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Marcia Tiemi Saito visiting from Brazil

Marcia Tiemi Saito (Federal Institute of Paraná, Brazil) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from February 2024 to January 2025.

Morten Axel Pedersen gave talk at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

In the beginning of December, Morten Axel Pedersen gave a talk on the potentials and pitfalls of working quantitatively in anthropology at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

New PRIVACY book: Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History

Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History is edited by PRIVACY Assistant Professor Natacha Klein Käfer and contains contributions by PRIVACY scholars.

eLetter featured in the »Indo-European News« podcast episode

The eLetter in Science written by many of the Copenhagen Roots in response to the controversial paper by Heggarty et al. has is featured in the podcast »Indo-European News« by UCLA colleagues.

New chart-topping Italian podcast “L'invasione” on the Indo-Europeans – featuring Birgit Rasmussen

Birgit Rasmussen has been interviewed for the chart-toping Italian podcast L'invasione on Proto-Indo-European and the Indoeuropeans.

Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark

Postdoc Inge-Merete Hougaard has recently published the article 'Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark' in the journal Environmental Science and Policy.

AI and the University: Research grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

The Carlsberg Foundation has decided to fund Professor Janus Mortensen’s project "AI and the University – Towards a sociolinguistics of literacy and voice in the age of generative language technology" (AI-UNI) with a…

New Assistant Professor: Evolution is plagued by misconceptions 

The broad understanding of evolution is characterized by particularly persistent and deeply ingrained misconceptions. The process of evolution goes against our inherent biases, says Assistant Professor Daniela Fiedler.

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2023

Ethnote test-event held at SODAS

Last week a test-event exploring new users' first meeting with digital fieldnote appe app Ethnote was held at SODAS

Two important pieces

The collaborative research project Viable Futures: Near and Long Term Prospects among Syrian Youth in Jordan consisting of Andreas Bandak (PI), Anders Hastrup (Co-PI), and Birgitte Stampe Holst has just published two…

Gendered racism

Together with Marianne Brodersen, Trine Øland explores Danish welfare politics and its emerging interest in emancipating ‘immigrant’ women and girls. The article identifies how the images of the ‘unfree immigrant…

Tackling climate change through literature and art

ROCS Postdoc tackles climate change through literature and art in new book

Unlocking Oceanic Mysteries

ROCS oceanographers dive into the significance of the bottom boundary current south of ROCS oceanographers dive into the significance of the bottom boundary current south of

Arkæologer finder 12.000 år gammelt perleværksted i Jordan

Specialiseret håndværksarbejde bliver normalt forbundet med fremkomsten af bysamfund. Men i et nyt studie viser forskere fra Københavns Universitet, at et stenalderfolk i Jordan var i stand til at masseproducere perler…

A Prayer Book for the Entire Year — And Every Occasion

December means another year is coming to a close, at least according to our modern secular calendar. The liturgical year, on the other hand, has just begun with the first Sunday of Advent. A sixteenth-century prayer boo…

CIP visits Bergen and Bilbao

CIP has been to Bergen and Bilbao to participate in and contribute to seminars on language policy at universities.

Anthropologist to explore “out of the way” places’ dreams of becoming tech landscapes

What does it mean for “out of the way” places to build technological futures, and how can these futures reproduce or reconfigure social and economic inequalities? This is what Samantha Dawn Breslin will explore thanks t…

Gabriëlle La Croix’s Semester Abroad in Pittsburgh, USA

ITSS PhD Fellow, Gabriëlle La Croix, is coming to the end of her semester at the University of Pittsburgh. Find out what she's been up to!

Young people find cocaine use increasingly common in party settings

Cocaine use is becoming normalised in parts of party culture, according to a new study of Roskilde festival attendees.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents Ethnote at Maastricht University Ethnography group's monthly sessions

During the latest monthly session of the Maastricht University Ethnography Group, Emilie Munch Gregersen presented digital fieldnote app Ethnote

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun in the podcast ‘Videnskab fra vilde hjerner’

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was recently a guest in the Danish podcast Videnskab fra vilde hjerner (Science from Wild Minds) hosted by Professor of astrophysics at University of Copenhagen, Anja C. Andersen.…

Sprog løs! Conference at Hotel Marselis

Workshop on plurilingual approaches by Line Krogager Andersen.

Teoretisk Pædagogikum

Lecture by Line Krogager Andersen.