News about Culture

Søren Frank Jensen awarded with a Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship

Agricultural Christianity. Labouring on Soil and Soul in Northern Europe (1550–1750)

Archaeologists use AI to create prehistoric video game

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new…

Archaeologists use AI to create prehistoric video game

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new…

Archaeologists use AI to create prehistoric video game

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new…

New insights into the skin immune response in nickel allergy

Researchers from the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center (SIC) have made new insights into how the immune system reacts to repeated nickel exposure in individuals with nickel allergy.

The dark side of globalization

CGC/CCC researcher Henrik Vigh will take part in the conversation series “Verden forsøgt forklaret” on January 8, 2026 focusing on crime, paramilitary groups, and militias, also known as the dark side of globalization.

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2025

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2025

Call for Applications: Training Week on Global History of Astronomy

We are pleased to announce the second iteration of the “Training week: Global history of astronomy week on primary sources” (June 8-12, 2026, BnF & Observatoire de Paris), which will focus on cosmology, physics, and…

Linking workshop in Copenhagen

During the last week, the entire Mapping Freedom team met for a linking workshop at the Danish National Archives in Copenhagen.

Sex Work and Human Trafficking

Colloquium talk at City University of New York by Trine Mygind Korsby.

Karen Waltorp and Stine Krøijer appointed professors at the Department of Anthropology

As of November 2025, Karen Waltorp and Stine Krøijer both hold titles of professors following UCPH’s Professor Promotion Programme and an international assessment.

Signe Sophus Lai and Sofie Flensburg (CTS) are part of a new Carlsberg Research grant

Signe Sophus Lai and Sofie Flensburg from the Center for Tracking and Society are part of a new Carlsberg Research Communication grant for the project SKYEN FINDES IKKE (There is no cloud).

Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen

A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated”…

New Edited Volume: Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology

IN THE SAME SEA Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke and her co-editors Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Maaike de Waal (Leiden University) will publish an edited volume in January 2026 with the University Press of Florida.

New Publication: Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology

In this article members of the Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage (www.cocah.net), including IN THE SAME SEA Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke, put forward practical recommendations for helping to solve th…

Klog på Sprog om sproghistorie

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg og Thomas Olander fra Roots of Europe har sammen med fonetikeren Ruben Schachtenhaufen været i Klog på Sprog på P1. Med udgangspunkt i dansk kommer de og værten Adrian Hughes vidt omkring i tid og…

Youths, Media and Performance: How Young People Remember Violent Pasts

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler and Research Fellow at Leipzig University Sina Emde have edited a Special Issue of Anthropological Forum titled Youths, Media and Performance: How Young People Remember Violent Pasts…

We have forgotten the Bosnian War, but literature helps us remember

The Bosnian War (1992–1995), which claimed over 100,000 lives and displaced many more, is largely forgotten today. But powerful literature can evoke strong memories of the war—even among readers who have no personal…

A successful CIP symposium 2025

CIP held its annual symposium on Thursday, November 6, 2025, this year titled “New Literacies - the role of multilingualism and generative AI”. Read more about the day here.

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2025

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2025

CGC researcher Anja Simonsen about migrant deaths in the Mediterranean

CGC researcher Anja Simonsen has written an article in Information about migrant deaths in the Mediterranean and their consequences. The article highlights what it means to lose someone and being left behind in…

Strengthening Leadership: Prof Janine Erler Appointed Vice Director of Research and Innovation

We are pleased to announce that Janine Erler has been appointed to a newly created role as Vice Director of Research and Innovation at BRIC. Janine joins the management team alongside Anders and Bitten, in an important…

Trine Mygind Korsby publishes article on young offenders in restorative justice programmes

CGC researcher Trine Mygind Korsby has, together with Clara Rosa Sandbye, published the article “Gameful Relating: How young offenders gain agency in criminal rehabilitation and restorative justice” in The British…

Ida Hartmann employed as temporary assistant professor at Center for Comparative Culture Studies

Ida has started as part of the center on 1 November as a part of the collective research project Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis.