News about History

Søren Frank Jensen receives the prestigious Carlsberg Internationalization Fellowship

Our Postdoctoral Researcher, Søren Frank Jensen, will start his project MINES, OCEANS, COMETS. NATURAL HAZARDS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS (1550–1650) in November 2024.

IN THE SAME SEA Team Members go to Colombia

Gunvor Simonsen, Felicia Fricke, and Heather Freund attended the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) Conference in Santa Marta.

ITSS PhD Fellow Receives Grant with International Colleagues

Rasmus Christensen is collaborating with PhD students from Charles University (Prague) and Ruprecht-Karls-University (Heidelberg) to organize a graduate workshop on AI in history.

Opening HUM:Global Semester Lecture – A resounding success!

The HUM:Global Semester Lecture “Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia” drew scholars, students, and the general public and filled the auditorium to the brim.

New book by PRIVACY Postdoctoral Researcher Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Nuno Grancho

Together with colleagues Fabio Colonnese and Robin Schaeverbeke, Nuno Grancho edited the book Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design and wrote the introduction.

New documentary: Nobody Liked Paul

In a new documentary, Associate Professor Matthew D. C. Larsen travels through the worlds of the apostle Paul using archaeology to imagine how folks in the cities he visited might have told his biography.

Urban Transformations and Urban Histories

Conference at Malmö University funded in part by the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES).

New Publication on the Writings of Christian Protten, 1715-1769

ITSS team members have contributed to a new volume about the life of this West African missionary.

Danish scribes and German Bibles

Biblical paraphrases in the local language were popular in the late Middle Ages. In 1482 a Danish scribe completed a Low German paraphrase of Old Testament books.

New visiting professor - Dr. Dexnell Peters

From 24th April to 6th May 2024, IN THE SAME SEA will be hosting historian Dr. Dexnell Peters (University of the West Indies) as a visiting professor in Copenhagen. Read more here!

Interview with Dr. Pernille Røge

In December 2023, ITSS PhD fellow Gabriëlle La Croix sat down with Dr. Pernille Røge to talk about Dr. Røge’s work at the University of Pittsburgh and about her thoughts on Atlantic history and trans-imperial research.

New student assistant - Mikkel Bjerrum-Bohr

ITSS has a new student assistant who brings us expertise in the Spanish language! Read about his role in the project here.

The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen

The Low German law codex AM 2 4to contains the younger redaction of the Land Law of Dithmarschen. A later addition in Danish describes the conquest of Dithmarschen by the Kingdom of Denmark in 1559.

Call for papers: History Teaching and Public Memory of Recent Past. Experiences and perspectives from South East Europe

Call for papers for workshop in Podgorica, Montenegro, 16-17 October 2024.

Justice Beyond Time, Place, and Law

Place: Onzième Lieu, Paris Programme 14:00-15:30 – Session 1 Forms of and Fora for Accountability Contributors: Mohammed Bassiki, Garance le Caisne, Mazen Darwish Chaired by Cecile Boex During the revolution and war in…

Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe

New PRIVACY open access book

New guest researcher - Teresa Göltl

A PhD student from the University of Heidelberg joins ITSS this month as a guest. We're excited to welcome her to the team!

Heather Freund's Visit to the Boston Archives

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Freund visited the Massachusetts Historical Society in December 2023. Here you can read about what she found.

New season of the Privacy Studies Podcast

The first episodes of the newest and fifth season of the centre’s very own Privacy Studies Podcast have been published. Listen to the podcast here on our website. The new season follows the discussions of the symposium…

Sari Nauman awarded the honourable Birger Karlsson’s Science Prize 2023

The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg has awarded PRIVACY Scholar Sari Nauman the honourable Birger Karlsson’s Science Prize 2023.

New student assistant - Kamma Ofelia Strøm

Meet our new team member! She is interested in social movements and political history.

Fabio Gigone awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship

Our colleague Fabio Gigone received a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship. We have interviewed him about his new project. Fabio Gigone You recently successfully defended your PhD at the Centre fo…

Call for Papers: Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888

The Steering Committee invites abstracts of not more than 250 words by Friday 1st March 2024.

From Margrethe to Frederik: Danish history as told by royal lines

A new chapter of Danish history was written Sunday, 14 January 2024 with the succession of the new king. A manuscript from around 1600 follows the succession of Danish kings from the legendary Dan up to Christian III.