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Gabon’s 2025 Election: A Turning Point?

In a recent Globalnyt article, Professor Stig Jensen analyses Gabon’s April 2025 election. Following a non-violent coup in 2023, General Brice Oligui Nguema brought an end to the Bongo family’s 56-year rule and has now…

New visitor at CeBIL - Sarah de Heer

19 May - 20 June 2025

Call for Abstracts: XVII Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability

The XVII Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy & Sustainability on 23 October 2025 invites students and early-career researchers to present their work and receive feedback.

Special issue call for papers: (Re-)constructing Credibility in Refugee Status Determination

MOBILE Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen invites submissions for papers for a special issue on the role of credibility assessments in refugee status determination. Contributors…

Streaming culture creates new digital communities for film fans

In a new book, media researcher Helle Kannik Haastrup explores how TV series and films can both challenge our view of the world and engage us in online communities. The book challenges prejudices about popular culture's…

New paper: ”Deconstructing screen time: The connections between digital use, dissatisfaction, and disconnection“

DISTRACT researchers Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Kristoffer Albris and Helene Willadsen have just published the paper ”Deconstructing screen time: The connections between digital use, dissatisfaction, and disconnection“…

New Visiting Reseacher at MOBILE - Tehseen Jäger 

Tehseen Jäger is visiting MOBILE from May 1st to June 30th 2025.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen interviewed for Uniavisen on AI and Asylum Law

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen talks to Uniavisen about his new research project on explainable AI and bias in asylum law. The project uses unique Nordic data to develop tools that support fairer and more transparent…

New CMS Report: Military AI - American Experiences, Danish Opportunities

The report examines how military organisations can prepare for a battlefield where AI is present all the way – from administration to decision support and ultimately to target engagement.

New visitor at CeBIL - Latika Choudhary

1 - 21 June 2025

Thinking Collectively through Ecological Crisis

In April 2025, researchers from the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies contributed to the seminar ‘Challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability around the world’ at the University of Copenhagen.

CMS researcher Tobias Liebetrau edits policy paper on hybrid threats in the North Atlantic

This policy paper explores how the changing international security situation gives rise to hybrid threats and associated security and defence governance challenges in the North Atlantic.

Hybrid Threats in the North Atlantic: Challenges and recommendations for the Kingdom of Denmark

This policy paper explores how the changing international security situation gives rise to hybrid threats and associated security and defence governance challenges in the North Atlantic.

Maja Kirstine Dahl Jeppesen: Natural resources and rights for global health

Meet Maja Kirstine Dahl Jeppesen, a Postdoc at the Global Health Section, University of Copenhagen.

Anja Simonsen participates in parliamentary conference

CGC researcher Anja Simonsen has been invited to take part in the parliamentary conference ‘Envisioning Effective Public Policy to Prevent and Address Cases of Missing Migrants’ at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.…

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Janna Wessels

Janna Wessels is visiting MOBILE from May 1st to June 30th 2025.

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Tehseen Jäger

Tehseen Jäger is visiting MOBILE from May 1st to June 30th 2025.

Beyond Cheap and Biased

Associate Professors Hjalmar Bang Carlsen and Jonas Toubøl have published the article titled Beyond Cheap and Biased: Informal Volunteering on Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis

Singularitäten? Im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Andreas Reckwitz

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden has made a contribution to the book Singularitäten? Im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Andreas Reckwitz

External CEBI member Stefanie Stantcheva receives the John Bates Clark medal

The John Bates Clark medal is one of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated AEA awards.

Call for applications: PhD Scholarship in Maritime Law and Human Mobility

MOBILE is looking for a talented PhD student

Trine Mygind Korsby publishes book chapter on minors identified as victims of human trafficking

CGC researcher Trine Mygind Korsby has contributed the book chapter ‘“I am not a victim of anything”: minors identified as victims of human trafficking in Italy’ to the edited volume Sex Work and Language, edited by…

Marat Karatayev

Dr. Marat Karatayev is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow researching energy transitions, climate change, and sustainability, with a focus on policy, innovation, and the water-energy-food nexus.

Configuring the carbon farmer Emerging practices of carbon accounting and biochar engagements in Danish agriculture

Inge-Merethe Hougaard has authored a chapter in the book The Cultural Complexity of Carbon.