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Conceptual performance artist is awarded the Sonning Prize

Body and gaze are the focal points of the Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović, who is also known as ‘the godmother of performance art’. She is known for using herself and her body and for actively involving the…

Professor Anne Holmen co-edits new book on translanguaging

The book Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research is published on 31 January. Professor and centre leader at CIP, Anne Holmen, is co-editor. Purchase the book at 50% off before 31…

Piss off: Salva Kiir and South Sudan

On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Genstart, Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen tells the story of the leader who became president of South Sudan.

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2022

FABRIC Online Exhibition

A Virtual Exhibition has just been opened. Inspired by textiles and their various techniques, both traditional and innovative, 25 visual artists have created 41 works offering their own approaches and multifaceted…

Featuring CERTIZENS at Copenhagen University

Read about the public seminar at the Centre of African Studies featuring the research of CERTIZENS Dr Kojo Opoku Aidoo, and Dr Godfrey Asiimwe

Guest PhD researcher, Nai Kalema, links up with CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Read Nai Kalema’s responses to some key questions about herself, her doctoral research focus, and how she sees her research relating specifically to CERTIZENS.

An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies

Associate Professor Karen Waltorp has co-edited the book An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies, authored the preface and in collaboration with Maja Hojer Bruun, the chapter 'Drones as a gendered matter of concern'

Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life

Associate Professor Karen Waltorp has edited the book Energy Futures. She contributed the chapter ‘Imagining energy futures beyond colonial continuation‘.

Deniz Sarikaya guest scholar in the HPS section from January to May 2023

While he is here, Deniz will work on the project “Theoretical virtues of conjectures and open questions in mathematical practice“ funded by funded by the DAAD.

UCPH School of Archaeology kick-off retreat

On 28 November 2023 a total of 50 archaeologists from the Humanities, Theology, Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH headed to Comwell Borupgaard in Snekkersten for a two-day retreat.

Internship at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

FALL SEMESTER 2023 We are looking for an MA student in history at the Saxo Institute to apply for internships at the UN Library & Archives Geneva in partnership with the research project Visualizing the League of Nation…

PRIVACY-PhD, Anni H. Henriksen in new job at Karberghus Ejendomme A/S

From studying the private mind to disseminating the history of Copenhagen Architecture On 10 October, our very first PRIVACY-PhD, Anni Haahr Henriksen, defended her PhD thesis The Private Mind in Elizabethan England.…

Three new publications

In connection with the project Infrastrukturalisme funded by the Carlsberg Foundation three new publications has been published.

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…

SODAS researchers receive Carlsberg grant to develop the Ethnoplatform

SODAS PhD August Lohse and professor Morten Axel Pedersen have received a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to develop the Ethnoplatform

An ode to people who work in labs

With a short film, Postdoc Thomas Hughes has delivered an atypical anthropological product at the outskirts of academia – even though the film is celebrating science.

Mending Maladies: Agnes’s Jacket and her kinds

Subhasree Biswas' research is about the relationship between women, madness, speech act, needlework and healing.

Poster session in Film and Media

Poster session in Film and Media: Master students present their empirical projects on socio-mediated scandals Integrating research and teaching is one of the pillars of education at the University of Copenhagen. In the…

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2022

Student project grants 2022/2023

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COMM colleagues collaborate in the latest issue of Literary Journalism Studies

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen and Christine Isager have both written an article for Literary Journalism Studies.

Call for Papers: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities.

Call for Papers for the international conference: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities. Deadline for submission is January 6, 2023.