News about History

Easter Island population collapse never happened

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and University of Lausanne debunks the popular theory.

New Publication: Race, Slavery, and the Market

IN THE SAME SEA PI Gunvor Simonsen writes about the localization of Atlantic racism in Copenhagen in the eighteenth century and how racism shaped the lives of the Africans living in the city.

WORKING PAPER 7: Widows’ Interisland Inheritances in St. Eustatius and St. Barths, 1796-1819

In this working paper, IN THE SAME SEA Postdoc Felicia Fricke explores how Statian widows navigated interisland inheritances, looking at the impact of complex family structures and guardianship.

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow to Give Public Lecture in St. Barths

Felicia Fricke will present her recent research on an early nineteenth century trading family. The lecture will take place at 5.30pm on Wednesday 21st August in Gustavia, St. Barths.

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.

New Publication: The Paradox of Abolition

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

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

ITSS PhD Fellow Receives Grant with International Colleagues

Rasmus Christensen is collaborating with PhD students from Charles University (Prague) and Ruprecht-Karls-University (Heidelberg) to organize a graduate workshop on AI in history.

Opening HUM:Global Semester Lecture – A Resounding Success!

The HUM:Global Semester Lecture “Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia” by Dr. Jane Burbank and Dr. Frederick Cooper from New York University drew scholars, students, and the general public and fille…

New book by PRIVACY Postdoctoral Researcher Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Nuno Grancho

Together with colleagues Fabio Colonnese and Robin Schaeverbeke, Nuno Grancho edited the book Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design and wrote the introduction.

New documentary: Nobody Liked Paul

In a new documentary, Associate Professor Matthew D. C. Larsen travels through the worlds of the apostle Paul using archaeology to imagine how folks in the cities he visited might have told his biography.

Urban Transformations and Urban Histories

Conference at Malmö University funded in part by the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES).

New Publication on the Writings of Christian Protten, 1715-1769

ITSS team members have contributed to a new volume about the life of this West African missionary.

Danish scribes and German Bibles

Biblical paraphrases in the local language were popular in the late Middle Ages. In 1482 a Danish scribe completed a Low German paraphrase of Old Testament books.

New visiting professor - Dr. Dexnell Peters

From 24th April to 6th May 2024, IN THE SAME SEA will be hosting historian Dr. Dexnell Peters (University of the West Indies) as a visiting professor in Copenhagen. Read more here!

Interview with Dr. Pernille Røge

In December 2023, ITSS PhD fellow Gabriëlle La Croix sat down with Dr. Pernille Røge to talk about Dr. Røge’s work at the University of Pittsburgh and about her thoughts on Atlantic history and trans-imperial research.

New student assistant - Mikkel Bjerrum-Bohr

ITSS has a new student assistant who brings us expertise in the Spanish language! Read about his role in the project here.

The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen

The Low German law codex AM 2 4to contains the younger redaction of the Land Law of Dithmarschen. A later addition in Danish describes the conquest of Dithmarschen by the Kingdom of Denmark in 1559.

Call for papers: History Teaching and Public Memory of Recent Past. Experiences and perspectives from South East Europe

Call for papers for workshop in Podgorica, Montenegro, 16-17 October 2024.