News about Culture

A Message from ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke

Next week, Felicia Fricke will leave ITSS! It's not goodbye though - she will start another postdoc position in Copenhagen and will still be affiliated with us. Here, she gives a brief account of her time in the project…

Trine Mygind Korsby publishes article on online sex work

CGC researcher Trine Mygind Korsby has, together with Emma Nitz, published the article ‘Fighting for visibility: online sex work and social media’ in Tidsskriftet Antropologi (in Danish). Technological developments have…

Trine Mygind Korsby publishes book chapter on minors identified as victims of human trafficking

CGC researcher Trine Mygind Korsby has contributed the book chapter ‘“I am not a victim of anything”: minors identified as victims of human trafficking in Italy’ to the edited volume Sex Work and Language, edited by…

A male Denisovan jawbone from Taiwan expands the known geographic range of this extinct human group

A team of international researchers based in Denmark, Japan and Taiwan has made a significant breakthrough in the field of paleoanthropology with the attribution of a Pleistocene mandible from Taiwan to a male Denisovan…

Configuring the carbon farmer Emerging practices of carbon accounting and biochar engagements in Danish agriculture

Inge-Merethe Hougaard has authored a chapter in the book The Cultural Complexity of Carbon.

OPEN CALL: Graduate Seminar in Early Modern Caribbean History

ITSS PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen invites applications to participate in a seminar, to take place on September 19, 2025.

Making Resources in Northern Uganda

Susan Reynolds Whyte has edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Peace and Security Studies.

Mary Sadler: Curse Words and Gentility in St. Eustatius, 1801

In this short blog post, ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke writes about free women's bad language and the idea of the colonial gentleman in the early nineteenth century Dutch Caribbean.

The Paul Auster Research Library Visiting Fellowship

2026 University of Copenhagen The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies calls for applications for the one-month annual Paul Auster Research Library Visiting Fellowship, University of Copenhagen, 2025 or…

Lærke Gasbjerg and Anniek Lubberding Appointed Tenure-Track Assistant Professors

As of 1 March, Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg and Anniek Frederike Lubberding have taken the next step in their careers at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, transitioning into tenure-track assistant professor roles.

New article: "Mediating Market Moralities"

DISTRACT-affiliated Eva Iris Otto just published the article “Mediating Market Moralities“ in the journal Social Analysis. The article considers how actors within digital markets creatively navigate moral ambiguities in…

CBMR publications and media appearances in March 2025

CBMR publications and media appearances in March 2025

Rikke Haugegaard publishes book chapter on military capacity building

CGC researcher Rikke Haugegaard has released the chapter “Kapacitetsopbygning af Ghana Navy Special Boat Squadron: SOF Stabilisering i Guineabugten” i bogen Militære Stabiliseringsindsatser. En introduktion til koncept,…

If all minerals are extracted from the soil, will the flowers ever bloom again?

At the event Restoring Global Memories & Local Ecologies: Metallophyte plants and colonial history in DR Congo mining at CApE on March 6, Semine Long-Callesen wrote an article about the work of artist Toshie Takeuchi an…

New paper: "Beyond Cheap and Biased: Informal Volunteering on Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis"

DISTRACT researcher Hjalmar Bang Carlsen and co-author Jonas Toubøl have just published the article “Beyond Cheap and Biased: Informal Volunteering on Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis” in the journal Social Media…

Henrik Vigh publishes new research article on the European opioid crisis

Henrik Vigh, head of the CGC, has recently published an article in the medical journal ASA Monitor, together with Nanna Reiter and Eske Kvanner Aasvang. The article, entitled "The European Opioid Crisis," addresses the…

New Book Release: Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence

We are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Notions of Privacy in Early Modern Correspondence, edited by the PRIVACY-affiliated scholars Michaël Green and Lars Cyril Nørgaard, with contributions from various…

We are facing a technological revolution, and Denmark can lead the way

Morten Axel Pedersen is one of the authors of the recently published opinion piece entitled “Forskere: Vi står over for en teknologisk revolution, og Danmark kan vise vejen” (EN: “Researchers: We are facing a…

WHAT ABOUT ME ISM

Insights from Game Theory, Behavioral Economics and Moral Philosophy New Book by Vincent F. Hendricks In this book, Vincent F. Hendricks draws on game theory, behavioural economics and moral philosophy in a scathing…

Art, diplomacy, and espionage? PRIVACY scholar Oskar Rojewski explains his research on Michel Sittow and court diplomacy

Juan de Flandes, The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist, 1496-1499, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art © Public Domain Could a court painter in late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Europe also have served as a…

ITSS Postdoc Attends School of Archaeology Retreat

Felicia Fricke was in Snekkersten this week for conversations about AI and lifelong learning.

Morten Axel Pedersen in CPHDOX debate: AI and art in focus

On the 30th of March, Morten Axel Pedersen will participate in a conversation with Rasmus Kloster Bro, Janet Frances Rafner and Kristoffer Ørum about how AI is changing artistic creation. The debate is hosted as part of…

Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has together with Alexander Supartono published the article ‘Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art’.

Exhibition ”Ribbons”

The Centre for Textile Research (CTR) and Museum Amager present the exhibition ‘Ribbons / Bare Bånd’ as part of the Silk Ribbons project,…