News about Culture

Søren Frank Jensen receives the prestigious Carlsberg Internationalization Fellowship

Our Postdoctoral Researcher, Søren Frank Jensen, will start his project MINES, OCEANS, COMETS. NATURAL HAZARDS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS (1550–1650) in November 2024.

Improved counselling for young people to dispel the myth that opioids are harmless

A wide range of measures are needed to reduce the use of illegal opioids and benzodiazepines among young people. This is the conlcusion of the Criminological Observatory at UCPH in a new report.

IN THE SAME SEA Team Members go to Colombia

Gunvor Simonsen, Felicia Fricke, and Heather Freund attended the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) Conference in Santa Marta.

New free English workshops in 2024

CIP offers a number of workshops in 2024. These workshops focus on English language usage and presentation techniques, and all UCPH employees are welcome to participate.

To gamle studiekammerater forsvarer deres ph.d.-afhandling inden for samme uge

Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn og Mikkel Nørtoft Johansen, begge kandidater i Indoeuropæisk fra NorS, har nu på smukkeste vis afsluttet deres ph.d.-forløb næsten samtidig. Rasmus (t.h.) forsvarede sin arkæolingvistiske…

Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards

Together with Luca Ciabarri, associate professor Anja Simonsen has guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies titled: "Fragments of Solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving…

New book on Religion and Constitution

In celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Danish Constitution, researchers and students are publishing a new book on Religion and Constitution – Religion og grundlov in Danish.

CBMR publications and media appearances in April 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in April 2024

Does your heart beat in sync with others'? DISTRACT at UCPH Spring Festival

Join us on May 31st where SODAS researchers Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen will discuss what happens with our heartbeat when we join others at festivals, debates, and other collective events

Understanding waste and value

Collaboration is key Trine Brox has, over three decades, built up a deep understanding of the cultures and societies in the Tibetan world through her studies and stays in Tibetan communities in India, China, and Nepal.…

Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presents at COMPTEXT 2024

In the beginning of May DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presented at the COMPTEXT 2024 conference held in Amsterdam.

ITSS PhD Fellow Receives Grant with International Colleagues

Rasmus Christensen is collaborating with PhD students from Charles University (Prague) and Ruprecht-Karls-University (Heidelberg) to organize a graduate workshop on AI in history.

Interview: Burkina Faso's health crisis has major implications for the rest of the world

For nearly 30 years, Helle Samuelsen has studied the chronic health crisis in Burkina Faso. But the country's challenges have wider implications. The whole Sahel region is a hotspot for explosive crises.

Opening HUM:Global Semester Lecture – A resounding success!

The HUM:Global Semester Lecture “Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia” drew scholars, students, and the general public and filled the auditorium to the brim.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents EthNote for Anthropology master students at UCPH

On May 3rd DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented EthNote for Anthropology students soon to embark on their first prolonged fieldwork

Nubian Women in Aswan

In November 2023, I stayed in Aswan to document archaeological textiles from Gebel Adda kept at the Nubia Museum. I was working there with two colleagues from the University of Warsaw. Every day, on our way to the…

New book by PRIVACY Postdoctoral Researcher Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Nuno Grancho

Together with colleagues Fabio Colonnese and Robin Schaeverbeke, Nuno Grancho edited the book Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design and wrote the introduction.

New DISTRACT paper: "Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices"

DISTRACT researchers Anna Sapienza, Eva Iris Otto, and Peter Mehler just published the paper "Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices" in EPJ Data Science

New documentary: Nobody Liked Paul

In a new documentary, Associate Professor Matthew D. C. Larsen travels through the worlds of the apostle Paul using archaeology to imagine how folks in the cities he visited might have told his biography.

Welcoming Aslı Elitsoy

It is our great pleasure to welcome Aslı Elitsoy as Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow to the research centre.

Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey. A Critical Reading

This book by Petek Onur provides a meta-reading of how ethnographic discourses on women and Islam in Turkey have changed since their emergence in 1983.

Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic, 1908–1931

This book by Abdullah Simsek deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic.

The use of AI in primary school - New book in the CIP series

School students use translation tools in their French classes. They have little information from their teachers about how best to use them in the classroom.

DISTRACT Talk next Friday, May 3rd, with Rie Kristensen & Signe Vangkilde

Next Friday, May 3rd 11.00-12.00, DISTRACT will host a talk with PhD fellow Rie Kristensen & Professor Signe Vangkilde, Department of Psychology (UCPH). In the talk Rie Kristensen and Signe Vangkilde will explore core…