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Official CULTMIND launch 12 September

On Tuesday 12 September, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND), the Danish National Research Foundation’s new Centre of Excellence, was officially opened with a festive reception at the Faculty of Humanities.

Privacy-researcher Asta Mønsted presenting Arctic archaeological perspectives on the starry sky at Dark Sky Festival

Postdoctoral researcher in prehistoric archaeology at Centre for Privacy Studies, Asta Mønsted, presented at a seminar at the Dark Sky Festival in Tårup, Denmark, in the beginning of September 2023. Asta is specialized…

New honorary doctors change our view of the past

At the university's traditional annual celebration, Årsfesten, in November, the new honorary doctors at UCPH are appointed. This year, the Faculty of Humanities is appointing two of the 11 new honorary doctors.

PhD scholarship at The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years)

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

PhD scholarships at the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years)

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Church History, Legal…

2.900 år gammel mursten gemte på DNA fra oldtiden

I et nyt studie i Scientific Reports viser forskere, at det er muligt at udtrække forhistorisk DNA af en 2.900 år gammel mursten. Den nye analysemetode vil kunne give klimaforskere, biologer og arkæologer et unikt…

ITSS PhD Fellows Prepare for Semester Abroad

Gabriëlle La Croix and Rasmus Christensen will spend the autumn semester abroad as part of their PhD training.

WORKING PAPER 6: A Littoral and Men: Sharing Fishing Resources in 18th Century Martinique

In this post, IN THE SAME SEA Student Assistant Lucas Marin (Université des Antilles) describes colonial attempts to control fishing on Martinique in the 18th century.

Privacy Scholar Oskar Jacek Rojewski guest edits The Court Historian

Art historian and PRIVACY scholar Oskar Jacek Rojewski has guest edited the newest volume of The Court Historian. We sat down with Oskar to discuss the benefits of bringing together privacy and court studies. Oskar…

Photo by Nuno Grancho selected for Danish National Research Foundation exhibition

“Woman at the Governor’s house, Tranquebar, India, 2023” © Nuno Grancho About the photo: The photo brings together practices and negotiations of privacy in the architectural and urban space of the Danish colonial city…

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…