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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).

Biotech company funds research project on diversity

In collaboration with Genmab, a new anthropological postdoc project at the Department of Anthropology will now explore and help develop the company's efforts to ensure a diverse and inclusive workplace.

The wars in Former Yugoslavia continue in the classroom

According to the Education Act, schools in the ethnically divided Bosnia and Herzegovina must teach students “democratic ideals in a multicultural society." But according to new research from the University of…

The struggle for recognition: The liberal world order is eroded from both within and without

New research conludes that replacing Donald Trump with Joe Biden does not take us back to the liberal international order that represented ideas and rules of democracy, equality, trade and economic prosperity.

New research dispels the myth of nationalism’s fading appeal

Two articles – one written by Professor Claire Maxwell and the other by Benedikte Brincker, Associate Professor – present new sociological insights into nationalism. Both articles appear in the leading journal Sociology…

Project will create new narratives about open landscapes

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, a major research project will address land use change in Danish agricultural sector by working with local narratives about the open landscape.

New diagnostic model to help speed up treatment of children with cancer

Researchers at Rigshospitalet and the Department of Anthropology have developed a new diagnostic model that explains the often complex process of diagnosing children with cancer.

New book provides rare insights into a Mesopotamian medical practitioner’s education

2,700 years ago, a man called Kisir-Ashur practiced medicine and magic in the Assyrian city of Assur in present-day Northern Iraq. In a new book, Assyriologist Troels Pank Arbøll traces the healer’s career from early…