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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.

Researchers will explore and develop a new ecological ethics

With support from VELUX FONDEN, a collaboration between anthropologists and theologians will pave the way for a new ecological ethics that focuses on the interaction between nature and human interests.

Christine Crone publishes an article in Middle East Critique

Christine Crone has published the article Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria.

Interview with Professor Sarah Igo

Mette Birkedal Bruun and Sarah Igo Professor of History at Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, Sarah Igo visited Centre for Privacy Studies in May 2023. She gave a lecture on the U.S. Social Security number and ho…

Three new chapbooks in the series Kunsten som forum på tryk

Three new contributions to the series "Kunsten som forum på tryk" are presented by The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with Art as Forum, New Carlsberg Foundation's research Centre at the University o…

Eva Iris Otto defends PhD thesis

On the 22nd of June, 2023, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto successfully defended her thesis entitled Coding [values]: App-making in the Danish digital attention economy. On the committee of Eva's defence was Professor Ayo…

Crisis response: Who do volunteers on social media prioritise?

Informal volunteering organised in Facebook groups plays an increasing role during crisis situations. But who are the volunteers helping – and why? A project funded by VELUX FONDEN will investigate this question.

Disseminating historical research of Copenhagen

The newly launched app Hidden Copenhagen takes you on an innovative living history trail through Copenhagen. The trail tells a powerful story of murder, execution and anatomical dissection in the seventeenth century.…

Matthew Scarborough receives Marie Curie fellowship

Matthew Scarborough has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship for the research project PHILGLOSSA: Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Greek: Lexicon of Substrates Analyzed. The PHILOGLOSSA project…

Paradox: Well-integrated immigrants report more discrimination

Immigrants and their descendants are more likely to report experiences of discrimination if they are well-educated and socially well-integrated. A new international meta-study confirms the so-called integration paradox.

Reading Desires: Romanian Pimps Striving for Success in the Transnational Street Economy

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has published the article 'Reading Desires: Romanian Pimps Striving for Success in the Transnational Street Economy' in Migration & Society.

New Ph.D.-fellow: We should utilize the body to learn programming 

When working with computers, we must remember that we are human beings, says new Ph.D.-fellow Fridtjof Ronge Gjengset.

Centennial Conference “Crossing the Disciplinary Boundaries of Physics”

A Centennial Conference celebrating the centenaries of the Niels Bohr Institute (founded in 1921) and Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in Physics (awarded to him in 1922) will take place in Copenhagen from 7–11 August 2023

New vice-dean at University of Copenhagen SCIENCE

Professor Jesper Wengel is a high-profile researcher, inventor and business owner. From 1 September 2023, he will also be the new Vice-Dean for Innovation and External Relations at SCIENCE – the University of…

Universities must stand out as unique physical meeting places

Education will be disrupted over the next ten years, placing great demands on university degree programmes, says Professor Andreas de Neergaard, who, from 1 September 2023, is the new Associate Dean for Education at…

The “Transnational Business of Death” Among Somali Migrants in the Streets of Athens

Assistant Professor Anja Simonsen has published the article ’The “Transnational Business of Death” among Somali Migrants in the Streets of Athens’.

Engaging mindfulness

Odysseus Stone defends his thesis on ”Mindfulness” on 29 June 2023, 13:00. The defence takes place at South Campus, Auditorium 4A-0-69. More details

Historians in conversation - podcast episode with Mette Birkedal Bruun out now

In this podcast, Michael Green, University of Lodz, Faculty of Philosophy and History, explores how historians build their careers, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges. What…

Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration

Assistant Professor Anja Simonsen has just published the book Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration.

The library is open all summer

Remember you can use the library all summer. Copenhagen University Library, South Campus has the following opening hours during the summer period: 1st of July - 3st of August 2023 Monday - Friday 9:00 - 17:00. …

Modern humans arrived in Southeast Asia 40,000 years earlier than we thought

An international research team jointly lead by Globe Institute show one of the earliest modern humans migrations out of Africa.

New grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Professor Slobodanka Dimova (CIP) is leading a 4-year research project supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project is titled: "Towards a new model of communicative competence in multilingual higher…

Danish government plans to rein in tech giants

The government's proclaimed initiative for tighter regulations on tech giants is based on the work of a technology expert group established last year. It includes two professors from SODAS, Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Sune…