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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.

The wealthier we become, the fewer homemade meals we eat

The wealthier we are, the less time we spend cooking and washing up. This is demonstrated by a global megatrend, now investigated by a researcher at the University of Copenhagen. The trend applies to Danes as well, who…

Who are the people behind human trafficking?

With support from the EU, a new anthropological project will paint a more accurate picture of human traffickers through fieldwork in Romania and Portugal.

New published teaching material in collaboration with the publishing house Alinea

New published teaching material in collaboration with the publishing house Alinea Through a collaboration between Natascha Drachmann and Alinea, a Danish publishing house, a new online teaching material on plurilingual…

New special issue of Social Anthropology edited by Paul Anderson and Andreas Bandak

New special issue of Social Anthropology edited by Paul Anderson and Andreas Bandak The title is 'Urgency and Imminence: The Politics of the Very Near Future' (open access) and the general theme should be of relevance…

New book: Social Media Images and Conflicts

The volume Social Media Images and Conflicts edited by Mette Mortensen and Ally McCrow-Young has come out. This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out,…

Searching the formula of happiness in times of war

Being granted a fellowship for displaced Ukrainian scholars, Iryna Ignatenko will spend a year at the Department of Anthropology looking into ‘Danish happiness’.

Two new professorships at CIP

As of 1 December 2022 CIP has two new professorships, Professor of multilingualism and language evaluation Slobodanka Dimova and Professor of multilingualism and language policy Janus Mortensen.