Hello, my name is Semine and I am a researcher and writer, born and based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I write about colonialism and natural history museums in Denmark, Malaysia, and Singapore. I am the author of Take Root Eat Root (Obra Press 2024), a book about colonial botany in Honduras and Malaysia. Other book projects include co-translating Karen Barad into Danish for Art Hub Copenhagen. I have also worked on a virtual recipe garden and written about industrial fruit distribution. I am currently working as the in-house writer at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at Copenhagen University.
I have been a research fellow at MIT, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the architecture practice APRDELESP. I have worked as a consultant at the National Health Service England and at ReD Associates. I hold a BA with Distinction from Cambridge University and a MSc from MIT.
I was part of the 2024 cohort at School for Poetic Computation, and I am a 2025 recipient of a Danish Arts Foundation grant. In recent months, I have been invited to lecture at MassArt, Nanyang Tech and the IT University of Copenhagen, and published writing in the Funambulist, Politiken, resilience.org and Føljeton. You can see my full CV here and get in touch at: seminelong at gmail dot com
I write about colonialism and natural history museums in Denmark, Malaysia, and Singapore. I am the author of Take Root Eat Root (Obra Press 2024), a book about colonial botany in Honduras and Malaysia. Other book projects include co-translating Karen Barad into Danish for Art Hub Copenhagen. I have also worked on a virtual recipe garden and written about industrial fruit distribution. I am currently working as the in-house writer at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at Copenhagen University.
I have been a research fellow at MIT, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the architecture practice APRDELESP. I have worked as a consultant at the National Health Service England and at ReD Associates. I hold a BA with Distinction from Cambridge University and a MSc from MIT.
I was part of the 2024 cohort at School for Poetic Computation, and I am a 2025 recipient of a Danish Arts Foundation grant. In recent months, I have been invited to lecture at MassArt, Nanyang Tech and the IT University of Copenhagen, and published writing in the Funambulist, Politiken, resilience.org and Føljeton. You can see my full CV here and get in touch at: seminelong at gmail dot com
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