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News from the Department of Culture and Language

12.01.2024

Greetings from the dean

Dear colleagues I am proud of, impressed with and genuinely pleased with the outstanding work my colleagues at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark are doing. They are showing an unrivalled commitment and dedication to bringing important research into play and ensuring that crucial scientific contributions are made wherever they can make a positive difference for and with society. A prerequisite for the success of our research is that we secure the financial basis. It is therefore marvellous to see that we have broken all records on this front this year. Funding has been applied for like never before, and I’m happy to say this has resulted in a record amount of external funding – and we still have many promising projects under review. Research is a collective process, and this year’s application efforts have certainly proven this. Systematic collegial discussions and exemplary collaboration, coupled with the fierce competition where even the best don’t always succeed, means that everyone deserves individual recognition for their outstanding efforts. However, this isn’t feasible, so I’ll just stick to the names on the notices of funding. Huge congratulations to: Anders Ljungdalh, The Formation of Impartiality Anders V. Munch, History of Danish Design Ane Qvortrup, Eco-engagement and eco-literacy Anne-Marie S. Christensen, Individuelt moralsk ansvar i skyldens tidsalder (Individual Moral Responsibility in the Age of Guilt) Cecilie Bjerre, Paternity In Denmark, ca. 1920s–1990s (PAID) Eva Knutz, Co-designing new support practices with young children Eva Lykkegaard, Students' voices on wellbeing (VoiceWell) Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen, EXPECT_Art Janne Liburd, ISOSCAN Johanne Louise Christiansen, QURANATURA Jytte Isaksen, Aphasia is more than a language impairment Kathrin Maurer, Aesthetics of Biomachines Michael Paulsen, Playing with disaster Nina Nørgaard, Kommunikation om Seksuel Sundhed (Communication about Sexual Health) Nikolaj Elf, Centre for Primary School Research 2.0 Søren Wind Eskildsen, (Second) Language Learning in the Wild Susana Tosca, Forskning i kulturarv og Digital Entertainment Machine (Cultural Heritage Research and Digital Entertainment Machine) Thomas Heebøll-Holmøll-Holm , Fama in Medieval Denmark (ca. 1240–1340) Tina Høegh, InDi – Inclusive Dialogue Tine Hindkjær Madsen, Reconciling Science and Democracy Torsten Bøgh Thomsen – H.C. Andersen’s views on nature and technology These are just to name a few. Fortunately, there are far too many for me to mention everyone. And of course, a huge thank you to the generous partners who made it all possible: The A.P. Moller Foundation The Augustinus Foundation The Carlsberg Foundation The European Commission Independent Research Fund Denmark Novo Nordisk Foundation The Velux Foundations (Villum Fonden & Velux Fonden) Best wishes Simon Møberg Torp Dean, The Faculty of Humanities

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24.08.2023

New departmental names

Dear all, I hope you have had a wonderful summer holiday in the company of family and friends. When the new departmental structure was approved, our two new departments were given temporary names. At the end of February, we started a process to find permanent names for them. All employees at the faculty were invited to send in proposals for new permanent names for the departments, and a committee was established to advise the management group on the final decision on the names. The committee’s membership comprised the heads of department, a representative from each Department Council, a representative from the Academic Council, a student representative and myself. A total of eleven proposals for departmental names were submitted for the Institute of Language, Culture, History, and Communication, and ten proposals were submitted for the Department of Media, Design, Education, and Cognition. A significant majority in the committee thought that the temporary names were too long to be made permanent, so they decided to recommend new names for both departments. After thorough discussions at two meetings in the naming committee, the participants in the second meeting have agreed on the following new names for the departments: • Institut for Kultur- og Sprogvidenskaber / Department of Culture and Language • Institut for Design, Medier og Uddannelsesvidenskab / Department of Design, Media and Educational Science The committee has endeavoured to find names that are not too long while also being as inclusive as possible. Naturally, this has been an extremely challenging task. We are fully aware that there will probably be academic fields that would have preferred different names. With this in mind, work is now being carried out to add an extra level to email signatures and to sdu.dk, so that the specific research environment that you are attached to (such as centre, research group, etc.) will be displayed. In other words, three organizational affiliations will in future be listed: research environment, department and faculty. I would like to extend my gratitude to the members of the naming committee for their dedicated efforts in connection with this thankless task. Best wishes, Simon Møberg Torp Dean

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Events

Fioniavej 34, Odense M

15.05.2024

11:15 - 12:15

David Woolner - Franklin Roosevelt, Niels Bohr, and the Atomic Bomb – some unanswered questions about a dying president in his last 100 days

15 May

On April 12, 1945, a stunned world learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt, the leader who had brought the United States through the two great crises of the twentieth century, was dead. Responding to this shocking development, the Danish physicist, Niels Bohr, expressed the view that it seemed impossible to believe that “the great man, upon whom more than anyone else, the hopes of humanity were centered” was gone. What Bohr and the rest of the public did not realize, of course, was that by the spring of 1945 Franklin Roosevelt was a dying man. What’s more, his sudden disappearance from the world stage at this critical moment meant that leader who had orchestrated the alliance that would go on to defeat the forces of fascism and set the stage for the successful creation of the United Nations would not be there to witness these historic developments. Nor would he be present when his government faced one of the most daunting decisions made in human history—the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Roosevelt’s absence at the dawn of the nuclear age has raised several questions about what might have happened had he lived long enough to witness the successful development of the atomic bomb. Would Roosevelt—whose knowledge of and involvement in the making of the atomic bomb was far more extensive than President Truman’s—have followed the same course of action? Or might FDR have pursued an alternative strategy for ending the war, through negotiation or a demonstration of the atomic bomb’s awesome power. Equally significant, might he have ultimately taken Bohr’s advice and shared the atomic secret with the Russians in such a way as to gain their confidence and perhaps avoid the onset of the nuclear arms race that stood at the heart of the Cold War? As discussed in this presentation, a close examination of FDR’s last 100 days in office offers some interesting clues as to what Roosevelt might have done had he lived long enough to bring the most destructive war in history to an end. About David B. Woolner: David B. Woolner is Professor of History and Kovler Foundation Fellow of Roosevelt Studies at Marist College; Senior Fellow and Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute; and Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College. He is the author of The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace (Basic Books, 2017), is editor/co-editor of five books, and served as historical advisor to the Ken Burns films The Roosevelts: An Intimate History and The US and the Holocaust and for numerous special exhibitions at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. Dr. Woolner is the recipient of the Fulbright Denmark Distinguished Scholar Award in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (2023-2024) and was recently named a Fulbright Specialist for the years 2021-2025 by the US Department of State’s Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs. From 2000-2010, Dr. Woolner served as the Roosevelt Institute’s Executive Director, overseeing a significant expansion of the organization’s budget, programmatic dimension and staff. He earned his Ph. D. and M.A. in history from McGill University and a B.A. summa cum laude in English Literature and History from the University of Minnesota. The lecture takes place in the DIAS Auditorium at Fioniavej 34. Everybody is welcome and no registration is needed.

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