News about Culture

New Publication: Rumours in the Lesser Antilles

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke has published an article in the New West Indian Guide. Click to access the article and the associated press release in NOW Grenada!

Methods of Theorizing: A Call for Pluralism

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden has contributed with the article "Methods of Theorizing: A Call for Pluralism" for the special session of "Global dialogue - Magazine of the International Sociological Association".…

New Ph.D.: Plugging numbers into a formula isn't physics 

When students view physics formulas only as mathematical tools, they fail to understand physics in a meaningful way. We need to teach students to ask why, says new Ph.D.

An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga

A previously unidentified fragment can now be shown to contain the educational poem De venditione Joseph by Petrus Riga.

The Current State of Social Theory

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden and Arthur Bueno have edited a special session "The Current State of Social Theory" in the Magazine of the International Sociological Association "Global dialogue - Magazine of the…

Official CULTMIND launch 12 September

On Tuesday 12 September, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND), the Danish National Research Foundation’s new Centre of Excellence, was officially opened with a festive reception at the Faculty of Humanities.

Privacy-researcher Asta Mønsted presenting Arctic archaeological perspectives on the starry sky at Dark Sky Festival

Postdoctoral researcher in prehistoric archaeology at Centre for Privacy Studies, Asta Mønsted, presented at a seminar at the Dark Sky Festival in Tårup, Denmark, in the beginning of September 2023. Asta is specialized…

New Podcast: Language Use at the University of Copenhagen

CIPs has just released the podcast "Language Use at KU," and the first episode is about international staff teaching in Danish as a second language at the University of Copenhagen.

Scientific language cannot be tested solely with pen and paper

Science is not merely a collection of terms and formulas but a practice. Assessing children's knowledge of science through pen-and-paper tests only evaluates a limited portion of what they know, says researcher.

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen celebrates the University Post's 50th birthday with an article in Politiken

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen from Section of Media Studies and Søren Eilers from Department of Mathematical Sciences write about why it is important to celebrate that the news medium survived for the past five decades.

New honorary doctors change our view of the past

At the university's traditional annual celebration, Årsfesten, in November, the new honorary doctors at UCPH are appointed. This year, the Faculty of Humanities is appointing two of the 11 new honorary doctors.

PhD scholarship at The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years)

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

PhD scholarships at the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years)

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

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…

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…