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Mumbi Macharia is the new Kiswahili teacher at the Centre of African Studies

Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Mumbi will be teaching Kiswahili I and Kiswahili II at the Center of African Studies

Plague emerges from Stone Age graves

Ancient DNA from bones and teeth hints at a role of the plague in Stone Age population collapse

Dietary diversity of Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau

New research sheds light on Denisovan behaviour and indicates how adaptable they were to the harsh and variable environment of the Tibetan Plateau.

ITSS PhD Fellow Awarded HUM:Global Funding

Rasmus Christensen will host a graduate seminar on trans-national histories of the Caribbean in spring 2025.

Caribbean Genealogy Library Hosts Online Lecture

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke will lecture on her research about a maritime family on St. Barths, Saturday 6th July at 8pm CEST.

How are people affected by aesthetic atmospheres?

With support from VELUX FONDEN, Tone Roald from the Department of Psychology will investigate how we experience atmospheres created by music and architecture.

New Publication: Sources of wealth and legitimacy in charismatic Christianity in Ghana

'A man’s gift will make room for him': Sources of wealth and legitimacy in charismatic Christianity in Ghana

Bo Jellesmark Thorsen to continue as head of department

For the past eight years, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen has been at the helm of the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He will continue in this role in the coming years, as Dean Katrine…

New edited book: The Economic Lives of Platforms - Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets

Morten Axel Pedersen and former DISTRACT PhD Eva Iris Otto are amongst the editors in the newly published book "The Economic Lives of Platforms: Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets"

CBMR publications and media appearances in May 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in May 2024

Danish language skills for international staff

CIP’s Danish courses play an essential role for international staff at UCPH.

New Publication: The Paradox of Abolition

ITSS PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen co-authors an article in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

New head of the Department of Plant and Environmental Science

Professor Morten Petersen has been appointed new head of the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, bringing with him extensive research and leadership experience.

Literature offers a different kind of witnessing to environmental catastrophe

The human implications of environmental disasters Martyn Bone has for most of his professional career immersed himself in the richness of U.S. southern literature. Through this literary lens, he explores how social and…

New Blog Post about the CPDP.ai Conference

The organizers of the Computer, Privacy, Data Protection Conference (CPDP.ai) had invited PRIVACY to host a workshop at this year’s conference in Brussels May 21-24. The delegation from PRIVACY included Centre Directo…

Emilie Munch Gregersen and Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard facilitated a workshop at UAB

On June 10th DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen visited Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) to facilitate an interactive workshop

PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen's Work on ITSS Database

The database contains over 3900 newspaper advertisements calling for the capture of fugitives from slavery in the Lesser Antilles.

Archaeologists to contribute to major new research project on ancient DNA

Professor Eske Willerslev has been awarded a grant of up to DKK 585 million by Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Wellcome Trust to study ancient environmental DNA. Researchers from the Near Eastern Archaeology section wil…

Call for Papers on Early Modern privacy for The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2025

Gezicht op huizen in Delft, bekend als 'Het straatje' Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) The Renaissance Society of America Conference 2025 will be held in Boston 20-22 March. Background Privacy is hardly a hallmark of…

Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at UCPH Spring Festival

On May 31st Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented on 'the festival feeling' at UCPH Spring Festival

Søren Frank Jensen receives the prestigious Carlsberg Internationalization Fellowship

Our Postdoctoral Researcher, Søren Frank Jensen, will start his project MINES, OCEANS, COMETS. NATURAL HAZARDS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY IN RELIGIOUS TEXTS (1550–1650) in November 2024.

Improved counselling for young people to dispel the myth that opioids are harmless

A wide range of measures are needed to reduce the use of illegal opioids and benzodiazepines among young people. This is the conlcusion of the Criminological Observatory at UCPH in a new report.

IN THE SAME SEA Team Members go to Colombia

Gunvor Simonsen, Felicia Fricke, and Heather Freund attended the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) Conference in Santa Marta.

New free workshops in 2024

CIP offers a number of exciting workshops in 2024. These workshops focus on English language usage and presentation techniques, and all UCPH employees are welcome to participate.