News about Culture

Upcoming Guest Lecture by Dr. Sharika Crawford

On Thursday 11th May, ITSS will welcome Dr. Sharika Crawford (United States Naval Academy) for a guest lecture on the trade in turtle and fruit in the western Caribbean.

Digital Dependence: Online Fatigue and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Assistant professor Kristoffer Albris has with colleagues from SODAS, published an article in Media, Culture & Society entitled 'Digital Dependence: Online Fatigue and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Lockdown'.

ITSS Postdoc Assists Grenada National Museum

At the beginning of March 2023, ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke helped the GNM with the curation and analysis of human remains.

New Publication: Archaeology and Social Justice in Island Worlds

ITSS Postdoc Felicia Fricke has just published an opinion piece with colleague Rachel Hoerman (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa).

Welcome to our new ADI Coordinator

We are very pleased to welcome Nicol Savinetti as the new ADI Coordinator.

New video podcast on nostalgia in populism with Manuel Menke

The publisher Cogitatio Press has launched a new video podcast in which authors talk about an article they recently published in one of their journals.

Opening of the Center for Gene Expression

The Center of Excellence "Center for Gene Expression", CGEN, funded by the Danish National Research Foundation opened on April 1st 2023.

Machine Anthropology: editorial introduction to special issue in Big Data & Society

Prof. Morten Axel Pedersen, director of SODAS, has just published a paper in the journal Big Data and Society. As the editorial introduction in a special theme issue on Machine Anthropology, the paper explores the…

New publication: Editorial introduction to special theme issue "Machine Anthropology"

How can the collection, processing, and analysis of ethnographic data be improved by computational methods? Can anthropological research – and researchers – be augmented or even replaced by machines?

New structure and broadened entry requirements for courses in German and French

Registration for the August 2023 courses German and French for students going abroad is now open. The entry requirements have been broadened, and the courses in January will be structured as shorter workshops to account…

Call for Papers: Occultism and Popular Culture in Europe

Date: 22-23 November 2023 Location: Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen There has been a long cultural fascination with the macabre, horrific, and downright creepy across…

CSTonline blog: Amanda Skovsager Mouritsen

CSTonline blog by Amanda Skovsager Mouritsen on fictional formats on TikTok.

Inter-island Connections in the Lesser Antilles: Conference Update!

This conference, co-organised by ITSS and the Caribbean Genealogy Library, was attended by over 100 people and facilitated discussions and connections between family historians and academics.

SODAS Scientists add nuance to alarmist debate about consequences of smartphone-use

This week, three researchers from SODAS featured consecutively in the media speaking about smartphones, sociale media and attention.

Tree rings and strontium point researchers to the provenance of 400-year-old timber

Isotopes of the chemical element strontium, along with tree-ring analysis, point researchers to the origins of timber used to build houses in Denmark 400 years ago, shows a University of Copenhagen study published in th…

Chapter on children as documentarians

New chapter by Eva Novrup Redvall on Danish children as documentarians of the COVID-19 pandemic in the book Documentary in the age of COVID from Peter Lang.

New publication: State-of-the-art network measure on polarization by SODAS PhD

How can we accurately quantify the level of ideological polarization of a social system? This paper seeks to synthesize the two main approaches within polarization theory: a traditional approach of opinion divergence…

Seminar om familiefilmen anno 2023

Brancheseminar på Den Danske Filmskole om Hvad er en familiefilm anno 2023? med deltagelse af RYA-projektet.

Frank Ejby Poulsen has won the María Zambrano Grant

Cordial congratulations to Frank Ejby Poulsen who has won the María Zambrano Grant for the attraction of international talents (€99.500) at the University King Juan Carlos. Frank will carry the project: ‘Oikosmos–El…

The Ukrainian refugee crisis led to mass mobilisation of volunteers on Facebook

Within days and weeks, the Russian invasion of Ukraine resulted in a surge in Facebook support groups in response to the war and following humanitarian crisis.

Global Art in Local Art Worlds

Professor Oscar Salemink and Assistant Professor Jens Sejrup co-edited, Global Art in Local Art Worlds. They answer the question whether tectonic geopolitical shifts are attended by corresponding geocultural changes.

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2023

SODAS professor discusses AI on the danish radio program Kulturen

SODAS professor Morten Axel Pedersen discusses generative AI systems in the danish radio program Kulturen

This Land Is Not For Sale

Together with Lotte Meinert, Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has co-edited and co-written the book This Land Is Not For Sale: Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda, recently published by Berghahn Books in the series…