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Presentation of EthNote at MEGA seminar

On Monday the 21st of August 2023, DISTRACT members Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen gave a presentation on methods used to collect ethnographic data at the People’s Meeting including the digital…

The man in the easy chair

AntroStorie af Mikkel Rytter fra feltarbejde med dansk-parkistanske familier.

ITSS PhD Fellows Prepare for Semester Abroad

Gabriëlle La Croix and Rasmus Christensen will spend the autumn semester abroad as part of their PhD training.

On 1 September, Anna Vind begins a monograph scholarship from The Carlsberg Foundation

Associate Professor Anna Vind of the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, received a monograph-scholarship of DKK 746,325 from the Carlsberg Foundation in December 2022, which is now about to begin.

Philosopher: Mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations

Mindfulness is one of the most widespread forms of therapy for people suffering from stress, and many report that they benefit greatly from it. However, the philosophical assumptions on which mindfulness is based are…

WORKING PAPER 6: A Littoral and Men: Sharing Fishing Resources in 18th Century Martinique

In this post, IN THE SAME SEA Student Assistant Lucas Marin (Université des Antilles) describes colonial attempts to control fishing on Martinique in the 18th century.

Privacy Scholar Oskar Jacek Rojewski guest edits The Court Historian

Art historian and PRIVACY scholar Oskar Jacek Rojewski has guest edited the newest volume of The Court Historian. We sat down with Oskar to discuss the benefits of bringing together privacy and court studies. Oskar…

Academic event at Rosborg Gymnasium

Lecture on general language awareness (Almen sprogforståelse) and plurilingual affordances by Line Krogager Andersen.

International award for Professor Stig Hjarvard

The International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) has given the ”Stewart M. Hoover Mentorship Award” to Stig Hjarvard for his innovating research on the mediatization of religion.

Julia Sturm featured in ERC news

Postdoc Julia Sturm was features in ERC News article with prof. Michaël Peyrot, Leiden University.

‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube

‘‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube’ (Bräuchler 2023) looks at memory work conducted in a YouTube video featuring two former child soldiers in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia,…

Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has contributed the chapter ‘Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia’ to the book Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts,…

CBMR publications and media appearances in July 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in July 2023

Photo by Nuno Grancho selected for Danish National Research Foundation exhibition

“Woman at the Governor’s house, Tranquebar, India, 2023” © Nuno Grancho About the photo: The photo brings together practices and negotiations of privacy in the architectural and urban space of the Danish colonial city…

Birgitte Stampe Holst co-edits the new issue of Conflict and Society

Birgitte Stampe Holst has edited and written the introduction, as well as an article in the Special Section of the journal.

Chapter on Writing for children and young audiences

New chapter by Eva Novrup Redvall on screenwriting for children and audiences for The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies. Find more information.

Carsten Rahbek invited as speaker at Paris exhibition

Professor Carsten Rahbek was invited by artist Danh Vo to give a talk on the biodiversity crisis as part of the Parisian exhibition Avant l’orage. The talk is now publicly available.

22-year-old talent is now ‘researcher Tetris’ world champion

With world-class programming, 22-year-old computer science student William Bille Meyling beats seasoned professors at the unofficial world championships in geometric algorithms. He was recently honoured for his…

A Copenhagen School in Argumentation Studies

The volume Rhetorical Argumentation : The Copenhagen School, edited by Christian Kock and Marcus Lantz, is now available digitally.

CSTonline blog on children’s media use

New CSTonline blog on trying to understand children and their media use one report at a time.

Journal on Danish children’s films since 2000

New issue of the journal Kosmorama on Danish children, youth and family films since 2000 is now out.

Legends of Norse Settlers drove Denmark towards Greenland

The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century. Legends about…

New Head of Department for the mathematicians

From 1. September 2023, Professor and Head of Section Mogens Steffensen will be the new Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. He will work for the Department’s academic researc…

New podcast episode with postdoc Johan Farkas

This podcast focuses on journalism studies research and is presented by the Nordic open access journal Journalistica.