News – University of Copenhagen

Invitation to Europa Nostra Award ceremony

2021.10.28

In the spring, Dr Christina Margariti, former Marie Sklodowska Curie scholar with Marie Louise Nosc…

Origin of domestic horses finally established

2021.10.20

Horses were first domesticated in the Pontic-Caspian steppes, northern Caucasus, before conquering…

Refugee integration requires handheld solutions

2020.07.01

In 2016, a number of researchers established the unconventional research and integration project…

New research project will tell the entangled history of the Lesser Antilles

2019.12.10

In history books, the islands of the eastern Caribbean, the Lesser Antilles, are described as small…

New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia

2018.05.09

A new study has discovered that horses were first domesticated by descendants of hunter-gatherer…

The Roman period main harbour of ancient Corinth discovered

2017.12.13

University of Copenhagen and Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities archaeologists and geoarchaeologist…

Scandinavia’s earliest farmers exchanged terminology with Indo-Europeans

2017.09.29

5,000 years ago, the Yamnaya culture migrated into Europe from the Caspian steppe. In addition to…

Stanley Ulijaszek appointed honorary professor at CoRe

2017.02.24

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, Oxford University, has been granted an honorary professorship in healt…

New project will improve quality of life and health for older people in Greenland

2017.01.23

The number of older people in Greenland is growing these years, but currently little is known about…

Archaeologists connect ancient Corinth's inner and outer harbours

2016.12.20

Researchers from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and the University of Copenhagen are…

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication

2016.12.05

Recent archaeological studies have suggested that the cultivation of morphologically wild plant…

We are obsessed with body fat

2016.07.11

Nutritional anthropologist Stanley Ulijaszek and historian Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen discuss our…

Danish archaeologist discovers the remains of ancient naval base in Athens

2016.06.09

Marine archaeologist Bjørn Lovén from the University of Copenhagen has - with a team of Greek…

New project to explore the influence of colonial concepts

2015.10.27

Martin Müller has been awarded 1.7 million DKK by The Danish Council for Independent Research –…

Spotlight on the societal history of nuclear energy

2015.06.17

The Saxo Institute is part of a new EU financed interdisciplinary research project on the history o…

Food Waste in Denmark and Sweden

2015.02.27

Sebastian Abrahamsson has been granted 212.195 Euro and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at…

Saxo researcher receives Elite Research travel grant

2015.02.26

Today, Vivi Lena Andersen, PhD Fellow at Centre for Textile Research (CTR), Saxo Institute, and…

Six new Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships

2015.02.19

The Research Executive Agency (REA) at the EU Commission has granted six individual Marie…

New special issue of Ethnologia Europaea

2015.02.03

European Ethnology Revisited is the title of this new special issue of Ethnologia Europaea which…

Exploring images of fatness

2014.12.12

Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen has received 1.6 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation for a…

Spotlight on tensions between the law and the people in ancient Greece

2014.12.11

Anders Dahl Sørensen, Department of Greek and Latin at the Saxo Institute, has received 1.2 million…

Anne Løkke receives research prize from the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs

2014.11.19

Anne Løkke, professor at the Saxo Institute, is this years’ recipient of the Danish Association of…

Ancient Greek port uncovered

2014.11.13

Bjørn Lovén, Saxo Institute, is involved in the so-called Lechaion Harbour Project which has…

Videos from doctoral thesis defence on comparative world history of universal empires

2014.10.09

Watch Peter Fibiger Bang's doctoral thesis defence on comparative world history of universal empire…

Nostalgia and Identity in Putin's Russia under the spotlight

2014.10.08

Matthew Dal Santo has received 1.7 million DKK from The Danish Council for Independent Research for…

Aske Juul Lassen receives gerontology prize

2014.10.07

At the Danish Gerontological Society Conference October 3rd, Aske Juul Lassen, Copenhagen Centre fo…

New project to analyze the impact of digitization of the past

2014.10.01

The VELUX FOUNDATION has granted 5.9 million DKK to a project based at the Saxo Institute and heade…

New project to study the everyday encounter between asylum seekers and local residents in rural Denmark

2014.09.30

Birgitte Romme Larsen has received 2.2 million DKK from The Danish Council for Independent Research…

New book: "Military Intervention and a Crisis of Democracy in Turkey: The Menderes Era and its Demise"

2014.09.18

The Turkish army’s coup in 1960 reflects a deep structural conflict that has affected Turkish…

New publication: "Civilians at War: From the Fifteenth Century to the Present"

2014.07.24

To better understand present and past warfare we need to question the rigid dichotomy between…