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New published teaching material in collaboration with the publishing house Alinea

New published teaching material in collaboration with the publishing house Alinea Through a collaboration between Natascha Drachmann and Alinea, a Danish publishing house, a new online teaching material on plurilingual…

New special issue of Social Anthropology edited by Paul Anderson and Andreas Bandak

New special issue of Social Anthropology edited by Paul Anderson and Andreas Bandak The title is 'Urgency and Imminence: The Politics of the Very Near Future' (open access) and the general theme should be of relevance…

New book: Social Media Images and Conflicts

The volume Social Media Images and Conflicts edited by Mette Mortensen and Ally McCrow-Young has come out. This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out,…

Searching the formula of happiness in times of war

Being granted a fellowship for displaced Ukrainian scholars, Iryna Ignatenko will spend a year at the Department of Anthropology looking into ‘Danish happiness’.

Two new professorships at CIP

As of 1 December 2022 CIP has two new professorships, Professor of multilingualism and language evaluation Slobodanka Dimova and Professor of multilingualism and language policy Janus Mortensen.

After-work meeting organized by Studieskolen

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited speaker at an after-work meeting organized by Studieskolen: ”Fyraftensdebat: Motiverer målsproget?”. Her presentation focused on the question ’What are the benefits of teaching…

Grenada Genealogical and Historical Society Online Event - Rumours in the Lesser Antilles

On Sunday 4th December 2022, the GGHS hosted an online event where ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Felicia Fricke discussed rumour, religion, and resistance on Grenada, 1829-1830.

Ida Marie Lind Glavind receives The Margaret Clark Award

This year’s award recipient of The Margaret Clark Award is Ida Marie Lind Glavind, PhD student at the Department of Anthropology.

Cross-country survey on digital disconnection habits

On November 23rd, PhD student at DISTRACT Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presented plans for two upcoming survey projects at the online Digitox seminar series hosted by the University of Oslo. One project aims in part to…

The Paul Auster Research Library Visitors 2023 and 2024

We are honoured to be able to host one of the most important scholars on Auster’s work, François Hugonnier is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Angers. He is the author of several pieces on…

Land healing, farming and spiritual cleansing in Southern Africa

In their recent work, Marie Curie Fellow, Hans Olsson, and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach ask what the relationship between religion, healing and farming in Southern Africa could look like? Discussing Christian…

Bronze Age Textile Production (Kültepe-Kanesh)

In this project, Professor Cécile Michel from CNRS in France, archaeologist Fikri Kulakoğlu (Turkey) and Eva Andersson Strand at CTR, are working to reconstruct the Bronze Age Textile trade from Assur to the Kanesh in…

Plenary talk at Multicultural Schools 2022

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited as plenary speaker at the Danish national conference ‘Multicultural Schools’. The plenary talk had the title: ”Flersprogethedsdidaktik – hvordan kan vi tage højde for elevernes…

Succesfully completed CIP symposium 2022

The CIP symposium 2022 focused on various aspects of how university pedagogy is influenced by the international and multilingual context at universities. You can find the presentations from the day at the CIP website.

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun as Keynote Speaker at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022

On Wednesday November 16 2022, centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun gave a keynote lecture at the International Association of Privacy Professional (IAPP) Europe Data Protection Congress 2022 in Brussels. Around 2000…

Congratulations to Ying Liu

On being awarded a grant from NEYE Foundation

Incoming Vessels in De Curaçaosche Courant: A Quantitative Microhistory, 1833-1834 and 1845-1846

This short blog post examines the itineraries of vessels entering Willemstad (Curaçao) in the mid-19th century.

Joseph Burgess on radio show "Connections with Evan Dawson"

Data steward Joseph Burgess discusses early voting turnout in the American midterm elections on radio show "Connections with Evan Dawson"

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

Plenary talk at CIP symposium 2022

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited to give a plenary talk on Content and Language Integrated Learning, transitions and plurilingual education at the CIP symposium 2022 “Internationalisation 2.0: New perspectives on…

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.

Open World Conference 10-11 Nov. 2022: Open Science and Global Dangers

Marking the centenary of Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in physics, and the United Nations announcing 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, we acknowledge Bohr’s vision of an open world

New book: Researching Creativity in Media Industries

Mads Møller T. Andersen has published a new book about how we can research creativity and creative processes in media industries.

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2022