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The Paul Auster Research Library Visiting Fellowship

2026 University of Copenhagen The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies calls for applications for the one-month annual Paul Auster Research Library Visiting Fellowship, University of Copenhagen, 2025 or…

Christian Kock publishes monograph on ’moving forms’

The book offers a theory of formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience – a project resembling Aristotle’s in the Poetics. It cuts across all genres of literature and also includes…

Festschrift for Eva Andersson Strand

Friday 13 September we held a surprise reception for Professor Eva Andersson Strand, head of centre at CTR.

Are you writing your thesis this fall?

At Copenhagen University Library, South Campus we can help you find relevant literature for your projects. We offer a one-hour personal session in information retrieval when you are about to write your BA-thesis or your…

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…

A Prayer Book for the Entire Year — And Every Occasion

December means another year is coming to a close, at least according to our modern secular calendar. The liturgical year, on the other hand, has just begun with the first Sunday of Advent. A sixteenth-century prayer boo…

Let me guide you through this! The interaction between scribe and readers in the main manuscript of Konungs skuggsjá

The oldest and most complete manuscript of the Old Norwegian Konungs skuggsjá, AM 243 bα fol., offers a treasure trove of knowledge on various subjects. This immense encyclopaedic and didactic work can be hard to…

New book from Nordicom

New book from Nordicom: Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in Scandinavia: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multiplatform Era.

Learned prehistory and Danish genealogies

A miscellany manuscript written by several hands contains some genealogical material thought to derive from a lost Icelandic saga known as *Skjǫldunga saga.

Dissecting Love in The Ninetheenth Century and Beyond

The Where Love Happens research group welcomed a group of international researchers to dissect love at the Medical Museum on a one-day symposium.

Romanticism and Love Special Collection for RÊVE

View the Where Love Happens Special Collection to RÊVE.

An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga

A previously unidentified fragment can now be shown to contain the educational poem De venditione Joseph by Petrus Riga.

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen celebrates the University Post's 50th birthday with an article in Politiken

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen from Section of Media Studies and Søren Eilers from Department of Mathematical Sciences write about why it is important to celebrate that the news medium survived for the past five decades.

New honorary doctors change our view of the past

At the university's traditional annual celebration, Årsfesten, in November, the new honorary doctors at UCPH are appointed. This year, the Faculty of Humanities is appointing two of the 11 new honorary doctors.

Chapter on Writing for children and young audiences

New chapter by Eva Novrup Redvall on screenwriting for children and audiences for The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies. Find more information.

The Paul Auster Research Library Visiting Scholar

We are honoured to be able to host one of the most important scholars on Auster’s work, François Hugonnier is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Angers.

Call for Papers: Occultism and Popular Culture in Europe

Date: 22-23 November 2023 Location: Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen There has been a long cultural fascination with the macabre, horrific, and downright creepy across…

Three new publications

In connection with the project Infrastrukturalisme funded by the Carlsberg Foundation three new publications has been published.

The Paul Auster Research Library Visitors 2023 and 2024

We are honoured to be able to host one of the most important scholars on Auster’s work, François Hugonnier is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Angers. He is the author of several pieces on…

New publication: Les interdits de la représentation

Book by François Hugonnier’s Les interdits de la représentation. Paul Auster, Jerome Rothenberg was published by Editions Otrante in October 2022.

New book on Malaria Immunology – including cutting-edge methods and protocols

During the last few years, Professor Lars Hviid and Professor Anja Ramstedt Jensen from Centre for Medical Parasitology at the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, UCPH, have spent many, many hours editing this…