This Thursday CitiGen PI Gísli Pálsson presented a talk at the Vestindiske Kulturambassade, Copenhagen, on his recent book on the life of Hans Jonathan – a man born into slavery in the Danish West Indies, and who eventually claimed his freedom in Iceland.
The Man Who Stole Himself was released in September 2016 by the University of Chicago Press. A Danish-language version of the book (based on the original Icelandic text, Hans Jónatan, maðurinn sem stal sjálfum sér) is due to appear next year.
CitiGen is an international research project that aims to study how modern and ancient genomic data are being used to shape public understandings of the past.
Headquartered at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, CitiGen involves academic partners from Iceland, Ireland, and the UK, as well as non-academic partners from the fields of genetic ancestry testing, family tree research, and public engagement with science.
The project is funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Joint Research Programme “Uses of the Past”.
