News about Anthropology

Digital Sociality across Public and Private Spheres

Professor Karen Waltorp and Professor Tom Bratrud from the University of Bergen are the editors of a special issue of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (Volume 33, Issue 2)

Living a Cancer Surveillance Life

Professor Ayo Wahlberg has together with Julie I. P. Gislinge, Anna Byrjalsen, Klara V. Naver, Helle V. Clausen, Pernille Ravn, Kresten R. Petersen and Karin Wadt co-written the article 'Living a Cancer Surveillance…

Ayo Wahlberg appointed to the Danish Council on Ethics

Professor Ayo Wahlberg has been appointed as a new member of the Danish Council on Ethics. With ethical issues arising from cheaper and more advanced genetic technologies, there is plenty to discuss.

Atreyee Sen appointed professor in the Department of Anthropology

From 1 February, Atreyee Sen has been appointed professor in the Department of Anthropology.

School-based social and educational support for siblings of children with cancer

Ph.D. student Minna Devantier and Professor Ayo Wahlberg has together with a team of researchers specialized in childhood cancer published an article.

Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has together with Nadeeka Arambewela-Colley and Kathrin Knodel published the article ‘Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis’ in the journal Cultural…

CGC researcher, Rikke Haugegaard, publishes new article

CGC researcher Rikke Haugegaard has recently published an article in the 10th volume of the academic journal Conflict and Society. Haugegaard’s article is titled “The Power of Water: How Naval Special Warfare Operators…

Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby and Professor Henrik Vigh have published the article ‘Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease’ in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

"Weapons of Mass Distraction?" Conference held in November

On the 14th and 15th November 2024 DISTRACT hosted the conference "Weapons of Mass Distraction?"

Remembering Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024)

The news of Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s death hit his anthropological colleagues at the University of Copenhagen very hard.

Research seminar on Digital (mis)trust

On Friday the 29th of November five scholars (including DISTRACT researcher Kristoffer Albris) presented their work and thoughts on digital (mis)trust at the launch of a new special issue entitled Digital (Mis)trust:…

Stealing and redacting: fieldwork among transnational thieves in Eastern Romania

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has contributed the chapter ‘Stealing and redacting: fieldwork among transnational thieves in Eastern Romania’ to the book Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State.

How does compassion for animals develop and take root?

Looking at Tibetans and Indians who provide care for stray animals in northern India, a new anthropological project will explore how people develop a compassion-based ethics through their encounters with animals.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents at Digital Tech Summit 2024

On October 30th DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at the Digital Tech Summit, where she pitched the digital fieldnote app Ethnote designed for collecting, sharing, and analyzing qualitative data. …

New article: ”EthNote gives qualitative research a new format”

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded by DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen and DISTRACT coordinator Karoline Husbond Andersen. The article is written…

The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection

Associate Professor Kristoffer Albris, has together with Karin Fast, Faltin Karlsen, Anne Kaun, Stine Lomborg, and Trine Syvertsen edited the volume The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnections.

Helle Bundgaard is Teacher of the Year at the Department of Anthropology

At the Department Day on 13 September, Associate Professor Helle Bundgaard was honoured as Teacher of the Year 2024.

New edited volume: “The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection”

Kristoffer Albris is the co-editor of the new edited book "The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection" published on Nordicom

Project to investigate the social and political impact of migrant deaths

Every year, thousands of migrants from Africa die on their way to Europe. A new anthropological project funded by the European Research Council will examine the impact of these deaths on the bereaved.

Mapping concerns about rising seawater

How do citizens living on the coasts of four countries in the North Sea region worry about future sea level rise and storm surges? This is the question Kristoffer Langkjær Albris will investigate in a project that DFF i…

New edited book: The Economic Lives of Platforms - Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets

Morten Axel Pedersen and former DISTRACT PhD Eva Iris Otto are amongst the editors in the newly published book "The Economic Lives of Platforms: Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets"

Emilie Munch Gregersen and Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard facilitated a workshop at UAB

On June 10th DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen visited Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) to facilitate an interactive workshop

Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at UCPH Spring Festival

On May 31st Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented on 'the festival feeling' at UCPH Spring Festival

Improved counselling for young people to dispel the myth that opioids are harmless

A wide range of measures are needed to reduce the use of illegal opioids and benzodiazepines among young people. This is the conlcusion of the Criminological Observatory at UCPH in a new report.