Previous INTELHUB events
ISA Annual Convention 2025
March 2-5, 2025
INTELHUB researchers Kira Vrist Rønn, Hedvig Ördén, and Melanie Sofia Hartvigsen presented their work at the ISA-panel “The Societal Turn in Intelligence Practices: The Case of Scandinavia” together with our brilliant colleagues Tallat Rønn Shakoor and Tony Ingesson. The panel was excellently chaired by Olli Teirilä and the presentations focused on the importance of identifying unique, contextual aspects to better understand each society’s intelligence practices.
Furthermore, Kira Vrist Rønn chaired the roundtable “Open-source intelligence and the future of warfare” discussing new OSINT tendencies, as well as the nature, politics, and ethics of the OSINT community.
Thank you to the participants for their insightful questions and valuable comments.
Chicago, US
Final INTELHUB Seminar
January 14, 2025
For the past three years, the INTELHUB team has explored crucial topics such as public trust in intelligence services, the legitimacy of intelligence agencies, and the democratic accountability of intelligence practices. Throughout this journey, we have attended international conferences, published a book, articles, and policy briefs, and, most importantly, built a strong professional network of brilliant intelligence scholars—primarily from Scandinavia—that we hope will thrive for years to come.
Beyond research, we have succeeded in putting Scandinavian Intelligence Studies on the international scholarly map. We have influenced teaching and learning activities for professionals, contributed to the public debate on intelligence matters, and helped shape discussions on intelligence accountability and legitimacy.
While the INTELHUB project has officially come to an end, the research and the network will continue. We look forward to seeing how INTELHUB and Scandinavian Intelligence Studies evolve in the years ahead.
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported and engaged with INTELHUB—your contributions have been invaluable. And a special thanks to the Carlsberg Foundation for making this work possible.
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Copenhagen, DK
INTELHUB Book Launch
October 23, 2024
INTELHUB celebrated the publication of the book “Intelligence Studies in High-Trust Societies: Scandinavian Exceptionalism?” together with contributing authors, colleagues, and friends.
This day marked a wonderful culmination of an exciting and incredible journey, and we are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed, been involved or supported the process.
This is one of the greatest achievements of our research project, which aims at contributing to the international scholarly literature on intelligence studies and to gather a Scandinavian intelligence research community.
The conference was held at Carlsberg Museum, and we discussed four broad topics: publicity & public trust, intelligence & civil society, new intelligence actors, and innovation in intelligence.
Thanks to all the presenters, who, in addition to the INTELHUB team, were Karen Lund Petersen, Thomas Wegener Friis, Ingvild Bruce, Maya Mynster Christensen, Helene Gundhus, Tallat Rønn Shakoor, and Sille Obelitz Søe.
We also want to express our gratitude to our friends and colleagues from Leiden University, Simon Willmetts, Damien Van Puyvelde, Bas Rietjens, and Thomas Maguire, who joined us for this special day and enriched our discussions with their perspectives.
Finally, thanks to all the participants for the engaging conversations and to the Carlsberg Foundation for supporting our research.
Copenhagen, Denmark
INTELHUB visits
Leiden University in The Hague
May 30, 2024
INTELHUB visited Leiden University for an informal NL-Nordic (+Spain) workshop with the aim of building bridges between the intelligence research communities in the Netherlands and the Nordic countries.
We discussed topics such as publicity, international cooperation, new technologies, warning, accountability and much more.
Thanks to Simon Willmetts for accepting our invitation to visit The Hauge and for planning this great event.
Thanks to Bas Rietjens and Damien Van Puyvelde for co-hosting the event and bringing people together from both Leiden University - Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and Netherlands Defence Academy.
Thanks of course also to everybody who attended and contributed to the encouraging discussions and a warm atmosphere.
The Hague, The Netherlands
INTELHUB Conference
Intelligence Legitimacy in Theory and Practice
May 15, 2024
Carlsberg Museum and Business Centre, Copenhagen
We celebrated and manifested INTELHUB as a research hub on intelligence Studies in Scandinavia. We addressed questions that are central to contemporary intelligence services and practices, including:
How can intelligence legitimacy be understood, built, maintained, and restored?
What are important future areas of focus in Scandinavian intelligence studies?
What relationships may constructively be established between intelligence studies and practice and how?
We are grateful for very inspiring contributions from the speakers and panelists Eleni Bratt, Dr. Daniela Richterova, Adam Diderichsen, Karen Lund Pedersen, Tom Røseth, Hedvid Ördén, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, Tony Ingesson and Maya Mynster Christensen.
Thanks to everyone for participating at the conference and for making this day special. And thanks to Carlsberg Foundation for supporting our project.
ISA Annual Convention 2024
April 3-6, 2024
The INTELHUB research team presented their work at the ISA-panel “Legitimacy Matters: Perspectives on Democratic Legitimacy of Intelligence Practices” together with our distinguished colleagues Mark Phythian, Hager Ben Jaffel, Peter de Werd and Jaseff Raziel Yauri-Miranda.
The panel was excellently chaired by Tallat Rønn Shakoor and discussed by the newest member of INTELHUB, Hedvig Ördén.
Thank you to the participants for their excellent questions and comments.
San Francisco, US
Seminar with Peter de Werd
The Dutch scholar from the Netherlands Defence Academy, Peter de Werd, visited INTELHUB in Copenhagen to discuss the role of public intelligence oversight and the dynamics of trust in the context of intelligence.
This was a great warm-up for ISA next month, where we will discuss similar topics.
Thank you to Peter for visiting and sharing his perspectives with us.
February 29, 2024
The Secret Meeting Room
Copenhagen, DK
Author Workshop: Intelligence
Practices in High-Trust Societies
June 8, 2023
The Noble Maiden Monestery
Odense, DK
Is there something special about intelligence practices in the high-trust Scandinavian societies?
One of the main aims of INTELHUB is to voice interdisciplinary, Scandinavian perspectives on this and other questions related to obtaining and maintaining legitimacy and public trust in intelligence practices.
Researchers from Denmark, Norway and Sweden gathered in Odense for an author workshop on the upcoming edited volume “Intelligence Practices in High-Trust Societies.”
Thank you to all the participants for engaging in the workshop and contribute with unique perspectives to our common project.
Seminar: Democratic oversight
of the intelligence services
May 10, 2023
Copenhagen University College
Copenhagen, DK
What does an ideal democratic oversight system of the intelligence services look like? What can we learn from the experiences of other countries? And how do we restore the trust in the intelligence services in the wake of the recent intelligence scandals in Denmark?
Key Danish and International voices gathered for this seminar to discuss oversight and democratic control of the intelligence services.
Many thanks to the panel: Pernille Boye Koch, Jacob Kaarsbo, Jesper Olsen, Ingvild Bruce, Hans Davidsen-Nielsen, and Jaseff Raziel Yauri-Miranda for the interesting perspectives and great discussions. Thanks also to the audience for the thoughtful questions and comments.
Seminar: Lessons learned from
contemporary digital policing
May 25, 2023
The Noble Maiden Monestery
Odense, DK
Current research on digital policing is highlighting the need for a dialogue-based approach. In this special seminar, Liam Ralph invited us to discuss: If and how can the dialogue-based approach be enhanced online beyond what is already happening?
Daniel Trottier, Niels Denny Sørensen, Mia Rosa Koss Hartmann, and Liam Ralph sparked fascinating and important discussions with perspectives from both theory and practice.
Thanks to the panel and all participants for their good questions and comments.
ISA Annual Convention 2023
March 15-18, 2023
The INTELHUB research team presented their work on legitimacy, accountability, transparency, and trust in the context of intelligence at the ISA-panel “Scandinavian Exceptionalism? Intelligence Practices in High-Trust Societies”.
Thank you to the participants for their excellent questions and comments.
We look forward to next year!
Montréal, CA
