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CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2023

Green versus Green: Can wind turbines and nature interests go hand in hand?

A new project at the Department of Anthropology will investigate how different interests can come together in the development of energy parks.

European Day of Languages 2023

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited to give a presentation on language awareness across languages, subjects, and educational levels at the official celebrations of the European Day of Languages, 26 September 2023,…

Birgitte Stampe Holst, Andreas Bandak, Anders Hastrup and Tareq al-Dilaijim have published a new article

What happens with data when the research process radically involves and engages those who are in the target group? How can we move towards collaborative insights by integrating our participants in the design of research…

Final stakeholder workshop

The PE-LAL project held a final stakeholder workshop with the theme ‘Plurilingual education in language subjects in primary and lower secondary school and in Almen Sprogforståelse in upper secondary school’. The aim of…

IE-CoR is published - and Matthew Scarborough was a great part of it

The Indo-European Cognate Relations Database is published after several years of hard work. Postdoc Matthew Scarborough was a part of the process.

2.900 år gammel mursten gemte på DNA fra oldtiden

I et nyt studie i Scientific Reports viser forskere, at det er muligt at udtrække forhistorisk DNA af en 2.900 år gammel mursten. Den nye analysemetode vil kunne give klimaforskere, biologer og arkæologer et unikt…

Presentation of EthNote at MEGA seminar

On Monday the 21st of August 2023, DISTRACT members Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen gave a presentation on methods used to collect ethnographic data at the People’s Meeting including the digital…

Sommerskolen blev en succes med inspiration og ny viden

Sommerskolen modtog flot feedback fra de mere end 100 deltagere

ITSS PhD Fellows Prepare for Semester Abroad

Gabriëlle La Croix and Rasmus Christensen will spend the autumn semester abroad as part of their PhD training.

On 1 September, Anna Vind begins a monograph scholarship from The Carlsberg Foundation

Associate Professor Anna Vind of the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, received a monograph-scholarship of DKK 746,325 from the Carlsberg Foundation in December 2022, which is now about to begin.

Philosopher: Mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations

Mindfulness is one of the most widespread forms of therapy for people suffering from stress, and many report that they benefit greatly from it. However, the philosophical assumptions on which mindfulness is based are…

WORKING PAPER 6: A Littoral and Men: Sharing Fishing Resources in 18th Century Martinique

In this post, IN THE SAME SEA Student Assistant Lucas Marin (Université des Antilles) describes colonial attempts to control fishing on Martinique in the 18th century.

Privacy Scholar Oskar Jacek Rojewski guest edits The Court Historian

Art historian and PRIVACY scholar Oskar Jacek Rojewski has guest edited the newest volume of The Court Historian. We sat down with Oskar to discuss the benefits of bringing together privacy and court studies. Oskar…

Academic event at Rosborg Gymnasium

Lecture on general language awareness (Almen sprogforståelse) and plurilingual affordances by Line Krogager Andersen.

International award for Professor Stig Hjarvard

The International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) has given the ”Stewart M. Hoover Mentorship Award” to Stig Hjarvard for his innovating research on the mediatization of religion.

Julia Sturm featured in ERC news

Postdoc Julia Sturm was features in ERC News article with prof. Michaël Peyrot, Leiden University.

‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube

‘‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube’ (Bräuchler 2023) looks at memory work conducted in a YouTube video featuring two former child soldiers in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia,…

Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has contributed the chapter ‘Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia’ to the book Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts,…

CBMR publications and media appearances in July 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in July 2023

Photo by Nuno Grancho selected for Danish National Research Foundation exhibition

“Woman at the Governor’s house, Tranquebar, India, 2023” © Nuno Grancho About the photo: The photo brings together practices and negotiations of privacy in the architectural and urban space of the Danish colonial city…

Birgitte Stampe Holst co-edits the new issue of Conflict and Society

Birgitte Stampe Holst has edited and written the introduction, as well as an article in the Special Section of the journal.

Chapter on Writing for children and young audiences

New chapter by Eva Novrup Redvall on screenwriting for children and audiences for The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies. Find more information.

Carsten Rahbek invited as speaker at Paris exhibition

Professor Carsten Rahbek was invited by artist Danh Vo to give a talk on the biodiversity crisis as part of the Parisian exhibition Avant l’orage. The talk is now publicly available.