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Rasmus Christensen's Semester Abroad in Växjö, Sweden

ITSS PhD Fellow, Rasmus Christensen, has recently returned from his semester abroad at Linnaeus University. Find out what he got up to!

Art as Forum in podcast on the conditions of communality in the artworld and academia today

Assistant professor Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and professor Frederik Tygstrup in podcast on the conditions of communality in the artworld and academia today

PRIVACY welcomes new guest PhD Fellow Taís Giacomini Tomazi

We are happy to welcome our newest guest researcher Taís Giacomini Tomazi Taís has a degree in History from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), a master's degree in History from the Post Graduate Program of…

Vladimir Ariza-Montañez: Social disease and humanitarian interventions in Colombia

Global Health Research Spotlight is a news story series for School of Global Health’s communication platforms.

Sundhedsprofessioner i forandring? Konfliktdynamikker i forebyggelsesarbejde på danske hospitaler

Lektor Inge Kryger Pedersen har bidraget med tidskriftartiklen "Sundhedsprofessioner i forandring? Konfliktdynamikker i forebyggelsesarbejde på danske hospitaler" i i Dansk Sociologi, 33(3), 2022. På danske hospitaler…

New funding for Save the Loom project

The Danish Loom from the 17th to 20th century – how can it be described, documented and preserved?

New PRIVACY book: Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries

Ineke Huysman and former Privacy researcher and colleague Michael Green edited the book. The book contains PRIVACY contributions by Sanne Maekelberg, Natacha Klein Käfer, Jelena Bakić and Michael Green.

New Publication: An Eighteenth Century Account of St. Croix, USVI

ITSS Phd Fellow Rasmus Christensen has published a Danish-language article in the journal Danske Magazin.

New Publication: Dutch Creole Texts from the Virgin Islands

ITSS Phd Fellow Rasmus Christensen has co-authored an article about newly discovered Dutch Creole texts from the former Danish West Indies.

Obituary - Oscar Salemink

It is with great sadness that we say farewell and give our thanks to our esteemed colleague Professor Oscar Salemink, who passed away on 23 September 2023.

New Publication: Rumours in the Lesser Antilles

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke has published an article in the New West Indian Guide. Click to access the article and the associated press release in NOW Grenada!

Methods of Theorizing: A Call for Pluralism

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden has contributed with the article "Methods of Theorizing: A Call for Pluralism" for the special session of "Global dialogue - Magazine of the International Sociological Association".…

New Ph.D.: Plugging numbers into a formula isn't physics 

When students view physics formulas only as mathematical tools, they fail to understand physics in a meaningful way. We need to teach students to ask why, says new Ph.D.

An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga

A previously unidentified fragment can now be shown to contain the educational poem De venditione Joseph by Petrus Riga.

The Current State of Social Theory

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden and Arthur Bueno have edited a special session "The Current State of Social Theory" in the Magazine of the International Sociological Association "Global dialogue - Magazine of the…

Official CULTMIND launch 12 September

On Tuesday 12 September, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND), the Danish National Research Foundation’s new Centre of Excellence, was officially opened with a festive reception at the Faculty of Humanities.

Privacy-researcher Asta Mønsted presenting Arctic archaeological perspectives on the starry sky at Dark Sky Festival

Postdoctoral researcher in prehistoric archaeology at Centre for Privacy Studies, Asta Mønsted, presented at a seminar at the Dark Sky Festival in Tårup, Denmark, in the beginning of September 2023. Asta is specialized…

New Podcast: Language Use at the University of Copenhagen

CIPs has just released the podcast "Language Use at KU," and the first episode is about international staff teaching in Danish as a second language at the University of Copenhagen.

Scientific language cannot be tested solely with pen and paper

Science is not merely a collection of terms and formulas but a practice. Assessing children's knowledge of science through pen-and-paper tests only evaluates a limited portion of what they know, says researcher.

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen celebrates the University Post's 50th birthday with an article in Politiken

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen from Section of Media Studies and Søren Eilers from Department of Mathematical Sciences write about why it is important to celebrate that the news medium survived for the past five decades.

New honorary doctors change our view of the past

At the university's traditional annual celebration, Årsfesten, in November, the new honorary doctors at UCPH are appointed. This year, the Faculty of Humanities is appointing two of the 11 new honorary doctors.

PhD scholarship at The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years)

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

PhD scholarships at the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years)

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2023