News about Languages

Official CULTMIND launch 12 September

On Tuesday 12 September, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND), the Danish National Research Foundation’s new Centre of Excellence, was officially opened with a festive reception at the Faculty of Humanities.

Plenary talk at an international symposium at the University of Lleida

Petra Daryai-Hansen is invited as plenary speaker at the international Symposium “Issues in English-medium instruction in Higher Education: Global competence, plurilingual competence and disciplinary literacies”,…

New Podcast: Language Use at the University of Copenhagen

CIPs has just released the podcast "Language Use at KU," and the first episode is about international staff teaching in Danish as a second language at the University of Copenhagen.

European Day of Languages 2023

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited to give a presentation on language awareness across languages, subjects, and educational levels at the official celebrations of the European Day of Languages, 26 September 2023,…

Final stakeholder workshop

The PE-LAL project held a final stakeholder workshop with the theme ‘Plurilingual education in language subjects in primary and lower secondary school and in Almen Sprogforståelse in upper secondary school’. The aim of…

A Copenhagen School in Argumentation Studies

The volume Rhetorical Argumentation : The Copenhagen School, edited by Christian Kock and Marcus Lantz, is now available digitally.

New podcast episode with postdoc Johan Farkas

This podcast focuses on journalism studies research and is presented by the Nordic open access journal Journalistica.

Matthew Scarborough receives Marie Curie fellowship

Matthew Scarborough has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship for the research project PHILGLOSSA: Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Greek: Lexicon of Substrates Analyzed. The PHILOGLOSSA project…

New grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark

Professor Slobodanka Dimova (CIP) is leading a 4-year research project supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project is titled: "Towards a new model of communicative competence in multilingual higher…

A “Copenhagen School” of argumentation studies, based at KOMM

Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric Christian Kock and Marcus Lantz, Ph.D. , have published a collection of studies on argumentation. The title is Rhetorical Argumentation: The Copenhagen School.

10th EDiLiC conference: From Early Childhood to Adulthood: Transitions, Continuity, and Disruptions in Plurilingual Education

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been appointed to organize the 10th International Conference of the Education and Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Association (EDiLiC). The 10th EDiLiC conference focused on transitions,…

Report on language learning in the workplace

Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) has published a comprehensive report on language learning in the workplace in the Nordic countries.

New research assistant: Marc Canby

New research assistant: Marc Canby

The earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago

Written sources from Mesopotamia suggest that kissing in relation to sex was practiced by the peoples of the ancient Middle East 4,500 years ago. The sources have been analysed by researchers from the University of…

Talks at the conferences NOFA and Linguapeda

In May 2023, Line Krogager Andersen participated in two different conferences: NOFA in Vaasa and Linguapeda in Jyväskylä.

New book: The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited

New book edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen and Eske Willerslev.

Increased interest in English courses for technical and administrative staff

During the first quarter of 2023, CIP has experienced an increase in inquiries about English courses for staff. Academic language consultant, Pete Westbrook, is very enthusiastic about the development.

New book: The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek

Matthew Scarborough's book on the classification of the Aeolic dialects of Greek is out now!

Talk on motivation for language learning

On April 20th, Line Krogager Andersen gave a talk on motivation for language learning at Lærfest ´23 in Aarhus, drawing on the PE-LAL project operationalization of Plurilingual Education and presenting both teaching…

Challenges international researchers face when teaching in Danish

International researchers attend Danish classes for several years in order to fulfil UCPH’s language requirements regarding teaching in Danish. Still, they are evaluated negatively by the students.

Lecture on Cross-linguistic approaches

Lecture by Line Krogager Andersen.

New structure and broadened entry requirements for courses in German and French

Registration for the August 2023 courses German and French for students going abroad is now open. The entry requirements have been broadened, and the courses in January will be structured as shorter workshops to account…

Interactive workshop focused on intercultural dynamics in teaching and learning

CIP hosted a workshop on Intercultural Dynamics 27 January 2023 designed by Danish Network for Educational Development in Higher Education (DUN). Participants from UCPH, RUC, SDU, CBS and ITU were engaged in discussions…

Professor Anne Holmen co-edits new book on translanguaging

The book Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research is published on 31 January. Professor and centre leader at CIP, Anne Holmen, is co-editor. Purchase the book at 50% off before 31…