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Wednesday morning on 8 May 2019 and Associate Professor in Latin Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd was sitting in front of his computer at the Saxo Institute on South Campus, part of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

His faculty was to find DKK 31 million in savings, and everyone knew it.<\/p>\n

Employees were therefore told that they had to keep an eye on their inbox, because faculty management would be sending out e-mails to everyone who had been selected for dismissal.<\/p>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd and some of his four colleagues, who have offices on the same corridor, had exchanged morbid jokes that it might be one of them who would get the message.<\/p>\n

Troelsg\u00e5rd is 60 years old, and he has been employed at the University of Copenhagen for almost 27 years \u2013 from exactly 1 September 1992.<\/p>\n

The email came in at five minutes past nine. He opened it:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen intends to dismiss you from your position as Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute as a result of a round of adjustments to the Faculty of Humanities’ finances,\u00ab it stated.<\/p>\n

Did not accept his dismissal<\/h2>\n

At first he did not understand it, Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd remembers.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIt seemed quite surreal,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

 
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\nChristian Troelsg\u00e5rd decided to fight for his position. And something highly unusual happened in a dismissal case of this type. He actually got something out of it.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIn May, I felt that my work, and my longstanding international research with partners all over Europe and the rest of the world, was just too important for me to just give up. I found the decision to be a wrong one, and I wanted a more scientific process in the university’s and the faculty’s administration,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

The case has now ended with Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd agreeing to go from full-time to part-time.<\/p>\n

After the summer vacation, he started 19 August on his job, and in the coming months, he will continue working as before, full time until 31 December 2019, but he will do no further teaching. Only research.<\/p>\n

From 1 January 2020, Troelsg\u00e5rd is to work part-time as a researcher on a three-year contract that he has entered with the University of Copenhagen. He is guaranteed, in other words, salary for approximately 3.5 years, and he will get a pension as a full-time employee.<\/p>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd understands that in the future, he will have to find funding for his research and his remaining salary up to full time from foundations that he applies for himself.<\/p>\n

86 year-old research project can continue<\/h2>\n

During the course of the summer, Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd spoke several times with his trade union, the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM), about his job situation. He remembers how they said that a university firing an associate professor, and then deciding to rescind their decision, only happens in \u2018extremely rare cases\u2019.<\/p>\n

It is highly unusual that Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd will be allowed to continue, but he is also an important part of an international research project in Byzantine music which has run at the University of Copenhagen for 86 years.<\/p>\n

Since 2017, Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd has been director of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae<\/a>, which was recognised by The International Union of Academies<\/a> back in 1933.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the University of Copenhagen was made the permanent home for the research project.<\/p>\n

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Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd\u2019s CV:<\/p>\n

Studies in classical philology (1977-) and musicology (1982-) at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

Master of Arts from the University of Copenhagen 1987 (latin and music).<\/p>\n

PhD in Byzantine musicology 1993.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd says that his biggest problem with his dismissal was to have to say goodbye to his research project. And he finds it difficult to understand that management at the faculty did not know what he was doing. This is how he perceives the situation.<\/p>\n

\u00bbI find it odd that they initially decided to interrupt what I was doing, because I have never hidden what I was working on. All my research activities are documented. After giving me notice they must have suddenly realised, and changed their minds,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n

According to a letter from the Saxo Institute department head Stuart Ward from 24 June this year, it is precisely \u00bbthe risk of putting the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, which we held in-house since 1931, in an untenable situation,\u00ab that is the reason why the University of Copenhagen changed its mind and gave Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd an offer to continue.<\/p>\n

Rehired as \u2018damage control\u2019<\/h2>\n

He guesses that the University of Copenhagen offered him a contract with reappointment on part-time for three years as a kind of mitigation scheme \u2013 as damage control.<\/p>\n

It will lead to the destruction of a unique research environment that was built up at the University of Copenhagen since 1930.<\/p>\n

Associate professor emeritus Karsten Fledelius<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bbI hope something good comes out of the contract that I have now signed. But I wonder about the process, because I have always registered my research activities and my publications, and my research was highlighted in the internal evaluation report (Research Quality Assessment of the Saxo Institute), which the University of Copenhagen paid for last year. That is why they should have been aware that research of international significance was coordinated by me,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

He knows that his head of department, Professor Stuart Ward, issued an explanation to many of Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd’s Danish and international research collaboration partners to say that management has learned something about the importance of the project.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThis is \u2013 despite the background to all this \u2013 a positive thing. I think it is a kind of compromise or damage control, where the official objective of reducing the number of teaching staff in Greek and Latin is still being fulfilled,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n

Research project began in Copenhagen in 1931<\/h2>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd says that he recognises that it can be difficult for outsiders to understand what Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae has to do with Latin at the Saxo Institute.<\/p>\n

The project is to study the significance of Byzantine music for the development of musical notation and of music theory in Europe. That is why it is all about the early musical culture of the whole of Europe.<\/p>\n

The Byzantine music consists of a large collection of music manuscripts written in Greek, which Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd also masters. And if anyone is to understand the music, they have to read the original sources. The Latin, Western European reception of Greek music theory and Byzantine church music is an important part of his research field.
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\nThe musical notation has to be deciphered \u2013 the different systems have to be interpreted in much the same way as unknown alphabets \u2013 and Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd is the expert on this.<\/p>\n

The research project Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae is old. It was formally opened in Copenhagen in 1931, based in the ‘classical philology’ programme. At the time, the Byzantine music manuscripts were largely unknown. New sources have subsequently been examined and new methods have been used, so it is a long and coherent research tradition that could have been lost.<\/p>\n

There was no guarantee that it would have been possible to transfer the project with all its collections of sources (especially in the form of microfilm and specialist literature) to another university in Europe if it had been closed at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

The prospect of losing Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae gave Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd many a sleepless night in May and June speculating about the future if he had to give up his position.<\/p>\n

Outpouring of supporting statements<\/h2>\n

After 8 May however, the statements of support began to flow in \u2013 from both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

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Affects three disciplines:<\/p>\n

According to Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd, the Byzantine music in the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae is related to three areas of research: Byzantine studies, musicology, and classical philology.<\/p>\n

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\u00bbIt will lead to the destruction of a unique research environment that has been built up within the University of Copenhagen since 1930,\u00ab wrote associate professor emeritus Karsten Fledelius, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, who is now the chair of the Danish National Committee for Byzantine Studies and vice president of the Association Internationale des Etudes Byzantines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Karsten Fledelius praised Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd for being able to include many aspects to each text:<\/p>\n

\u00bbChristian Troelsg\u00e5rd has involved modern technology and social anthropology in his analyses of the relationship between writing, oral tradition and musical performance practice,\u00ab Karsten Fledelius wrote to the Faculty of Humanities\u2019 dean Jesper Kallestrup and the head of department in a declaration of support sent on 7 June.<\/p>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd’s students of Greek and Latin also submitted on 14 June a declaration of support to the head of department Stuart Ward. A total of 27 students signed the declaration, which included:<\/p>\n

\u00bbChristian is a much-revered teacher and supervisor (…) in all contexts he shows an incredible industriousness, as well as an awareness of the individual student’s needs (…) Even outside working hours, Christian spends a lot of time in a study programme setting.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Supporting statements from both Danish and international colleagues<\/h2>\n

In addition to the declarations of support from Karsten Fledelius and Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd\u2019s students, a number of support statements came from associate professors and professors at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, the Faculty of Theology’s Section for Ecclesiastical History, and reputable researchers from Stanford, Princeton, Ohio State University, Thessaloniki, Athens and from an Italian professor from Palermo who is the president of the Comitato Italiano per l’edizione e lo Studio delle Fonti Musicali Bizantine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This last declaration of support was about a book project on Byzantine music and its significance for European cultural history. This is what Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd is currently working on, and there are several other joint publishing projects coming up.<\/p>\n

Finally, in order to save the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, a petition was launched online, which more than 2,600 researchers, teachers and other academics in Europe have signed so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despair and amazement over management decision<\/h2>\n

In the middle of June, when the University Post first spoke to Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd, he said that he despaired and was amazed at management’s decision to fire him. He said that he found it difficult to concentrate on writing the research articles that he had started, and that he only took care of daily routine tasks as he thought a lot about his dismissal case. He said that he was to go out and find a job as a teacher of Latin at an upper secondary school, as many of them needed Latin teachers.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIn my head I was still baffled by how management could think that the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae project could suddenly be interrupted,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n

 
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\nThings are different now.<\/p>\n

He has saved his research project, he can sleep better at night \u2013 and he has been given the opportunity to reflect on where the humanities are heading. He says that his case is symptomatic of a trend in what the management of the University of Copenhagen wants for humanities research in the future.<\/p>\n

\u00bbI do not find that it is the right direction for the Faculty of Humanities to go if they only host projects that are externally funded. We have fewer sources of funding and foundations that we can apply to than, say, the Faculty of Medical and Health sciences and the Faculty of Science,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

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Books by Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd<\/p>\n

Byzantine Neumes<\/a> is a handbook on medieval musical notation. The book will soon be available in translation to Modern Greek.<\/p>\n

Chants of the Byzantine Rite<\/a>, the Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily.<\/p>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd is also editor of Volume 1 of Dansk Editionshistorie (Greek and Latin text versions) with own contributions on early classic versions, medieval literature, Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae and Saxo’s history of Denmark (Gesta Danorum). The work is to be published in 2020.<\/p>\n

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His own research is a kind of humanities basic research that does not have an immediate application, and which, in his experience, it is difficult to find funding for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00bbIt is often also necessary to have long term funding, and no one wants to obligate themselves to something that lasts more than a maximum of four to five years. This means that the quality of these types of research projects will be lower. They require too much work on the part of researchers to start afresh with new applications every few years, where they have to justify themselves and their projects,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n

Humanities research is changing<\/h2>\n

This will lead to changes in humanities research.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe time of the long-term projects may be over, and they had qualities that we will no longer have,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

For his own specialised research project in Byzantine music, some of the researchers who have supported Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd have told him that he can apply for funding from, say, the US and from foundations in Greece.<\/p>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd says that this would also lead to limitations.<\/p>\n

\u00bbI am working on a joint European project on the use of notations in Byzantine music and on Europe’s musical roots, and it is important that it is not monopolised by a particular nation. It must be an international collaboration and be as open as possible. The modern research landscape, with foundation financing over shorter time periods, is not suitable for this. But if this is where we are going to go, then I must play by the rules, even though I do not consider it to be optimal,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n

Wants a more proactive management<\/h2>\n

Troelsg\u00e5rd knows that the DKK 31 million cuts at the Faculty of Humanities (the latest of several rounds of cuts) are a result of decisions made by politicians in the Danish parliament at Christiansborg. But he is critical of University of Copenhagen management nonetheless.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThis is a difficult thing to discuss. I acknowledge this, and you do not necessarily have to protect the older employees. But I do not think that management did their proper homework on this,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n

He says that management should have shown due diligence and have done more to get the money that was needed for smaller subjects like Latin to continue.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIf management had done this, if it had been proactive towards all the politicians at Christiansborg and done what they had to do on time, then management would have procured the necessary funding for the smaller study programmes. Smaller study programmes cannot compete on an equal footing with the other major subjects, and it is the task of management to draw attention to the special case of the smaller research areas,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n

Dean: \u00bbAll redundancies are a loss\u00ab<\/h2>\n

The University Post asked the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Jesper Kallestrup, to comment the article and showed him Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd’s statements.<\/p>\n

Jesper Kallestrup responds in an email:<\/p>\n

\u00bbOf course all redundancies are a loss academically \u2013 both for the faculty’s teaching and its research. It is inevitable and, of course, regrettable. In the faculty management we have done what we could to ensure that the cuts would have as few negative consequences as possible,\u00ab he says and continues:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe reason we have cuts is that we have fewer students than we had in the past. This means that it is the Danish parliament’s decision to reduce study programme intake that is the main affect on our finances. This decision was made in 2014, and we did a lot at the time to put our stamp on this political process \u2013 both in relation to the larger and the smaller subjects.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd believes that when he has stopped as a lecturer in Latin, the remaining teaching staff will be overburdened.<\/p>\n

\u00bbMy former colleagues will be very busy, because they have to teach even more courses. The remaining people say that they are lacking in staff, and even though there have been fewer students this year, there will not be fewer subjects or compulsory courses to be taught,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

Process still difficult to understand<\/h2>\n

He recognises management’s right to dismiss him when they wanted it.<\/p>\n

The management personally wrote to Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd that \u00bbthe faculty therefore recommends that you be dismissed on the basis of the faculty’s overall assessment of its long-term staff needs, and it must therefore be pointed out that this is not because you have not fulfilled your assignments in a satisfactory manner.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd is well aware that because his dismissal was a part of a larger round of layoffs, where management disposed of many employees at the same time to save money on the budget, neither he, nor other employees who were nominated for dismissal, have a legal requirement for a more thorough explanation.<\/p>\n

But it is still difficult for him to understand that, after completing all his tasks satisfactorily for almost 27 years, he can be dismissed at the age of 60.<\/p>\n

In other places, this would not be possible.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIn Germany, for example, this would be unthinkable. Universities there can only sack an employee if they have raped a student or stolen money. I have therefore also had to explain to some of my foreign colleagues that I have not done anything like this. The rules for dismissals are just tougher in Denmark than in our neighbouring countries,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.
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No more. Instead, for a period of 3.5 years, he has to find funding from foundations that are to increasingly take over the financing of his further research into the development of European music."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"Dismissal retracted","text":"Lektor i latin Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd var ved at miste sin livsgerning, hvis K\u00f8benhavns Universitet havde fastholdt at afskedige ham efter n\u00e6sten 27 \u00e5rs ans\u00e6ttelse. Nu forts\u00e6tter han p\u00e5 halv tid i tre \u00e5r mere, men f\u00e5r nok aldrig en d\u00e6kkende forklaring p\u00e5, hvorfor nedsk\u00e6ringer skulle ramme netop ham.","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Wednesday morning on 8 May 2019 and Associate Professor in Latin Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd was sitting in front of his computer at the Saxo Institute on South Campus, part of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>His faculty was to find DKK 31 million in savings, and everyone knew it.<\/p>\n<p>Employees were therefore told that they had to keep an eye on their inbox, because faculty management would be sending out e-mails to everyone who had been selected for dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd and some of his four colleagues, who have offices on the same corridor, had exchanged morbid jokes that it might be one of them who would get the message.<\/p>\n<p>Troelsg\u00e5rd is 60 years old, and he has been employed at the University of Copenhagen for almost 27 years \u2013 from exactly 1 September 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The email came in at five minutes past nine. 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And something highly unusual happened in a dismissal case of this type. He actually got something out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn May, I felt that my work, and my longstanding international research with partners all over Europe and the rest of the world, was just too important for me to just give up. I found the decision to be a wrong one, and I wanted a more scientific process in the university’s and the faculty’s administration,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<p>The case has now ended with Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd agreeing to go from full-time to part-time.<\/p>\n<p>After the summer vacation, he started 19 August on his job, and in the coming months, he will continue working as before, full time until 31 December 2019, but he will do no further teaching. Only research.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 January 2020, Troelsg\u00e5rd is to work part-time as a researcher on a three-year contract that he has entered with the University of Copenhagen. He is guaranteed, in other words, salary for approximately 3.5 years, and he will get a pension as a full-time employee.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd understands that in the future, he will have to find funding for his research and his remaining salary up to full time from foundations that he applies for himself.<\/p>\n<h2>86 year-old research project can continue<\/h2>\n<p>During the course of the summer, Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd spoke several times with his trade union, the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM), about his job situation. He remembers how they said that a university firing an associate professor, and then deciding to rescind their decision, only happens in \u2018extremely rare cases\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It is highly unusual that Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd will be allowed to continue, but he is also an important part of an international research project in Byzantine music which has run at the University of Copenhagen for 86 years.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd has been director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igl.ku.dk\/MMB\/\">Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae<\/a>, which was recognised by <a href=\"http:\/\/uai-iua.org\/\">The International Union of Academies<\/a> back in 1933.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the University of Copenhagen was made the permanent home for the research project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd\u2019s CV:<\/p>\n<p>Studies in classical philology (1977-) and musicology (1982-) at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>Master of Arts from the University of Copenhagen 1987 (latin and music).<\/p>\n<p>PhD in Byzantine musicology 1993.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd says that his biggest problem with his dismissal was to have to say goodbye to his research project. And he finds it difficult to understand that management at the faculty did not know what he was doing. This is how he perceives the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI find it odd that they initially decided to interrupt what I was doing, because I have never hidden what I was working on. All my research activities are documented. After giving me notice they must have suddenly realised, and changed their minds,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p>According to a letter from the Saxo Institute department head Stuart Ward from 24 June this year, it is precisely \u00bbthe risk of putting the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, which we held in-house since 1931, in an untenable situation,\u00ab that is the reason why the University of Copenhagen changed its mind and gave Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd an offer to continue.<\/p>\n<h2>Rehired as \u2018damage control\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>He guesses that the University of Copenhagen offered him a contract with reappointment on part-time for three years as a kind of mitigation scheme \u2013 as damage control.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will lead to the destruction of a unique research environment that was built up at the University of Copenhagen since 1930.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Associate professor emeritus Karsten Fledelius<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbI hope something good comes out of the contract that I have now signed. But I wonder about the process, because I have always registered my research activities and my publications, and my research was highlighted in the internal evaluation report (Research Quality Assessment of the Saxo Institute), which the University of Copenhagen paid for last year. That is why they should have been aware that research of international significance was coordinated by me,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<p>He knows that his head of department, Professor Stuart Ward, issued an explanation to many of Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd’s Danish and international research collaboration partners to say that management has learned something about the importance of the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThis is \u2013 despite the background to all this \u2013 a positive thing. I think it is a kind of compromise or damage control, where the official objective of reducing the number of teaching staff in Greek and Latin is still being fulfilled,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<h2>Research project began in Copenhagen in 1931<\/h2>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd says that he recognises that it can be difficult for outsiders to understand what Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae has to do with Latin at the Saxo Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The project is to study the significance of Byzantine music for the development of musical notation and of music theory in Europe. That is why it is all about the early musical culture of the whole of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Byzantine music consists of a large collection of music manuscripts written in Greek, which Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd also masters. And if anyone is to understand the music, they have to read the original sources. The Latin, Western European reception of Greek music theory and Byzantine church music is an important part of his research field.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"MultiImage","images":[{"image":{"ID":91577,"id":91577,"title":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd - Kigger i skab med mikrofilm","filename":"dsc3198dxoweb2.jpg","filesize":258142,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/latinlektor-paa-60-stod-til-fyring-men-protester-og-hoeringssvar-redder-nu-hans-forskning\/dsc_3198_dxo_web2\/","alt":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd kigger i skabet p\u00e5 KUA2 med alle sine mikrofilm med de originale kilder om den byzantinske musikhistorie","author":"8","description":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd kigger i skabet p\u00e5 KUA2 med alle sine mikrofilm med de originale kilder om den byzantinske musikhistorie","caption":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd kigger ind i det skab p\u00e5 KUA2 , hvor han opbevarer alle sine mikrofilm med originale kilder om den byzantinske musiks historie.","name":"dsc_3198_dxo_web2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":91320,"date":"2019-08-23 12:29:56","modified":"2019-08-26 18:58:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1600,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2-480x324.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":324,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2-768x518.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":518,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2-1280x864.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":864,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1037,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2.jpg","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":1080,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2-290x196.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":196,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2-700x473.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":473,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3198dxoweb2-990x668.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":668}},"caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd looks into a cupboard at KUA2 where he stores all of his microfilm with original sources on Byzantine music history."},{"image":{"ID":91573,"id":91573,"title":"Christians Troelsg\u00e5rd - 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and continues to work with them so he can say more about the overall music history of Europe."}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>The musical notation has to be deciphered \u2013 the different systems have to be interpreted in much the same way as unknown alphabets \u2013 and Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd is the expert on this.<\/p>\n<p>The research project Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae is old. It was formally opened in Copenhagen in 1931, based in the ‘classical philology’ programme. At the time, the Byzantine music manuscripts were largely unknown. New sources have subsequently been examined and new methods have been used, so it is a long and coherent research tradition that could have been lost.<\/p>\n<p>There was no guarantee that it would have been possible to transfer the project with all its collections of sources (especially in the form of microfilm and specialist literature) to another university in Europe if it had been closed at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of losing Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae gave Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd many a sleepless night in May and June speculating about the future if he had to give up his position.<\/p>\n<h2>Outpouring of supporting statements<\/h2>\n<p>After 8 May however, the statements of support began to flow in \u2013 from both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Affects three disciplines:<\/p>\n<p>According to Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd, the Byzantine music in the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae is related to three areas of research: Byzantine studies, musicology, and classical philology.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00bbIt will lead to the destruction of a unique research environment that has been built up within the University of Copenhagen since 1930,\u00ab wrote associate professor emeritus Karsten Fledelius, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, who is now the chair of the Danish National Committee for Byzantine Studies and vice president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/aiebnet.gr\/\">Association Internationale des Etudes Byzantines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Karsten Fledelius praised Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd for being able to include many aspects to each text:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbChristian Troelsg\u00e5rd has involved modern technology and social anthropology in his analyses of the relationship between writing, oral tradition and musical performance practice,\u00ab Karsten Fledelius wrote to the Faculty of Humanities\u2019 dean Jesper Kallestrup and the head of department in a declaration of support sent on 7 June.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd’s students of Greek and Latin also submitted on 14 June a declaration of support to the head of department Stuart Ward. A total of 27 students signed the declaration, which included:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbChristian is a much-revered teacher and supervisor (…) in all contexts he shows an incredible industriousness, as well as an awareness of the individual student’s needs (…) Even outside working hours, Christian spends a lot of time in a study programme setting.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>Supporting statements from both Danish and international colleagues<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the declarations of support from Karsten Fledelius and Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd\u2019s students, a number of support statements came from associate professors and professors at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, the Faculty of Theology’s Section for Ecclesiastical History, and reputable researchers from Stanford, Princeton, Ohio State University, Thessaloniki, Athens and from an Italian professor from Palermo who is the president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unipa.it\/redazioneweb\/.content\/documenti\/Locandina_La-musica-liturgica-bizantina-in-Italia-dal-Medioevo-a-oggi-fra-tradizione-scritta-e-orale.pdf\">Comitato Italiano per l’edizione e lo Studio delle Fonti Musicali Bizantine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This last declaration of support was about a book project on Byzantine music and its significance for European cultural history. This is what Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd is currently working on, and there are several other joint publishing projects coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in order to save the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, a petition was launched online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/rektor-adm-ku-dk-save-the-monumenta-musicae-byzantinae?recruiter=961651961&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition\">which more than 2,600 researchers, teachers and other academics in Europe have signed so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Despair and amazement over management decision<\/h2>\n<p>In the middle of June, when the University Post first spoke to Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd, he said that he despaired and was amazed at management’s decision to fire him. He said that he found it difficult to concentrate on writing the research articles that he had started, and that he only took care of daily routine tasks as he thought a lot about his dismissal case. He said that he was to go out and find a job as a teacher of Latin at an upper secondary school, as many of them needed Latin teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn my head I was still baffled by how management could think that the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae project could suddenly be interrupted,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":91346,"id":91346,"title":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd portr\u00e6t","filename":"dsc3232dxoweb.jpg","filesize":135754,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/latinlektor-paa-60-stod-til-fyring-men-protester-og-hoeringssvar-redder-nu-hans-forskning\/dsc_3232_dxo_web\/","alt":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd portr\u00e6t","author":"8","description":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd portr\u00e6t","caption":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd","name":"dsc_3232_dxo_web","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":91320,"date":"2019-08-21 09:13:02","modified":"2019-08-23 11:48:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1600,"height":1067,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb-1280x854.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":854,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb.jpg","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":1067,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3232dxoweb-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Things are different now.<\/p>\n<p>He has saved his research project, he can sleep better at night \u2013 and he has been given the opportunity to reflect on where the humanities are heading. He says that his case is symptomatic of a trend in what the management of the University of Copenhagen wants for humanities research in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI do not find that it is the right direction for the Faculty of Humanities to go if they only host projects that are externally funded. We have fewer sources of funding and foundations that we can apply to than, say, the Faculty of Medical and Health sciences and the Faculty of Science,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Books by Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/B\/bo14317101.html\">Byzantine Neumes<\/a> is a handbook on medieval musical notation. The book will soon be available in translation to Modern Greek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/C\/bo20193989.html\">Chants of the Byzantine Rite<\/a>, the Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd is also editor of Volume 1 of Dansk Editionshistorie (Greek and Latin text versions) with own contributions on early classic versions, medieval literature, Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae and Saxo’s history of Denmark (Gesta Danorum). The work is to be published in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>His own research is a kind of humanities basic research that does not have an immediate application, and which, in his experience, it is difficult to find funding for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00bbIt is often also necessary to have long term funding, and no one wants to obligate themselves to something that lasts more than a maximum of four to five years. This means that the quality of these types of research projects will be lower. They require too much work on the part of researchers to start afresh with new applications every few years, where they have to justify themselves and their projects,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<h2>Humanities research is changing<\/h2>\n<p>This will lead to changes in humanities research.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe time of the long-term projects may be over, and they had qualities that we will no longer have,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<p>For his own specialised research project in Byzantine music, some of the researchers who have supported Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd have told him that he can apply for funding from, say, the US and from foundations in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd says that this would also lead to limitations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI am working on a joint European project on the use of notations in Byzantine music and on Europe’s musical roots, and it is important that it is not monopolised by a particular nation. It must be an international collaboration and be as open as possible. The modern research landscape, with foundation financing over shorter time periods, is not suitable for this. But if this is where we are going to go, then I must play by the rules, even though I do not consider it to be optimal,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<h2>Wants a more proactive management<\/h2>\n<p>Troelsg\u00e5rd knows that the DKK 31 million cuts at the Faculty of Humanities (the latest of several rounds of cuts) are a result of decisions made by politicians in the Danish parliament at Christiansborg. But he is critical of University of Copenhagen management nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThis is a difficult thing to discuss. I acknowledge this, and you do not necessarily have to protect the older employees. But I do not think that management did their proper homework on this,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p>He says that management should have shown due diligence and have done more to get the money that was needed for smaller subjects like Latin to continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIf management had done this, if it had been proactive towards all the politicians at Christiansborg and done what they had to do on time, then management would have procured the necessary funding for the smaller study programmes. Smaller study programmes cannot compete on an equal footing with the other major subjects, and it is the task of management to draw attention to the special case of the smaller research areas,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<h2>Dean: \u00bbAll redundancies are a loss\u00ab<\/h2>\n<p>The University Post asked the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Jesper Kallestrup, to comment the article and showed him Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd’s statements.<\/p>\n<p>Jesper Kallestrup responds in an email:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbOf course all redundancies are a loss academically \u2013 both for the faculty’s teaching and its research. It is inevitable and, of course, regrettable. In the faculty management we have done what we could to ensure that the cuts would have as few negative consequences as possible,\u00ab he says and continues:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe reason we have cuts is that we have fewer students than we had in the past. This means that it is the Danish parliament’s decision to reduce study programme intake that is the main affect on our finances. This decision was made in 2014, and we did a lot at the time to put our stamp on this political process \u2013 both in relation to the larger and the smaller subjects.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd believes that when he has stopped as a lecturer in Latin, the remaining teaching staff will be overburdened.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbMy former colleagues will be very busy, because they have to teach even more courses. The remaining people say that they are lacking in staff, and even though there have been fewer students this year, there will not be fewer subjects or compulsory courses to be taught,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<h2>Process still difficult to understand<\/h2>\n<p>He recognises management’s right to dismiss him when they wanted it.<\/p>\n<p>The management personally wrote to Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd that \u00bbthe faculty therefore recommends that you be dismissed on the basis of the faculty’s overall assessment of its long-term staff needs, and it must therefore be pointed out that this is not because you have not fulfilled your assignments in a satisfactory manner.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd is well aware that because his dismissal was a part of a larger round of layoffs, where management disposed of many employees at the same time to save money on the budget, neither he, nor other employees who were nominated for dismissal, have a legal requirement for a more thorough explanation.<\/p>\n<p>But it is still difficult for him to understand that, after completing all his tasks satisfactorily for almost 27 years, he can be dismissed at the age of 60.<\/p>\n<p>In other places, this would not be possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn Germany, for example, this would be unthinkable. Universities there can only sack an employee if they have raped a student or stolen money. I have therefore also had to explain to some of my foreign colleagues that I have not done anything like this. The rules for dismissals are just tougher in Denmark than in our neighbouring countries,\u00ab says Christian Troelsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"Dansk","identifier":"Nyhedsbrev","headline":"Modtag et ugentligt nyhedsoverblik i din inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Education","slug":"education","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":661,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":46,"name":"Science","slug":"science","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":832,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":593,"name":"dismissals","slug":"dismissals","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":593,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":578,"name":"Humanities","slug":"humanities","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":578,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":27,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2268,"name":"latin","slug":"latin-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2268,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":18,"name":"Feature Article","slug":"feature_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":1200,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dsc3205dxoweb2-1280x780.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92662,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92498\/revisions\/92662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}