Personal profile
Primary fields of research
- Everyday temporalities - entanglements of pasts, presents, and futures
- Political culture; patriotic, national, and democratic material-discursive practices in contemporary 18th and 19th century Denmark
- Political rituals in perspective of ethnography and cultural history
- Materiality, body, gender, emotions, landscape, and movement
- Subjectivity, self-understandings and -technologies, everyday practices and material-discursive configurations
- Cultural theory, cultural history, cultural analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork
- Integrating research and teacing
Current research
- Everyday practising of sustainable futures
- Everyday temporalities and their disruptions during the pandemic and its aftermath of co-present crises
- Citizenship ceremonies and national day celebrations in Western countries (Scandinavia in particular) within perspectives of cultural history and comparative ethnography
Teaching
- Cultural theory, cultural analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork
- Everyday practices, subjectivity, self-understandings and -technologies, and material-discursive configurations
- Performative approaches to temporality, materiality, body, gender, emotions, senses, landscape, dress and movement
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- Everyday life
- Temporality
- Materiality
- Affects and emotions
- Body and gender
- Landscape
- Subjectivity
- Performative approaches
- Rituals
- Cultural heritage
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Crossroads of Heritage and Religion: Legacy and Sustainability of World-Heritage-Site Moravian Christiansfeld
Damsholt, T. (Editor), Riegels Melchior, M. (Editor), Petterson, C. (Editor) & Reeh, T.R.-L. (Editor), 2022, Berghahn Books.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Times of Corona: Investigating the Temporalities of Everyday Life during Lockdown
Damsholt, T., 2020, In: Ethnologia Europaea. Journal of European Ethnology. 50, 2, p. 137-155 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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"Den nationale strikkede nattrøje": - nationens kvalitet mellem fortidig oprindelighed og samtidig æstetik
Damsholt, T., 2021, Nation som kvalitet: Smak, offentligheter och folk i 1800-tallets Norden. Bohlin, A. & Stengrundet, E. (eds.). Bergen: Alvheim & Eide Akademisk forlag, p. 85-103 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Returning to Normality Will be as Strange as Leaving it Behind
Damsholt, T., Jun 2021, In: Ethnologia Scandinavica. 51, p. 249-273 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Selv tiden står stille: Hverdagslivets mange tidsligheder under en nedlukning
Damsholt, T., Jul 2021, In: Tidsskrift for Kulturforskning. 2021, 1, p. 23-44 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Hverdagslivets rutiner: Hvorfor er det så svært at ændre vaner?
Damsholt, T., 2019, Verden ifølge humaniora: 40 banebrydende begreber der former vores virkelighed. Bille, M., Engberg-Pedersen, A. & Gram-Skjoldager, K. (eds.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 110-117 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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"Vi starter med Dronningen": nytårstalen som mediebegivenhed og folkeligt overgangsritual
Damsholt, T. & Jerslev, A., 2022, Dronningen taler. Villadsen, L. S. (ed.). Gad, p. 62-77 16 p. (Dansk Sprognaevn. Skrifter, Vol. 53).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Dyr-menneske-relationer før og nu: Forestillinger, fortællinger og materiel praksis i og om dansk landbrug og natur
Damsholt, T., Fastrup, A., Mellemgaard, S. & Jessen, N. T., 2025, In: Kulturstudier. nr. 2, 2025, 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
Open AccessFile11 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
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Tidsskriftet Kulturstudier (Journal)
Damsholt, T. (Editor)
2022 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Communication
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Sustainability of Cultural Heritage
Reeh, T. R. (Organizer), Damsholt, T. (Organizer), Salemink, O. (Speaker) & Daugbjerg, M. (Speaker)
28 Feb 2020Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Bethlehem Conference onMoravian History and Music 2018
Reeh, T. R. (Speaker), Petterson, C. (Speaker), Bøytler, J. (Speaker), Damsholt, T. (Speaker) & Riegels Melchior, M. (Speaker)
13 Oct 2018Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Uniforms in Practice. Open seminar
Riegels Melchior, M. (Organizer) & Damsholt, T. (Organizer)
14 Sept 2017Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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SIEF 2017
Sandberg, M. (Organizer), Damsholt, T. (Organizer) & Poehls, K. (Organizer)
28 Mar 2017Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Vision for det gode studiemiljø: - essaykonkurrence for studerende
Damsholt, T. (Lecturer)
8 Nov 2007Activity: Presentations, memberships and other activity types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Ethnologia Europaea (Journal)
Damsholt, T. (Editor)
31 May 2007 → 2018Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Communication
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Bestyrelse (uspecificeret)
Damsholt, T. (Member)
1 Jan 2007 → …Activity: Presentations, memberships and other activity types › Membership of board of company or public organisation