News about Culture

‘Who Has Taken My Son?’: Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen has contributed the chapter ‘Who Has Taken My Son (Amar Cheleke Ke Nilo)?’: Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India to the book An…

Copenhagen Roots contribute to Bronze Age novel

Bjarne, Anders, Thomas and Birgit helped author Kristian Bang Foss with linguistic input from Bronze Age languages for the novel Manden der bar solen (The man who carried the sun). Read more at the Faculty of Humanities…

Call for Papers: Inter-Island Connections in the Lesser Antilles, 1650-1850

IN THE SAME SEA invites paper proposals for a workshop to be held at the University of Copenhagen, 25th-26th April 2024.

Florentine's Letters: Grief, Sorrow, and Love from Martinique to Dominica

In this short blog post, ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen discusses one enslaved woman's Lesser Antillean support network, expressed through letters written originally written in French or French Creole in 1818.

New Publication: History and Public Debates about Racial Slavery in Denmark

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen has just published a chapter in the edited volume 'Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe' (DeGruyter, 2023).

Children’s spelling skills improve when teaching integrates movement

A new study from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports shows that children who use their bodies to 'shape' letter-sounds improve their spelling skills more than those who receive…

Commemorative Lecture by Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun

Mette Birkedal Bruun gave the lecture entitled: From Monks to GDPR

Let me guide you through this! The interaction between scribe and readers in the main manuscript of Konungs skuggsjá

The oldest and most complete manuscript of the Old Norwegian Konungs skuggsjá, AM 243 bα fol., offers a treasure trove of knowledge on various subjects. This immense encyclopaedic and didactic work can be hard to…

Brazilian research delegation visited the Centre for Privacy Studies

The collaboration between the Centre for Privacy Studies and the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria brought a Brazilian research delegation to the Centre for Privacy Studies.

Emerging Researchers’ Network

The UCPH School of Archaeology’s (SoA) Emerging Researchers’ Network (ERN) connects early career researchers (currently around 40 members) working within archaeology in the broadest definition at the University of…

eLetter to Science: Archaeolinguistic anachronisms in the Indo-European phylogeny of Heggarty et al. 2023

Reserachers from Roots of Europe have responded to the conclusions of Heggarty et al. 2023 in an eLetter to Science.

‘Our Society Works’: Disaster Solidarity and Models of Social Life in the Elbe River Valley

Disasters have often been analysed as periods of exception that shine light on otherwise opaque circumstances of social life. However, less focus has been placed on the different forms that such revelatory experiences…

Johan Ulrik Nielsen is awarded the Gold Medal for his Prize dissertation 🥇

Indo-Europeanist Johan Ulrik Nielsen finishes his MA with a prize dissertation - and he was awarded the gold medal for it!

How ideas about nature shape processes of tribal identity: Two sides of tribal ecologies in contemporary India

By Stephen Christopher, Matthew Shutzer and Raile Rocky Ziipao

New Publication: Together in a Small Boat

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen and PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen have published an article in the William and Mary Quarterly! Read more about it here.

ITSS Team Finishes Data Entry for Marronage Database

The IN THE SAME SEA team has finished data entry for our runaway slave database! We started with an unnamed man jailed as runaway advertised in the Antigua Gazette from 1776, and ended with Sophie in the Journal…

New director at CIP

As of 1 January 2024, Professor Janus Mortensen takes over the position of centre director at CIP from Anne Holmen, who is retiring at the end of 2023.

PRIVACY-researcher Asta Mønsted contributed to the Venice Biennale of Architecture

This year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture opened in May and is running until the end of November. On October 12 archaeologist and postdoctoral researcher at PRIVACY, Asta Mønsted contributed to a workshop in the Nordi…

Visiting PhD Researcher Leonie Jegen at CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Get to know CERTIZENS' new guest researcher and learn how her PhD work relates to citizenship certification in African contexts.

Language team meeting at Skovvangskolen

Lecture by Line Krogager Andersen.

The library turns 240 years old

In 1783, the library was established at Abildgaards Veterinary School in Christianshavn. Read more on our website: https://kub.ku.dk/english/libraries/frederiksberg/cultural-heritage/heritage/history_library/

Digital diaspora: The case of Farkhunda and Afghan women's resistance

In their chapter, Waltorp and Ben Haddou discuss communication that is political in nature among members of the Afghan diaspora in Denmark, and what social media platforms afford in terms of this communication and its…

Mediatization theory in Japanese

Professor Stig Hjarvard’s book ”The Mediatization of Culture and Society” has just been published by the Japanese academic publisher Keiso Shobo.

Professor Lisbet Christoffersen wins Danish Textbook Award 2023

Lisbet Christoffersen, who is professor of Ecclesiastical and Religion Law at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at University of Roskilde and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Theology at University of…