News about Anthropology

Copenhagen Conversations – On Time

Talk on 'time' with Joel Robbins, Cambridge, and Francois Hartog, EHESS, Paris.

Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education

What does it mean to produce trustworthy code for computer scientists? Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in an undergraduate computer science program in Singapore, this article explores what it means for compute…

Ayo Wahlberg is new Head of Department of Anthropology

Professor Ayo Wahlberg will commence as Head of Department at the Department of Anthropology on 1 November 2023.

Vladimir Ariza-Montañez: Social disease and humanitarian interventions in Colombia

Global Health Research Spotlight is a news story series for School of Global Health’s communication platforms.

Obituary - Oscar Salemink

It is with great sadness that we say farewell and give our thanks to our esteemed colleague Professor Oscar Salemink, who passed away on 23 September 2023.

Green versus Green: Can wind turbines and nature interests go hand in hand?

A new project at the Department of Anthropology will investigate how different interests can come together in the development of energy parks.

Presentation of EthNote at MEGA seminar

On Monday the 21st of August 2023, DISTRACT members Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen gave a presentation on methods used to collect ethnographic data at the People’s Meeting including the digital…

The man in the easy chair

AntroStorie af Mikkel Rytter fra feltarbejde med dansk-parkistanske familier.

‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube

‘‘I can’t remember how many I killed’ …: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube’ (Bräuchler 2023) looks at memory work conducted in a YouTube video featuring two former child soldiers in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia,…

Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has contributed the chapter ‘Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia’ to the book Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts,…

Researchers will explore and develop a new ecological ethics

With support from VELUX FONDEN, a collaboration between anthropologists and theologians will pave the way for a new ecological ethics that focuses on the interaction between nature and human interests.

Eva Iris Otto defends PhD thesis

On the 22nd of June, 2023, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto successfully defended her thesis entitled Coding [values]: App-making in the Danish digital attention economy. On the committee of Eva's defence was Professor Ayo…

Reading Desires: Romanian Pimps Striving for Success in the Transnational Street Economy

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has published the article 'Reading Desires: Romanian Pimps Striving for Success in the Transnational Street Economy' in Migration & Society.

The “Transnational Business of Death” Among Somali Migrants in the Streets of Athens

Assistant Professor Anja Simonsen has published the article ’The “Transnational Business of Death” among Somali Migrants in the Streets of Athens’.

Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration

Assistant Professor Anja Simonsen has just published the book Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration.

Transnational Street Business: Migrants in the Informal Urban Economy

Camilla Ida Ravnbøl and Assistant Professors Anja Simonsen and Trine Mygind Korsby have co-edited a special issue of Migration & Society, entitled 'Transnational Street Business: Migrants in the Informal Urban Economy'.

Festivalmennesket - DISTRACT presentation at the BLOOM festival

On May 28th 2023, DISTRACT researchers were part of a symposium at the science festival BLOOM. Professor Morten Axel Pedersen, PhD student Sofie Astrupgaard, and research assistant Emilie Gregersen talked about people's…

Fieldwork in Silence - Presentation at conference in Toronto

On May 25, DISTRACT PhD student Malene Hornstrup Jespersen gave a presentation at ICA Preconference: Key themes in digital disconnection research: Authenticity, wellness, datafication and power in Toronto. The…

Securing the Future? IDentity and Security among Migrants, Policymakers, and Tech Developers

Associate Professor Kristina Grünenberg and Tenure Track Assistant Professor Anja Simonsen have published 'Securing the Future? IDentity and Security among Migrants, Policymakers, and Tech Developers' in Papeles del CEI…

Atreyee Sen awarded prize for best journal article

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen receives the prize for the best published article in the journal Critical Asian Studies. The article explores moral policing in Mumbai.

Conference panel on attention organized by Eva Iris Otto

On April 12th, 2023, DISTRACT PhD fellow Eva Otto (UCPH), in collaboration with Miquel Alcalde (LSE) and Rahul ROSE (LSE), held a successful panel at the yearly conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists…

Anthropological image wins best scientific photo of the year award

The Danish National Research Foundation's award for best scientific photo in 2023 tells the story of a diabetes epidemic that has gone global.

Digital Dependence: Online Fatigue and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Assistant professor Kristoffer Albris has with colleagues from SODAS, published an article in Media, Culture & Society entitled 'Digital Dependence: Online Fatigue and Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Lockdown'.

Machine Anthropology: editorial introduction to special issue in Big Data & Society

Prof. Morten Axel Pedersen, director of SODAS, has just published a paper in the journal Big Data and Society. As the editorial introduction in a special theme issue on Machine Anthropology, the paper explores the…