Dr. Birgitte Stampe Holst
Assoziierte
Email: Birgitte.Holst(at)zmo.de
Forschungsprojekt:
"After authoritarianism: How political thinking travels with Syrians to Germany and Denmark" (Carlsberg Foundation)
Regionaler Schwerpunkt:
Middle East and Europe
Positions
Education
Publications
2023, (with Charlotte Al-Khalili) Displaced Conflict, special section of Conflict and Society 9 (1).
2013, (with Margit Anne Petersen, Birgitta Frello and Christian Groes-Green) Overskridelser, special issue of Tidsskriftet Antropologi 68.
2025, (with Nina Grønlykke Mollerup) Practicing the future against perception: Young Syrian men in Jordan and the mist of stagnated crisis. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 33 (2): 51-65.
2024, (with Anders Hastrup) Hyper-familiarity in profound uncertainty: How Syrian youth in Jordan work towards ‘non-existent’ futures. History and Anthropology. Online first.
2023, Family matters in conflict: Displacement and the formulation of politics among Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey, Conflict and Society 9 (1).
2023, (with Charlotte Al-Khalili) Introduction: Displaced Conflict - Layers of spatial rupture among Syrians in Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Syria, Conflict and Society 9 (1).
2023, (with Andreas Bandak, Anders Hastrup, and Tareq Aldilaijim) Methods for the future, futures for methods: Collaborating with Syrian refugee youth in Jordan. Journal of Refugee Studies 36 (4).
2022, On the inside: Shatila camp as a space of respite for Syrian refugees, Journal of Refugee Studies 35 (3).
2022, Henover broerne: syriske drømme om Istanbul, Dragomanen 24.
2013, (with Christian Groes-Green, Birgitta Frello and Margit Anne Petersen) Introduktion: Overskridelser, Tidsskriftet Antropologi 68: 3-16.
2025, At the state’s gate: The uncomplicated coexistence of ideas about rights and hospitality among Syrian refugee youths in Jordan. Allegra Laboratory.
2025, Syria in transition: Impressions from Damascus after the toppling of the Assad regime. Allegra laboratory.
2025, Review of ‘Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity by Charlotte Al-Khalili. London: UCL Press’. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.
2023, Review of ‘Altered States: The remaking of the political in the Arab world. New York: Routledge’, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
2022, Review of ‘Christian-Muslim relations in Syria: Historic and contemporary religious dynamics in a changing context by Andrew W.H. Ashdown. Abingdon, New York: Routledge’, Social sciences and missions.
2023, (with Anders Hastrup, Andreas Bandak and Tareq Al-Dilaijim) Viable Futures: Insights from peer-to-peer research among Syrian Youth in Jordan. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities.
2023, (with Andreas Bandak, Anders Hastrup, Nick Soltani and Hannah Arndal Rasmussen) Viable Futures: Syrian articulations of the protracted crisis in Jordan. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities.
Talks & Papers
2025, Hospitality talk as manoeuvring: Syrian youth in Jordan and the art of making way. Workshop on the Social Life of Law. SOAS.
2025, (with Nina Mollerup) Practicing the future against perception: Young Syrian men in Jordan and the mist of stagnated crisis. APeCS conference (EASA network on the Anthropology of Peace, Conflict and Security). University of Edinburg.
2025, A law is a law is a law: Syrian refugees’ political subjectivity as concept work. Workshop on the Legal Afterlives of War and Revolution. Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
2024, At the state’s gate: The uncomplicated co-existence of ideas about rights and hospitality among Syrian refugee youths in Jordan. Workshop on The Legal Afterlives of War and Revolution. Melbourne University, School of Law.
2023, (with Nina Grønlykke Mollerup) The future as mist in stagnated crisis: practicing the future in principle, by maneouvring and by scrambling, workshop on Times of Crisis, CCRS, University of Copenhagen (co-organizer and speaker).
2023, Co-researching with Syrian refugee youth: Engaging collaboration in research on profound Uncertainty, SIEF, Mazuryk University, Brno, Czechia.
2023, ‘We were living’: figures of life and perspectives on revolt among Syrians displaced to Turkey and Lebanon, DREAM (ERC project).
2022, In the throes of the new: Experiences of malleable illegality among Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey, EASA, University of Belfast.
2022, Doing urban ethnography in politically volatile contexts, University of Tübingen, Germany.
2022, (with Anders Hastrup) Working towards a non-existent future: Syrian youth in Jordan, workshop on Syrian Futures, CCRS, University of Copenhagen (co-organizer and speaker).
2019, Migrating authoritarianism, workshop on Anthropologies of Syria, UCL.
2017, Ties that matter: Family life and political activity among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, BRISMES, University of Edinburgh.
2016, Failed territorialisations and their political effects, workshop on Territorialisation, CCRS, University of Copenhagen (co-organizer and speaker).
2015, The social life of memories, workshop on migration, memory and the archive, Department of English and Germanic Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Teaching Activities
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2012, 2011, Negotiating culture: local and global processes (MA, BA).
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016, Migration, politics and social change (MA, BA).
2020, 2019 (with Birgitte Schepelern Johansen), Normality and deviation (MA, BA).
2020 (with Andreas Bandak), History, myth and narrative in cultural perspective (MA, BA).
Centre for Global Refugee Studies, University of Aalborg
2014, (with Simon Turner) Culture, identity, politics (MA).
Department of languages, Royal Danish Defence Academy
2013, 2012, Social structures of the Arab world.
Grants
Organised Workshops
2025, Uses of the Past in the Political Transition in Syria. ZMO, Berlin.