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The making of Fashioning Sudan

The project Fashioning Sudan – archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile is now reaching the very end of its first year.

Learned prehistory and Danish genealogies

A miscellany manuscript written by several hands contains some genealogical material thought to derive from a lost Icelandic saga known as *Skjǫldunga saga.

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2023

Dissecting Love in The Ninetheenth Century and Beyond

The Where Love Happens research group welcomed a group of international researchers to dissect love at the Medical Museum on a one-day symposium.

Presentation at ICMME4

Petra Daryai-Hansen and Natascha Drachmann holds a paper on the 4th International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education, held 12-13 October 2023 in Valletta, Malta.

Romanticism and Love Special Collection for RÊVE

View the Where Love Happens Special Collection to RÊVE.

Ayo Wahlberg is new Head of Department of Anthropology

Professor Ayo Wahlberg will commence as Head of Department at the Department of Anthropology on 1 November 2023.

Eva Andersson Strand appointed Professor of Archaeology

Eva Andersson Strand, director of the Centre for Textile Research, can now, as of 1 October, officially hold the title of Professor of archaeology.

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow to Give Keynote Speech at Reuvensdagen 2023

Felicia Fricke will be giving this year's keynote speech at the national archaeology conference in the Netherlands on Thursday 16th November.

Rasmus Christensen's Semester Abroad in Växjö, Sweden

ITSS PhD Fellow, Rasmus Christensen, has recently returned from his semester abroad at Linnaeus University. Find out what he got up to!

Art as Forum in podcast on the conditions of communality in the artworld and academia today

Assistant professor Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and professor Frederik Tygstrup in podcast on the conditions of communality in the artworld and academia today

PRIVACY welcomes new guest PhD Fellow Taís Giacomini Tomazi

We are happy to welcome our newest guest researcher Taís Giacomini Tomazi Taís has a degree in History from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), a master's degree in History from the Post Graduate Program of…

Vladimir Ariza-Montañez: Social disease and humanitarian interventions in Colombia

Global Health Research Spotlight is a news story series for School of Global Health’s communication platforms.

Sundhedsprofessioner i forandring? Konfliktdynamikker i forebyggelsesarbejde på danske hospitaler

Lektor Inge Kryger Pedersen har bidraget med tidskriftartiklen "Sundhedsprofessioner i forandring? Konfliktdynamikker i forebyggelsesarbejde på danske hospitaler" i i Dansk Sociologi, 33(3), 2022. På danske hospitaler…

New funding for Save the Loom project

The Danish Loom from the 17th to 20th century – how can it be described, documented and preserved?

New PRIVACY book: Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries

Ineke Huysman and former Privacy researcher and colleague Michael Green edited the book. The book contains PRIVACY contributions by Sanne Maekelberg, Natacha Klein Käfer, Jelena Bakić and Michael Green.

New Publication: An Eighteenth Century Account of St. Croix, USVI

ITSS Phd Fellow Rasmus Christensen has published a Danish-language article in the journal Danske Magazin.

New Publication: Dutch Creole Texts from the Virgin Islands

ITSS Phd Fellow Rasmus Christensen has co-authored an article about newly discovered Dutch Creole texts from the former Danish West Indies.

Obituary - Oscar Salemink

It is with great sadness that we say farewell and give our thanks to our esteemed colleague Professor Oscar Salemink, who passed away on 23 September 2023.

New Publication: Rumours in the Lesser Antilles

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke has published an article in the New West Indian Guide. Click to access the article and the associated press release in NOW Grenada!

Methods of Theorizing: A Call for Pluralism

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden has contributed with the article "Methods of Theorizing: A Call for Pluralism" for the special session of "Global dialogue - Magazine of the International Sociological Association".…

New Ph.D.: Plugging numbers into a formula isn't physics 

When students view physics formulas only as mathematical tools, they fail to understand physics in a meaningful way. We need to teach students to ask why, says new Ph.D.

An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga

A previously unidentified fragment can now be shown to contain the educational poem De venditione Joseph by Petrus Riga.

The Current State of Social Theory

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden and Arthur Bueno have edited a special session "The Current State of Social Theory" in the Magazine of the International Sociological Association "Global dialogue - Magazine of the…