News about History

OPEN CALL: Graduate Seminar in Early Modern Caribbean History

ITSS PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen invites applications to participate in a seminar, to take place on September 19, 2025.

Mary Sadler: Curse Words and Gentility in St. Eustatius, 1801

In this short blog post, ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke writes about free women's bad language and the idea of the colonial gentleman in the early nineteenth century Dutch Caribbean.

Hajime Inaba visiting from Japan

Hajime Inaba (Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from April 2025 to March 2027.

New Book Release: Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence

We are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence, edited by the PRIVACY-affiliated scholars Michaël Green and Lars Cyril Nørgaard, with contributions from various…

Art, diplomacy, and espionage? PRIVACY scholar Oskar Rojewski explains his research on Michel Sittow and court diplomacy

Juan de Flandes, The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist, 1496-1499, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art © Public Domain Could a court painter in late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Europe also have served as a…

Et gensyn med nubiske tekstiler

Onsdag den 19. marts besøgte Hendes Majestæt Dronning Margrethe Center for Tekstilforskning (CTR) på Saxo-instituttet. Besøget bød på præsentationer af aktuel forskning inden for tekstilstudier samt demonstrationer af…

Save the Date: How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment

On 18-20 June Whence will host a conference on “How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment”, bringing together scholars from different fields to illuminate and deepen our understanding of women’s contributions to the…

New Publication: Black Rangers in Grenada

IN THE SAME SEA Postdoc Heather Freund announces the publication of an article in Slavery & Abolition.

2025 marks two significant anniversaries for women’s rights in Denmark

In 2025, we mark two anniversaries for women’s rights in Denmark: the 110th anniversary of women’s voting rights and the 150th anniversary of women’s access to the University of Copenhagen. Keep track of the University…

Subordinance or Subversion: Creative Workshop on Women’s Embroidery as Gentle Protest

On 7 March – the day before "Kvindernes Kampdag" – a student-led workshop funded by Institut for Kommunikation takes place on South Campus. At this workshop, cultural historian Kirsten Rykind-Eriksen explores the histor…

PI Gunvor Simonsen Visits Archives and Libraries in Martinique and Dominica

In this blog post, you can read about the working life of a (Danish) historian studying Caribbean history.

New Website for Network Supporting Caribbean and Early Career Scholars

The Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage (CoCAH) provides points of contact on issues relating to Caribbean archaeology and archaeological ethics.

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun in the podcast ‘Verden forsøgt forklaret’

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was recently a guest on the University of Copenhagen podcast series Verden forsøgt forklaret (Attempts to explain the world)

Interview with Dr. Dexnell Peters

In December 2024, ITSS Student Assistant Kamma Strøm sat down with Dr. Peters to talk about his work at the University of the West Indies and about his thoughts on the interconnected Greater Southern Caribbean.

Sabrina Ebbersmeyer interviewed on BBC

Sabrina Ebbersmeyer was interviewed on BBC this monday, together with Giulia Cavaliere.

Muslim Present and its Past

One-day workshop with 11 papers being presented on the themes of memory, identity and belonging in the Muslim Middle East.

Three Scripts, One Scribe: Ingólfr Dagfinsson and his Lawbook AM 68 4to

Medieval scribes were skilled in multiple script types. A Norwegian legal manuscript from the fourteenth century shows the scribal repertoire of a certain Ingólfr Dagfinsson.

New blog post by Mercy King’ori on the nuances of privacy in contemporary African communities

In November 2024 we had the pleasure to welcome Mercy King’ori, Lawyer and Policy Analyst in Privacy and Data Protection, at the recurring PRIVACY Challenge Seminar. Here, she gave a lecture on her research regarding…

New colleague at PRIVACY in January

We are happy to welcome Katrine Mølgaard who will assist the Centre for Privacy Studies with editorial and communication tasks in January. Katrine has a master’s degree in Philosophy and Danish from Roskilde Universit…

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen to Launch New Project 'Mapping Freedom'

Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, this project will invest in digital infrastructure for Caribbean history.

A Message from ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Freund

Unfortunately we have to say goodbye to wonderful Postdoc Heather Freund! But she will of course remain a part of the team. Here, she gives a short overview of her time in Copenhagen.

Celebrating 2024 publications from the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (DNRF138)

2024 has been extremely rewarding. PRIVACY scholars undertake in-depth historical research. This research is tested in our cross-disciplinary research environment and at international conferences and workshops,…

L’expérience antillaise des matelots du long-cours. Le cas de la Martinique à la fin de l’Ancien Régime

For the first time, we present a French-language blog post! ITSS affiliate Lucas Marin writes about long-distance sailors in Martinique at the end of the Ancien Régime.

Salvation vs. health: The eternal pursuit of the flawless life

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun in a live interview at Copenhagen University Library Fiolstræde