Line Marie Thorsen

Line Marie Thorsen

Postdoc

2022 (November) – present: Postdoc and deputy director, Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE), Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2021 (December) – 2022 (November): Parental leave 

2020 (May) ­– 2023 (March): DFF international post.doc. at Centre for Environmental Humanities and the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University and Ethnography Lab, School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan.

2015 (September) – 2019 (November 4): PhD at Art History and Anthropology, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. Affiliated PhD at Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), PI prof. Anna Tsing and prof. Nils Bubandt, department of Anthropology. 

Dissertation: On the margins of eco-art – Aesthetics, plants and              environmental imaginations in East Asia.  

Adviser: prof. Jacob Wamberg (Art History) and prof. Heather                  Anne Swanson (AURA, Anthropology).

2017 (April 1-August 1): 50% leave of absence to curate exhibition and edit book Moving Plants (see below).

2016 (September) – 2016 (December): Visiting scholar at Center for Creative Ecologies, History of Arts and Visual Culture, University of California Santa Cruz, USA.

Advisors: prof. Anna Tsing (Anthropology) and prof. T.J. Demos (Art History and Visual Culture)

2014 (October) – 2015 (September): PhD-fellow at the ERC Advanced Grant research project Methodological Cosmopolitanism – in the Laboratory of Climate Change (Cosmo-Climate Research Project), PI Prof. Ulrich Beck (Sociology). Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, Germany.

Advisor: prof. Ulrich Beck (Sociology) until January 1. 2015.[1]

2014 (October) – 2019 (November): Associated PhD-fellow at the research project Changing Disasters and Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE), University of Copenhagen Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research. PI prof. Kristian Cedervall Lauta (Law), Co-PI prof. Isak Winkel Holm (Arts and Cultural Studies).

2012 (October) – 2013 (June): Fieldwork in Japan for my Master Thesis.

2006 (September) – 2014 (January 15): Art History, BA and MA, University of Copenhagen and University of Lund, Sweden. MA-thesis: Acute Art PracticesThe Mobilisation of Contemporary Art Practices for the Articulation of Public Concerns in the Wake of the Great North-eastern Japan Earthquake.  

MA Advisor: assoc. prof. Gunhild Borggreen (Art History and Visual Culture)

 

[1] Professor Ulrich Beck passed away on January 1st, 2015, leading to the termination of the research project during the spring of 2015. At this point I applied for a PhD scholarship at Aarhus University.

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