News about Culture

International award for Professor Stig Hjarvard

The International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) has given the ”Stewart M. Hoover Mentorship Award” to Stig Hjarvard for his innovating research on the mediatization of religion.

Julia Sturm featured in ERC news

Postdoc Julia Sturm was features in ERC News article with prof. Michaël Peyrot, Leiden University.

‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube

‘‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube’ (Bräuchler 2023) looks at memory work conducted in a YouTube video featuring two former child soldiers in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia,…

Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has contributed the chapter ‘Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia’ to the book Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts,…

CBMR publications and media appearances in July 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in July 2023

Photo by Nuno Grancho selected for Danish National Research Foundation exhibition

“Woman at the Governor’s house, Tranquebar, India, 2023” © Nuno Grancho About the photo: The photo brings together practices and negotiations of privacy in the architectural and urban space of the Danish colonial city…

Birgitte Stampe Holst co-edits the new issue of Conflict and Society

Birgitte Stampe Holst has edited and written the introduction, as well as an article in the Special Section of the journal.

Chapter on Writing for children and young audiences

New chapter by Eva Novrup Redvall on screenwriting for children and audiences for The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies. Find more information.

Carsten Rahbek invited as speaker at Paris exhibition

Professor Carsten Rahbek was invited by artist Danh Vo to give a talk on the biodiversity crisis as part of the Parisian exhibition Avant l’orage. The talk is now publicly available.

22-year-old talent is now ‘researcher Tetris’ world champion

With world-class programming, 22-year-old computer science student William Bille Meyling beats seasoned professors at the unofficial world championships in geometric algorithms. He was recently honoured for his…

A Copenhagen School in Argumentation Studies

The volume Rhetorical Argumentation : The Copenhagen School, edited by Christian Kock and Marcus Lantz, is now available digitally.

CSTonline blog on children’s media use

New CSTonline blog on trying to understand children and their media use one report at a time.

Journal on Danish children’s films since 2000

New issue of the journal Kosmorama on Danish children, youth and family films since 2000 is now out.

Legends of Norse Settlers drove Denmark towards Greenland

The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century. Legends about…

New Head of Department for the mathematicians

From 1. September 2023, Professor and Head of Section Mogens Steffensen will be the new Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. He will work for the Department’s academic researc…

New podcast episode with postdoc Johan Farkas

This podcast focuses on journalism studies research and is presented by the Nordic open access journal Journalistica.

Researchers will explore and develop a new ecological ethics

With support from VELUX FONDEN, a collaboration between anthropologists and theologians will pave the way for a new ecological ethics that focuses on the interaction between nature and human interests.

Christine Crone publishes an article in Middle East Critique

Christine Crone has published the article Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria.

Interview with Professor Sarah Igo

Mette Birkedal Bruun and Sarah Igo Professor of History at Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, Sarah Igo visited Centre for Privacy Studies in May 2023. She gave a lecture on the U.S. Social Security number and ho…

Three new chapbooks in the series Kunsten som forum på tryk

Three new contributions to the series "Kunsten som forum på tryk" are presented by The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with Art as Forum, New Carlsberg Foundation's research Centre at the University o…

Eva Iris Otto defends PhD thesis

On the 22nd of June, 2023, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto successfully defended her thesis entitled Coding [values]: App-making in the Danish digital attention economy. On the committee of Eva's defence was Professor Ayo…

Crisis response: Who do volunteers on social media prioritise?

Informal volunteering organised in Facebook groups plays an increasing role during crisis situations. But who are the volunteers helping – and why? A project funded by VELUX FONDEN will investigate this question.

Disseminating historical research of Copenhagen

The newly launched app Hidden Copenhagen takes you on an innovative living history trail through Copenhagen. The trail tells a powerful story of murder, execution and anatomical dissection in the seventeenth century.…

Matthew Scarborough receives Marie Curie fellowship

Matthew Scarborough has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship for the research project PHILGLOSSA: Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Greek: Lexicon of Substrates Analyzed. The PHILOGLOSSA project…