UCPH Global - selected news

2021.06.30

Niels Kastfelt in Genstart on Boko Haram leader's presumed death

The leader of the terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has been reported dead in northern Nigeria. In a podcast for the Genstart program on Danish national radio P1 associate professor emeritus Niels Kastfelt from…

COPE Socials

2021.06.25

Understanding the transborder implications of volcanic eruptions using a holistic approach

The webinar was hosted by the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) and held on 10 June 2021. Dr. Amy Donovan, University Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, discussed recent…

2021.06.15

PhD position

The Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies invites applications for a 3-year PhD-scholarship

2021.06.09

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written two articles on nature management in Chad

Associate professor at Centre of African Studies, Stig Jensen, has written two articles, that explore nature management in Chad, and how the integrated conservation of bio-diversity in Chad has inspired the European…

2021.06.01

New Analysis: To Kinafortællinger; Det rige Kina og det sårbare Kina [Danish]

New analysis by Bertel Heurlin on the two competing China stories: the strong and the vulnerable China.

Appointment

2021.05.25

Amanda Hammar appointed Professor

The Faculty of Theology has appointed Associate Professor Amanda Hammar as Professor. In her new position as Professor of African Studies, alongside other roles and with other colleagues, she hope to combine several…

2021.05.20

Video: Making It Count

The recording of the book talk with Arunabh Ghosh is now available.

Call

2021.05.20

Call for abstracts and think pieces

Climate Change Related Displacement and Mobility in the Nordic Region: Legal and Policy Responses Are you a scholar researching climate change related displacement and mobility in the Nordic region? Would you like to…

Publication

2021.05.20

DMP knowledge base - a consolidated understanding of social media and crowdsourcing in disaster management processes

New report reviewing Social Media & Crowdsourcing (SMCS) in Disasters calling for a more people-centred approach.

Research

2021.05.17

OFF THE GRID: Identifying high-risk and unmapped areas in East Africa

Currently a billion people are missing off the ‘World Map’. Therefore, it is essential to fill into these data gaps and white spots, to render invisible lives visible on the maps of this world.

2021.05.06

New podcast: What a failed EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment could mean for European companies in China

The situation for European companies in China has turned significantly more complicated after the EU-China investment deal has been put on hold by Brussels.

New Research

2021.04.27

Water contamination: Piped-to-Plot Communal Source vs Point-of-Drinking

New research by Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen and team, as part of the larger C5 project, shows that water recontamination and post-treatment contamination at the point-of-drinking play a significant role in water…

2021.04.27

Ny Blogpost: WeChats røde konvolutter - Social kapital, symbolsk magt og gaveudveksling [Danish]

Hvad er hongbaos og hvilken betydning har de som gaveudveksling i Kina på medieplatformen WeChat?

2021.04.27

The Stabilising Anchor of the Sahel is Threatened

Associate professor at CAS, Stig Jensen has written an article on the recent killing of Chadian president Idriss Déby, and how this might have very big repercussions for the entire Sahel region. He analyses how Chad has…

2021.04.20

A year in a pandemic - Stig Jensen writes three articles on the Corona-crisis in Africa

Associate professor at CAS, Stig Jensen, has written three articles on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications and consequences on the African continent.

2021.04.15

Upcoming ChinaTalks lecture: China Goes Green - Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

ChinaTalks lecture by Judith Shapiro and Yifei Li: China Goes Green - Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet.

2021.04.15

New Publication Slides from Webinar: China's 14th Five-Year Plan

New Publication Slides from Webinar: China's 14th Five-Year Plan

2021.04.13

New article on the COVID-19 Vaccine, Christian right end-time prophecy and conspiracy theory, by Senior Guest Researcher, Primus Tazanu.

Senior Guest researcher at CAS, Primus Tazanu, publishes article on "COVID-19 vaccine, Christian right end-time prophecy, and conspiracy theory. The article pivots around COVID-19 and the vaccine, with the main point…

New Research

2021.04.12

COVID-19 in India: Who are we leaving behind?

The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered and intensified existing societal inequalities. People on the move and residents of urban slums and informal settlements are among some of the most affected groups in the Global South…

2021.04.09

New article on refugee-refugee hosting in faith-based contexts by Karen Lauterbach

Karen Lauterbach (Associate Professor at CAS) has published the article ‘’A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church’: Refugee-Refugee Hosting in a Faith Based Context’ in Migration and Society (vol. 4, issue 1). The article…