UCPH Global - selected news

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…

Case challenge

2021.04.07

A student solution for Brazil's mass vaccination problem

A multidisciplinary team consisting of five students from Global Health, Global Development, and Medicine represented the University of Copenhagen at the 2021 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition.

2021.04.06

Ny blogserie: Mit liv med Kina del 2

I denne serie af blogindlæg fortæller Jørgen Delman om sit arbejde med og i Kina, og hvad han har lært af det. Dette er anden del.

2021.04.06

Hans Olsson writes article on COVID-19, food shortages, and Christian farming in South Africa

In this article Hans Olsson puts focus on the relationship between religion and farming in South Africa and discusses how a Christian model to grow food enters questions of social and ecological sustainability.…

2021.03.30

Stig Jensen discusses the African football association CAF and their new president, Patrice Motsepe

The African football association CAF has a new president, after Ahmad Ahmad from Madagascar had to resign due to corruption. The new man at the helm is the South African business man and mining billionaire Patrice…