Ulrik Langen

Professor of Danish and European cultural history 1650-1850

• urban and cultural history 1700-1850
• social history of print and communication
• social history of senses
• historical narrativity
• ego-documents
• micro-analysis

Education

2006 Pedagogical training for university teaching and certification (Adjunktpædagogikum), University of Southern Denmark

1998 (October) PhD, Roskilde University

1995 (July) Master of Arts in History and Danish Language, Roskilde University

Paternity leave Spring 2001 and Fall 2004

Current Position

2012 Full Professor, The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen

Previous Positions

2007 Associate Professor, Dept. of History, University of Southern Denmark

2004 Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Southern Denmark

2003 Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of History, Roskilde University

2001 Postdoctoral scholar, Danish Research Council of Humanities

1998 Assistant Lecturer, International Cultural Studies, Roskilde University

Academic Leadership and Management

PI for the research project Copenhagen Complains funded by Augustinusfonden and Louis-Hansen Fonden (2022-2026)

Manager of the digitization project Digitization and data processing of the resolution records of the Copenhagen Municipality, 1713-1812 funded by The Carlsberg Foundation (2020-2022)

PI for the public history project Hidden Copenhagen (part of HERA-funded research project Public Renaissance in cooperation with Center for Privacy Studies (University of Copenhagen) (2020-2023)

PI for the research project The Freedom of the Press and the Making of a New Public funded by The Carlsberg Foundation (2018-2020)

Manager of the digitization project Digitization of the Luxdorph Collection of Press Freedom Writings funded by The Carlsberg Foundation (2018-2020)

Chairman and daily manager of the University History Council, University of Southern Denmark (2009-2012)

Service to profession

I have been engaged in many academic boards, professional associations, and steering committees for many years. This is a selection:

Chairman of the External Research Council of the National Museum of Denmark (appointed by Independent Research Fund Denmark)

Chairman of the board of Helle Linde’s Cultural Foundation

Board member of the international committee of the European Association for Urban History

Board member of The Danish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Member of The Danish Ministry of Culture’s research committee (Kulturministeriets forskerpaneler) (2015-2018)

Member of The Royal Danish Historical Society

Board member of The Society for Editing of Danish Historical Sources (2007-11)

Member of The Society for Danish Cultural History

Member of The Danish Committee for Urban History

Editorial Work (selection)

Editor of Danish historical journal Fortid og Nutid (2002-2008)              

Co-editor of Danish historical yearbook Odensebogen (2008-12)

Member of the editorial board of the Danish historical journal Den Jyske Historiker (2002-2009)

Member of the editorial board of the Danish historical journal TEMP – tidsskrift for historie (2010-)

Member of the editorial board of the French journal Histoire Culturelle de l’Europe (2015-)

Outreach community service

Member of the board of Golden Days Historical Festival and Bloom Science Festival (2012-2022)

Member of the editorial board of the publication series 100 Danmarkshistorier, Aarhus University Press (2016-18)

Member of the editorial board of the Danish historical periodical Politiken Historie (2019-2024)

Member of the board of The Ludvig Holberg Foundation Tersløsegaard (2014-2016)

Member of the board of The University Extension in Copenhagen (2015-2017)

Member of the assessment committee of Historiske Dages Fornyelsespris (Historical Days Innovation Prize) (2016-)

Public Outreach

Critic at the Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad (1998-2004)

Critic and columnist at the Copenhagen weekly Weekendavisen (since 2004)

Countless appearances on TV, radio, podcasts, and in newspapers (several interviews and feature articles in all major Danish newspapers).

Non-academic community service

Member of the board of 4. Maj Kollegiet (hall of residence for direct descendants of members of The Resistance against the Nazi Occupation of Denmark 1940-45) (2020-)

Knight of the Order of Dannebrog

Copenhagen Complains

https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/history/copenhagen-complains/