UCPH Global - selected news

2021.08.30

Video: The Viral Condition

Asian Futures panel debate focusing on infrastructures of inequality in relation to vaccines and public health with Dwai Banerjee, Emilija Zabiliute and Ayo Wahlberg.

Case Challenge

2021.08.25

See the winning solutions of the Global Health Case Challenge 2021

See the winning solutions of the University of Copenhagen's seventh international Global Health Case Challenge.

New course

2021.08.24

New online course: Chronically Ill in an Emergency - Why Mental Health Matters

The University of Copenhagen have launched a new online course about integrating mental health and psychosocial support for noncommunicable diseases in humanitarian settings.

New course

2021.08.12

New online course: Urbanisation and Health – Promoting Sustainable Solutions

Join our new online course, "Urbanisation and Health – Promoting Sustainable Solutions" for free now.

2021.08.10

Associate Professor Stig Jensen discusses the African Union’s press statement on Denmark’s Alien Act.

The African Union issued in early August a strong condemnation of Denmark’s Aliens Law passed in June. The AU said: “This law effectively externalizes and exports the asylum process beyond the borders of Demark. Denmark…

Free educational resources

2021.08.06

New educational resources about innovation in global health

University of Copenhagen has produced a series of freely available modules and online lectures about innovation in global health.

2021.07.15

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

Oscar Salemink and Marina Svensson are coeditors of a theme issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies 27(8) titled "Heritagizing Asian Cities: Space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices".

OLYMPICS

2021.07.09

Tokyo 2020: From euphoria to deep worry

There was great joy and honour when the Japanese capital Tokyo was selected as host of the 2020 Olympics. Now they would show that Japan was back on the world stage again after the economic crisis in the 1990s.

2021.07.08

Blog Post: Mit liv med Kina - I clinch med et rastløst Kina

I denne serie af blogindlæg fortæller Professor emeritus Jørgen Delman om sit arbejde med og i Kina, og hvad han har lært af det.

2021.07.02

Book chapter on the personal in NGO collaboration published by Karen Lauterbach

Karen Lauterbach has published a book chapter entitled ‘‘I Will Not Tell Anyone Until You Have Left': The Ending of a Development Relationship Remembered' in a new volume on ‘NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa:…

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…

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.

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.

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.

2021.04.13

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…