Saxo – University of Copenhagen

Archaeologists use AI to create to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age

2026.10.09

“He’s a Jew, of course…” Popular crime novels are full of Jewish stereotypes

In Agatha Christie’s detective novels, Jewish characters are often portrayed as greedy and suspicious outsiders. Even after the Holocaust, Christie continued to write about Jews in prejudiced ways, albeit in a more indirect form. According to University of Copenhagen historian Sofie Lene Bak, this demonstrates how popular culture can contribute to the persistence of antisemitic ideas.

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INNER_LEAGUE: A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat

INNER_LEAGUE offers a social-bureaucratic history of the League Secretariat and how its employees shaped lasting infrastructures of multilateralism.

Radical Pietism in Northern Europe: Social Protest on the Verge of Modernity

This research project accounts for the remarkable surge in radical Pietism in the Holy Roman Empire, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from the 1690s, when religious fervor soared, to the 1750s when it eventually subsided.

FORTIS: Fortified Island. Militarisation, Conflict and Communities on Iron Age Bornholm

Fortified Island (FORTIS) investigates prehistoric forts on Bornholm and their societal context.

Arrival Tracks: Train Stations as Affective Infrastructures in Times of Displacement (TRACKS)

This project examines train stations as affective arrival infrastructures in Hamburg and Copenhagen across three moments of forced displacement.

Skin Health: New Biocultural Zones of Contact

Humanistic research about skin, skin health in everyday life, skin care, relations between scientific, commercial and skincare practices, theoretical vocabularies about skincare and theoretical concepts in skincare research.

Code and Conspiracy: Antisemitism in Denmark After 1945 (ASIDE)

The project Code and Conspiracy: Antisemitism in Denmark After 1945 (ASIDE) funded by DFF investigates the dynamics of modern antisemitism in Danish society.

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Archaeologists use AI to create to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age

“He’s a Jew, of course…” Popular crime novels are full of Jewish stereotypes

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Classical Archaeology

Ethnology

Greek and Latin

History

Prehistoric Archaeology

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Joint research projects

INNER_LEAGUE: A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat

Radical Pietism in Northern Europe: Social Protest on the Verge of Modernity

FORTIS: Fortified Island. Militarisation, Conflict and Communities on Iron Age Bornholm

Arrival Tracks: Train Stations as Affective Infrastructures in Times of Displacement (TRACKS)

Skin Health: New Biocultural Zones of Contact

Code and Conspiracy: Antisemitism in Denmark After 1945 (ASIDE)

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Archaeology and place-making – a sustainable archaeology by and for its community (Isle of Arran, Scotland)

Exploring Applied Archaeology. Towards a socially sustainable development-led archaeology.

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“He’s a Jew, of course…” Popular crime novels are full of Jewish stereotypes

Gunvor Simonsen appointed professor of history