In memoriam

2024.12.09

Remembering Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024)

The news of Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s death hit his anthropological colleagues at the University of Copenhagen very hard.

Project launch

2024.11.19

How does compassion for animals develop and take root?

Looking at Tibetans and Indians who provide care for stray animals in northern India, a new anthropological project will explore how people develop a compassion-based ethics through their encounters with animals.

Award

2024.09.20

Helle Bundgaard is Teacher of the Year at the Department of Anthropology

At the Department Day on 13 September, Associate Professor Helle Bundgaard was honoured as Teacher of the Year 2024.

Grant

2024.09.05

Project to investigate the social and political impact of migrant deaths

Every year, thousands of migrants from Africa die on their way to Europe. A new anthropological project funded by the European Research Council will examine the impact of these deaths on the bereaved.

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  Stealing and redacting: fieldwork among transnational thieves in Eastern Romania

  2024.12.09

  Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has contributed the chapter ‘Stealing and redacting:…
  
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  The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection

  2024.09.26

  Associate Professor Kristoffer Albris, has together with Karin Fast, Faltin Karlsen, Anne Kaun,…
  
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  Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards

  2024.05.29

  Together with Luca Ciabarri, associate professor Anja Simonsen has guest-edited a special issue of…
  
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  FRAGILE FUTURES: Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso

  2024.04.12

  Associate Professor Helle Samuelsen has recently published the monograph FRAGILE FUTURES:…
  

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