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Two Radio Features with Thomas Szanto on Empathy and on Emotions and Politics

Thomas Szanto has contributed to two radio features on Empathy and on Emotions and Politics.

New edition of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics edited by Art as Forum

Art as Forum has been editing an issue on Aesthetic Relations in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics.

New publication: Les interdits de la représentation

Book by François Hugonnier’s Les interdits de la représentation. Paul Auster, Jerome Rothenberg was published by Editions Otrante in October 2022.

NorS Symposium on Social interaction

Brian Due invites researchers at NorS to a symposium for everyone who finds that their research revolves around questions related to social interaction in the broadest sense possible – from physical to digital, from…

Open Access week 2022

This week, October 24 -28 2022, is 'Danish Open Access Week 2022'. The OA Network provides 10 webinars about Open Access - two each day - all cover Open Access in different ways. The webinars are free, and everybody…

Studying Gender While ‘Studying Up’: On Ethnography and Epistemological Hegemony

Assistant Professor Samantha Dawn Breslin has contributed the article 'Studying Gender While ‘Studying Up’: On Ethnography and Epistemological Hegemony' to the journal Anthropology In Action.

CALL FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

IN THE SAME SEA and the Caribbean Genealogy Library are organising a conference, to take place on St. Thomas (USVI), 23rd-25th February 2023.

Denmark's youngest female professor appointed at the University of Copenhagen

Her research investigates how to combat fake news through automated online fact-checking and the portrayal of women in digital language. 33-year-old Isabelle Augenstein from the Department of Computer Science at UCPH’s…

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2022

Dissemination to the Danish and Nordic field of language teaching practice

In autumn 2022, Natascha Drachmann has given and hosted several presentations and workshops on plurilingual education and language awareness in a national and Nordic context.

Welcome to four new members of Art as Forum

Since September we have welcomed four new members of the research group: PhD scholar Xenia Pallesen and postdocs Eva la Cour, Daniel Irrgang, and Anna Meera Gaonkar.

Writing and thinking in community – about art and communality

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with Art as Forum and New Carlsberg Foundation’s research Centre at University of Copenhagen present contribution #7 and #8 to the series Kunsten som forum på tryk.

Textile and Clothing

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to this volume on ‘Textile and Clothing’ – the first in a new series of books produced by UNESCO that focuses on the peoples, cultures and histories of the Silk Roads. It is entirel…

Healthy democracies are threatened by false information, but not everyone is keen on a cure

Our democracy relies upon the choices of an informed electorate. But today, it is threatened by mis- and disinformation. More and better fact-checking is needed according to the University of Copenhagen’s Isabelle…

Healthy democracies are threatened by false information, but not everyone is keen on a cure

Our democracy relies upon the choices of an informed electorate. But today, it is threatened by mis- and disinformation. More and better fact-checking is needed according to the University of Copenhagen’s Isabelle…

New book on Malaria Immunology – including cutting-edge methods and protocols

During the last few years, Professor Lars Hviid and Professor Anja Ramstedt Jensen from Centre for Medical Parasitology at the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, UCPH, have spent many, many hours editing this…

CTR Fall programme 2022

This year at CTR is filled with exciting lectures and events.

Launch of project looking at fighting food waste funded by VELUX FONDEN

From September 2022, CIP will head an interdisciplinary research project Fighting food waste – Exploring the interplay between values, choices and habits. The project is funded by VELUX FONDEN’s HUMpraxis programme.

Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen new Postdoc at IND

Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen will join the HPS-group in a Postdoc position, starting October 1 2022.

Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Professor Oscar Salemink co-edited the volume Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage with Ernst van den Hemel and Irene Stengs.

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the chapter 'Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda' to the book Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World.

WORKING PAPER 5: Enslaved Mobility in Grenada: A Snapshot

This working paper uses newspaper runaway lists to look at escape routes used by enslaved people on Grenada in 1819 and 1825.

New book: The Indo-European language family

New book on the Indo-European language family.