Ana Kanareva-Dimitrovska has for years worked to promote multilingualism and intercultural understanding. Her efforts have led the French Ministry of Culture to appoint her a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Researchers in Sound Studies, Associate Professor Marie Koldkjær Højlund and PhD student Sissel Raahede Lundgård, have become members of an international working group on ISO standards in acoustics and soundscapes. Here, they will contribute knowledge and experience on how good sound environments…

A new Open Access article in the renowned journal Antiquity sheds new light on glass production, glass recycling, trade and settlement in one of the hubs of antiquity, the area around the Red Sea, today southern Jordan. Using high-precision analyses of glass from Khirbet al-Khalde – a military…

Professor Rubina Raja has been awarded the Carlsberg Memorial Grant from the Carlsberg Foundation for the podcast series Urban Opinion, which makes new knowledge about urban archaeology and cultural heritage available to a wide audience.

A new research project examines how the popular movements around the year 1900 helped shape Danes' trust in each other and in democracy – a cultural heritage that still characterises our society today. Senior researcher Sasja Emilie Mathiasen from the Centre for Grundtvig Research will lead the…

Two young history students from Aarhus University have won the international ICOM Young Member Award 2025 for their teaching courses on minorities, developed in collaboration with The Old Town in Aarhus.

Mette Lind Kusk, Postdoc at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, receives the Danish Ethnographic Society's Dissemination Award 2025. She is honoured for her pioneering work in connecting drawing and graphic forms of expression with ethnography – especially in the comic strip "Nuances:…

An international research team based at Aarhus University and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has mapped almost 300,000 kilometres of Roman roads – more than 100,000 kilometres more than previously known. The results are published in the scientific journal Nature Scientific Data and provide a…

Professor Anna Tsing in team winning an €8.33m grant, European Research Council Synergy Grant, for project rethinking ways of life for a sustainable planet.

The Irish anthropologist Ciara Kierans has been appointed professor of anthropology at Aarhus University, effective 1 November 2025. She conducts research at the intersection of health and the environment – with a particular focus on pollution, river basins and planetary health.