News about Languages

A successful CIP symposium 2025

CIP held its annual symposium on Thursday, November 6, 2025, this year titled “New Literacies - the role of multilingualism and generative AI”. Read more about the day here.

Kirsten Busch Nielsen continues as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities

Kirsten Busch Nielsen’s appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen has been extended until 2029.

Tourists flock to the Faroe Islands – but meet resistance from locals

Tourism in the Faroe Islands is growing rapidly and now generates more than one billion Danish kroner annually. However, the successful tourism industry risks destroying the unique, untouched nature that is used to…

Slomanns Legat

Kære alle Stud.mag. Per Slomanns Legat er blevet slået op. Fra opslaget: Midlerne fordeles og tildeles efter fundatsens krav til en forsker som har en kandidatgrad inden for sprogvidenskab, særligt sammenlignende…

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teotihuacan has been…

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teotihuacan has been…

Language Use at UCPH on inclusion of international employees

Episode 4 of the CIP podcast, Sprogbrug på KU / Language Use at UCPH focuses on how to best welcome and include new international colleagues. The podcast will be released 26 September 2025.

Artikel om bog om det danske sprogs historie

Carlsbergfondet har omtalt Thomas Olanders bog Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen på deres hjemmeside: https://carlsbergfondet.dk/viden/paa-sporet-af-det-danske-sprogs-roedder/.

New book: Indo-European ecologies

The book Indo-European ecologies: Cattle and milk – snakes and water has been published at Stockholm University Press.

Results from the MUST project can inform decisions about language initiatives in higher education

From 2020 to 2023, the project Models for teaching language as an additional competence (MUST) carried out work to investigate how best to introduce language as an additional competence in higher education on…

Explainer on language history from videnskab.dk

Danish popular science site videnskab.dk has published an explainer (in Danish) on language history featuring Thomas Olander and Guus Kroonen: “This is how Danish sounded 6,000 years ago”. “Sådan lød dansk for 6.000 år…

Thomas Olander appointed professor of Indo-European Studies

After three years in the promotion programme, Thomas Olander has been appointed professor of Indo-European Studies at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. The inaugural lecture will…

A Fond Farewell: Celebrating Pete Westbrook's 16 Years at CIP

As Pete Westbrook is retiring at the end of June 2025, we would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the invaluable contribution he has made to CIP.

Visit from Umeå University

From 3-11 April 2025 Frankie Ekerholm from Umeå University visited CIP for exchange of ideas and knowledge about language courses in English and the local language for staff members at Umeå.

Coming soon – offline speech recognition even on low-memory phones

More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new algorithm developed by a University of Copenhagen researcher and his international colleagues makes it possible to…

Languages on the Agenda – Sprog på dagsordenen, CIP releases new book

New volume: Languages on the Agenda – Sprog på dagsordenen, of the CIP series Studies in Parallel Language use.

New book on the history of the Danish language

Thomas Olander’s book Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen [Danish from the present to the Stone Age] has been published at U Press. Read more about the book in this article (in Danish).

Open postdoc position on the AI-UNI project

Do you have a PhD specialising in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics or similar, you might be the perfect candidate for the postdoc position as part of the research project AI-UNI.

New book: Sub-Indo-European Europe

New book published (Open Access): Guus Kroonen (ed.). 2024. Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems,methods, results (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 375). Berlin & Boston. De Gruyter Mouton.…

Event in connection with new report: Let's talk about food waste

On Friday 27 September 2024, in connection with the annual food waste week, the research project Fighting food waste – navigating values, choices and habits organised an event at the University library in Fiolstræde.

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg featured at videnskab.dk

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg, who holds a PhD degree from the Roots of Europe centre and is now a postdoc at Leiden University with an internationalisation fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation, is featured in Danish popular…

New book: Power, gender, and mobility

New book out! Power, gender, and mobility: Aspects of Indo-European society. Edited by Riccardo Ginevra, Stefan Höfler & Birgit Anette Olsen, assisted by Janus Bahs Jacquet. Museum Tusculanum Press. Publisher website…

New book: Indo-European interfaces

The volume Indo-European interfaces: Integrating linguistics, mythology and archaeology has been published at Stockholm University Press.

New PhD student at Roots of Europe: Tore Rovs Kristoffersen

On 1 September 2024, the Roots of Europe centre will have a new PhD student: Tore Rovs Kristoffersen. The project is titled “Indo-European economy”. Tore has graduated in Classical Philology from the Saxo Department at…