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Karen Lauterbach publishes paper on Music as Knowledge Production

Newly published research from Karen Lauterbach and colleagues followed a Ghanaian highlife band and community musicians producing music on water research

KU Geopolitics has entered into a partnership with Ukraine House in Denmark

KU Geopolitics has launched a new collaboration—with Ukraine House in Denmark. Together with the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES) and HUM:Global, Ukraine House in Denmark and KU Geopolitics have launched a…

A new chapter in the fight against child malnutrition

Researchers, clinicians, and policy partners gathered in Mwanza, Tanzania, from 5-8 October to officially launch the RECOVER project.

Culture Night 2026

As part of this year's culture night in Copenhagen, the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences welcomed the visitors to explore the world of microbes. You could learn about hygiene, food safety, vaccines and…

Amanda Hammar and Susann Heidecke launch ID-OLOGY podcast

Amanda Hammar and Susann Heidecke from the CERTIZENS research project launches ID-OLOGY, a seven-part podcast series on changing national ID systems in Africa

New CMS-report: From The High North to Outer Space

This report analyses, how Danish ambitions in the space domain and the desire for a stronger military presence in Greenland and the Arctic can support one another?

CAS Postdoc Edwin Ambani Ameso convenes panel on African Agency in Platform and AI Futures

In late August Edwin Ambani Ameso, ModelFutures postdoc convened a panel at the 2026 VAD/SGAS conference “African Perspectives on Global Transformations” in Basel, Switzerland. The panel Ameso co-convened took the…

Karen Lauterbach contributes new chapter on charismatic Christianity in Ghana

Karen Lauterbach has contributed a new chapter examining the experiences of young charismatic pastors in Ghana to a new scholarly volume on Pentecostalism in postcolonial Africa.

Experience IVH after dark

On Friday 9 October from 6 pm to 11 pm, Culture Night comes to Frederiksberg Campus.

Podcast: Living the PhD life

Frederik Pedersen recently joined the University of Copenhagen podcast Culture & Cultures to talk about life as a PhD student.

Students address menstrual health challenges in Kibera at the SDG Innovation Challenge 2026

Through collaboration, creativity, and design thinking, 40 students from different universities came together at the UCPH SDG Innovation Challenge 2026 to explore solutions for menstrual health challenges in Kibera.

Narwhals help researchers uncover unique data from the deepest East Greenland fjords

For the first time, researchers have used data from narwhals to document how Atlantic water reaches deep into fjords along Greenland’s east coast.

Nationalism and Education in the Arctic: A Study of Greenland in the Context of the Kingdom of Denmark

Benedikte Brincker, Department of Sociology, UCPH, and Mitdlarak Lennert, Institute of Society, Economics and Journalism, University of Greenland have co-authored this article in Nations and Nationalism.

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.

New study pinpoints Europe’s most critical wetlands for climate action

Europe must restore at least 30% of degraded wetlands within the next four years, but where should efforts be prioritised? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen now offer an answer with the first detailed map of…

Cecilia Passanti discussed the “Agora of the Digital” at the Social Innovation Pavilion in Nairobi

Postdoc Cecilia Passanti contributed to Georges Eyenga Macaire chapter titled ‘Digital technologies in support of material security and the rule of law’ - with her idea of the ‘agora of the digital’. She presented this…

CAS featured on Radio IIII on Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

Associate professors Stig Jensen and Karen Lauterbach feature on three different episodes of Radio IIII regarding the Ebola virus outbreak in DR Congo.

Critical Perspectives on the 2026 World Cup

In a recent Politiken article, Associate Professor Stig Jensen and our former CAS student, Buster Emil Kirchner highlights the need to approach the World Cup in the United States, Mexico, and Canada with the same level…

Leapfrogging Care in Africa: Reflections from the Point Süd 2026 Conference at Makerere University, Kampala: Uganda

From 18 to 22 May 2026, Edwin Ambani Ameso joined the Point Süd 2026 Workshop on Green and Digital Futures: Rethinking the Twin Transition in Africa in an Era of Multiple Crises, hosted at the College of Humanities and…

New article by Johannes Riber in the Norwegian Naval Journal

Johannes Riber, lieutenant commander and postdoc/researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, has published the article "Er den fleksible flåde stadig en succes for Danmark?" (Is the flexible fleet still a success for…

Green initiatives can cause conflict and inequality in Africa

Several African countries are keen to brand themselves through ambitious climate projects. But these green initiatives can, in some cases, fuel conflict – and because they are part of the global green transition, they…

CAS welcomes new researchers on the ERC Starting Grant Modelling African Futures

The Centre of African Studies is pleased to welcome two new postdoctoral researchers, Edwin Ambani Ameso and Cecilia Passanti, as well as PhD Fellow Timothy Elikem Harvor. All three join the ERC-funded project Modelling…

Elephant genomes reveal a past of continental connectivity and a future of increasing isolation

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange genes throughout the African…

MA student presenting at the conference of the International Society for the Study of African Jewry (ISSAJ)

On 9-10 March 2026 our MA student Teis Fælling participated in the conference of the International Society for the Study of African Jewry (ISSAJ), held at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris.