Associate professor, Ph.D., cand.mag., MA
Phone:
(+45) 3527 7646
E-mail:
julie.sommerlund@dkds.dk
Affiliation
Research and Artistic Production
Functions
Research, teaching, supervision
Teaching
Design Theory; especially futurology, sociology, aesthetics, communication, methods.
Research
I am an Assistant Professor in the field of aesthetic communication, branding and marketing. My research is empirically centred on fashion, and I am affiliated with the fashion platform, MOKO. My work is interdisciplinary, and my research methods comes from both the humanities and social sciences. I am particularly interested in:
"Expectations and Futures": I am deeply involved in the niche of ”science and technology studies”, known as “sociology of expectations”. My interest is not to predict what the future will bring, but rather to study how expectations and productions are active in constructive practices and aesthetics of today.
"Aesthetics and Bodies": I am interested in how aesthetics is used to establish borders and categories such as futures and pasts, human and non-human, black and white, man and woman.
"Culture and Consumption": I am interested in consumption as a cultural expression, especially in how futures, bodies and aesthetics are expressed through consumption.
Research Projects
"Mediating Fashion". A study of aesthetic communication as mediator in the fashion industry. The ambition of the study is to combine aesthetic analyses with industry analyses. To this end, the studies uses methodologies from Science and Technology Studies. The project is developed in connection to MOKO.
"Potential, Talent and Artistic Criteria". A study of criteria for talent and artistic quality. The project is execuded in cooperation with the research centre Imagine.
"Celebrities, Bodies and Branding". A study of connections between visualisations of the human body and brands. The project builds bridges between celebrity-studies and brand-studies. The project is developed in connection to the MOKO-platform.
CV
I hold a Masters degree in Modern Culture and Cultural Dissemination from Copenhagen University and a PhD-degree from Copenhagen Business School, where I have also worked as an assistant professor. See detailed CV.
Selected Publications
Sommerlund, Julie, Henriette Langstrup & Lene Koch, submittet, "The Scandal of Hwang-Woo-Suk - and its Lessons on Normativity in STS".
Sommerlund, Julie & Henriette Langstrup, in press, "Who has More Life?", Science as Culture.
Sommerlund, Julie & Sami Boutaiba, 2007, "Borders of the "Boundaryless Career"", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 525 - 528.
Sommerlund, Julie, 2007 (2004), "Beauty and Bacteria", Configurations, Vol 12, No 3, pp: 375 - 400. Copyright 2007 The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Science Literature and the Arts.
Portræt og Interview i "Forskning for Fremtiden" (2007). PG Kommunikation og Feldballe Film & TV.
Sommerlund, Julie & Maja Horst, 2007, "Markedsdannelse og stamceller: Konstruktion af køber, sælger og vare", in Koch & Høyer, red., Håbets teknologi, Munksgaard.
Horst, Maja & Julie Sommerlund, 2007, "StamcellenetVærket – om videnskab, modstand og muligheden for samfundsvidenskabelige laboratorier", in Koch & Høyer, red., Håbets teknologi, Munksgaard.
Langstrup, Henriette, Julie Sommerlund & Lene Koch, 2007, "Skandalen om Hwang Woo-Suk: om god og dårlig forskning", in Koch & Høyer, red., Håbets teknologi, Munksgaard.
Sommerlund, Julie, 2006, "Classifying Microorganisms: The Multiplicity of Classifications and Research Practices in Molecular Microbial Ecology", Social Studies of Science, 2006, Vol 36, pp. 909 – 928. Sage Publications.
Sommerlund, Julie, "Futures of Stem Cells – on the Construction of Authenticity", EASST 2006 Conference, thread 11, August 23 - 26: Science, Culture and Arts.
Sommerlund, Julie, "Sand Videnskab", Weekendavisen, 3 – 9 Februar 2006.03.01
Sommerlund, Julie, "Science & Aesthetics", 4S & EASST conference, Ecole Des Mines Superieur, Paris, August 2004.
Sommerlund, Julie, 2003: "Demarcations and Boundary Objects", Ph.D. series, 22-2003, Samfundslitteratur, København.
Sommerlund, Julie, 2002: "Videnskab og Æstetik", I: K. Kreiner & S. Scheuer, red.: Forskning i Praksis, Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne, København., s. 73 – 101.
Positions of Trust
Co-founder and member of the Board: the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies (DASTS).
Member of the Board of Directors of the publishing company Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne
