News about Culture

Green transition called off: DR Congo’s new way to fight poverty and create development

Associate Professor Stig Jensen at the Centre of African Studies has written a three-part article series for GlobalNyt highlighting some of the many paradoxes associated with DR Congo's decision to Congo put 30 oil and…

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

Interview with Professor Sarah Pinto

In this blog, Shilpi Rajpal talks to Sarah Pinto, Professor of Anthropology in the Tufts University about her new book The Doctor and Mrs. A: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis.

IN THE SAME SEA PI Gunvor Simonsen’s Public Lecture Appears in Local Press

The lecture on 18th June 2022 is discussed in an article for The St. Thomas Source, entitled 'How the Enslaved Used Canoes to Escape'.

Listening is survival

ROCS postdoc Angela Rawlings is co-curator of SPHERE Festival which opens 2 September in Canada.

Textures of precarity

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the article ‘Textures of precarity: Repurposing in a Ugandan refugee settlement’ to a special issue of Anthropology Today

Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda

In collaboration with Henry Oboke, Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has written the chapter ‘Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda’, which is included in the book Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of…

International journal to strengthen the dialogue between research and business

The international Journal of Business Anthropology relocates to the Department of Anthropology at UCPH.

Enchanted Ecologies and Ethics of Care

Associate Professor Stine Krøijer and Associate Professor Cecilie Rubow have edited the special section ‘Enchanted ecologies and ethics of care’ of the American journal Environmental Humanities, Volume 14, Issue 2. The…

New article by Eva Myrczik and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen with Finnish colleagues Riie Heikkilä and Semi Purhonen

New article by Eva Myrczik and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen with Finnish colleagues Riie Heikkilä and Semi Purhonen in Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy.

Calibrating logics

Professor Ayo Wahlberg has contributed to the journal ‘Health’ with the article ‘Calibrating logics: How adolescents and young adults calibrate often-competing logics in their daily self-management of type 1 diabetes’.

CBMR publications and media appearances in June and July 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in June and July 2022

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam

Professor Tine Gammeltoft and Professor Oscar Salemink both contributed chapters to the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam, edited by Jonathan London. The book offers an authoritative overview of the global…

IN THE SAME SEA Postdoc Presents New Code of Ethics at IACA-AIAC 2022

The Code was ratified in July by the Membership of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology.

Research integration in teaching

In spring semester 2022, students at the University of Copenhagen and University College Absalon have participated in teaching based on research work generated in the PE-LAL project.

WORKING PAPER 4: Prospect or Necessity: Migration Among Free People of Color in St. Thomas, 1803

This working paper explores the origins and potential motivations for the mobility of free people of colour residing in Charlotte Amalie on the Danish Caribbean island of St. Thomas in 1803.

How to write a policy brief that matters

A workshop for Health researchers at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College in Tanzania in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen on how to write policy briefs that matter.

In a way home

AnthroStory by Aja Smith about settling into a new place and when you can say you belong

What lies behind lies? New project looks deeper into honesty and dishonesty

Honest and dishonest behaviour comes in many forms and with various underlying motivations. Honesty and dishonesty also affect many areas of human life and social relations – from hiding an inconvenient truth from your…

How do we ensure local support for green energy production?

Huge Power-to-X investments in new hydrogen-based fuels shall propel the green transition in Denmark towards 2050. But how do we prevent local conflicts over new production plants?

Lykke Sylow receives the Anders Jahre Award for young researchers

Associate Professor Lykke Sylow from the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen receives the prestigious Anders Jahre Award for young researchers for her impressive research results.

Whole-body learning can boost children's letter sound recognition - the first step towards reading

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. This is the conclusion of a new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen’s Department…

New research centre will investigate if mental illness is universal

Is the human psyche the same across cultures? And do people experience mental disorders in the same way no matter what language they speak? These are some of the fundamental questions that the new Centre for Culture and…