Sofia Poulia and Marilia Fotopoulou will be presenting at this year's Memory Studies Association Annual Conference, themed as 'Memory and Democracy' in Buenos Aires. Sofia will present her doctoral research and Marilia will launch her new PhD project. msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com/index.php

Gabriel Abarca-Brown and Francisco Ortega have published an article titled 'Dismantling Health by Design: Social Medicine, US-Led Interventions, and the Political Neoliberal Economy of Care in Latin America' in the American Journal of Public Health. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

With her colleagues from University of Virginia, @dittemunch.bsky.social has published an open access article on Moral injury research. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... Read more about their work here: www.christaacampora.net/about-the-lab

@anaantic.bsky.social and friend of Cultmind, Chris Sandal-Wilson are both at the 2026 History of Science Society Joint Meeting, held by The European Society for the History of Science held in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read more hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...

A special summer edition of our newsletter the Kaleidoscope will be out on Friday! This time it's all about the collaboration with the Observatory for Rights in the Field of Mental Health in Greece. Subscribe here so you don't miss it! cultmind.ku.dk/newsletter/

Shilpi Rajpal, Gabriel Abarca-Brown and @anaantic.bsky.social are in Montreal this week to attend the 'Histories of Global Mental Health' conference at McGill University. The conference aims to bridge short and long histories of global mental health. www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/trai...

@dittemunch.bsky.social and Astrid Fly Oredsson were invited to the annual conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion (EPPSE), where they will present their research project in a panel entitled 'Critiquing Emotion Norms in Medicine'. www.epsse.org/_files/ugd/4...

On June 30th, please join us for an online presentation of a new anthology of poetry by Belarusian, Danish and Swedish writers, where our PhD fellow @y-though.bsky.social will present and talk about her poetry. Read more and register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Katrina Bugaj's theatre company Out of Balanz, won the Danish Theatre Reumert Award on Sunday for Special Performance of the Year 2026 for 'Turbulence', a production in which Katrina was the dramaturg and co-creator. Congratulations, Katrina! www.aaretsreumert.dk/pris/aarets-...

@dittemunch.bsky.social is attending the 'The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity' conference at @unibo.it June 8-10, where she will present her paper later today. You can see the program and follow the conference online through the link: www.tearsproject.it/tears-confer...

Maura Cranny Ntow has a new article out in Transcultural Psychiatry, which is part of the upcoming special issue: 'The Politics of COVID-19 in Cultural Context: Implications for Mental Health', and focuses on Ghana and Nigeria. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On June 4-6, @cfogarasi.bsky.social is going to attend a conference by the International Society for the Study of Narrative, which is an annual event that has been held at sites across the US, Canada, and Europe since 1986. conferences.au.dk/narrative2026

Consider this an invitation to come join us for our collaboration with the Greek Observatory for Rights in the Field of Mental Health on 8 and 9 June! The event consists of two workshops as well as an exhibition of works made by the members of both centres. 1/2

New publication alert! Gabriel Abarca-Brown and Francisco Ortega published an article titled 'Social medicine beyond the medical curriculum: A Latin American historical perspective' in Global Public Health. Read it here: tinyurl.com/wzc4xvy6 Image Credit: SNS Chile. Biblioteca Nacional de Chile

@dittemunch.bsky.social is in Zürich today, attending a workshop entitled 'Disgust and the Question of The Human' at @ethz.ch. Read more ethz.ch/content/dam/...

Together with members of the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at Copenhagen University, Sofia Poulia is co-organising a seminar on education, commemoration and informal memory practices in the post-Yugoslav space.

Say hello to our newest PhD Fellow, @y-though.bsky.social, a social anthropologist and poet! Her previous research focused on gender, care, and solidarity, as well as ethnographic studies of psychological help practices and neurodiversity within the Belarusian diaspora.

@dittemunch.bsky.social will be part of a series of talks entitled 'Verden forsøgt forklaret' (Trying to Explain the World) and organised by Universitetsbiblioteket i Fiolstræde! Her talk, which is centered on feelings and how we verbalise them, is on June 11th. kub.ku.dk/fiolstraede/...

Maura Cranny Ntow has won a KU Lighthouse grant to build a proof-of-concept developing an AI-supported digital platform for young people experiencing psychological distress in Denmark. Feel free to reach out to Maura if you want to know more. Congratulations, Maura! lighthouse.ku.dk/en/researche...

After 3 very productive days full of talks, discussions, plans and laughs, we leave the Cultmind retreat and Malmö inspired and tired!

Over the next couple of weeks, @dittemunch.bsky.social is going on a research trip to Boston, to visit her collaborators at the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab. You can read more about their work here: affective-science.org

It's the last day of the 'Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 - present' conference happening in Croatia and co-organised by the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association. cultmind.ku.dk/events/2025/...

Today, Shilpi Rajpal is attending the 'Histories of Child Mental Health' workshop, organised by @sdu.dk in Copenhagen, where she will talk about childhood and mental hygiene in India.

A group of twenty international researchers – visual, writing, performance, humanities and medical – met in March for a workshop on the theme of ‘Creative Therapeutics’, organised by Cultmind. The focus was on how creative practices can help, or sometimes hinder, mental wellbeing.

Tomorrow, Gabriel Abarca-Brown will give a talk entitled 'Migration and Mental Health in Latin America: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives' at the Danish Science Festival 2026! ddrn.dk/20102/ Photo Credit: tn.com.ar

Today, Jessica Carlsson Lohmann is giving her inaugural lecture as professor. Congratulations, Jessica!

Gabriel Abarca-Brown and Francisco Ortega from the @urv.cat have published an article entitled 'Redefining Social Medicine from Latin America: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Directions' in @plosglobalpublichealth.org.

Our former visiting PhD student Juan Pablo Pinto-Venegas and Gabriel Abarca-Brown have published an article entitled 'Use of Psychotropic Drugs Among Young People in Chile: Challenges for Research and Health Services From a Historical–Socioanthropological Perspective' in Nature Mental Health. ⬇️Link

Say hello to our new intern, Asger! A philosophy student, Asger wrote his bachelor’s thesis on the feeling of climate grief. He's also active in the student’s union at UCPH. His work at Cultmind focuses on social construction of emotions and the constructions' effect on affective disorders. 💫

@dittemunch.bsky.social will be at Universität Osnabrück March 17-19 to participate in a workshop organised by the 'Critical Emotion Theory' network, which is supported by the @dfg.de. www.criticalemotiontheory.org/en/