News about Culture

A Prayer Book for the Entire Year — And Every Occasion

December means another year is coming to a close, at least according to our modern secular calendar. The liturgical year, on the other hand, has just begun with the first Sunday of Advent. A sixteenth-century prayer boo…

CIP visits Bergen and Bilbao

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

Anthropologist to explore “out of the way” places’ dreams of becoming tech landscapes

What does it mean for “out of the way” places to build technological futures, and how can these futures reproduce or reconfigure social and economic inequalities? This is what Samantha Dawn Breslin will explore thanks t…

Gabriëlle La Croix’s Semester Abroad in Pittsburgh, USA

ITSS PhD Fellow, Gabriëlle La Croix, is coming to the end of her semester at the University of Pittsburgh. Find out what she's been up to!

Young people find cocaine use increasingly common in party settings

Cocaine use is becoming normalised in parts of party culture, according to a new study of Roskilde festival attendees.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents Ethnote at Maastricht University Ethnography group's monthly sessions

During the latest monthly session of the Maastricht University Ethnography Group, Emilie Munch Gregersen presented digital fieldnote app Ethnote

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun in the podcast ‘Videnskab fra vilde hjerner’

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was recently a guest in the Danish podcast Videnskab fra vilde hjerner (Science from Wild Minds) hosted by Professor of astrophysics at University of Copenhagen, Anja C. Andersen.…

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…

Atreyee Sen is featured in a recently published ethnographic volume on disappearance

CGC researcher, Atreyee Sen, has authored a chapter in a recently published book on disappearance in different social, cultural and political contexts.

Professor: Working with Big Bang and ecosystems should make youth tremble

Science has an entirely overlooked educational capacity – to help young people forming their identity. Therefore, science deserves more than the ancillary role that it plays today. Middle and high school teachers should…

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Gives Keynote Speech

Felicia Fricke gave the keynote speech at this year's Reuvensdagen, the national archaeology conference of the Netherlands. Click to watch the recording.

Paolo Astorri publishes chapter in Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law

Paolo Astorri publishes chapter in Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law titled "Christianity and Contract Law"

Autumn 2023 talks by Vera Skvirskaja

List of talks by Vera Skvirskaja

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2023

SDU Intercultural Pedagogy: Scientific perspectives on language and cultural encounters

Lecture by Line Krogager Andersen.

Call for Papers: Small Islands, Proximity, and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean

We invite proposals for a special issue on the history of the eastern Caribbean as shaped by the dynamics of small islands, proximity, and resource scarcity.

‘Who Has Taken My Son?’: Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen has contributed the chapter ‘Who Has Taken My Son (Amar Cheleke Ke Nilo)?’: Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India to the book An…

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…

Call for Papers: Inter-Island Connections in the Lesser Antilles, 1650-1850

IN THE SAME SEA invites paper proposals for a workshop to be held at the University of Copenhagen, 25th-26th April 2024.

Florentine's Letters: Grief, Sorrow, and Love from Martinique to Dominica

In this short blog post, ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen discusses one enslaved woman's Lesser Antillean support network, expressed through letters written originally written in French or French Creole in 1818.

New Publication: History and Public Debates about Racial Slavery in Denmark

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen has just published a chapter in the edited volume 'Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe' (DeGruyter, 2023).

Children’s spelling skills improve when teaching integrates movement

A new study from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports shows that children who use their bodies to 'shape' letter-sounds improve their spelling skills more than those who receive…