Culture, Language & History

Universities are typically publicly acknowledged for providing two kinds of services – education and research. But universities do much more - and with a long shelf life too.

Starting in 2015, students will be able to start calling the former barracks on Copenhagen's Sølvgade street their new home.

Some 550 students, employees and their guests participated in this year’s Copenhagen Pride. The group was the largest ever to represent the University in the annual event, as well as the largest contingent participating…

Masculinity in TV cooking shows is the focus in a new PhD dissertation by Jonatan Leer.

PhD Stine Simonsen Puri's dissertation deals with gambling at the New Delhi racecourse. It provides an insight into the major illicit Indian economy, which many Indians rely more on than the legal one – but which we do…

Climate fiction – or simply cli-fi – is a newly coined term for novels and films which focus on the consequences of global warming. New research from University of Copenhagen shows how these fictions serve as a mental…

Danish newspapers mirror to a high degree the viewpoints of the political elite when Danish military participation in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya has been on the public agenda during the past 10 years.

Responsible research has been put firmly on the political agenda with, for instance, EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. New research from the University of Copenhagen reveals that the scientists themselves place great emphasi…

The largest cultural award in Denmark, the Sonning Prize, will go to the Austrian film director Michael Haneke.

People who have suffered a stroke often experience severe fatigue. But doctors find it hard to help these patients as their experiences of fatigue may not necessarily be caused by physiological problems.

In his new book, Engaging with Reality: Documentary and Globalization, Professor Ib Bondebjerg of the University of Copenhagen considers how documentary films address global challenges in far greater depth than news…

The Internet and social media provide easy and instant access to an abundance of information but do not make us better equipped to make rational decisions; on the contrary, the technology amplifies irrational social…

The University of Copenhagen offers a new MSc study programme in Global Development.

During the Nazi occupation of Denmark 1940-1945, the jazz orchestra Harlem Kiddies, which boasted a line-up of three black musicians and a Jewish singer, was all the rage – today the orchestra is all but forgotten. New…