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Regional Workshop on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

In January 2024 CERTIZENS convened an East Africa Regional Workshop in Kampala with the title Changing ID Systems in East Africa: Histories, Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of States and Citizens. Mostly…

New visiting professor - Dr. Dexnell Peters

From 24th April to 6th May 2024, IN THE SAME SEA will be hosting historian Dr. Dexnell Peters (University of the West Indies) as a visiting professor in Copenhagen. Read more here!

Interview with Dr. Pernille Røge

In December 2023, ITSS PhD fellow Gabriëlle La Croix sat down with Dr. Pernille Røge to talk about Dr. Røge’s work at the University of Pittsburgh and about her thoughts on Atlantic history and trans-imperial research.

CERTIZENS first MA graduate, Moses Muluba, researched birth registration in Eastern Uganda

Moses Muluba (CERTIZENS Uganda) shares insights from his MA thesis on ‘Unfolding diverse citizen response to birth registration in Iganga district, Uganda (1904-2021)'. He was the first to graduate in December 2023 out…

CBMR publications and media appearances in February 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in February 2024

International Workshop Develops New Network in Caribbean Archaeology

Find out what attendees achieved at 'The Future of Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology' workshop between 11th and 14th March 2024.

New student assistant - Mikkel Bjerrum-Bohr

ITSS has a new student assistant who brings us expertise in the Spanish language! Read about his role in the project here.

New CPH Tech Policy Brief by DISTRACT researchers

DISTRACT researchers Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Kristoffer Albris, and Helene Willadsen recently published a CPH Tech Policy Brief that dives into the concept of screen time and explores how people feel about engaging…

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.

Call for papers: History Teaching and Public Memory of Recent Past. Experiences and perspectives from South East Europe

Call for papers for workshop in Podgorica, Montenegro, 16-17 October 2024.

The sensory archaeology of garments. New approaches to the body in ancient Sudan and Nubia

Associate professor in archaeology Elsa Yvanez will be giving a talk in Cairo at the Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan / Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (SFDAS / IFAO).

Copenhagen Hosts Workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology

ITSS Postdoc and colleagues from Aarhus and Leiden are this week hosting an international hybrid workshop with 30 attendees.

New publications spring 2024

Kunsten som forum på tryk published with Billedkunstskolernes Forlag has issued four new editions, authored by Shannon Mattern, David Lloyd, Shannon Jackson, and Julia Bryan-Wilson respectively.

New anthropological projects explore African climate and energy challenges

With support from DANIDA, two projects based at the Department of Anthropology are investigating climate and energy challenges in South Africa and Burkina Faso.

Justice Beyond Time, Place, and Law

Place: Onzième Lieu, Paris Programme 14:00-15:30 – Session 1 Forms of and Fora for Accountability Contributors: Mohammed Bassiki, Garance le Caisne, Mazen Darwish Chaired by Cecile Boex During the revolution and war in…

Attending in the Attention Economy - DISTRACT Talk with Jelle Bruineberg

On Friday the 1st of March, 2024, Assistant Professor at Center for Subjectivity Research (Department of Communication, UCPH) Jelle Bruineberg did a DISTARCT Talk investigating the notion of attention that underpins…

Author Meets Critics section on Andreas Bandak’s recent book Exemplary Life

This past week the new issue of Religion and Society was published. As always it is packed with insightful interventions, original articles, thematic sections, and debate sections.

DISTRACT Talk this Friday, March 1st, with Jelle Bruineberg

This Friday, March 1st, DISTRACT hosts the talk "Attending in the attention economy" with Jelle Bruineberg (Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen)

Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe

New PRIVACY open access book

DISTRACT research note: "Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online"

In March 2023, DISTRACT researchers Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Tobias Gårdhus & Jonas Toubøl published the research note "Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online" in European Societies.

Birds have been adapting to human activity for millennia

Roughly 14,500 to 10,500 years ago, in the transition from the last glacial period, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic peoples harvesting vegetation from the wetlands of eastern Jordan created a habitat for birds that would…

The CCBS welcomes a new member of the research team: Dendup Chophel

Dendup Chophel is an anthropologist (PhD from the Australian National University) who has joined the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies as a Postdoctoral Fellow on 1 January 2024.

Special issue of Visual Anthropology

With a stellar line-up including Dima Saber, Abdul Rahman al-Jaloud, Stefan Tarnowski, Ugur Ümit Üngör, Chad Elias, and Thomas Keenan, we explore the various dimensions of image use, archives, and recollections in the…

DISTRACT article: "How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy"

DISTRACT researchers Eva Iris Otto, Anders Blok, and Jonathan Holm Salka published the paper "How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy" in Journal of Cultural Economy in April…