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Niels Bohr Archive and Department of Science Education welcome Hans Halvorson

Professor Halvorson will first and foremost conduct research on the basis of the archival holdings of the Niels Bohr Archive

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

Oscar Salemink and Marina Svensson are coeditors of a theme issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies 27(8) titled "Heritagizing Asian Cities: Space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices".

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

Edited by Oscar Salemink and Marina Svensson, theme issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies 27(8), 2021

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

The IJHS is the main outlet for what is called “critical heritage studies” and has under the editorship of Professor Laurajane Smith become one of the most prestigious journals in heritage studies.

Olympics in 60 seconds: From Greek myth to modern-day mega-event

The Olympic Games began in ancient Greece in honour of the gods. In addition to an abundance of sports, the Olympics of today are money, politics and propaganda.

Sacred but not holy: Awe, spectacle, and the heritage gaze in Danish religious heritage contexts

Professor Oscar Salemink, PhD fellow Rasmus Rask Poulsen and PhD fellow Sofie Isager Ahl published an open access article titled “Sacred but not holy: Awe, spectacle, and the heritage gaze in Danish religious heritage…

The Face of ‘The Other’: Biometric Facial Recognition

The Face of ‘The Other’: Biometric Facial Recognition, Imposters, and the Art of Outplaying Them Associate Professor Kristina Grünenberg has contributed to the book The Imposter as Social Theory - Thinking with…

Ancient air bubbles speak to a much warmer Antarctica during the ice-age than once believed

Twenty thousand-year-old air bubbles have revealed that Antarctic temperatures during the last ice age were markedly different than what the leading science once suggested. This is according to new research in which the…

Climate Change Never Travels Alone: Oceanian Stories

Cecilie Rubow contributing with the chapter 'Climate Change Never Travels Alone: Ocenian Stories' in the book 'Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds'

Spectral kinship: Understanding how Vietnamese women endure domestic distress

Professor Tine Gammeltoft has contributed to the Journal of the American Ethnological Society 'American Ethnologist' with the article ‘Spectral kinship: Understanding how Vietnamese women endure domestic distress’.…

10,000-year-old bones reveal earliest goat herders’ practices

To trace the domestication of the goat, an international team of researchers have analysed 10,000 year-old goat bones from two sites in the Zagros Mountains in present-day western Iran. Using ancient DNA and…

Flint stone sounds suggest a Stone Age settlement in Copenhagen’s Svanemøllen Harbour

A new method has made it possible for University of Copenhagen researchers to register mysterious sounds from the sea at Svanemøllen Harbour, most likely originating from chipped-away flint tools of an unknown Stone Age…

Presentation of the project: Tværsproglighed i Læreruddannelsen

On 18 May 2021, Petra Daryai-Hansen was invited to give a presentation at the kick-off seminar for the project "Tværsproglighed i Læreruddannelsen", University of Southern Denmark

CERTIZENS Public Launch

Watch the launch of the Certifications of Citizenship in Africa research project from March 2021.

Talk for PhD students at Engerom

On 16 April 2021 Petra Daryai-Hansen gave the talk 'Doing praxis-based research' for PhD students at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Ancient DNA hints at diverse Stone Age traditions of kinship

An international team of researchers have used ancient genomes, 22 new genomes from Aşıklı Höyük and Çatalhöyük, a UNESCO site, as well as published ones from Boncuklu Höyük and Barcın to study people whose burials are…

NCFF's conference

NCFF organised a conference on strategies at the organisational level and in foreign language teaching.

Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality

In 2021, Petra Daryai-Hansen coordinated a digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality in collaboration with Natalia Morollón Martí, Natascha Drachmann, Stephanie Kim Löbl, Anna Lena Sandberg and…

We need to rethink the healthcare sector

The conference on chronic conditions at the UCPH revealed a growing interest in the everyday lives of chronic patients. The job is now to make improved quality of life a matter of priority, says Ayo Wahlberg, one of the…

Presentation at the conference: Tidligt møde med nabosproget

On 24 March 2021, Petra Daryai-Hansen was plenary speaker at the conference ‘Tidligt møde med nabosproget’ with a presentation on ‘Tidlig flersprogethed – praksisanbefalinger’.

Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians fo…

Inspiration til det gode læringsmiljø på online seminarer

Den sociale dimension af læring i online-klasselokalet Hør her! “Face-to-face education isn’t successful because lecturing is good. Lectures are one instructional aspect of an overall ecosystem specifically designed to…

The University of Copenhagen gathers medical anthropologists for a conference on chronic conditions

With close to 500 participants, the Chronic Living conference on 4-6 March will be one of the largest medical anthropological events on record.

Danish research institutions join the leading European network of cultural heritage

Led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Danish research institutions and museums now join the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS).