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Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience

On August 22, 2022, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) invited Anne Bach Nielsen, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and Nina Blom Andersen, reader at University College Copenhagen…

PhD Symposium - "The Spectra of Life: Dimensional Breadth in Biological Research

Registration deadline: 26 October 2022 When: 7-9 December 2022 Where: EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Abstract submission deadline (for a short talk or a poster): 14 September The European Molecular Biology Laborator (EMBL) Ph…

George Bob-Milliar appointed Affiliate Professor in African Studies

George Bob-Milliar of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana is appointed new Affiliate Professor in African Studies, effective 1 September 2022.

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…

Asian week at CeBIL

CeBIL researchers speak about Health AI and Nanotechnology in South Korea and discuss CeBIL’s research with Japanese scientists.

Postdoc in the Metabolic Regulation of Early Human Development at reNEW

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW) is looking for a Postdoctoral candidate to join the Zylicz group starting January 2023 or upon agreement with the chosen candidate. The posting is…

Research assistant position in the Jensen group at reNEW Copenhagen

reNEW Copenhagen is looking for a research assistant to assist in pioneering transplantation technologies using organoid technology.

Textures of precarity

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has contributed the article ‘Textures of precarity: Repurposing in a Ugandan refugee settlement’ to a special issue of Anthropology Today

Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda

In collaboration with Henry Oboke, Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte has written the chapter ‘Gender configurations and suicide in northern Uganda’, which is included in the book Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of…

Popular research station reopens in Greenland: Danish zoologist recognized the greenhouse effect at same site in 1904

For more than a century, Arctic climate research has been collected and stored at the University of Copenhagen's northernmost research station – the Arctic Station. Now, after a thorough renovation and modernisation, th…

Podcast med NIAS seniorforsker Ida Nicolaisen

NIAS seniorforsker Ida Nicolaisen forteller om sine antropologiske forskningsfelter i Asien och Afrika.

Postdoctoral position: BUDDHISM AND WASTE

Application deadline: 25 November 2022.

What M23’s on-and-off insurgency tells us about DRC’s precarious search for peace

Kasper Hoffmann (IFRO) and Christoph Vogel, Ghent University write about the development of the M23 since its early beginnings in 2012 until the dramatic escalation of conflicts today.

Russia and the West hunt hearts and minds in Africa

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written a two-part article for GlobalNyt analysing Sergei Lavrov and Emmanuel Macron's tours in Africa.

CAS students collaborate with GlobalNyt on course-based articles

Globalnyt has published a two-part article series with two CAS students, supported by the Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen.

International medical conference opportunity, Czech Republic

When: 24-25 November 2022 Deadline for application: 19 August 2022. The 19th International Medical Conference for PhD students are taking place at Charles University, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové in the Czech…

NIAS Director Duncan McCargo quoted in Deutsche Welle

When Deutsche Welle on the 8 July 2022 asked Is there a chance for peace in southern Thailand's insurgency? in their article on the ongoing Southern Thai conflict, the German news media spoke to NIAS director Duncan…

Postdoctoral Positions in Asian Studies

The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invite candidates for a number of postdoctoral positions in Asian Studies. We are looking for early career scholars researching on modern and…

NIAS Director Duncan McCargo in Deutsche Welle

Duncan McCargo, Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, is quoted in Deutsche Welle on a story on the Southern Thai conflict. " [..] Mistrust is especially intense when these…

How to write a policy brief that matters

A workshop for Health researchers at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College in Tanzania in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen on how to write policy briefs that matter.

Introducing the CERTIZENS Podcast

A podcast connecting scholars and practitioners working on ID systems in diverse global settings.

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded Hans Egede Medal

On Wednesday, ice core researcher Dorthe Dahl-Jensen was awarded the Hans Egede Medal for her research into Earth’s climate history. Her research has included longer stays on Greenland's deserted ice sheet and offers a…

Physical meeting in Copenhagen

FutureArcticLives held its first physical meeting and workshop in Copenhagen hosted by the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO).

Professor: "B12 deficiency harms young children's development – and the food relief we provide isn’t good enough"

Vitamin B12 deficiency in infants leads to poor motor development and anaemia, according to a study from Burkina Faso conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Médecins Sans Frontières. B12 deficiency is an enormous…