New knowledge about antisemitism in a modern society

In a new research project, Sofie Lene Bak from University of Copenhagen will establish a forum for studies in antisemitism, which, among other things, will examine the questions of how antisemitism is expressed today, what mechanisms lie behind it, and how historical circumstances influence current trends.

Sofie Lene Bak has just received DKK 11.9 million from the special politically determined thematic funding pool for research into antisemitism for the project ‘National Forum for the Study of Antisemitism’.

The funds were allocated in the agreements on the research reserve 2025 with the aim of contributing new knowledge about the causes, forms and consequences of antisemitism in a Danish context.

Chair of the Academic Research Council for Culture and Communication, Lone Koefoed Hansen, has led the allocation of the funding for research into antisemitism. She states:

Research can help us understand the relationship between antisemitism and our contemporary context. With thorough and independent knowledge, we as a society can, in general, become wiser about how we can counter prejudice, hatred and discrimination, including that which takes place online.

The new forum is being established in collaboration between Roskilde University and the University of Copenhagen.

Read more about the new forum for the study of anitisemitism here

Facts about the theme ‘Research in Antisemitism’

Independent Research Fund Denmark has awarded one project 11.9 million kroner.

This theme is one of twelve politically prioritised themes to which the fund will allocate funding in 2025.

Since 2018, Independent Research Fund Denmark has awarded grants under politically prioritised thematic calls, financed through annual political agreements on the allocation of the Danish Research Reserve.

The thematic instruments are open to applications from all scientific disciplines that can contribute relevant knowledge to the theme. Thematic research – as politically prioritised – serves as a supplement to the fund’s free and independent research funding based on researchers’ own curiosity-driven ideas.