UCPH Global - selected news

Climate Change

2022.06.01

Climate Change made devastating early heat in India and Pakistan 30 times more likely

Since the beginning of March, India and Pakistan and large parts of South Asia experienced prolonged heat, that at the time of writing, May 2022, still hasn’t subsided.

Launch event

2022.05.25

The crisis of unintended pregnancies and the shortcomings of modern contraception

United Nation Population Fund’s (UNFPA) State of World Population Report 2022 confirms an alarming fact: almost half of all pregnancies - a total of 121 million pregnancies each year - are unintended.

2022.05.19

Mission and the Anthropology of Christianity: Africanist Perspectives

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of CAS, contributes to the newly published Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies with a chapter on ‘Mission and the Anthropology of Christianity: Africanist Perspectives’.…

2022.05.17

The Centre of African Studies hosts new visiting PhD researcher, Francis Benyah

Francis research focuses on Pentecostal/Charismatic theology and African Pentecostal Christianity with a special interest in how Pentecostal/Charismatic theology and African Pentecostal Christianity intersects and…

2022.05.16

Understanding China From Afar: Reflections on the Development and Status of China Studies in Denmark

Professors Jørgen Delman and Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg from China Studies at University of Copenhagen and University of Aarhus, respectively, have co-edited a volume introducing Danish social science and humanistic…

2022.05.03

Special issue Plastic Asia in The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

Special issue Plastic Asia in The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies edited by Trine Brox and Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko.

2022.05.02

New ThinkChina Analysis: Global City Agency and Multilevel Governance in China

Over the past few decades, cities have become increasingly active in global climate governance. This article examines how the Chinese Party-state’s institutions and governing instruments shape cities’ global agency and…

2022.04.21

New ThinkChina Video: New Danish Foreign Investment Screening Regime

Watch or re-watch the ChinaTalks lecture covering what kind of transactions that are now restricted and who will be considered foreigners under the Danish legislation on foreign investment screening.

2022.04.19

Upcoming ChinaTalks lecture: Unravelling the Interplay between Communication Technology and Society

Prof. Ran Wei will present findings from two large-scale comparative studies on consumption of mobile news and diffusion and impacts of COVID-19 misinformation in four of Asia’s IT savvy societies.

2022.04.19

The (Spiritual) Revolution, Pentecostal Belonging, and the Past in Zanzibar

Hans Olsson, Marie Curie Fellow at CAS has contributed with a chapter in the recently published book Across the Waves Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies edited by Iain Walker & Marie-Aude Fouéré…

2022.04.15

New ThinkChina Analysis: Danish-Chinese Knowledge Collaboration at a Critical Juncture

We experience more intense scrutiny of Chinese scientists working in Denmark and more critical attitudes towards the benefits of knowledge cooperation. At the same time, we note that the Chinese authorities impose…

2022.04.14

Offentlig forelæsning: Virker den vestlige økonomiske model i Asien?

Det Udenrigspolitiske Selskab og ThinkChina har inviteret Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller til at tale om: Virker den vestlige økonomiske model i Asien?

2022.04.12

Dr. Primus M. Tazanu gives keynote at 4th Biennial Conference of African Studies Association of Africa

CAS guest researcher Dr. Primus M. Tazanu delivered a keynote at the 4th Biennial Conference of African Studies Association of Africa hosted by the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town,…

2022.04.12

Karen Lauterbach gives keynote at 13th GloPent conference

CAS Director and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach has given one of three keynotes at the 13th GloPent conference on 1-2 April 2022. The international and interdisciplinary conference is organized by the European…

2022.04.04

New ThinkChina Video: US-Chinese Strategic Competition and the Consequences for Europe

ChinaTalks lecture with Liselotte Odgaard on the US-Chinese Strategic Competition and the Consequences for Europe.

EAST AFRICA CASE CHALLENGE 2022

2022.04.01

Battle of the brains

50 international students united under the slogan “Battle of the brains” in Zanzibar to come up with innovative solutions to East Africa’s challenges with food security and nutrition.

2022.04.01

Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

Torsdag den 21.april inviterer Antropologforeningen i samarbejde med Nationalmuseet til happy hour og lancering af bogen ‘Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization’ (2022) af Mikkel…

2022.03.31

Russia has many friends in Africa, but can they stand to be beaten yellow and blue?

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written article for GlobalNyt explaining that several countries in Africa see Russia as an attractive partner because they are fed up with what they perceive as the West's know-it-all…

2022.03.31

Student Insights: Luxury Consumption and Identity Creation in the Chinese Middle Class

In 2018 the Chinese luxury consumption constituted one third of the global consumption for luxuries and this is predicted to rise in the future. Additionally, the demand for luxury goods is increasing globally. China ha…

INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

2022.03.25

Combined Internship 2022

Nordic Africa Research Network (NARN) and Centre of African Studies (CAS), University of Copenhagen.