News about Culture

Master Thesis Presentation: Nageeba Hassan Tegulwa

Nageeba Hassan Tegulwa, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Department of Religion & Peace Studies, Makerere University, presents her thesis on 'Refugee Identity Card and Its Impact on the Somali…

Master Thesis Presentation: Paul Morris Musoke

Paul Morris Musoke, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Department of Development Studies, Makerere University, presents his thesis on 'Factors Influencing Birth Registration Among the Migrant Karamajon…

Master Thesis Presentation: Rafiatu Abdul Rauf

Rafiatu Abdul Rauf, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, presents her thesis on 'Understanding the Gendered Experiences of the Use and Control of the…

Master Thesis Presentation: Ramatu Issah

Ramatu Issah, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, presents her thesis on 'Citizenship and Marginalization: A Comparative Analysis of the Experiences of…

New colleague at PRIVACY in January

We are happy to welcome Katrine Mølgaard who will assist the Centre for Privacy Studies with editorial and communication tasks in January. Katrine has a master’s degree in Philosophy and Danish from Roskilde Universit…

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen to Launch New Project 'Mapping Freedom'

Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, this project will invest in digital infrastructure for Caribbean history.

A Message from ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Freund

Unfortunately we have to say goodbye to wonderful Postdoc Heather Freund! But she will of course remain a part of the team. Here, she gives a short overview of her time in Copenhagen.

Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby and Professor Henrik Vigh have published the article ‘Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease’ in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

"Weapons of Mass Distraction?" Conference held in November

On the 14th and 15th November 2024 DISTRACT hosted the conference "Weapons of Mass Distraction?"

Celebrating 2024 publications from the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (DNRF138)

2024 has been extremely rewarding. PRIVACY scholars undertake in-depth historical research. This research is tested in our cross-disciplinary research environment and at international conferences and workshops,…

Half of all students worry about plagiarism detection software

In a new study around half of the high school and university students from seven European countries are concerned about the use of plagiarism detection software in education. Their concerns lead to counterproductive…

Coming soon – offline speech recognition even on low-memory phones

More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new algorithm developed by a University of Copenhagen researcher and his international colleagues makes it possible to…

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2024

Electrical stimulation of the nervous system can improve motor learning

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have demonstrated that the brain's ability to learn certain skills can be significantly enhanced if both the brain and nervous system are primed by carefully-calibrated,…

L’expérience antillaise des matelots du long-cours. Le cas de la Martinique à la fin de l’Ancien Régime

For the first time, we present a French-language blog post! ITSS affiliate Lucas Marin writes about long-distance sailors in Martinique at the end of the Ancien Régime.

Remembering Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024)

The news of Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s death hit his anthropological colleagues at the University of Copenhagen very hard.

Research seminar on Digital (mis)trust

On Friday the 29th of November five scholars (including DISTRACT researcher Kristoffer Albris) presented their work and thoughts on digital (mis)trust at the launch of a new special issue entitled Digital (Mis)trust:…

Salvation vs. health: The eternal pursuit of the flawless life

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun in a live interview at Copenhagen University Library Fiolstræde

Stealing and redacting: fieldwork among transnational thieves in Eastern Romania

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has contributed the chapter ‘Stealing and redacting: fieldwork among transnational thieves in Eastern Romania’ to the book Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State.

NEW BOOK: Privacy in Early Modern Saxony - Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and Religion

NEW BOOK: Privacy in Early Modern Saxony - Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and Religion

Global Cluster Writing Retreat

In November 2024, members of the ITSS team joined the Saxo Institute's Global Cluster for a writing retreat in Smidstrup.

Languages on the Agenda – Sprog på dagsordenen, CIP releases new book

New volume: Languages on the Agenda – Sprog på dagsordenen, of the CIP series Studies in Parallel Language use.

New book on the history of the Danish language

Thomas Olander’s book Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen [Danish from the present to the Stone Age] has been published at U Press. Read more about the book in this article (in Danish).

Keynote by Mette Bengtsson at NordJourn

Mette Bengtsson gives a keynote at the fifth Nordic Journalism Studies Seminar Series (NordJourn). The title of her talk is “The Role of Journalistic Fact-Checkers in Constituting Truth Claims: A Rhetorical Perspective…