Centre for Culture and the Mind

The centre explores how the human mind and common humanity have been imagined in different cultural, socio-political and disciplinary contexts, examining the assumptions and forces which shaped such definitions.

Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry (CTP)

Key questions

Can the emotional worlds of diverse groups of people be translated? Are the core characteristics of the human mind universal across cultures, ethnic groups and 'civilisations'? Can the ‘psy’ disciplines be global?

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Events

9 Oct. 2025, 14:00-15:30

Stammering personalities: psychologising the stammerer in twentieth-century Britain

Lecture by Dr Andrew Burchell, tracing the threads of how stammering came to be psychologised in Britain.

20 Oct. 2025, 14:00-15:30

Freud Against the Grain. Psychoanalysis, Philology, History

Lecture by Dr Andreas Mayer, showing to what extent a philological-historical approach can change our view of the author Freud.

29 Jan. - 30 Jan. 2026

Call for papers: Imagining the Child’s Mind

International Conference.

23 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2026

Call for papers: Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 - present

Conference.

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Past events

25 Sept. 2025, 11:00-13:00

Human Salvage: Psychiatry in the Second World War

Lecture by Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, discussing the expansion of Anglo-American psychiatric theory and practice during the Second World War

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News

2024.01.24

Job postings

The Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND) is looking for applicants to fill out the three…

launch

2023.09.14

Official CULTMIND launch 12 September

On Tuesday 12 September, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND), the Danish National Research…

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Collective research projects

Funding

Danish National Research Foundation

Period: 2023 - 2029
Head of centre: Ana Antic

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