Forberg
PostDoc: Katja Naumann
PhD 1: Roxana Breazu
PhD 2: Fanny Fröhlich
Research Fellow: Niklas Olsen, Assistant Professor in European Studies at the Centre for Modern European Studies, Copenhagen University
External Consultants: Dieter Plehwe (Berlin), Hans-Erich Bödeker (Göttingen)
Full Budget: 6.511.255 DKK (4.942.501 DKK from VELUX)
Projektet vil med basis i en række studier danne basis for et tobindsværk: Sønderjysk Søfarts Historie.
Der findes ikke en samlet fremstilling af Sønderjyllands søfartshistorie fra de ældste tider til i dag. En omfattende, men spredt forskning tegner dog et billede af, at søfart gennemgående spillede en stor rolle for et forholdsvis større antal indbyggere i Sønderjylland end i naboregionerne Danmark i nord og Holsten i syd. Særlig i 1700- og 1800-tallet stod sønderjysk søfart i flor med fremgangsrige maritime miljøer, avanceret skibsbygningsteknik og maritime netværk, hvis tråde rakte ud til de fjerneste steder på kloden.
For at udfylde huller i vor viden om den sønderjyske søfarts historie iværksættes indledningsvis to studier, hvor forskningsassistenter udnytter centrale arkiver og databaser til at belyse problemstillinger, som er vigtige for den senere sammenfatning: 1) Maritime stednavne kombineret med arkæologiske vidnesbyrd. 2) Sønderborg skipperlavs arkiv.
Den sammenfattende fremstilling: Sønderjysk Søfarts Historie skal omfatte to bind á 250 sider (bind 1 dækker – 1814, bind 2 1814-2016). Bjørn Poulsen skriver i bind 1 afsnittene Vikingetid, middelalder og 1500-tal.
Budget
1.864.700 kr.
Projektperiode: 2014-2021
Port Efficiency and Public Private Capacity (PEPP)
Forskningsleder: Annette Skovsted Hansen (historie og globale studier, AU)
Finansiering: 4,997,000 DKK from the Danish Foreign Ministry (FFU)
Periode: Januar 2019-januar 2022
Team medlemmer: George Acheampong (University of Ghana Business School), Jonas Nii Ayi Aryee (Regional Maritime University, Ghana), Torben Andersen (Business and Technology, AU), and Casper Andersen (Idéhistorie, AU)
Projekthjemmeside: https://projects.au.dk/port-efficiency-and-public-private-capacity-in-ghana-pepp/
PEPP bidrager med…
ny viden om effektivitet og sikkerhed i Tema Havn i Ghana ved at engagere alle, der er involveret i havnen, i en søgen efter dokumentation og i en samtale om havnens historie, nutid og fremtid. Samtalen inddrager Ghanesiske og danske myndigheder, offentlige instanser, private aktører såsom Aarhus Havn, Danpilot, Den danske ambassade I Accra og den ghanesiske og danske søfartsstyrelse. Forskerteamet repræsenterer en række akademiske discipliner: historie, idéhistorie, antropologi, økonomi, transport og handel. Forskningen er drevet af det der optager aktørerne på havnen såsom digital transformation, arbejdsforhold, korruption og lige nu ikke mindst reaktioner på coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemien.
Efter et år ern ogle af de vigtigste fund betydningen af de såkaldte ‘kajmøder’ i en tid hvor mere og mere foregår online, forståelsen af den ghanesiske Black Star Shipping Lines 40 års historie og uventede forbindelser mellem legitimitet og effektivitet.
Children and books – enterprises and encounters. Studies in the production, uses and experiences of books for children in Denmark c. 1790-1850
Projektet undersøger, hvordan børnebogen opstod som et nyt medie på det danske bogmarked i perioden 1790-1850, og hvordan bøger blev brugt og oplevet af børn både i skole og hjem.
Hvordan gik det til, at børn omkring 1850 havde et varieret udbud af billedbøger, eventyr, skolebøger og bøger med tilknyttet legetøj, mens de fleste i 1790 kun havde mødt ABC og katekismus? Hvem udviklede og formidlede de nye bøger, og hvordan brugte drenge og piger både på land og i by bøgerne i praksis – måske på andre måder, end de voksne forestillede sig? Hvordan blev bogudgivelser efter udenlandske forlæg tilpasset en dansk barnelæser i sammenhæng med et nyt barnesyn, ændrede opfattelser af litteratur, ambitiøs skolelovgivning (1814) og et øget fokus på national identitet?
Projektet sammentænker boghistorie, litteraturhistorie, skolehistorie og barndommens historie og sætter særlig fokus på børnenes møde med bøgernes verden. Derved vil vi frembringe ny viden om tidlig dansk børnekultur og bidrage til udviklingen af nye tværvidenskabelige tilgange til brug for forskning i børns mediebrug frem til i dag.
Projektets deltagere
- Lektor Charlotte Appel (historie)
- Lektor Nina Christensen (litteraturhistorie)
- PhD studerende Karoline Baden Staffensen (historie)
Projektperiode
2016-2019
Bevillingsgiver og budget
Det Frie Forskningsråd – Kultur og Kommunikation (FKK): 4,3 mio.
This interdisciplinary project is concerned with literacy and urbanity in Scandinavian in the Viking Age and Middle Ages. The main ambition is to shed light on the potential roles urbanity played in the transformation from societies based on orality to societies based on the written word, and simultaneously provide an exchange of methods between different fields of research: History, archeology and philology, in particular runology.
Together researchers from these disciplines will work with key questions such as: In what ways can we define medieval literacy in Scandinavia? How widespread was literacy in different social layers in the towns? How did literacy affect the formation of urban identity? How did literacy and urbanity co-develop? About 35 researchers from museums and universities in Scandinavia, England and the Netherlands are included in the project, which is based at the department of History and Classical Studies.
Steering committee
Duration
October 2017 – November 2019
Funding
The Danish Council for Independent Research. Budget: c. 816.000 DKK.
The project aims to (a) create a digital dataset which enables compatible analyses of historical and modern homicide, and (b) conduct comparative analysis of contemporary homicide patterns in the Nordic countries.
Combining the analysis of contemporary and historical criminology, the resulting analysis will be groundbreaking for Nordic criminology as it harnesses digital humanities and social sciences to the study of violence.
The project will open new theoretical perspectives in the research of interpersonal violence in terms of explaining homicide booms and busts. Representing hard core historical and social science criminology, the project builds the fundamental knowledge base for violence prevention policies in Scandinavia.
Project team:
The concept of a ’Nordic model’ has long been recognised, and plays an important role in shaping perceptions of the Nordic countries, internally and externally. The concept enjoyed a remarkable renaissance following the global financial crisis that began in 2008, and a decade later it continues to attract attention from various groups and individuals, including politicians on the left and the right in different parts of the world and within the Nordic region itself.
But what is the Nordic model and why does the Nordic region attract so much attention? Our project analyses how ‘Nordic models’ have been conceived, debated and used in different contexts over the last half century. When and where did the idea of a Nordic model emerge? What does the Nordic model mean in different contexts, and how have these meanings changed over time? Just how significant are the Nordic countries and the Nordic model?
In exploring these questions we also seek to address broader questions about the global circulation of ideas and models during the period 1970-2020, when challenges such as environmental degradation, poverty and inequality, racism and populism have altered power structures globally and in Norden. We do this by examining the idea of a Nordic model or models in three areas: North America; Western Europe; cases in the Global South.
Four researchers are working on the project:
Kollektivt projekt støttet af FKK – Projektleder Nina Javette Koefoed
Reformationen bliver ofte enten fremstillet som en central historisk begivenhed for udviklingen af det danske demokrati og velfærdsstaten, eller fremhævet for sine autoritære, hierarkiske og konfliktskabende elementer. Projektet Lutherdom og dansk samfundsudvikling vil nuancere og uddybe forståelsen af Reformationens betydning for den danske samfundsudvikling ud fra centrale elementer i luthersk tænkning.
Projektets udgangspunkt er en undersøgelse af hvordan autoritet, socialt ansvar og pligt til lydighed forstås, anvendes, udvikles og bidrager til at skabe synkronisering på flere niveauer i samfundet. Husstanden, som hos Luther er den væsentligste samfundsenhed, er omdrejningspunktet for projektets undersøgelse af synkronisering af det danske samfund over tid med fokus på det 18. århundrede. Samtidig er spørgsmålet om omsorgen for de fattige, gamle og syge centralt, fordi det som samfundsfelt både blev løftet fra kirken til staten ved reformationen, og var influeret af Luthers arbejdsbegreb og hans forståelse af den nådige Gud.
Projektet spørger grundlæggende til i hvilket omfang de religiøse forståelseshorisonter, der blev skabt med reformationen, bidrog til at forme de forståelser af ansvar, ret og pligt, der var formative for det danske demokrati og velfærdsstaten.
Deltagere i projektet:
Koefoed, Nina Javette (Projektleder)
Holm, Bo Kristian (Deltager)
Harste, Gorm (Deltager)
Mathiasen Stopa, Sasja Emilie (Deltager)
Maria Nørby Pedersen (Deltager)
Projektperiode: 1/11-2016 - 31/10-2021
Projektet vil vise, hvordan der gennem det 20 århundrede er opbygget en kultur omkring vand, som blandt andet tager for givet at vi har brug for 2-300 liter vand i døgnet for at leve et normalt liv. Projektet foreslår, at denne kultur er opbygget gennem en række "vandregimer", og undersøger to sådanne regimer, der grundlæggende har skabt den moderne bys forhold til vand. De afgrænses til et "liberalt regime" og et "velfærdsregime", der dækker årtierne omkring 1900, henholdsvis omkring Anden Verdenskrig.
I undersøgelsen af disse regimer ser vi på samspillet mellem teknologier, herunder "mikroteknologier" på grænsen mellem hverdag og netværk (W.C, badekar, vaskemaskiner, svømmehaller); vi inddrager praksisser omkring vand i hjemmet og offentligt (badning, vask, vanding osv), og endelig de forestillinger og normer, som vand blev omdrejningspunkt for (renlighed, hygiejne, sundhed). Videre har projektet den hypotese, at vandkulturen gennem de forskellige hydroregimer påvirkede medborgerskab og social distinktion i byen, et forhold vi kalder materiel politik
Deltagere i projektet:
Mikkel Thelle (PI)
Mikkel Høghøj (deltager)
Projektperiode: 1/9-2019 - 30/6-2023
En udforskning og digital kortlægning af vejforløb mellem købstæder i det danske rige i perioden ca. 1100-1650. Projektet udgør den danske del af et europæisk samarbejde med Europäische Hansemuseum i Lübeck som primus motor.
Projektet er støttet af Kulturministeriets forskningspulje og vil løbe fra 1. april 2019 til 29. februar 2020.
Dansk Center for Byhistorie er et forsknings- og formidlingscenter, der har de danske byers historie som sit primære arbejdsfelt. Centret blev grundlagt i 2001 af det daværende Historisk Institut - nu Institut for Kultur og Samfund - ved Aarhus Universitet og købstadsmuseet Den Gamle By.
Centret blev grundlagt for at dække behovet for komparative historiske bystudier. Lokale arkiver og museer fokuserer på enkelte byers historie, og intet dansk universitet havde den rette profil. Internationalt tjente byhistoriske centre i bl.a. Leicester, Stockholm og Münster som inspiration til at oprette et tilsvarende center i Danmark.
Forskning ved Dansk Center for Historie drives i dag især i form af ph.d.-projekter og individuel forskning udført af centrets ansatte eller forskere tilknyttet centret. Formidlingsdimensionen løftes især af Den Digitale Byport på centrets hjemmeside men også via en række andre kanaler. Dertil kommer undervisning ved Aarhus Universitet, som også fylder en hel del i centret.
Dansk Center for Byhistorie finansieres af Den Gamle By samt Faculty og Arts og Institut for Kultur og Samfund ved Aarhus Universitet, mens det primære udviklings- og forskningsarbejde finansieres eksternt, f.eks. af Kulturstyrelsens puljer, kommunale og statslige myndigheder og forskningsråd.
Drømmen af bureaukrati er at livet skal gøres let af regulering og effektivitet.
Men vi befinder os omgivet af fejlende ”online portals”, en udmattende masse af brugernavne og adgangskoder, og vælgere der brænder med antibureaukratisk vrede (”Drain the Washington Swamp” or ”blasted Brussels Eurocrats”).
Nogle ideologer har foreslået at vi betragter den nordiske middelalder for at finde en model for et bureakrati-frit samfund, særligt under den såkaldte Islandske Fristat (930-1262). Viking entusiaster og professionelle statshistorikere har begge gået ud fra princippet om, at staten var historisk set svag i nordisk middelalder, særligt i sammenligning med, f. eks, Angevinsk England eller Capetingsk Frankrig. Men historie viser, at da de nordiske riger havde svage stater, kom der stadig en del bureaukrati fra den private sfære. Ja, folk i norden under middelalderen var lige så forført og frustreret af bureaukrati som vi er i dag – dog, på forskellige måder.
Dette projekt fortæller denne glemte historie, og dens implikationer i forbindelse med forvaltningsteori og praksis i dag. Fra det Kafkaske i islandske sagaer til danske bønder der brænder dokumenter i senmiddelalderen, bidrager den nordiske fortid med overraskende stof til studiet af bureaukrati.
Hovedforsker: Richard Cole
https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/richard-cole(afab6ff1-89b2-4378-8728-1cdc67e591bc).html
Postdoctoral Research Fellow:
Pete Sandberg
http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/petesandberg@cas.au.dk
The Carlsberg Foundation 'Semper Ardens' Monographs
This projects explores a key feature of modern international organisations: international bureaucracies. In recent years, international bureaucratic bodies, and the EU bureaucracy in particular, have come under attack for being intransparent and undemocratic. Yet, in a globalized world, they are indispensable. This book offers the first historical exploration of the emergence and development of 20th century international bureaucracy. Investigating the professional norms and practices of these institutions, the power they held and how they have evolved since the foundational inter-war years, it moves beyond the normative assumptions of these organisations as good or bad and generate fundamentally new insights into the genealogy and constitutive elements of international bureaucracies today.
Over the last 100 years, more than 5000 international organisations have been set up to deal with the many problems and challenges emerging from an increasingly globalized world. This mushrooming of international organisations has not only shifted power from the national to the international level but also from national parliaments towards legal and executive forms of power. This shift has created challenges of political legitimacy for IOs that they are still struggling to address. The book is important because it sheds light on this problem and help us understand the social characteristics and political power associated with international bureaucratic bodies.
The book will be based on primary sources generated through multi-archival research into IO and government archives as well as private papers of central decision makers. The account draws on 20 different archival collections in nine different countries.
The book's historical exploration of the emergence and development of international bureaucracy offers critically important historical context to our understanding of this at once indispensable, intransparent and highly contested form of power.
The project is active untill January 2021
Ass. Professor Karen Gram-Skjoldager
Music, songs, speeches, noises - in principle, any sound remembered or imagined, any sound captured or produced by sound technologies can become a popular sonic site of memory. In practice, however, only a few select sounds become true signature sonic events.
The immediate, visceral impact of sounds as sites of memory results from the special function of sonic information in our lives. Our sense of hearing develops ontogenetically before our other senses and is faster, more efficient, and more precise than our sense of sight. Therefore, hearing serves as our primary physiological warning system with corresponding emotional import. Nevertheless, research about the history of sound and more specifically about collective memory and sound has only just begun.
SoundTrak is part of the new aural turn in memory studies and advances the state of the art in three important respects by, for the first time, (1) systematically comparing European and Asian aural memory cultures; (2) focusing specifically on the memory challenges and accomplishments of relatively small states; and (3) tracking and comparing the transnational development of communist and capitalist aural memoryscapes.
For that purpose, SoundTrak explores soundscapes in the three Cold War battlegrounds of Taiwan, East Germany, and Denmark, comparable in size and strategic setting, through a topic fundamentally related to questions of national identity: the memory of WWII warfare, occupation, and liberation.
Project outcomes and research dissemination
In terms of academic output SoundTrak will produce two PhD theses, one edited volume, and a number of peer reviewed articles and will also host three workshops with external guests to discuss results. The project uses three additional channels of research dissemination: podcasts, an online data-platform, and radio programs.
Participants
The project is one of transnational collaboration and brings together two junior Danish scholars with a junior Taiwanese, a senior German, and a senior German-American scholar working on the project:
• Ai Chung, PhD Fellow, Department of Global Studies: China Studies, Aarhus University
• Andreas Steen, Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies: China Studies, Aarhus University
• Jacco Visser, Project Coordinator, Department of English, Aarhus University
• Mikkel Weel Krammer-Haßler, PhD Fellow, Department of History and Classical Studies: History, Aarhus University
• Sigrid Nielsen Saabye, Postdoc, Department of History and Classical Studies: History, Aarhus University
• Wulf Kansteiner, Professor with special responsibilities, Department of History and Classical Studies: History, Aarhus University
Duration
September 2019 – December 2022
Funding
The SoundTrak project is funded by The Velux Foundation.
This project aims to aggregate, parametrise, and synthesise primary datasets that inform the evolution of societies in the Ancient Mediterranean (ie. examine the links between social connectivity and complexity manifest in material and textual evidence). In the process, the team will develop a suite of digital approaches and tools, inspired by large-scale ecological projects like Ocean Health Index (Lowndes et al. 2017). The two mains outputs of this project will be
In its digital aim, this project will deliver the next component of a digital ecosystem for ‘small-data’ domains like the humanities, namely research infrastructure for combining 'messy' and heterogeneous legacy data with 'clean' digitally born data, allowing for their streamlining and analysis in a collaborative environment.
In its empirical mission, this project will evaluate existing hypotheses of Ancient Mediterranean dynamics by aggregating and synthesising available digital datasets.
Participants
Duration
2019 - 2022
Funding
The project is funded and supported by the Aarhus University Research Foundation
Website
Social Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean (sdam-au.github.io)
Over the last 100 years, the international political scene has become increasingly organized. More than 5000 international organisations now regulate global and regional political, economic and technical affairs. As a consequence international bureaucracy, i.e. international executive bodies that function autonomously from nation states and deal with international affairs, has become an important and increasingly contested feature of world politics.
Even so, the history of these non-elected executive bodies is underresearched. This project aims to shine a light on the roots of international bureaucracy and its particular institutional and socio-cultural characteristics by exploring the principles, practices and formative effects of the League of Nations Secretariat. With theoretical inspiration from political sociology and based on extensive multiarchival research, the project will explore the institutional norms and practices of the League Secretariat and investigate its exchanges and connections with national diplomatic and bureaucratic structures, internationalist networks and institutions and subsequent international bureaucracies of the 20th century.
Core group
- Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Inventing International Bureaucracy: The Creation of Bureaucratic Norms and Practices in the League Secretariat
- Haakon Ikonomou, Postdoctoral researcher, Aarhus University
International Bureaucracy and Transnational Activism: the Disarmament Section in the League of Nations Secretariat
- Torsten Kahlert, Postdoctoral researcher, Aarhus University
Inventing international Bureaucrats: Career Trajectories of British and French Secretariat Employees
- Emil Eiby Seidenfaden, PhD student, Aarhus University
Public Legitimization Strategies in the League of Nations Secretariat and their Legacies
Associate researchers
- Namrata R. Ganneri, SNDT College of Arts & SCB College of Commerce and Science for Women, Mumbai
Indian Civil Servants in the League Secretariat
- Michael Jonas, Lecturer, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
German Diplomacy in the League Secretariat
- Daniel Maul, Associate Professor, University of Oslo
The League Secretariat and the International Labour Organisation
- Øyvind Tønnesson, Associate Professor, University of Agder
The League Secretariat and the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Funding
This research is funded by a grant of 6.785.734 DKK from The Danish Council for Independent Research as part of its Sapere Aude program.
De danske Ministerier er en bogudgivelsesserie, der foreløbig er udkommet i fire bind dækkende dansk regerings- og parlamentarisk historie i perioden 1849 til 1972. Nu har en millionbevilling fra PFA pension gjort det muligt for en gruppe historikere tilknyttet Moderne Europa forskningsprogrammet at ajourføre værket gennem udarbejdelsen af et bd. 5, som skal dække perioden 1972-1993. Bindet får således nogenlunde samme kronologiske længde som det foregående bd. 4 skrevet af Tage Kaarsted, der behandlede perioden 1953-1972. Bindet vil i lighed med de tidligere bind blive organiseret omkring periodens forskellige regeringer med fokus på politik på både regerings- og parlamentarisk plan. Mere specifikt vil bd. 5 fokusere på de grundlæggende forandringer i rammebetingelserne for dansk parlamentarisme, der skete i tiden 1972 til 1993 forårsaget af bl.a. det nye EF-medlemskab, opløsningen af det traditionelle klassebaserede 5-parti system (eksemplificeret ved jordskredsvalget i 1973) og den ændrede socio-økonomiske debat, der opstod i overgangen fra efterkrigstidens højkonjunkturfase til en periode kendetegnet ved begreber som oliekrise, ”fattigfirsere” og nyliberalisme.
Projektdeltagere
- Professor Thorstren Borring Olesen
- Lektor Niels Wium Olesen
- Lektor Karen Gram-Skjoldager
- Studentermedhjælp Kristina Møller Andersen
Projektperiode
2014-2017
Bevillingsgiver og Budget
Samfinansiering mellem PFA Pension og AU med samlet budget på ca. 3 mill. dkk.
This project is concerned with the global and local dynamics that come into play when children's media are produced for a global market and then transferred to a local setting. One particular focus is the challenges that global market products are seen to bring about, because children’s media products often are viewed as playing an important role in their enculturation into a specific cultural (national) environment. The primary way in which I approach this area of research is through an investigation of how the American produced, globally marketed, children’s television programme Sesame Street, was simultaneously appropriated and rejected by national broadcasting companies in different European countries during the 1970s. When Sesame Street came to Europe in the 1970s, it was during a period of social and cultural upheaval where European TV stations held key positions in struggles over national culture. Thus, the exploration of national broadcasters’ roles in the transfer and demarcation of Sesame Street also shows how and why norms, values and ambivalent feelings about American cultural production, especially vis-à-vis children, were negotiated in diverse cultural contexts. This makes Sesame Street's transfer history the optimal focus for an immediate, well-defined and far-reaching project about European childhood and television in the 1970s and 1980s. The project therefore contribute with insights into the differences and similarities in European notions of the role of media in children’s lives and, subsequently, children’s TV’s part in upholding and transgressing national cultures. The project includes printed, digital and audiovisual sources from archives in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Britain, Italy, the United States and Germany.
Participants
Assistant Professor, Helle Strandgaard Jensen
Duration
2014-2017
Funding
The project is financed by the Danish Council for Independent Research and FP7 Marie Curie Actions. Total budget: 3mill DKK.
Forskningsnetværk samlet om forbrugshistorisk forskning med by- og erhvervshistorie som omdrejningspunkter. Hensigten er at samle den danske forskning på et felt, som internationalt er i vækst og give et overblik over denne i en afsluttende publikation. Projektet foregår gennem en række seminarer frem mod 2017, og er støttet af Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation med omkring 600.000 kr. Projektdeltagere Lektor Nina Kofoed Lektor Mikkel Thelle Museumsinspektør Kristoffer Jensen Projektperiode 2015-2017 Bevillingsgiver og Budget · Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation med omkring 600.000 kr.
Forskningsnetværk samlet om forbrugshistorisk forskning med by- og erhvervshistorie som omdrejningspunkter. Hensigten er at samle den danske forskning på et felt, som internationalt er i vækst og give et overblik over denne i en afsluttende publikation. Projektet foregår gennem en række seminarer frem mod 2017, og er støttet af Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation med omkring 600.000 kr.
Projektdeltagere
- Lektor Nina Kofoed
- Lektor Mikkel Thelle
- Museumsinspektør Kristoffer Jensen
Projektperiode
2015-2017
Bevillingsgiver og Budget
Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation med omkring 600.000 kr.
Internationalt forskningsprojekt mellem Aarhus, Berlin, Johannesburg og New Orleans, der undersøger urbane praksismønstre og deres forhold til styring af byudvikling. Projektet er samtidig tværdisciplinært på AU og søger at samle interesser for bystudier på AU. Projektdeltagere Lektor Morten Nielsen Lektor Mikkel Thelle Lektor Louise Fabian Projektperiode 2015-2017 Bevillingsgiver og Budget · Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond med omkring 600.000 kr.
Internationalt forskningsprojekt mellem Aarhus, Berlin, Johannesburg og New Orleans, der undersøger urbane praksismønstre og deres forhold til styring af byudvikling. Projektet er samtidig tværdisciplinært på AU og søger at samle interesser for bystudier på AU.
Projektdeltagere
- Lektor Morten Nielsen
- Lektor Mikkel Thelle
- Lektor Louise Fabian
Projektperiode
2015-2017
Bevillingsgiver og Budget
Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond med omkring 600.000 kr.
The global upheaval caused by the protest movements around 1968 revolutionised social structures, overturned cultural conventions, challenged political ideologies, and catalysed civil rights activism by women, gay people and ethnic minorities. Childhood historians stress the importance of this period in altering the authority structures that shaped children’s lives. However, many of the fields within childhood studies driving these changes – children’s media and culture, children’s heritage and art education – remain pushed to the margins within historical master narratives of 1968. These disciplines have had little chance to reflect on their own development, to draw the connections stemming from their shared heritage in 1968, or to trace the historical legacies that have shaped the assumptions underpinning them.
This new collaborative project analyses 1968 as a watershed moment in children’s culture and its related disciplines, following Marwick’s (1998) now canonical definition of 1968 as the crystallisation of the cultural revolution of the ‘long sixties’ (c.1958-c.1974). A team of specialists from cognate fields within childhood studies, including children’s history and media, children’s culture, heritage and art education will pursue this objective, in dialogue with historians of 1968. This new collaboration brings together researchers and practitioners from Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK.
By thinking about children’s culture as a site for artistic and intellectual experimentation, at the centre of ideological activity across disciplinary boundaries and national borders, this project opens up new ways of understanding the 1968 liberation movements and their legacies. With the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 approaching, it is important that the children’s perspective is finally brought to the fore of scholarly debate and public commemorations.
Participants
- Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading, UK
- Cécile Boulaire, University of Tours, France
- Marie Cronqvist, University of Lund, Sweden
- Sophie Heywood, University of Reading, UK / University of Tours, France
- Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, University of Tübingen, Germany
- Lucy Pearson, University of Newcastle, UK
Duration
2016-2018
Funding
Le Studium, France, approximately 500.000DKK
