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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…

New paper: "Computerantropologi"

Kristoffer Albris has recently published an article in the Danish language journal Tidsskriftet Antropologi entitled "Computerantropologi", which discusses the potentials for combining computational and digital methods…

Copenhagen Conversations – On Time

Talk on 'time' with Joel Robbins, Cambridge, and Francois Hartog, EHESS, Paris.

Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education

What does it mean to produce trustworthy code for computer scientists? Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in an undergraduate computer science program in Singapore, this article explores what it means for compute…

Foundations Of Health Data Science

Getting familiar with Data Science can feel like a confusing and overwhelming task for those without computational background. This poses a barrier especially to more technical Data Science courses since there is a dual…

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New book from Nordicom

New book from Nordicom: Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in Scandinavia: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multiplatform Era.

Nuno Grancho gave a conference paper at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities

Nuno Grancho presented his research at the Conference of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) that took place at Harvard, MIT and Brown Universities, USA.

Your phone gives your mind what it likes the most: endless possibilities for novelty

It is not vast amounts of online information that makes it difficult for you to stay focused. It is rather the easily accessible possibilities for novelty and action built into digital technology that your mind cannot…

New book about architect Lauritz de Thurah

Peter Thule Kristensen, core scholar at Centre for Privacy Studies and professor at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, is the editor of a new impressive monograph about the life and work of…

PRIVACY-postdoc Sanne Maekelberg in new job at KU Leuven

Postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Privacy Studies, Sanne Maekelberg recently started a new job at KU Leuven. For the past three years, Sanne has worked at PRIVACY and enriched us with her expertise in architectural…