Ida Hartmann employed as temporary assistant professor at Center for Comparative Culture Studies
We are excited to bid Ida Hartmann welcome. Ida has started as part of the center on 1 November as a part of the collective research project Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis. In her project, Ida will explore, how the temporality of the so-called migration crisis is expressed in and around Muslim death and burial practices in Denmark. In a changing world, death is an event that renders the relationship to the past, present, and future in sharp relief. For migrants and their descendants, the question of where their deceased relatives are buried is also a question about the relationship to past and coming generations, and to expectations to the afterlife. In the Danish public and society, new burial practices are inscribed in debates about migration and the future of the nation.
Ida Hartmann holds a PhD in social anthropology from University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on Turkey and the Turkish diaspora and explores how Islam is lived and re-articulated in contexts of political conflict, transnational migration, and existential uncertainty.