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Research project on medieval intellectual culture awarded €13 million Synergy Grant

Thanks to a generous ERC Synergy Grant, experts in history, literature, medieval handwriting and bio-codicology from Nordic Universities will explore medieval knowledge networks the coming six years. Matthew Collins, wh…

ERC Synergy Grant to chart Northern integration in medieval intellectual culture

With University of Bergen leading the project, four Nordic partners will investigate how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE.

ERC Synergy Grant to chart Northern integration in medieval intellectual culture

With University of Bergen leading the project, four Nordic partners will investigate how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE.

New article: ”EthNote gives qualitative research a new format”

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded by DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen and DISTRACT coordinator Karoline Husbond Andersen. The article is written…

Newspapers as Microcosms of Everyday Life for Elites in the Danish West Indies

ITSS PhD Fellow Gabriëlle La Croix writes about colonial newspapers, including the implications of a rebus, an epigram, and essays on death and marriage.

Digital Media Metaphors

Edited By Johan Farkas & Marcus Maloney Bringing together leading scholars from media studies and digital sociology, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to digital media metaphors, unpacking their power and…

Equipping researchers of today with communication tools to reach beyond academia

In collaboration, EU-LIFE and BRIC have developed a science communication training workshop, equipping researchers with tools to communicate their research to the world outside academia.

Jane Fejfer modtager Dronning Margrethes Romerske Pris 2024

Lektor Jane Fejfer fra Saxo-Instituttet modtager Dronning Margrethes Romerske Pris 2024 for sin forskning i romersk skulptur og dens relevans frem til i dag. Carlsbergfondet uddeler hvert år prisen til en forsker, der…

Christian Kock publishes monograph on ’moving forms’

The book offers a theory of formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience – a project resembling Aristotle’s in the Poetics. It cuts across all genres of literature and also includes…

Open postdoc position on the AI-UNI project

Do you have a PhD specialising in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics or similar, you might be the perfect candidate for the postdoc position as part of the research project AI-UNI.

We emulate minorities when we perceive them as warm, competent and moral

Majority groups are more willing to adopt the culture of immigrant and minority groups when it is perceived as warm, competent and moral. This is according to a new psychological study with Danish participation.

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2024

Who decides what we see?

Assistant Professor Signe Sophus Lai will be presenting at the upcoming conference “Hvem bestemmer, hvad vi ser?” hosted by Copydan Verdens TV.

New book: Sub-Indo-European Europe

New book published (Open Access): Guus Kroonen (ed.). 2024. Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems,methods, results (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 375). Berlin & Boston. De Gruyter Mouton.…

Festschrift for Eva Andersson Strand

Friday 13 September we held a surprise reception for Professor Eva Andersson Strand, head of centre at CTR.

New paper: “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms”

In the paper “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms,” current and previous DISTRACT researchers Thyge Enggaard, August Lohse, Morten Axel Pedersen and Sune Lehmann introduce a new way…

Mastering Meta-Control: From Cognitive Mechanisms to Practical Strategies - DISTRACT Talk by Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen

On Friday the 27th of September, Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen did a DISTRACT Talk where they explored core concepts and mechanisms of attention and control. They also provided research-based insights on ways of…

ITSS Geodatabase in Progress

Patrik Karlsson Nyed provides an insight into the development of a geodata platform for IN THE SAME SEA's database of over 7000 fugitives from slavery in the Lesser Antilles.

Event in connection with new report: Let's talk about food waste

On Friday 27 September 2024, in connection with the annual food waste week, the research project Fighting food waste – navigating values, choices and habits organised an event at the University library in Fiolstræde.

The Vikings were part of a global network trading in ivory from Greenland

DNA analyses reveal that the vikings brought walrus ivory from Greenland on to Europe and probably as far as the Middle East via extensive trade networks.

The Vikings were part of a global network trading in ivory from Greenland

DNA analyses reveal that the vikings brought walrus ivory from Greenland on to Europe and probably as far as the Middle East via extensive trade networks.

Natacha Klein Käfer: Health and privacy from a historical perspective

Natacha Klein Käfer, an Assistant Professor in Section of Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, researches health and privacy from a historical perspective.

Sara Green receives the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters’ Silver Medal

Sara Green's "exceptional talent, intelligence, and energy" have made her deserving of the Silver Medal, according to the nomination statement.

Kris Harper honored in Washington: Appointed as AAAS Fellow

Professor Kristine C. Harper received prestigious recognition over the weekend for her contributions to the history of science and geoengineering.