News about Culture

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.

Trisha Grevengoed appointed Associate Professor

As of March 1st, Trisha Grevengoed has been appointed associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Trisha has been employed as an assistant professor at the department since January 2022, where she…

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…

Global health crisis: Vietnam shows new ways to treat diabetes

Med øget fokus på uformel omsorg er det muligt at forbedre diabetespatienters liv markant. Det viser forskningsprojektet VALID, der netop har afsluttet sin første fase i Vietnam og kan få betydning andre steder.

Urban Transformations and Urban Histories

Conference at Malmö University funded in part by the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES).

New research: Danish children encounter four typical family learning environments

Parental values and family activities have a strong influence on children's learning. Based on data from 44 Danish families, researchers have identified four types of family learning environments.

New Publication on the Writings of Christian Protten, 1715-1769

ITSS team members have contributed to a new volume about the life of this West African missionary.

CBMR publications and media appearances in March 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in March 2024

Danish scribes and German Bibles

Biblical paraphrases in the local language were popular in the late Middle Ages. In 1482 a Danish scribe completed a Low German paraphrase of Old Testament books.

FRAGILE FUTURES: Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso

Associate Professor Helle Samuelsen has recently published the monograph FRAGILE FUTURES: Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso. The book is published as a part of the series Epistemologies of Healing.

After stroke: Marina Abramović to receive the Sonning Prize

In 2023, the award of the Sonning Prize was cancelled at the last minute as the recipient, Marina Abramović, was rushed to hospital. Now, she will visit the University of Copenhagen to receive the prize.

Angry times: What shapes and amplifies political anger across the world?

With a European grant of €2.5 million, a new project headed by Atreyee Sen from the Department of Anthropology will explore how politically motivated anger is amplified and legitimised today.