Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic

CV

• 2010-  PhD Student at the department for Philosophy, University of Copenhagen.

• 2009 (May) Fellowship from the Council of Europe: Study Session on Genocide: Catalyst and Consequences, Budapest.
• 2008    Master of Arts in Philosophy and Danish literature and language from University of Copenhagen. Master’s thesis (in Danish): A new Categorical Imperative? A philosophical investigation of the refrain “Never again!”  English summary: http://www.diis.dk/sw67059.asp  
• 2008 (January-August) Master’s Student at the Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Danish Institute for International Studies
• 2007 (December) Short term fellowship at an Intensive Postgraduate Course “Genocide in a Historical Context”, The Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo
• 2006 (summer) Fellow at Humanity in Action’s summer and fall program on human rights, minorities and discrimination in Copenhagen, Berlin, Washington D.C. and New York City.
• 2005 (August) Summer university course: “This Time We Knew – The Failure of the International Community to Prevent Genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur” arranged by the Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Danish Institute for International Studies

Work and educational experience       

• 2009-March 2010 Head of Section, Danish Institute for International Studies, Holocaust and Genocide: Coordinating educational and outreach activities connected to the annual national Memorial Day for Holocaust and other genocides, “Auschwitz-day”.
• 2008-2009 Workshop Instructor at “Auschwitz-Day” (The International Holocaust Memorial Day) for Danish high school students, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Danish Institute for International Studies
• 2006-2009 Initiator and editor of the anthology Verdenshistorier – an alternative literature canon, Danish Refugee Counsel and the publishing house Gyldendal: text book for literature classes, intruducing world literature.
  
• 2008 Teacher of Danish at A1-level, Business Academy Copenhagen North (October-December)
• 2007 Intern at the Office of the Prosecutor at ICTY, The Hague, Netherlands; Prepared research and arguments to be used in court for the Chief Prosecutors in the Milutinovic et al. trial (Kosovo 1999)
• 2004 Instructor in the course “Practical philosophy”, University of Copenhagen

Languages

High proficiency in written and spoken English
Reads and understands Norwegian and Swedish
Basic proficiency in French    
Basic proficiency in German

Current research

My dissertation research is in the intersection between moral philosophy and studies of war crime and genocide, more specifically the empirical focus of the project is soldiers and perpetrators in situations of genocide and war crimes. It is a well-known phenomenon that some of these soldiers experience strong emotional outbursts and forms of physical discomfort—such as disgust, dizziness or nausea—in the actual moment of perpetration or when witnessing atrocities. I rely examples from the literature on perpetrators and soldiers ranging from the Holocaust and Rwanda, to ex-Yugoslavia and American soldiers in Vietnam.

The more theoretical part of the project explores the potential moral significance of strong emotional outbursts and phenomena of disgust, revulsion and abhorrence, so more broadly I'm exploring some of the recent trends in philosophy of emotions.

In the academic year 2011-2011 I was a Visiting PhD student at the Philosophy Department at University of Chicago.

Teaching

• "Afskyens Politik: Fra Aversion til Dehumanisering", KA og BA tilvalg, foråret 2015, Minoritetsstudier, TORS, KU
• "Etik efter Auschwitz", foråret 2011 KA, Filosofi, MEF, KU
• Følelsernes filosofi
• Praktisk filosofi (etik og moralfilosofi, politisk filosofi)
• Kritisk teori (Adorno og Horkheimer, Habermas)
• Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt
• Holocaust og folkedrab