News about Culture

Congratulations to Ying Liu

On being awarded a grant from NEYE Foundation

Incoming Vessels in De Curaçaosche Courant: A Quantitative Microhistory, 1833-1834 and 1845-1846

This short blog post examines the itineraries of vessels entering Willemstad (Curaçao) in the mid-19th century.

Joseph Burgess on radio show "Connections with Evan Dawson"

Data steward Joseph Burgess discusses early voting turnout in the American midterm elections on radio show "Connections with Evan Dawson"

New Grant: Preventing local conflicts over storm surge protection

Assistant professor at SODAS and Department of Anthropology Kristoffer Albris has received a 2.9 million grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s (DFF) pool for green research

Plenary talk at CIP symposium 2022

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited to give a plenary talk on Content and Language Integrated Learning, transitions and plurilingual education at the CIP symposium 2022 “Internationalisation 2.0: New perspectives on…

New projects will map conflicts over coastal protection in Denmark and environmental mobilisation in Indonesia

Two projects at the Department of Anthropology have received grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark earmarked green research.

Open World Conference 10-11 Nov. 2022: Open Science and Global Dangers

Marking the centenary of Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in physics, and the United Nations announcing 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, we acknowledge Bohr’s vision of an open world

New book: Researching Creativity in Media Industries

Mads Møller T. Andersen has published a new book about how we can research creativity and creative processes in media industries.

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2022

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…