News about Culture

Section of Film studies and creative media industries welcomes visiting scholar Dr. Katja Driesel-Lange

Section of Film studies and creative media industries welcomes visiting scholar Dr. Katja Driesel-Lange, Universität Münster, Germany

Flax, weights and swords: Recreating weaving with the warp weighted loom

The TRiVAL project has begun an exciting new subproject.

The Common Thread is shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize

We are very happy to announce that The Common Thread: Collected Essays in Honour of Eva Andersson Strand has been shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologists' annual awards - the EAA Book Prize.

PRIVACY scholar Nuno Grancho appointed as Wüstenrot Fellow 2025

We are pleased to announce that Nuno Grancho, affiliated scholar at PRIVACY, has been selected as one of the iaas Wüstenrot Fellows for 2025 at the südwestdeutsches Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau (saai), hoste…

CBMR publications and media appearances in April 2025

CBMR publications and media appearances in April 2025

CEMES funds public lecture and discussion with Dr. Michael Rupp

CEMES provides funding for an event featuring Dr. Michael Rupp, an EU official (European Commission, DG ENEST- Eastern Partnership, Principal Administrator) and an expert on European Union enlargement.

IDENTITY POLITICS - LEFT AND RIGHT

New book by Nils Holtug out on Oxford University Press

Interview with Serhii Plokhii, CEMES keynote speaker 2024, in Baltic Worlds

Vice Chair Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Professor at Lund University, has interviewed Serhii Plokhii, CEMES annual keynote speaker 2024 and Professor at Harvard University, for an article in the journal Baltic Worlds.

Streaming culture creates new digital communities for film fans

In a new book, media researcher Helle Kannik Haastrup explores how TV series and films can both challenge our view of the world and engage us in online communities. The book challenges prejudices about popular culture's…

The loss of a single species is the loss of a world

At a CApE event on March 27, Semine Long-Callesen wrote an article about the work of this semesters international CApE fellow professor Oxana Timofeeva, which is now in published in the online media Resilience.

USE Center summit lays groundwork for ambitious research plan: “A seminal moment” 

More than 50 education researchers from the USE Center and participating teaching faculty mapped the educational reality in their discipline. The results will inform concrete research projects with and for the teachers…

Call for papers: History education, public memory and difficult pasts

Call for papers for workshop in Podgorica, Montenegro, 25-26 September 2025.

Spot on PRIVACY scholars: Hui-Yi Yang

We recently interviewed PhD student Hui-Yi Yang about her research stay in Taiwan this semester. Hui-Yi has a master’s degree in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy, and in her PhD, she focuses on darkness and…

First article out in the EXPOSING-project in European Journal of Cultural Studies

First article out in the EXPOSING-project in European Journal of Cultural Studies

Trine Mygind Korsby presents her research on human traffickers at a seminar arranged by the Danish Institute for Human Rights

CGC researcher Trine Mygind Korsby has been invited to present her research on human traffickers and the complex social relationships in cases of human trafficking at a seminar hosted by the Danish Institute for Human…

Anja Simonsen participates in parliamentary conference

CGC researcher Anja Simonsen has been invited to take part in the parliamentary conference ‘Envisioning Effective Public Policy to Prevent and Address Cases of Missing Migrants’ at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.…

Dog drool, bleach, and a Neanderthal child

Archaeological objects have often accumulated protein contamination over many years. How do you remove such protein contamination prior to palaeoproteomic analysis, without damaging the ancient proteins?

Matthew Paul Gillum appointed Associate Professor

As of 1 April 2025, Matthew Paul Gillum has taken the next step in his career at the Department of Biomedical Sciences as Associate Professor.

Trine Mygind Korsby participates in keynote roundtable at the annual conference of The Swedish Anthropological Association

CGC researcher Trine Mygind Korsby has been invited to participate in the keynote roundtable at the annual conference of The Swedish Anthropological Association. The title of the keynote roundtable is: 'No love at first…

Centre for Privacy Studies celebrates book launch and transformation into new thematic structure

Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), a Centre of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation, celebrated the release of its latest publication Privacy in Early Modern Saxony: Perspectives on…

Call for Papers: The Night as a Private Space

Bertel Thorvaldsen, Natten, Thorvaldsens Museum, inventarnummer A901 (https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/A901) Please note: This page contains an earlier Call for Papers. To see the conference programme and…

Visit from Umeå University

From 3-11 April 2025 Frankie Ekerholm from Umeå University visited CIP for exchange of ideas and knowledge about language courses in English and the local language for staff members at Umeå.

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…