The aim of the programme is to examine the social roles performed today by cultural production, circulation and transformation.
This research group investigates the ‘extra representational’ by focusing on new forms of political mobilization and affective management, which work on and through bodies.
Coordinator: Britta Timm Knudsen
This research group investigates the concept of creativity through the three main areas of 1) Creativity, theatre and education, 2) Creativity and screen production, and 3) Creative industry and culture production.
Coordinators: Ida Krøgholt, Anne Marit Waade
The research unit focus on cultural policy, especially the way in which the value of culture in and for society can be understood, analysed and discussed. The activities of the research unit has a close relationship to Center for Cultural Evaluation, but researchers not affiliated with the Center are welcome to join the research unit.
Coordinator: Louise Ejgod Hansen
This interdisciplinary research group includes researchers investigating how humans invent, engage in, develop, change and negotiate cultural practices around death and dying - both before, during and after death.
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Coordinator: Dorthe Refslund Christensen
This research group focuses on the aesthetics and culture of fandom and celebrities from the perspectives of cross-media communication and media convergent culture.
Coordinator: Matthias Stephan
This research group brings together interdisciplinary projects that explore how we enact, study, archive, curate, write, and otherwise document the present in ways that influence our futures.
Coordinator: Annette Markham
This research group organizes various types of research activities that investigate how media and narrative matter for (disturbed) health.
Coordinators: Carsten Stage, Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard
This research group investigates entangled and dynamic relationships between natural/cultural heritage and tourism in various socio-political settings put in motion by new actors and challenges.
Coordinator: Britta Timm Knudsen
The IPA research unit investigates current intersections and formations taking place between politics and aesthetics framed within a global context. We aim to stay attuned to dialogical relations between locally situated practices of politics and aesthetics and global questions of social transformation. The organizers of this group invite researchers on all levels and from all departments with an interest in the field of aesthetics and politics to participate.
Coordinators: Mikkel N. Jørgensen, Maj B. Ørskov
This research group thus uses the concept of dramaturgy in order to interrogate the substantial reconfiguration of the contexts and conditions of theatre making, and art production more widely, in 21st century Europe.
Coordinator: Peter Michael Boenisch
The concept of participation is currently flourishing in projects, institutions, and policymaking as well as in academic disciplines. This research group is a forum for the investigation of user-generated production and citizen-driven participation across a variety of socio-cultural fields and participatory platforms, e.g. urban spaces, aesthetic co-productions, public institutions, and online environments.
Coordinator: Birgit Eriksson
Public debate and political action are influenced by aestheticization, commercialization and the obligations of a media-saturated public space. At the same time the development of digital and interactive media facilitates new kinds of democratic participation and activism.
Coordinator: Henrik Kaare Nielsen
This research group brings together junior scholars investigating how recalcitrant materiality, objects, and affects acting beyond human control relate to aesthetic and cultural phenomena.
Coordinators: Maja Bak Herrie, Ane Petrea Danielsen, Tobias Skiveren, Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen, Josefine Brink Siem
The aim of the research group Sexuality Studies is to contribute to an increased academic focus on sexuality and hereby to an increased understanding of the relation between sexuality and culture.
Coordinator: Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
The key issues addressed by this research group involve exploring, improving and presenting the relationship between sound and sound experience in a variety of contexts from a full, cross-disciplinary perspective. We carry out various interdisciplinary studies of the status, function and significance of sound and sound experience within the fields of media, language/literature, digital aesthetics, communication, art and culture, health, and urban spaces/architecture.
Coordinator: Ansa Lønstrup
This research group is a forum for investigations into questions of transnational television, its production cultures, distribution logics, technological developments, and modes and patterns of consumptions. Transnational Television is considered in relation to broader developments of globalization, localization and digitalization.
Coordinator: Susanne Eichner
