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Spring and Fall Seminars 2021
9 March 2022
Three seminars have been carried out in 2021. In May, ethnologist Jeppe Høst discussed his current work on revisiting the life-mode analysis, and in June, associate professor Niels Jul Nielsen presented
Fall Seminars 2020
26 October 2020
Two seminars have been carried out during this Fall semester. We have among other things discussed green transition, modern farming in Denmark and ethnological life-mode analysis. These themes...
Lectures in China
3 October 2019
In 2018 Thomas Højrup and Niels Jul Nielsen visited Lanzhou University in China and delivered a number of lectures. The lectures can be seen through this link.
Upcoming Fall Seminars
10 September 2019
The schedule and content for this Fall's seminars are now in order. We will discuss Chinese state and life modes, the theoretical and analytical relationship between life modes and the state, and finally 'democratic' ways of running and organizing a business. See lifemodes.ku.dk/seminar for more further information.
Upcoming Spring Seminars
5 February 2019
A number of seminars are now lined up for the Spring Semester of 2019. Among other things we will discuss how to conceptualize the cultural life modes and praxises of civil servants. See lifemodes.ku.dk/seminar for more further information.
Talents Between Expectations and Practices
17 January 2019
“’Talents’ – between expectations and practices”. A special issue of the journal Culture and History focus on highly-skilled migrants and the work and family life they pursue in Denmark. The socalled ’talents’ – favored by a political support of appealing to assumably attractive migrants for Denmark – turn out to materialize as highly different groups of migrants, who end up in both specialist and low-status jobs.
Production, Labour Market and Working Life
17 January 2019
Danish ethnology – similar to most Scandinavian and Central European ethnology – has a long tradition of inquring into society’s basic means of subsistence, i.e. its material end economic conditions, and understands this in relationship to its social architecture. The article sketches some significant historical transformations of production and working practices
After Brexit: Listen to The European Workers
14 September 2016
Taking it’s point of departure in the recent Brexit it is discussed how an integration of the foreign workers on the national labour market can be successful if the social partners play an active part in the process.
Settling migrants - why and how?
21 May 2016
Research on migrants presented at conference in Aalborg.
Visiting scholars from "Transformation network"
12 May 2016
PhD Seminar - visit from 28 PhD students and their supervisors