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There is nothing new about renewable energy: Tracing the life of solar panels

This article is a write-up about the event “Exploring the Life of Solar Panels or Why J-B Fressoz is Right” (August 26, 2025).

CGC researchers contribute to new issue of Tidsskriftet Antropologi

Several researchers from the Center for Global Criminology contribute to the latest issue of Tidsskriftet Antropologi, titled “Kriser I” (ed: Crises I) – the first of two special issues on crises.

Conference: The Night as a Private Space

Bertel Thorvaldsen, Natten, Thorvaldsens Museum, inventarnummer A901 (https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/A901) On 11-12 December 2025, PRIVACY will host an interdisciplinary conference on “The Night as a Private…

Language Use at UCPH on inclusion of international employees

Episode 4 of the CIP podcast, Sprogbrug på KU / Language Use at UCPH focuses on how to best welcome and include new international colleagues. The podcast will be released 26 September 2025.

Spot on PRIVACY scholars: Asta Mønsted and Natalie Körner

From the left: Natalie Körner and Asta Mønsted, discussing their interdisciplinary and collaborative project on privacy among the Greenlandic Inuit during the 19th century. Archaeologist Asta Mønsted and architectural…

Winner of the SCIENCE PhD Award

Kirstine Lund Christiansen has been awarded the SCIENCE PhD Award 2025 for her outstanding thesis, “Legitimising Voluntary and Market-based Climate Action: Corporate Narratives, Nature-based Offsetting and the Greening…

'Podninger' wins exhibition award: Anne Julie Arnfred in ambitious art project

'Podninger', an ambitious exhibition format based in Underskoven - a 16-hectare art forest on Ærø - has won the Bikuben Foundation's Exhibition Award Vision 2025, along with DKK 4 million to carry out the project.

Artikel om bog om det danske sprogs historie

Carlsbergfondet har omtalt Thomas Olanders bog Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen på deres hjemmeside: https://carlsbergfondet.dk/viden/paa-sporet-af-det-danske-sprogs-roedder/.

Exhibition Reception, September 25

Rubya Mehdi: 'Systems of Justice, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Decolonialization'. The exhibition reception will be held at the library on Thursday, September 25, from 2 - 4 p.m. Read more about the exhibition on…

The USE Center launches first research plan 

The first generation of USE research projects will launch in Fall 2025.

3,200 children take part in new research project on the impact of school-provided meals

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports is leading the new research project School Food in Denmark, which will study the effect of school-provided meals on pupils’ health, wellbeing and learning, with the…

Stefanie Heine is awarded the Einar Hansen research prize

The foundation has emphasised the breadth of her publications and methodological approaches, e.g. phenomenology, feminism, ecocriticism and materiality. The award will be presented at the annual celebration in memory of…

Konkurrence: Lav en anmeldelse af Kærlighed i Seoul af Sang Young Park

Kreativ boganmeldelseskonkurrence.

PRIVACY researchers at ENIUGH conference

Hannah Hjorth, Felicia Fricke, and Hui-Yi Yang recently participated at the ENIUGH conference in Växjö, Sweden—a forum for research in global and transnational history—where they each presented their current work.…

Edward Kirumira awarded honorary doctorate at the University of Copenhagen

Each year, the University of Copenhagen confers a number of honorary doctorates across different academic disciplines. This year, one of the distinctions goes to the Centre of African Studies: Associate Professor Karen…

New visiting PhD fellow at PRIVACY

We are pleased to welcome Jan Temme de Vries as a visiting PhD fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies from September to November 2025. Jan is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of Basel, affiliated with…

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2025

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2025

Pointing out Manicules in AM 76 8vo

Marginal annotations are a popular way to interact with a text; AM 76 8vo showcases manicules, a form of marginalia that literally gets the point across.

New book explores the concept of ‘non-muslim Islam’

NON-MUSLIM ISLAM: A new book, edited by Jesper Petersen and Anders Ackfeldt, challenges the conventional understanding of Islam by examining how the religion is shaped and interpreted not only by Muslims, but also by…

Stored for 130 years: Bottles reveal evidence of Danish butter production and hygiene practices of the past

Two forgotten bottles in a basement in Frederiksberg containing bacterial cultures from the 1890s have provided researchers at the University of Copenhagen with unique insight into Denmark's butter production history.…

Resonant Ethnography: Understanding the World Through Writing

New Book by Helle Bundgaard and Anne Line Dalsgård

HUM's new honorary doctors study how we navigate complex cultural landscapes

At the university's traditional annual commemoration in November, KU will appoint honorary doctors. This year, HUM is behind the appointment of two of the six new honorary doctors.

New book publication: Shaping Women Philosophers

In november the book Shaping Women Philosophers, edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, will be published at Brill.

Arkæologer bruger AI til at skabe forhistorisk computerspil

Arkæologer fra Københavns Universitet og Bergens Universitet har ved hjælp af AI og gratis værktøjer selv udviklet et levende og lærerigt computerspil om stenalderen. Den nye teknologi, der ikke kræver særlig teknisk…