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Atreyee Sen is featured in a recently published ethnographic volume on disappearance

CGC researcher, Atreyee Sen, has authored a chapter in a recently published book on disappearance in different social, cultural and political contexts.

NEEDS Conference 2023

The NEEDS conference aims to explore the status quo and to foster new approaches to disaster research and management.

Internship at Nordic Consulting Group Spring 2024

NCG is looking for two ambitious interns who are interested in pursuing a career in international development cooperation and humanitarian aid as well as gaining skills in project acquisition and contract management.

Borderland Field Course 2023

Watch the video from the 2023 edition of the Field Summer Course Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South.

Critical questions on learning from the COVID-19 disaster in India

New study critically analyses the Government of India’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a disaster.

Call for Papers: The Urban Problem of Disasters

Call for papers for the panel "The Urban Problem of Disasters" for the Northern European Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) Conference 2023, taking place between October 31 and November 2, 2023.

Dr Vera Skvirskaja at Afterlives of Urban Muslim Asia international workshop

Dr Vera Skvirskaja from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies gave a talk at the Afterlives of Urban Muslim Asia international workshop at Darwin College, University of Cambridge on Tuesday 23rd May.

Climate Change made heatwave in Asia 30 times more likely

Extreme humid heat in South Asia in April 2023, largely driven by climate change, detrimental to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities

Vera Skvirskaja presents a paper at the AFTERLIFES of Urban Muslim Asia workshop

Vera Skvirskaja presents a paper ‘Post-Soviet Central Asia: Migration, People’s Diplomacy and Cultural Heritage of Bukharan Jews’ at the AFTERLIFES of Urban Muslim Asia workshop on the May 23, John Bradfield Room, Darwi…

Call for papers: Risky Business: Perspectives on Governance of South Asian Ecologies

Call for Papers Across South Asia, ecological risk mapping and mitigation is part of the vocabularies of local and national governments. Ecological management by governments is not new to South Asia and has long shaped…

ADI Call for Applications: Funding for Master Students working on Asia

Are you planning to do fieldwork for your Master thesis on or in Asia but lacking resources to carry out the work you are so passionate about doing? Or perhaps you are thinking about doing a PhD and need some financial…

Buddhist Resorts and Guinness Records in Vietnam’s Central Highlands

By Stephen Christopher (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, CCBS) & An Ngoc Hoang (Lead researcher, It’s T Time) For years, the Buddhist resort called Samten Hills was built in relative obscurity, outside of media…

New SUPRA Students April 2023

Optimism | Asia-Africa Seminar 2023

This seminar series addresses Africa-Asia linkages, dynamics and engagement. We approach Africa-Asia both as a geographical zone of connection and engagement and as two major world regions in which contemporary and…

Atreyee Sen Awarded Prize for Year's Best Article in Critical Asian Studies

CGC researcher, Atreyee Sen, has ben awarded Critical Asian Studies' inaugural prize for the year's best article published in the journal.

New SUPRA Students March 2023

We are happy to announce that we have four new students joining us for a hybrid version of the SUPRA Programme in March 2023! It is a pleasure to welcome: Bjørge Bondevik, MA student of International Business and…

COPE researchers at the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality

Last month, COPE researchers Maansi Parpiani and Suchismita Goswami participated in the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality organized by the Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies and the Tata…

SUPRA students February 2023!

We are happy to announce that we have three new students joining us for our Virtual SUPRA Programme in February 2023! It is a pleasure to welcome: JiMin Nam, MA student of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo…

New projects will map conflicts over coastal protection in Denmark and environmental mobilisation in Indonesia

Two projects at the Department of Anthropology have received grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark earmarked green research.

New SUPRA Students November 2022

We are happy to announce that we have four new students joining us for our Virtual SUPRA Programme in November 2022! It is a pleasure to welcome: Linas Tavaras, MA student at Vilnius University I’m a student of Vilnius…

New guest researcher at NIAS

Welcome Bernard Z. Keo!

New SUPRA students October 2022

We are happy to announce that we have four new students joining us for our Virtual SUPRA Programme in October 2022! It is a pleasure to welcome: Adonis Elumbre, PhD Candidate, University of Hamburg Adonis Elumbre is…

New InFocus blog contribution by Nathaniel L. Moir

Nathaniel L. Moir, research associate in the Applied History Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University has contributed the following article to the InFocus blog; Bernard Fall: A Soldier of…

New SUPRA Students September 2022

We are happy to announce that we have three new students joining us for our Virtual SUPRA Programme in September 2022! It is a pleasure to welcome: Haoran Jiang, PhD candidate, Department of Music, The Chinese…