News about Culture

New article: "New methodologies for the digital age? How methods (re-)organize research using social media data"

DISTRACT researchers Sune Lehmann, Anders Blok, and postdoc at Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Yangliu Fan (PhD from SODAS) published in December 2023 the paper "New methodologies for the digital age? How…

New guest researcher - Teresa Göltl

A PhD student from the University of Heidelberg joins ITSS this month as a guest. We're excited to welcome her to the team!

”Topmøde” om Europa

De tre ambassadører fra Polen, Tyskland og Frankrig gæster Søndre Campus og deltager i en samtale med studerende om Europa nu og i fremtiden. I et panel vil de tre store staters repræsentanter give korte oplæg og indgå …

Casper Tybjerg defends his doctoral thesis

Associate Professor Casper Tybjerg defends his doctoral thesis ‘The Historiography of Filmmaking – through the Lens of Carl Th. Dreyer’ 9 February 2024.

Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the collections of the World

Professor emer. Esther Fihl has been invited into a large-scale initiative.

Heather Freund's Visit to the Boston Archives

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Freund visited the Massachusetts Historical Society in December 2023. Here you can read about what she found.

New season of the Privacy Studies Podcast

The first episodes of the newest and fifth season of the centre’s very own Privacy Studies Podcast have been published. Listen to the podcast here on our website. The new season follows the discussions of the symposium…

Sari Nauman awarded the honourable Birger Karlsson’s Science Prize 2023

The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg has awarded PRIVACY Scholar Sari Nauman the honourable Birger Karlsson’s Science Prize 2023.

ASPIRE: Endeavours for Peace

Researcher and Programme Manager Ayo Degett (DRC and affiliated to UCPH) and Professor Susan Whyte (UCPH) are announcing analytical findings in the report 'ASPIRE: Endeavours for Peace: Young South Sudanese refugees…

New student assistant - Kamma Ofelia Strøm

Meet our new team member! She is interested in social movements and political history.

Workshop for L1 teacher educators

On 21 February 2024, Petra Daryai-Hansen and Natascha Drachmann host a workshop on the PE-LAL project's findings for teacher educators of Danish and Danish as a second language at the University College Copenhagen.

New podcast episode about language use at meetings at the university

Second episode of CIP’s podcast Language Use at UCPH has been published in January 2024, and it is about language choice and language use in relation to meetings at the university.

Research on cultural journalism in the science podcast

Professor of media studies, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, talks about her research on cultural journalism in the science podcast Videnskab fra Vilde Hjerner (in Danish).

Fabio Gigone awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship

Our colleague Fabio Gigone received a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship. We have interviewed him about his new project. Fabio Gigone You recently successfully defended your PhD at the Centre fo…

Physical exercise boosts motor learning – and remembering what one has learned

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills. This is demonstrated by ne…

Ethnote's rejsegilde

Yesterday, the progress of the digital fieldnote app Ethnote was celebrated at a traditional 'rejsegilde'

Secrets of the app

When you download an app, it can also be an open invitation to international companies who want to see what you're doing on your cell phone. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, led by Associate Professor Stin…

Call for Papers: Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888

The Steering Committee invites abstracts of not more than 250 words by Friday 1st March 2024.

Physical exercise boosts motor learning – and remembering what one has learned

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills. This is demonstrated by ne…

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2023

From Margrethe to Frederik: Danish history as told by royal lines

A new chapter of Danish history was written Sunday, 14 January 2024 with the succession of the new king. A manuscript from around 1600 follows the succession of Danish kings from the legendary Dan up to Christian III.

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern. Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz.

Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz now available.

CERTIZENS Regional Workshop on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

We are hosting an East Africa Regional Workshop in Kampala from 15-17 January 2024, with the title Changing ID Systems in East Africa: Histories, Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of States and Citizens.

100 forhistoriske skeletter viser, hvordan Danmark blev et landbrugsland

Genetiske undersøgelser af 100 skeletter fra Danmarks fortid dokumenterer, at landbruget blev indført for 5.900 år siden, da agerdyrkere vandrede ind i landet sydfra og udkonkurrerede den lokale jæger-samler-befolkning.…