News about History

Two research blogs from interns at the United Nations Library and Archives Geneva

Over the last three years, CEMES and the Europe and International Cooperation (EIC) research group has had close cooperation with UN Geneva. As part of this collaboration, the Saxo Institute has sent two students - Nils…

Splashes in the Antillean Archives

In this short blog post, ITSS PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen explores the evidence for fishing in the archives of the colonial Lesser Antilles.

Modern arms technologies help autocratic rulers stay in power

Autocrats and dictators quickly acquire new arms technologies from abroad and often use them against their own citizens. Now a study shows that the spread of military technologies inhibits democratic reform.

New student assistant - Lucas Marin

Lucas Marin is a student assistant at IN THE SAME SEA. His research within the project will focus on marronage in the French archives.

PRIVACY Scholars receive Nordforsk Grant

PRIVACY-scholars Johannes Ljungberg and Sari Nauman have been awarded a generous grant from Nordforsk to conduct a series of exploratory workshops on the subject of Nordic Peace, c. 1721–1830.

Piss off: Salva Kiir and South Sudan

On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Genstart, Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen tells the story of the leader who became president of South Sudan.

Internship at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

FALL SEMESTER 2023 We are looking for an MA student in history at the Saxo Institute to apply for internships at the UN Library & Archives Geneva in partnership with the research project Visualizing the League of Nation…

PRIVACY-PhD, Anni H. Henriksen in new job at Karberghus Ejendomme A/S

From studying the private mind to disseminating the history of Copenhagen Architecture On 10 October, our very first PRIVACY-PhD, Anni Haahr Henriksen, defended her PhD thesis The Private Mind in Elizabethan England.…

Call for Papers: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities.

Call for Papers for the international conference: Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities. Deadline for submission is January 6, 2023.

Grenada Genealogical and Historical Society Online Event - Rumours in the Lesser Antilles

On Sunday 4th December 2022, the GGHS hosted an online event where ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Felicia Fricke discussed rumour, religion, and resistance on Grenada, 1829-1830.

Land healing, farming and spiritual cleansing in Southern Africa

In their recent work, Marie Curie Fellow, Hans Olsson, and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach ask what the relationship between religion, healing and farming in Southern Africa could look like? Discussing Christian…

Bronze Age Textile Production (Kültepe-Kanesh)

In this project, Professor Cécile Michel from CNRS in France, archaeologist Fikri Kulakoğlu (Turkey) and Eva Andersson Strand at CTR, are working to reconstruct the Bronze Age Textile trade from Assur to the Kanesh in…

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun as Keynote Speaker at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022

On Wednesday November 16 2022, centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun gave a keynote lecture at the International Association of Privacy Professional (IAPP) Europe Data Protection Congress 2022 in Brussels. Around 2000…

Incoming Vessels in De Curaçaosche Courant: A Quantitative Microhistory, 1833-1834 and 1845-1846

This short blog post examines the itineraries of vessels entering Willemstad (Curaçao) in the mid-19th century.

Open World Conference 10-11 Nov. 2022: Open Science and Global Dangers

Marking the centenary of Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in physics, and the United Nations announcing 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, we acknowledge Bohr’s vision of an open world

CALL FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

IN THE SAME SEA and the Caribbean Genealogy Library are organising a conference, to take place on St. Thomas (USVI), 23rd-25th February 2023.

WORKING PAPER 5: Enslaved Mobility in Grenada: A Snapshot

This working paper uses newspaper runaway lists to look at escape routes used by enslaved people on Grenada in 1819 and 1825.

Dr. Dominique Rogers to be Visiting Professor at IN THE SAME SEA

Dr. Rogers (Université des Antilles, Martinique) will be a visiting professor in Copenhagen during October 2022.

Call for Papers: Crossing Borders and Fostering Collaborations

Call for Papers for the Fifth AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences

Green transition called off: DR Congo’s new way to fight poverty and create development

Associate Professor Stig Jensen at the Centre of African Studies has written a three-part article series for GlobalNyt highlighting some of the many paradoxes associated with DR Congo's decision to Congo put 30 oil and…

IN THE SAME SEA PI Gunvor Simonsen’s Public Lecture Appears in Local Press

The lecture on 18th June 2022 is discussed in an article for The St. Thomas Source, entitled 'How the Enslaved Used Canoes to Escape'.

WORKING PAPER 4: Prospect or Necessity: Migration Among Free People of Color in St. Thomas, 1803

This working paper explores the origins and potential motivations for the mobility of free people of colour residing in Charlotte Amalie on the Danish Caribbean island of St. Thomas in 1803.

Telling actual time in ancient rocks

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Copenhagen apply a new technique allowing them to disentangle 500 million-years-old rocks millimeter-by-millimeter, resolving the…

The war is the logical consequence of Putin's ideological struggle with the West

If you have followed what Vladimir Putin has said and written about the West and Russia these past years, the invasion of Ukraine should not come as a surprise. What is surprising is how poorly it seems to have been…