News about Culture

Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen new Postdoc at IND

Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen will join the HPS-group in a Postdoc position, starting October 1 2022.

Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Professor Oscar Salemink co-edited the volume Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage with Ernst van den Hemel and Irene Stengs.

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the chapter 'Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda' to the book Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World.

WORKING PAPER 5: Enslaved Mobility in Grenada: A Snapshot

This working paper uses newspaper runaway lists to look at escape routes used by enslaved people on Grenada in 1819 and 1825.

New book: The Indo-European language family

New book on the Indo-European language family.

Conference workshops at Multicultural Schools 2022

The PE-LAL project is represented at the Danish national conference ‘Multicultural Schools’ with two workshops.

Millions of farmers put their faith in God when making decisions

A widespread belief among millions of smallholder farmers in one of the world’s poorest countries is that God determines their yields. This is shown by a study that has examined the correlation between religiosity and…

Dr. Dominique Rogers to be Visiting Professor at IN THE SAME SEA

Dr. Rogers (Université des Antilles, Martinique) will be a visiting professor in Copenhagen during October 2022.

New CSTonline blog: Jakob Freudendal

New CSTonline blog by Jakob Freudendal on Working with ‘kidnographers’ to not be cringe.

It’s all about engaging

To Tom Yagel, an Israeli full-degree student at UCPH, coming to Denmark has been a life-long dream. UCPH has lived up to his expectations, but for Tom engaging in extracurricular activities on campus and in Danish…

Participating in student politics

Henry Lankes, an international student from Germany studying Nature Management (MSc) at UCPH, was recently elected as a student representative on the Geosciences Study Board. What motivated him to run for election? Do…

Student engagement

This issue of our newsletter has a student view. In an earlier issue we focused on student well-being inside and outside the classroom with articles on the challenges faced by international students in the classroom and…

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2022

Call for Papers: Crossing Borders and Fostering Collaborations

Call for Papers for the Fifth AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences

DNA in Viking poop sheds new light on 55,000-year-old relationship between gut companions

Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites – the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite’s global spread and its…

Presentation at IDT 2022

Petra Daryai-Hansen and Natascha Drachmann will be presenting a paper at the German teachers’ conference Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer, held in Vienna on 15-20 August.

Associate professor Slobodanka Dimova is guest editor on special issue of the journal Language Testing

The most recent special issue of the journal Language Testing is guest edited by Slobodanka Dimova, associate professor at CIP, and two colleagues. The special issue extends the discussion on local language testing…

Green transition called off: DR Congo’s new way to fight poverty and create development

Associate Professor Stig Jensen at the Centre of African Studies has written a three-part article series for GlobalNyt highlighting some of the many paradoxes associated with DR Congo's decision to Congo put 30 oil and…

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

Interview with Professor Sarah Pinto

In this blog, Shilpi Rajpal talks to Sarah Pinto, Professor of Anthropology in the Tufts University about her new book The Doctor and Mrs. A: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis.

IN THE SAME SEA PI Gunvor Simonsen’s Public Lecture Appears in Local Press

The lecture on 18th June 2022 is discussed in an article for The St. Thomas Source, entitled 'How the Enslaved Used Canoes to Escape'.

Listening is survival

ROCS postdoc Angela Rawlings is co-curator of SPHERE Festival which opens 2 September in Canada.