News about History

Legends of Norse Settlers drove Denmark towards Greenland

The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century. Legends about…

Interview with Professor Sarah Igo

Mette Birkedal Bruun and Sarah Igo Professor of History at Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, Sarah Igo visited Centre for Privacy Studies in May 2023. She gave a lecture on the U.S. Social Security number and ho…

Disseminating historical research of Copenhagen

The newly launched app Hidden Copenhagen takes you on an innovative living history trail through Copenhagen. The trail tells a powerful story of murder, execution and anatomical dissection in the seventeenth century.…

Centennial Conference “Crossing the Disciplinary Boundaries of Physics”

A Centennial Conference celebrating the centenaries of the Niels Bohr Institute (founded in 1921) and Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in Physics (awarded to him in 1922) will take place in Copenhagen from 7–11 August 2023

Historians in conversation - podcast episode with Mette Birkedal Bruun out now

In this podcast, Michael Green, University of Lodz, Faculty of Philosophy and History, explores how historians build their careers, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges. What…

Modern humans arrived in Southeast Asia 40,000 years earlier than we thought

An international research team jointly lead by Globe Institute show one of the earliest modern humans migrations out of Africa.

Special PRIVACY issue, “Creation, Control, Communication: A Historical Appraisal of Privacy in Knowledge Production”

We proudly announce that our special PRIVACY issue, “Creation, Control, Communication: A Historical Appraisal of Privacy in Knowledge Production” has been published. The issue is edited by PRIVACY researchers Natália…

The Carlsberg Foundation awards Internationalisation Fellowship to Privacy researcher Bastian Felter Vaucanson

Congratulations to our colleague Bastian Felter Vaucanson.

Professor: We must revive and relive Niels Bohr's joy of science

Niels Bohr would have had difficulty settling into the much more fragmented approach to science we have today, says Hans Halvorson.

Immersive app brings the hidden histories of Copenhagen to life

Hidden Copenhagen, the seventh app in the Hidden Cities collection, is developed as a collaboration between the University of Exeter’s Hidden Cities team and historians and archaeologists from the Centre for Privacy…

Call for Papers on Early Modern privacy for The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2024

Call for Papers on Early Modern privacy for The Renaissance Society of America Conference 21-23 March, 2024 in Chicago Organizer: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (PRIVACY) (www.teol.ku.dk/privacy)

The earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago

Written sources from Mesopotamia suggest that kissing in relation to sex was practiced by the peoples of the ancient Middle East 4,500 years ago. The sources have been analysed by researchers from the University of…

Call for abstracts: Privacy and Death - Past and Present

This symposium will explore the relationships we construct between death and privacy in the past and in the present.

Britishness has been on the decline since the colonies began to leave the Empire

When a number of British colonies demanded independence after World War 2, they kick-started the decolonisation process, which has since emptied the concept of 'Britishness' of meaning. Even Great Britain is falling…

ERC Advanced Grant on Bohr for Guido Bacciagaluppi from Utrecht University

An ERC Advanced Grant on Bohr has been awarded to Guido Bacciagaluppi from Utrecht University.

New Open Access article in Architectural Histories

Sanne Maekelberg and Peter Thule Kristensen behind new article Unfinished Business? Informal Privacy and the Private at the Perpetual Construction Site of the First Christiansborg Palace (1740-1794) in the journal…

PRIVACY Researchers behind Advanced School for Computational History in Brazil

In March, researchers from the Centre for Privacy Studies, and our DATA+ project PRIVACY Black&White, Natacha Klein Käfer (history of healing, Centre for Privacy Studies), Sanne Maekelberg (history of architecture,…

Conference in Paris on OUP Handbook “History of Quantum Interpretations”

A conference celebrating the publication of the OUP Handbook on the History of Quantum Interpretations, co-edited by Christian Joas from the Niels Bohr Archive, was held in Paris from 14–15 April, 2023.

New professor wants to make history of physics useful for physics research 

The history of physics can help physicists understand their work and their place in society, says Professor Richard Staley, who is giving his inaugural lecture on March 31st.

Major EU grant for research on the role of women intellectuals during the Enlightenment

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Associate Professor Sabrina Ebbersmeyer an Advanced Grant of € 2.4 million for the WHENCE research project, which will examine the contribution of women intellectuals to…

Årringe og grundstof viser forskere vej til 400 år gammelt tømmers oprindelsessted

Grundstoffet strontium kan sammen med årringsanalyser vise, hvor træ, som blev brugt til at bygge huse i Danmark for 400 år siden, stammer fra. Det demonstrerer to forskere fra Københavns Universitet i et nyt studie, de…

Interview with Dr. Dominique Rogers

In October 2022, IN THE SAME SEA PhD student Gabriëlle La Croix sat down with Dr. Dominique Rogers to talk about Dr. Rogers’ work at the Université des Antilles and her thoughts on the future of Caribbean history.

Upcoming Guest Lecture by Dr. Sharika Crawford

On Thursday 11th May, ITSS will welcome Dr. Sharika Crawford (United States Naval Academy) for a guest lecture on the trade in turtle and fruit in the western Caribbean.

ITSS Postdoc Assists Grenada National Museum

At the beginning of March 2023, ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke helped the GNM with the curation and analysis of human remains.