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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…

2025.03.13

Fighting for visibility: online sex work and social media

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has, together with Emma Nitz, published the article…

2025.03.13

“I am not a victim of anything”: minors identified as victims of human trafficking in Italy

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has contributed the book chapter ‘“I am not a victim of…

2025.02.17

Digital Sociality across Public and Private Spheres

Professor Karen Waltorp and Professor Tom Bratrud from the University of Bergen are the editors of …

2025.02.12

Living a Cancer Surveillance Life

Professor Ayo Wahlberg has together with Julie I. P. Gislinge, Anna Byrjalsen, Klara V. Naver, Hell…

Appointment

2025.02.10

Ayo Wahlberg appointed to the Danish Council on Ethics

Professor Ayo Wahlberg has been appointed as a new member of the Danish Council on Ethics. With…

APPOINTMENT

2025.02.05

Atreyee Sen appointed professor in the Department of Anthropology

From 1 February, Atreyee Sen has been appointed professor in the Department of Anthropology.

2025.01.30

School-based social and educational support for siblings of children with cancer

Ph.D. student Minna Devantier and Professor Ayo Wahlberg has together with a team of researchers…

2025.01.23

Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has together with Nadeeka Arambewela-Colley and Kathrin Knodel…

2024.12.23

Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby and Professor Henrik Vigh have published the article ‘Our…

2024.12.09

Stealing and redacting: fieldwork among transnational thieves in Eastern Romania

Assistant Professor Trine Mygind Korsby has contributed the chapter ‘Stealing and redacting:…

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…

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…