News about Languages

New director at CIP

As of 1 January 2024, Professor Janus Mortensen takes over the position of centre director at CIP from Anne Holmen, who is retiring at the end of 2023.

Language team meeting at Skovvangskolen

Lecture by Line Krogager Andersen.

Plenary talk at an international symposium at the University of Lleida

Petra Daryai-Hansen is invited as plenary speaker at the international Symposium “Issues in English-medium instruction in Higher Education: Global competence, plurilingual competence and disciplinary literacies”,…

Presentation at ICMME4

Petra Daryai-Hansen and Natascha Drachmann holds a paper on the 4th International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education, held 12-13 October 2023 in Valletta, Malta.

Official CULTMIND launch 12 September

On Tuesday 12 September, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND), the Danish National Research Foundation’s new Centre of Excellence, was officially opened with a festive reception at the Faculty of Humanities.

New Podcast: Language Use at the University of Copenhagen

CIPs has just released the podcast "Language Use at KU," and the first episode is about international staff teaching in Danish as a second language at the University of Copenhagen.

European Day of Languages 2023

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited to give a presentation on language awareness across languages, subjects, and educational levels at the official celebrations of the European Day of Languages, 26 September 2023,…

Final stakeholder workshop

The PE-LAL project held a final stakeholder workshop with the theme ‘Plurilingual education in language subjects in primary and lower secondary school and in Almen Sprogforståelse in upper secondary school’. The aim of…

IE-CoR is published - and Matthew Scarborough was a great part of it

The Indo-European Cognate Relations Database is published after several years of hard work. Postdoc Matthew Scarborough was a part of the process.

2.900 år gammel mursten gemte på DNA fra oldtiden

I et nyt studie i Scientific Reports viser forskere, at det er muligt at udtrække forhistorisk DNA af en 2.900 år gammel mursten. Den nye analysemetode vil kunne give klimaforskere, biologer og arkæologer et unikt…

Academic event at Rosborg Gymnasium

Lecture on general language awareness (Almen sprogforståelse) and plurilingual affordances by Line Krogager Andersen.

Julia Sturm featured in ERC news

Postdoc Julia Sturm was features in ERC News article with prof. Michaël Peyrot, Leiden University.

A Copenhagen School in Argumentation Studies

The volume Rhetorical Argumentation : The Copenhagen School, edited by Christian Kock and Marcus Lantz, is now available digitally.

New podcast episode with postdoc Johan Farkas

This podcast focuses on journalism studies research and is presented by the Nordic open access journal Journalistica.

Matthew Scarborough receives Marie Curie fellowship

Matthew Scarborough has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship for the research project PHILGLOSSA: Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Greek: Lexicon of Substrates Analyzed. The PHILOGLOSSA project…

New grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Professor Slobodanka Dimova (CIP) is leading a 4-year research project supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project is titled: "Towards a new model of communicative competence in multilingual higher…

A “Copenhagen School” of argumentation studies, based at KOMM

Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric Christian Kock and Marcus Lantz, Ph.D. , have published a collection of studies on argumentation. The title is Rhetorical Argumentation: The Copenhagen School.

10th EDiLiC conference: From Early Childhood to Adulthood: Transitions, Continuity, and Disruptions in Plurilingual Education

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been appointed to organize the 10th International Conference of the Education and Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Association (EDiLiC). The 10th EDiLiC conference focused on transitions,…

Report on language learning in the workplace

Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) has published a comprehensive report on language learning in the workplace in the Nordic countries.

New research assistant: Marc Canby

New research assistant: Marc Canby

The earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago

Written sources from Mesopotamia suggest that kissing in relation to sex was practiced by the peoples of the ancient Middle East 4,500 years ago. The sources have been analysed by researchers from the University of…

Talks at the conferences NOFA and Linguapeda

In May 2023, Line Krogager Andersen participated in two different conferences: NOFA in Vaasa and Linguapeda in Jyväskylä.

New book: The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited

New book edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen and Eske Willerslev.

Increased interest in English courses for technical and administrative staff

During the first quarter of 2023, CIP has experienced an increase in inquiries about English courses for staff. Academic language consultant, Pete Westbrook, is very enthusiastic about the development.