News about Culture

New student assistant - Kamma Ofelia Strøm

Meet our new team member! She is interested in social movements and political history.

Workshop for L1 teacher educators

On 21 February 2024, Petra Daryai-Hansen and Natascha Drachmann host a workshop on the PE-LAL project's findings for teacher educators of Danish and Danish as a second language at the University College Copenhagen.

New podcast episode about language use at meetings at the university

Second episode of CIP’s podcast Language Use at UCPH has been published in January 2024, and it is about language choice and language use in relation to meetings at the university.

Research on cultural journalism in the science podcast

Professor of media studies, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, talks about her research on cultural journalism in the science podcast Videnskab fra Vilde Hjerner (in Danish).

Fabio Gigone awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship

Our colleague Fabio Gigone received a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship. We have interviewed him about his new project. Fabio Gigone You recently successfully defended your PhD at the Centre fo…

Physical exercise boosts motor learning – and remembering what one has learned

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills. This is demonstrated by ne…

Ethnote's rejsegilde

Yesterday, the progress of the digital fieldnote app Ethnote was celebrated at a traditional 'rejsegilde'

Secrets of the app

When you download an app, it can also be an open invitation to international companies who want to see what you're doing on your cell phone. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, led by Associate Professor Stin…

Call for Papers: Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888

The Steering Committee invites abstracts of not more than 250 words by Friday 1st March 2024.

Physical exercise boosts motor learning – and remembering what one has learned

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills. This is demonstrated by ne…

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2023

From Margrethe to Frederik: Danish history as told by royal lines

A new chapter of Danish history was written Sunday, 14 January 2024 with the succession of the new king. A manuscript from around 1600 follows the succession of Danish kings from the legendary Dan up to Christian III.

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern. Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz.

Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz now available.

CERTIZENS Regional Workshop on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

We are hosting an East Africa Regional Workshop in Kampala from 15-17 January 2024, with the title Changing ID Systems in East Africa: Histories, Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of States and Citizens.

100 forhistoriske skeletter viser, hvordan Danmark blev et landbrugsland

Genetiske undersøgelser af 100 skeletter fra Danmarks fortid dokumenterer, at landbruget blev indført for 5.900 år siden, da agerdyrkere vandrede ind i landet sydfra og udkonkurrerede den lokale jæger-samler-befolkning.…

Marcia Tiemi Saito visiting from Brazil

Marcia Tiemi Saito (Federal Institute of Paraná, Brazil) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from February 2024 to January 2025.

Morten Axel Pedersen gave talk at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

In the beginning of December, Morten Axel Pedersen gave a talk on the potentials and pitfalls of working quantitatively in anthropology at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

New PRIVACY book: Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History

Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History is edited by PRIVACY Assistant Professor Natacha Klein Käfer and contains contributions by PRIVACY scholars.

eLetter featured in the »Indo-European News« podcast episode

The eLetter in Science written by many of the Copenhagen Roots in response to the controversial paper by Heggarty et al. has is featured in the podcast »Indo-European News« by UCLA colleagues.

New chart-topping Italian podcast “L'invasione” on the Indo-Europeans – featuring Birgit Rasmussen

Birgit Rasmussen has been interviewed for the chart-toping Italian podcast L'invasione on Proto-Indo-European and the Indoeuropeans.

Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark

Postdoc Inge-Merete Hougaard has recently published the article 'Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark' in the journal Environmental Science and Policy.

AI and the University: Research grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

The Carlsberg Foundation has decided to fund Professor Janus Mortensen’s project "AI and the University – Towards a sociolinguistics of literacy and voice in the age of generative language technology" (AI-UNI) with a…

New Assistant Professor: Evolution is plagued by misconceptions 

The broad understanding of evolution is characterized by particularly persistent and deeply ingrained misconceptions. The process of evolution goes against our inherent biases, says Assistant Professor Daniela Fiedler.

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2023