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Telling actual time in ancient rocks

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Copenhagen apply a new technique allowing them to disentangle 500 million-years-old rocks millimeter-by-millimeter, resolving the…

CBMR publications and media appearances in April 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in April 2022

Academic Sword Fights

AntroStorie af Ask Urheim as part of the investigation and challenging of the boundaries of ethnographic text.

Spotlight on researchers in Uganda and Ghana

Video interviews with PhD researchers Milcah Abasabyona and Isaac Owusu Nsiah.

CBMR publications and media appearances in March 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in March 2022

Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler contributed as guest editor and author to a special issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology with the article 'Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia'. Official…

The war is the logical consequence of Putin's ideological struggle with the West

If you have followed what Vladimir Putin has said and written about the West and Russia these past years, the invasion of Ukraine should not come as a surprise. What is surprising is how poorly it seems to have been…

In Russia, the media picture has been turned upside down

What is the purpose of the Russian media's pink portrayal of Putin's military conduct?

Past global photosynthesis reacted quickly to more carbon in the air

Ice cores allow climate researchers to look 800,000 years back in time: atmospheric carbon acts as fertilizer, increasing biological production. The mechanism removes carbon from the air and thereby dampens the…

Past global photosynthesis reacted quickly to more carbon in the air

Ice cores allow climate researchers to look 800,000 years back in time: atmospheric carbon acts as fertilizer, increasing biological production. The mechanism removes carbon from the air and thereby dampens the…

Researchers confirm shipwreck could be 400-year-old colonial "Sparrow-Hawk"

The remains of a shipwreck in Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, thought to be a 400-year-old colonial vessel, have now undergone extensive scientific analyses.

CBMR publications and media appearances in February 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in February 2022

People spreading misinformation are ridiculed rather than met with facts

People who spread misinformation on Twitter are more often met with ridicule than with fact-based arguments, new study shows.

Researchers to explore ancient dress practices in Sudan

Archaeologist Elsa Yvanez has received an ERC Starting Grant for the research project "Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile", which she will lead at the Centre for Textile Research for the next…

Researchers to explore ancient dress practices in Sudan

Archaeologist Elsa Yvanez has received an ERC Starting Grant for the research project "Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile", which she will lead at the Centre for Textile Research for the next…

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2022

Talk: A Plurilingual Approach to the General Language Awareness Course

On January 20, Line Krogager Andersen gave a talk on a virtual seminar organized by the Danish Ministry of Education, focusing on a plurilingual and awareness-oriented approach to the General Language Awareness Course.

The Force of Love

The Force of Love: Type II Diabetes in Vietnam as Tentatively Transformative Experience Professor Tine Gammeltoft contritubed to ETHOS - Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology with the article 'The Force…

WORKING PAPER 3: Missionary Networks, Black Preachers, and the Spread of Methodism in the Antilles

This working paper explores interisland networks and the different reactions of island authorities to missionaries in the 18th century, by examining the diaries of Thomas Coke.

New intervention to strengthen efforts against diabetes in Vietnam

As one of four new Danida-supported projects involving researchers from the Department of Anthropology, a collaborative health anthropological project addresses diabetes among pregnant women in Vietnam.

Podcast on plurilingual education and language awareness

In collaboration with Stemmer fra Skolen, the project has published the podcast ‘Flere sprog i spil – om flersprogethedsdidaktik'.

CBMR publications and media appearances in November & December 2021

CBMR publications and media appearances in November and December 2021

Millions for research into green transition on the roads

The Independent Research Fund Denmark has allocated almost 12 million to the project GREENCAR, which will show the way to a green transformation of the car sector.

How do countries tackle cultural collisions with migrants?

A new project funded by the Carlsberg Foundation will investigate migration from non-western countries and how the host countries handle potential cultural clashes through national policies.