News about Culture

Special issue of Visual Anthropology

With a stellar line-up including Dima Saber, Abdul Rahman al-Jaloud, Stefan Tarnowski, Ugur Ümit Üngör, Chad Elias, and Thomas Keenan, we explore the various dimensions of image use, archives, and recollections in the…

DISTRACT article: "How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy"

DISTRACT researchers Eva Iris Otto, Anders Blok, and Jonathan Holm Salka published the paper "How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy" in Journal of Cultural Economy in April…

Africa Cup of Nations: Politics and Power

Buster Kirchner, a student at the Centre of African Studies, has recently participated in a podcast titled ‘Field of Dreams: the politics and power of the Africa Cup of Nations’ produced by the Nordic Africa Institute.…

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2024

One final dictionary from the first Faroese lexicographer

The Faroe Islands’ first lexicographer kept producing manuscripts of his dictionary until his death on 14 February 1824. His final dictionary is today housed at the Arnamagnæan Collection.

DISTRACT PhDs present at SODAS PhD Days

In February, SODAS PhDs Malene Hornstrup Jespersen and Sofie Læbo Astrupsgaard presented some of their current work in the DISTRACT project at the SODAS PhD Days

New publications by RYA researchers

Three new articles are out. Two in Comunicazioni Soziali on audiovisual content for children (edited by Chiarulli, Fumagalli and Redvall) with chapters by Christa Lykke Christensen (on Minisjang) and Jakob Freudendal (o…

Exhibition: The Art of Ikat - A Cambodian Renaissance

Enter the woven world of Cambodian silk ikat, hol in Khmer, a resist-dye weaving technique and century-old textile craft. While sericulture and weaving have been activities grounded in villagers’ lives in the…

Muslim Political Dissent in Coastal East Africa

Visiting researcher and former Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre of African Studies Hans Olsson, has recently published a co-authored article in the Journal of Eastern African Studies titled ‘Muslim political dissent in…

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…