News from the Faculty of Arts

"Ulydig – Kroppen i punk" is a newly opened exhibition at ARoS, developed from a postdoctoral research project by Marie Arleth Skov from the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University in collaboration with ARoS. Skov also serves as the exhibition’s curator. Bringing together more than…

How has commercial cattle production shaped not only landscapes and wildlife, but also the relationship between people and nature in the Kalahari? AIAS-AUFF Fellow anthropologist Pierre Louis du Plessis from the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies will investigate this in a new research project…

Stine Liv Johansen, Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Culture, has received the 2026 Innovation Award from SMiD in recognition of her exemplary ability to connect academic insight, societal engagement and innovation within media studies, the association writes. SMiD is a…

AGF’s championship is a local event. But the celebration reveals something larger and more universal about how deeply we need communities in which joy, disappointment, hope, and a sense of belonging can be shared.

Recently, Francis Fukuyama, Professor of Political Science and Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University, took part in MatchPoints 2026 at Aarhus University to discuss the importance of trust in society and global politics. Ahead of the event, we spoke with him for a joint interview…

Through the browser-based research platform UCloud, researchers and students across Denmark will have access to new supercomputing power for AI, data analysis and advanced simulations.

A new podcast titled Urban Opinion is offering listeners a wide-ranging journey through the history of urban societies from the emergence of the first cities to modern metropolitan centers

A new research project with support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark will investigate the long-term local consequences of reparations to victims of war crimes. Based on cases before the International Criminal Court in Uganda and DR Congo, the researchers investigate how reparations…

For more than 30 years, Helle Vrønning Dam has been a driving force in the development of interpreting as a field of research. For her contributions, she has now been appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.

A rare find of Roman bronze vessels, made by a detector operator in the project "Veterans in Archaeology", has been taken out of the ground in Schleswig. The find may shed new light on the connections between the Nordic countries and the Roman Empire and suggests that the area played an important…