News – University of Copenhagen

2021.03.08

Failing to see the wood for the trees may be preventing better outcomes in cardiovascular disease

Managing single risk factors like blood pressure rather than looking at overall risk may be wasting scarce resources in countries where cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise, according to a new study.

2021.03.08

New public seminar series: Asian Futures

Drawing on fresh scholarly work by researchers around the world, Asian Futures will begin a series of conversations on the shifting dynamics of Asian politics and the economy.

2021.03.02

New project looking to enhance young people’s climate crisis awareness, agency and action in Tanzania

A multidisciplinary group of researchers from the sections of Global Health and Health Services Research has been awarded DKK 12 million from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study young people’s engagement wit…

2021.03.01

Associate Professor Amanda Hammar publishes chapter in The Handbook of Displacement

CAS Associate Professor Amanda Hammar has recently had a chapter published in The Handbook of Displacement (Adey et al., Palgrave Macmillan 2020). The Handbook “provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how…

2021.01.19

Associate Professor Amanda Hammar gives the 5th JJ Bachofen Lecture

In November 2019, CAS Associate Professor Amanda Hammar was invited to give the 5th JJ Bachofen Lecture in Anthropology at the University of Basel. The title of her lecture was Speaking Through Houses: Interweaving…

COPE Socials

2021.01.12

World Disasters Report, 2020: Come Heat or High Water

On December 17, 2020, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted an online talk with Maarten van Aalst, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and Kirsten Hagon, Senior Analyst in the IFRC…

2021.01.12

Associate Professor Stig Jensen publishes article on tourism in Uganda during the COVID-pandemic

Associate Professor Stig Jensen publishes article on tourism in Uganda during the COVID-pandemic in Globalnyt.

2021.01.12

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)

Trial access for NNC members via the AsiaPortal. BAS is the most comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia.

2021.01.05

STUDENT ASSISTANT POSITION FOR RESEARCH PROJECT AT THE CENTRE OF AFRICAN STUDIES: CERTIZENS

The Centre of African Studies (CAS) on the South Campus of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is looking for a part-time student assistant to be part of an exciting new team of researchers from Denmark, Ghana and…

2021.01.04

Forbidden Memory and Rediscovered Images: Violence, Erasure, and the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

Recording of the ADI-Inalco event based on Forbidden Memory by Tsering Woeser, edited and introduced by Robert Barnett. A panel of historians and social scientists joined them to discuss political violence, photography…

Collaboration with Researchers and Students

UCPH Global - selected news

Failing to see the wood for the trees may be preventing better outcomes in cardiovascular disease

New public seminar series: Asian Futures

New project looking to enhance young people’s climate crisis awareness, agency and action in Tanzania

Video: Making Sense of Myanmar's 1.2.21 Military Coup

4 articles about CAS students' thesis projects

The Guilty Victim - Podcast with associate professor Stig Jensen

CAS welcomes PhD fellow Hamida Massaquoi

Special issue: Calcutta characters

Video: East-West Reflections on Demonization

COPE 2020 Annual Highlights

Associate Professor Amanda Hammar publishes chapter in The Handbook of Displacement

Associate Professor Amanda Hammar gives the 5th JJ Bachofen Lecture

World Disasters Report, 2020: Come Heat or High Water

Associate Professor Stig Jensen publishes article on tourism in Uganda during the COVID-pandemic

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)

STUDENT ASSISTANT POSITION FOR RESEARCH PROJECT AT THE CENTRE OF AFRICAN STUDIES: CERTIZENS

Forbidden Memory and Rediscovered Images: Violence, Erasure, and the Cultural Revolution in Tibet