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Lise is head of the Centre for Museology and administrative officer for Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. She is associate professor in art history and museology and researches, among other things in digital technology in museum mediation and gender and museums. She heads the research project "Gender as cultural heritage in Danish museums: pilot based on web scraping of online communication", funded by AUFF Nova, and is a member of the Agency for Culture and Palaces.

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Ane is professor of Museology at Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. Member and initiator of a number of interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research projects, most recently a DFF-funded research network on cultural sustainability. In addition, she has been editor and written in several anthologies about museology. Ane teaches a number of courses at museology and art history and conducts research into art after 1950, museum history, communication didactics, learning theory, exhibition and institutional analysis, museological theories and methods as well as digital museology. She has extensive experience in supervising master's thesis students and PhDs in art and museology in collaboration with museums.

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Vinnie is a classical archaeologist, director of Museum of Ancient Art and Sapere Aude research director of the FKK project MINERVA. She conducts research into contemporary understandings of antiquity, Greek archaeology and museums and their communication.

Lisbet Tarp

Associate Professor

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Lisbet is associate professor in art history at Aarhus University. She has published in a number of international publications and journals based on the early modern period in Europe, focusing on themes such as materiality, image theory, natural philosophy and collections. In the years 2019-2022, she was research director on the interdisciplinary project Digital Art History: Painting, Materiality and Method in collaboration with the National Gallery of Denmark, financed by Independent Research Fund Denmark and New Carlsberg Foundation. Lisbet Tarp teaches art history and museology. Member of the steering committee for IT West's special interest group for musical and aesthetic subjects, which contributes to developing digital literacy in teaching across primary and lower secondary school, upper secondary school and higher education.

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Edwards' research focuses on the Baroque period in the Mediterranean, with particular focus on Spain and Italy in the 16th century and 17. Century. He has dealt with a number of topics including violence, skin, perceptions of emotions, caricatures and ugliness. Before joining Aarhus University, he taught art history at Durham University in England and worked for six years as a museum curator in the United States, England and Spain.

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Panagiotis is an assistant professor at the department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. His research focuses on the history and theories of modern and contemporary architecture with particular focus on the work of Le Corbusier. He has researched subjects such as standardization, architectural copies, and the architecture of leisure. He has previously worked as an architect and taught at Oslo University and the National Technical University of Athens.

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Sally Thorhauge has an MA and a PhD in Museology from Aarhus University. Her main area of research concerns learning partnerships and formal and informal learning environments. She has experience in research design, fundraising, evaluation, and written and oral communication as well as project development, management, and governance. She has been the initiator and leader of national and international projects, collaborations and networks. Sally is also the initiator and director of the Intrface Association.

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Ane Kirstine is postdoc at Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. She researches textiles as a medium in art and visual history, and her PhD dissertation dealt with the role and effect of textiles on late medieval religiosity. Her current research focuses on the woven material and the loom as an image-generating machine. She has also taught Theory of Science of Art History, Visual Theory, Image and Design Analysis and Visual Analysis and Method 1 at Art History.

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Christiane is postdoc at Aesthetics and Culture, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. Her primary fields of research are cultural institutions (primarily museums), communication, participation and cultural citizenship. Currently, she is attached to the research project BØV, which is a collaboration between Aarhus University, The National Art Museum, National Museum of Denmark and the Royal Danish Theatre about children's encounter with the national cultural heritage. Christiane is also attached to the Centre for Cultural Evaluation at Aarhus University.

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Gertrud is postdoc at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology and Skovgaard Museum. With a background as PhD in Corporate Communication, MA in Visual Culture and Master of arts in Media Studies, she examines local art museums as a platform for social communities. She conducts research into museums from the perspective of stakeholders, organisational identity and communication. She has previously worked with strategic planning for brands as well as teaching, guidance and as a censor at the university.

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Jakob has a PhD in Art History from Aarhus University and is a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University and the museum KØN – Gender Museum Denmark. His research focuses on everyday visual culture, pictures of children, and the relevance of semiotics and psychoanalysis for art history and image analysis. His first book Barnestreger – Køn og seksualitet i børns tegninger was published in 2020 by Passepartout and KØN (then Kvindemuseet), where he simultaneously curated the exhibition with the same title.

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Kasper is postdoc at Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology and has a degree in both art history and architecture. He is currently conducting research into feelings in art, including genre painting, and this work is reflected among other things in the exhibition ‘When everyday life stole the picture’ at Nivaagaards Samling. Among other things, he is Associate member of CODART and architect MAA. Kasper teaches art history courses with a focus on, among other things: image theory and space analysis. He has extensive teaching experience from both Denmark and abroad.

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Mia is postdoc at the Department of Art History & Museology, Skagens Kunstmuseer and Johannes Larsen Museum. She conducts research into cultural heritage communication with special focus on sound design and the use of sound in historical museums and sites. Her postdoc project has a special focus on sound as a resource in the interpretation and communication of historic artists' homes. Her research is practice-based and rooted in concrete communication development at the partner museums. Mia has a background in photography, visual culture and practical work with art production. She is on the steering committees for the Danish Network for House Museums and the Danish Centre for Museum Research.

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Pernille, PhD, is a researcher at the Department of Aesthetics and Culture, AU, affiliated with the Hirschsprung Collection. Pernille conducts research into the field between art, science and technology from different perspectives. Currently, her research addresses the crossfield between plants, culture, colonialism and gender in 19th-century Danish art in the VELUX-funded collective project Hidden plant stories, headed by associate professor Anette Vandsø. Pernille's PhD and postdoc was about contemporary art created using natural science technologies. The subsequent research project Clockworks dealt with art and thematized temporality and the history of the mechanical clock.

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Anastasia is PhD student at Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. Here she taught the course Cultural approaches to understanding the Middle East. Her research focuses on visual art and political aspects of museum communication and representations of cultures within contemporary art.

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Anne is Master of Arts in history, director of the Museum of Supply and Sustainability, and PhD student at Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. Her research focuses on how communication methods affect the attraction and relevance of different user groups at museums, where the results will be used in the development of communication at the new Vildmosemuseum. The research interest stems from a preoccupation with identity formation and the influence of museums hereon.

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Christine is PhD research fellow at Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. In her project The Collector Rodin, Christine Rodin's fascination with antiquity explores Rodin’s own private collection of ancient Greco-Roman objects and objects from Egypt, Japan, China, South America, the Middle East and India. The research project will increase our understanding of how Rodin used antiquity in his works.

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Katrine is PhD student at art history, School of Communication and Culture and curator at Ribe Art Museum. Based on gender theory, her PhD project aims to challenge the canon of art history and create a new framework of understanding for Danish medieval works from the period 1885-1937. Katrine holds a Master of Arts in art history from University of Copenhagen. She has previously worked for the art association Gl. Strand, at ARKEN and at the National Gallery of Denmark.

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Julie is PhD research fellow at Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. Her PhD project 'Antiquity in the 21st century Century. – how?" focuses on how antiquity and the Glyptoteket's collection of antiquity can be actualised and communicated in a relevant and relevant manner. The PhD project is supported by Ny Carlsberg Foundation and is carried out in a collaboration between Aarhus University and the Glyptoteket.

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Tilde is PhD fellow at Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. Her PhD project is based on the artist Hans Smidth (1839-1917) as well as methods of reactualisation in an art historiographical and museological context. A collaboration between Aarhus University and Museum Salling. Her background is Master of Arts PhD in art history and museology from Aarhus University. She has worked at ARoS, Museum Jorn, Viborg Kunsthal and as an art curator at Museum Salling.

External members from other institutions