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Call for Papers: Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888

The Steering Committee invites abstracts of not more than 250 words by Friday 1st March 2024.

Physical exercise boosts motor learning – and remembering what one has learned

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills. This is demonstrated by ne…

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2023

From Margrethe to Frederik: Danish history as told by royal lines

A new chapter of Danish history was written Sunday, 14 January 2024 with the succession of the new king. A manuscript from around 1600 follows the succession of Danish kings from the legendary Dan up to Christian III.

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern. Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz.

Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz now available.

CERTIZENS Regional Workshop on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

We are hosting an East Africa Regional Workshop in Kampala from 15-17 January 2024, with the title Changing ID Systems in East Africa: Histories, Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of States and Citizens.

100 forhistoriske skeletter viser, hvordan Danmark blev et landbrugsland

Genetiske undersøgelser af 100 skeletter fra Danmarks fortid dokumenterer, at landbruget blev indført for 5.900 år siden, da agerdyrkere vandrede ind i landet sydfra og udkonkurrerede den lokale jæger-samler-befolkning.…

Marcia Tiemi Saito visiting from Brazil

Marcia Tiemi Saito (Federal Institute of Paraná, Brazil) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from February 2024 to January 2025.

Morten Axel Pedersen gave talk at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

In the beginning of December, Morten Axel Pedersen gave a talk on the potentials and pitfalls of working quantitatively in anthropology at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

New PRIVACY book: Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History

Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History is edited by PRIVACY Assistant Professor Natacha Klein Käfer and contains contributions by PRIVACY scholars.

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.

Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark

Postdoc Inge-Merete Hougaard has recently published the article 'Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark' in the journal Environmental Science and Policy.

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…

New Assistant Professor: Evolution is plagued by misconceptions 

The broad understanding of evolution is characterized by particularly persistent and deeply ingrained misconceptions. The process of evolution goes against our inherent biases, says Assistant Professor Daniela Fiedler.

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2023

Ethnote test-event held at SODAS

Last week a test-event exploring new users' first meeting with digital fieldnote appe app Ethnote was held at SODAS

Two important pieces

The collaborative research project Viable Futures: Near and Long Term Prospects among Syrian Youth in Jordan consisting of Andreas Bandak (PI), Anders Hastrup (Co-PI), and Birgitte Stampe Holst has just published two…

Gendered racism

Together with Marianne Brodersen, Trine Øland explores Danish welfare politics and its emerging interest in emancipating ‘immigrant’ women and girls. The article identifies how the images of the ‘unfree immigrant…

Tackling climate change through literature and art

ROCS Postdoc tackles climate change through literature and art in new book

Unlocking Oceanic Mysteries

ROCS oceanographers dive into the significance of the bottom boundary current south of ROCS oceanographers dive into the significance of the bottom boundary current south of

Arkæologer finder 12.000 år gammelt perleværksted i Jordan

Specialiseret håndværksarbejde bliver normalt forbundet med fremkomsten af bysamfund. Men i et nyt studie viser forskere fra Københavns Universitet, at et stenalderfolk i Jordan var i stand til at masseproducere perler…

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.