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Hajime Inaba visiting from Japan

Hajime Inaba (Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from April 2025 to March 2027.

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…

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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,…

Et gensyn med nubiske tekstiler

Onsdag den 19. marts besøgte Hendes Majestæt Dronning Margrethe Center for Tekstilforskning (CTR) på Saxo-instituttet. Besøget bød på præsentationer af aktuel forskning inden for tekstilstudier samt demonstrationer af…

Save the Date: How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment

On 18-20 June Whence will host a conference on “How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment”, bringing together scholars from different fields to illuminate and deepen our understanding of women’s contributions to the…

Keynote by Jens-Erik Mai at iConference 2025

Head of Department and Professor Jens-Erik Mai is attending iConference 2025: Living in an AI-gorithmic World. The iConference is one of the premier events in the international information science community, attracting…

“I am not a victim of anything”: minors identified as victims of human trafficking in Italy

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has contributed the book chapter ‘“I am not a victim of anything”: minors identifiedas victims of human trafficking in Italy’ to the edited volume Sex Work and Language.

Fighting for visibility: online sex work and social media

Assistant Professor 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).

New Publication: Black Rangers in Grenada

IN THE SAME SEA Postdoc Heather Freund announces the publication of an article in Slavery & Abolition.

Trine Mygind Korsby and Henrik Vigh publish article on ‘Our other Others’

CGC researchers Trine Mygind Korsby and Henrik Vigh have published the article "Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease" in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The article…

Trine Mygind Korsby participates in roundtable on the rights of sex workers

Last month CGC researcher Trine Mygind Korsby participated in a roundtable discussion on the improvement of the rights of sex workers, arranged by the Mayor of Employment and Integration of Copenhagen, Louise Theilade…

Trine Mygind Korsby publishes book chapter on fieldwork among transnational thieves in Romania

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

2025 marks two significant anniversaries for women’s rights in Denmark

In 2025, we mark two anniversaries for women’s rights in Denmark: the 110th anniversary of women’s voting rights and the 150th anniversary of women’s access to the University of Copenhagen. Keep track of the University…

Researchers share new knowledge about 'toddlers' with parents and professionals

With support from Nordea-fonden, psychologists at the UCPH will strengthen the social and emotional development of 1-2 year-olds through the project 'Understanding your toddler'.

Subordinance or Subversion: Creative Workshop on Women’s Embroidery as Gentle Protest

On 7 March – the day before "Kvindernes Kampdag" – a student-led workshop funded by Institut for Kommunikation takes place on South Campus. At this workshop, cultural historian Kirsten Rykind-Eriksen explores the histor…