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‘Every archive is a different world’: an interview with José María Martín Humanes

José María Martín Humanes is a Marie Curie Fellow and a new colleague at the Centre for Privacy Studies which hosts his project: Subaltern Privacy: Echoes of the Resistance in the Hispanic World (SUBPRIVACY). The projec…

ERC Grants for three NBI researchers

No less than three ERC Starting Grants for NBI.

A new joint UCPH School of Archaeology and Viking Ship Museum summer school course: Introduction to Maritime Archaeology

Introduction to Maritime Archaeology through summer school

New review of professor Dan Zahavi’s book Being We (OUP 2025)

Marx and Philosophy Review of Books has published a review of Dan Zahavi’s book Being We.

Translations of Dan Zahavi’s Phenomenology: The Basics

Dan Zahavi’s Phenomenology: The Basics - 2nd edition has now appeared in German and Japanese translations.

Copenhagen Indo-European scholars receive prize

Thomas Olander and Rasmus G. Bjørn’s research project Wheels, Wagons and Words has been awarded the prize for the Original Idea of the Year 2025 from the Independent Research Fund Denmark: official announcement and…

New study traces African origins of St Helena’s Liberated Africans

Chemical signatures reveal the diverse African origins of people displaced by the transatlantic slave trade.

Hanne Overgaard Mogensen appointed Professor of Social Anthropology

From 1 August this year, Hanne Overgaard Mogensen has been appointed professor at the Department of Anthropology.

Researcher: Do not let students form their own study groups

To provide optimal conditions for learning and well-being, educators must take responsibility for group formation, says Katrine Ellemose Lindvig.

New Copenhagen audio walk explores power, colonialism and health

How have histories of power and colonialism shaped how we understand health today? That’s the question behind the Power, Colonialism and Health Walk.

UCPH to lead national initiative transforming clinical medical education

With a DKK 5.8 million grant from the NNF, the Department of Clinical Medicine at the UCPH will lead a new national collaboration involving all four Danish universities that educate medical doctors.

Mikkel Jarle Christensen and Jesper Hjortenberg publish new book on police law

New published book by Mikkel Jarle Christensen and Jesper Hjortenberg

New group leader joining the Finsen Lab and BRIC will investigate tumour evolution in response to therapeutic pressure

As of 1 September 2026, Ferran Fece de la Cruz is appointed group leader in a joint position between the Finsen Laboratory and BRIC. Ferran comes from a position as Instructor in Medicine at the Krantz Family Center for…

Two tenure-track assistant professors appointed to the Department of Anthropology

Since 1 July and 1 August, the department has been enriched by the appointment of no fewer than two tenure-track assistant professors.

Caring Surveillance: Ambiguities of fieldwork in a criminal landscape in Eastern Romania

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has published an article in The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology.

Joe Dauer: To know how students learn, we must first know how they think 

In the intersection between educational research and cognitive psychology, Professor Joe Dauer investigates what makes knowledge stick.

The Hall of Mirrors: Spying, Surveillance and Ethnographic Method

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby and Associate Professor Matthew Carey have co-edited a special issue in The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology.

Thomas Daubjerg Madsen appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences

As of 1 September 2026, Thomas Daubjerg Madsen is appointed Assistant Professor and group leader at the Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMI) in a position of four years following funding from the Novo Nordisk…

Geopolitics at Eye Level: New Event Series Invites Young People to Explore Global Power Dynamics

UCPH Geopolitics partners with the Danish Foreign Policy Society U35 and the University Library in Fiolstræde.

CIP hosts international conference on sociolinguistics and AI

From 19-21 August 2026, researchers from around the world gathered at the University of Copenhagen's South Campus for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI 2026, hosted by the AI-UNI research group.

Surveillance Demystified: Cultivating Fearlessness through ‘Apotropaic Belittlement’ in Turkey and Its Diaspora

What is it like when the state is potentially listening in on every conversation you have?

New PhD fellow Nadia Fleur Fernandes

Section of film studies and creative media industries welcomes PhD fellow Nadia Fleur Fernandes from September 1, 2026.

New book on Women’s Film Histories in Scandinavia

New book out on Women’s Film Histories in Scandinavia: Historiography, Screenwriting and Costume with chapters by Eva Novrup Redvall, Anne Jerslev and Helle Kannik Haastrup from UCPH.

"Seven promises and letdowns of urgent image collections of violence: The curse of the archive"

Why do people risk their lives and wellbeing to work with images of violence despite knowing that it is unlikely their work will lead to justice?