Dag Petersson

Curriculum vitae

Ansættelse:

 2009-  Lektor, Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, Institut for Bygningskultur

 2002-2009Forskningsbibliotekar, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Kort- og Billedafdelingen (fra 2007 gruppeleder af billedsamlingen)

 2001-Ekstern lektor, Københavns Universitet, Inst. for Kunsthistorie

Uddannelse:

 2001  Ph.d. Københavns Universitet, Inst. for Kunsthistorie

 1999Research Associate, University of California, Irvine, USA

 1997  MA, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Uppsala Universitet

 1995General Studies Program, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

 1994 BA. Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Uppsala Universitet

 1992 Diplom, Mediateknik, Högskolan i Skövde

 1990 Gymnasieeksamen, Naturvetenskaplig linje, Katedralskolan i Växjö

Netværk

2007- Editorial Board, Photographies (Routledge)

2008- Bestyrelsemedlem Photography Next

2005-2008  Bestyrelsemedlem Nordisk Sommeruniversitet

Research areas

Dag Petersson is Associate Professor in philosophy, science theory and architectural theory. His research centers on political architecture with a particular focus on heritage and rebuilding. Studies in philosophy deal with the political theory of Hannah Arendt and questions of reconciliation in Jacques Derrida. In 2014 he co-founded the international candidate program "Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability." He currently chairs the research group “Architecture, Strategy and Politics.”

Dag Petersson is the author of “DELISTED: A Political Story” (Danish Architectural Press, 2023): a study in the political process that lead up to the delisting of the Viking Ship Hall in Roskilde. Other books include The Making of the Other Half: Jacob A. Riis and the New Image of Tenement Poverty (Aarhus University Press, 2014)and The Art of Reconciliation: Photography and the Conception of Dialectics in Benjamin, Hegel and Derrida. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He is the co-editor of Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space (Aarhus University Press: 2013) and  Actualities of Aura: Twelve Studies of Walter Benjamin (NSU Press, 2005).