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Nightlife

2026.03.04

Young people fear drugging in nightlife – but almost never report it

Young people – especially women – increasingly fear being drugged, and the phenomenon is more…

Appointment

2025.12.03

Karen Waltorp and Stine Krøijer appointed professors at the Department of Anthropology

As of November 2025, Karen Waltorp and Stine Krøijer both hold titles of professors following UCPH’…

Awards

2025.12.01

Green Neighbourhood Communities receives the Royal Couple’s Community Award and the Nordic Council Environment Prize

Green Neighbourhood Communities (Grønne Nabofællesskaber) mobilises through activities such as…

Crime

2025.11.28

New national research centre to advance knowledge on crime and justice

The Centre for Global Criminology at the Department of Anthropology is being expanded into a new…

2025.11.24

Youths, Media and Performance: How Young People Remember Violent Pasts

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler and Research Fellow at Leipzig University Sina Emde have edite…

2025.11.10

Gameful Relating: How young offenders gain agency in criminal rehabilitation and restorative justice

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has, together with Clara Rosa Sandbye, published the articl…

Award

2025.10.15

Ida Vandsøe Madsen is Teacher of the Year 2025 at the Department of Anthropology

Ida is recognised as Teacher of the Year 2025.

Grant

2025.09.22

New grant for research project on cervical cancer among female migrant workers in the global south

Associate Professor Anja Simonsen and Professor Tine Gammeltoft from the Department of Anthropology…

2025.09.11

Resonant Ethnography: Understanding the World Through Writing

New Book by Helle Bundgaard and Anne Line Dalsgård

2025.08.19

Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism

New book by Assistant Professor Christina Jerne

2025.08.13

Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

Associate Professor Kristoffer Albris and Professor Morten Axel Pedersen have contributed to this…

Award

2025.07.09

Atreyee Sen is awarded the MSc in Global Development Teaching Prize

Congratulations to Professor Atreyee Sen for receiving the MSc in Global Development Teaching Prize…

Digital habits

2025.06.26

Screen time: Passive and solitary use makes us most dissatisfied

What lies behind our dissatisfaction with our screen use – and why does the dissatisfaction rarely…

Appointment

2025.06.24

Anja Simonsen admitted to the Young Academy

Associate Professor Anja Simonsen has been admitted to the Young Academy under the Royal Danish…

2025.05.26

Still here: age and generational time

Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte contributed ‘Still here: age and generational time’ to a Special…

2025.05.21

Risk, Improvisation, and Emergency Governance on the Mediterranean Sea

Associate Professor Anja Simonsen has contributed the article "Risk, Improvisation, and Emergency…

2025.04.10

Configuring the carbon farmer Emerging practices of carbon accounting and biochar engagements in Danish agriculture

Inge-Merethe Hougaard has authored a chapter in the book The Cultural Complexity of Carbon.

2025.04.09

Making Resources in Northern Uganda

Susan Reynolds Whyte has edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Peace and Security Studies.

Artificial intelligence

2025.04.01

New national centre to strengthen responsible use of artificial intelligence

As part of its strategic AI initiative, the Danish government has taken a groundbreaking step by…

2025.03.24

Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has together with Alexander Supartono published the article…