Frederik Forrai Ørskov
@oerskov.bsky.social
Historian of literature, Nazism, cultural diplomacy, the Nordic countries, and a bunch of other things. Post.doc at Nordic Humanities Center, University of Copenhagen
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The fact that fewer and fewer people are willing and/or able to read say 1000 words at once seems as dangerous to liberal democracy as anything else that might be happening but that is where we are
January 15, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The fact that fewer and fewer people are willing and/or able to read say 1000 words at once seems as dangerous to liberal democracy as anything else that might be happening but that is where we are
Også for ikke-italiensrejsende danskere. Fantastisk bog!
Antal Szerbs ‘Rejsende i måneskin’ burde være pligtlæsning for alle italiensrejsende danskere, skriver anmelder Johann Sten Nielsen.
Boganmeldelse: Antal Szerb er pligtlæsning for alle med hang til spleen og nostalgi
www.information.dk
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Også for ikke-italiensrejsende danskere. Fantastisk bog!
Et pro-tip til danske politikere, der forbereder sig på valgkamp: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #dkpol
‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals
Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Et pro-tip til danske politikere, der forbereder sig på valgkamp: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #dkpol
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Mette Sandbye vil have dig til at gemme dine gamle familiealbum og printe de bedste billeder fra skyen. I sin nye bog skriver fotoforskeren om en uddøende praksis.
At sætte familiens fotos i album er en ekstrem kærlighedsakt
Mette Sandbye vil have dig til at gemme dine gamle familiealbum og printe de bedste billeder fra skyen. I sin nye bog skriver fotoforskeren om en uddøende praksis, der rummer både kulturhistorisk…
www.information.dk
January 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Mette Sandbye vil have dig til at gemme dine gamle familiealbum og printe de bedste billeder fra skyen. I sin nye bog skriver fotoforskeren om en uddøende praksis.
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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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This Pope guy has some bangers
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This Pope guy has some bangers
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Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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"'We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,' Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead." www.smh.com.au/world/africa...
In fallen city stained by blood, latest images reveal grim development
New satellite images taken over El Fasher suggest the next step of a large-scale massacre is under way, as international pressure grows.
www.smh.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"'We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,' Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead." www.smh.com.au/world/africa...
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“In a world on fire, how can we concede so much power to an exploitative technology that produces questionable results, operates in opaque ways, deepens social precarity and fuels the planetary emergency?” On academic publishers and the AI hype drb.ie/move-over-fo...
Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
drb.ie
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“In a world on fire, how can we concede so much power to an exploitative technology that produces questionable results, operates in opaque ways, deepens social precarity and fuels the planetary emergency?” On academic publishers and the AI hype drb.ie/move-over-fo...
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Academics in the US are increasingly under threat. Mark Bray is a great scholar who has made substantial contributions to the critical study of antifascism and fascism. Threats and intimidation cannot be accepted as the new normal.
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Academics in the US are increasingly under threat. Mark Bray is a great scholar who has made substantial contributions to the critical study of antifascism and fascism. Threats and intimidation cannot be accepted as the new normal.
Thinking of my former Hungarian language teacher today who was greatly upset when Dylan won the Nobel prize - not because a singer had won the prize but because Krasznahorkai hadn't.
October 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thinking of my former Hungarian language teacher today who was greatly upset when Dylan won the Nobel prize - not because a singer had won the prize but because Krasznahorkai hadn't.
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Me and a bunch of brilliant colleagues got an op-ed responding to the recent political attacks on Roskilde University in the Danish newspaper Politiken today.
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Me and a bunch of brilliant colleagues got an op-ed responding to the recent political attacks on Roskilde University in the Danish newspaper Politiken today.
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Det her er en vild og temmelig foruroligende afdækning fra vores gravergruppe. Gennem en unik samkøring af data fra flere forskellige kilder kan de nu kortlægge, hvordan arealerne, hvor danskernes drikkevand bliver dannet, bliver sprøjtet med pesticider.
October 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Det her er en vild og temmelig foruroligende afdækning fra vores gravergruppe. Gennem en unik samkøring af data fra flere forskellige kilder kan de nu kortlægge, hvordan arealerne, hvor danskernes drikkevand bliver dannet, bliver sprøjtet med pesticider.
CfP i TEMP: Litterære interventioner i historiske konfliktsituationer.
Deadline for abstracts: 1. november.
Del gerne!
Deadline for abstracts: 1. november.
Del gerne!
August 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
CfP i TEMP: Litterære interventioner i historiske konfliktsituationer.
Deadline for abstracts: 1. november.
Del gerne!
Deadline for abstracts: 1. november.
Del gerne!
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On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…
August 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…
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There are no words left for what the Israeli government and IDF are doing to Gazans.
And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them.
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them.
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
There are no words left for what the Israeli government and IDF are doing to Gazans.
And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them.
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them.
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hvem kan dog stiltiende se til at flere og flere børn dø af sult i Gaza ? Menneskeskabt grusomhed udfoldes for vores åbne øjne. Grænserne må STRAKS åbnes for uhindret nødhjælp.
July 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hvem kan dog stiltiende se til at flere og flere børn dø af sult i Gaza ? Menneskeskabt grusomhed udfoldes for vores åbne øjne. Grænserne må STRAKS åbnes for uhindret nødhjælp.
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My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
July 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
Aaand today is officially publishing day, request it at your favorite university library before your neighbor!
June 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Aaand today is officially publishing day, request it at your favorite university library before your neighbor!
My book exists!
June 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
My book exists!
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📣 Selskabet for Samtidshistorisk Forskning arrangerer #ÅRSMØDE2026 om
“Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien”
📅 30. januar 2026, Københavns Universitet
👉 Tilmelding og kontingent: chrthorup@adm.ku.dk
👉 Læs mere: sshf.saxo.ku.dk
“Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien”
📅 30. januar 2026, Københavns Universitet
👉 Tilmelding og kontingent: chrthorup@adm.ku.dk
👉 Læs mere: sshf.saxo.ku.dk
June 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📣 Selskabet for Samtidshistorisk Forskning arrangerer #ÅRSMØDE2026 om
“Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien”
📅 30. januar 2026, Københavns Universitet
👉 Tilmelding og kontingent: chrthorup@adm.ku.dk
👉 Læs mere: sshf.saxo.ku.dk
“Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien”
📅 30. januar 2026, Københavns Universitet
👉 Tilmelding og kontingent: chrthorup@adm.ku.dk
👉 Læs mere: sshf.saxo.ku.dk
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Programdelen består bl.a. af:
🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke
🔸 Panel om militært og civilt forsvar og beredskab
🔹 Panel om kulturelt beredskab
🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider
🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke
🔸 Panel om militært og civilt forsvar og beredskab
🔹 Panel om kulturelt beredskab
🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider
June 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Programdelen består bl.a. af:
🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke
🔸 Panel om militært og civilt forsvar og beredskab
🔹 Panel om kulturelt beredskab
🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider
🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke
🔸 Panel om militært og civilt forsvar og beredskab
🔹 Panel om kulturelt beredskab
🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider