News about Languages

New book: Indo-European interfaces

The volume Indo-European interfaces: Integrating linguistics, mythology and archaeology has been published at Stockholm University Press.

New PhD student at Roots of Europe: Tore Rovs Kristoffersen

On 1 September 2024, the Roots of Europe centre will have a new PhD student: Tore Rovs Kristoffersen. The project is titled “Indo-European economy”. Tore has graduated in Classical Philology from the Saxo Department at…

The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated: new research project

The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated: new research project

Mumbi Macharia is the new Kiswahili teacher at the Centre of African Studies

Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Mumbi will be teaching Kiswahili I and Kiswahili II at the Center of African Studies

Danish language skills for international staff

CIP’s Danish courses play an essential role for international staff at UCPH.

New free English workshops in 2024

CIP offers a number of workshops in 2024. These workshops focus on English language usage and presentation techniques, and all UCPH employees are welcome to participate.

To gamle studiekammerater forsvarer deres ph.d.-afhandling inden for samme uge

Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn og Mikkel Nørtoft Johansen, begge kandidater i Indoeuropæisk fra NorS, har nu på smukkeste vis afsluttet deres ph.d.-forløb næsten samtidig. Rasmus (t.h.) forsvarede sin arkæolingvistiske…

The use of AI in primary school - New book in the CIP series

School students use translation tools in their French classes. They have little information from their teachers about how best to use them in the classroom.

The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen

The Low German law codex AM 2 4to contains the younger redaction of the Land Law of Dithmarschen. A later addition in Danish describes the conquest of Dithmarschen by the Kingdom of Denmark in 1559.

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.

”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 …

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.

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.

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…

CIP visits Bergen and Bilbao

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

Sprog løs! Conference at Hotel Marselis

Workshop on plurilingual approaches by Line Krogager Andersen.

Teoretisk Pædagogikum

Lecture by Line Krogager Andersen.

18 recommendations to strengthen plurilingual education

In the final phase of the PE-LAL project, the project group has formulated Recommendations to strengthen plurilingual education in language subjects in primary and lower secondary school and in Almen Sprogforståelse in…

SDU Intercultural Pedagogy: Scientific perspectives on language and cultural encounters

Lecture by Line Krogager Andersen.

Copenhagen Roots contribute to Bronze Age novel

Bjarne, Anders, Thomas and Birgit helped author Kristian Bang Foss with linguistic input from Bronze Age languages for the novel Manden der bar solen (The man who carried the sun). Read more at the Faculty of Humanities…

eLetter to Science: Archaeolinguistic anachronisms in the Indo-European phylogeny of Heggarty et al. 2023

Reserachers from Roots of Europe have responded to the conclusions of Heggarty et al. 2023 in an eLetter to Science.

Johan Ulrik Nielsen is awarded the Gold Medal for his Prize dissertation 🥇

Indo-Europeanist Johan Ulrik Nielsen finishes his MA with a prize dissertation - and he was awarded the gold medal for it!