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New Grant: Preventing local conflicts over storm surge protection

Assistant professor at SODAS and Department of Anthropology Kristoffer Albris has received a 2.9 million grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s (DFF) pool for green research

New projects will map conflicts over coastal protection in Denmark and environmental mobilisation in Indonesia

Two projects at the Department of Anthropology have received grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark earmarked green research.

Disability and Technology in Africa: Introduction

In collaboration with Herbert Muyinda, Professor Susan Whyte has edited and co-authored a special issue of Africa, the Journal of the International African Institute.

World-class research into Greenland's oldest ice and the Universe's densest stars win very large EU grants

When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just received 11.4 million euro to answer these big questions. The…

World-class research into Greenland's oldest ice and the Universe's densest stars win very large EU grants

When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just received 11.4 million euro to answer these big questions. The…

Open Access week 2022

This week, October 24 -28 2022, is 'Danish Open Access Week 2022'. The OA Network provides 10 webinars about Open Access - two each day - all cover Open Access in different ways. The webinars are free, and everybody…

First Multiplier Event in Kraków

The very first Multiplier Event took place on the 20th of September 2022 in Kraków, Poland, hosted by the Centre of e-Learning at the AGH University of Science and Technology. More than 20 participants from various…

Kraków TM5 September 2022

CUTE partners gathered from 20 to 22 September in Kraków, Poland to finalize the toolkit and work on disseminating the project’s results and planning the upcoming Multiplier Events and webinars.

Novo Nordisk Foundation-funded @EQUAL project included in this year’s WIDER conference

On 5-7 October 2022, UNU-WIDER in partnership with Universidad de los Andes hosted in Bogota, Colombia, a conference on reducing inequality.

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the chapter 'Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda' to the book Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World.

New Postdoc position in Social Science at CFS

New Postdoc position available at Center of Subjectivity Research. Deadline 1 November 2022.

Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience

On August 22, 2022, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) invited Anne Bach Nielsen, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and Nina Blom Andersen, reader at University College Copenhagen…

PhD Symposium - "The Spectra of Life: Dimensional Breadth in Biological Research

Registration deadline: 26 October 2022 When: 7-9 December 2022 Where: EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Abstract submission deadline (for a short talk or a poster): 14 September The European Molecular Biology Laborator (EMBL) Ph…

George Bob-Milliar appointed Affiliate Professor in African Studies

George Bob-Milliar of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana is appointed new Affiliate Professor in African Studies, effective 1 September 2022.

Green transition called off: DR Congo’s new way to fight poverty and create development

Associate Professor Stig Jensen at the Centre of African Studies has written a three-part article series for GlobalNyt highlighting some of the many paradoxes associated with DR Congo's decision to Congo put 30 oil and…

Asian week at CeBIL

CeBIL researchers speak about Health AI and Nanotechnology in South Korea and discuss CeBIL’s research with Japanese scientists.

Textures of precarity

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the article ‘Textures of precarity: Repurposing in a Ugandan refugee settlement’ to a special issue of Anthropology Today

Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda

In collaboration with Henry Oboke, Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has written the chapter ‘Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda’, which is included in the book Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of…

Popular research station reopens in Greenland: Danish zoologist recognized the greenhouse effect at same site in 1904

For more than a century, Arctic climate research has been collected and stored at the University of Copenhagen's northernmost research station – the Arctic Station. Now, after a thorough renovation and modernisation, th…

Postdoctoral position: BUDDHISM AND WASTE

Application deadline: 25 November 2022.

What M23’s on-and-off insurgency tells us about DRC’s precarious search for peace

Kasper Hoffmann (IFRO) and Christoph Vogel, Ghent University write about the development of the M23 since its early beginnings in 2012 until the dramatic escalation of conflicts today.

Russia and the West hunt hearts and minds in Africa

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written a two-part article for GlobalNyt analysing Sergei Lavrov and Emmanuel Macron's tours in Africa.

CAS students collaborate with GlobalNyt on course-based articles

Globalnyt has published a two-part article series with two CAS students, supported by the Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen.