News from the Faculty of Arts

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…

Are the voices of public authorities perceived as trustworthy or alienating? The public engagement project Stemmeboxen critically examines the use of text-to-speech technology and the synthetic voices used by public authorities in digital citizen services.

New rules on the labelling of AI-generated content will enter into force on 2 August 2026. A working group established by the European Commission, chaired by Anja Bechmann, professor of Media Studies at Aarhus University, is developing a code of conduct to help content producers comply with the…

Independent Research Fund Denmark has awarded DKK 2,162,851 for an International Postdoc to PhD student Mikkel-Theis Paulsen. He will be integrating Copenhagen's first playhouse, 'Skauborg' from 1663, and its connection to the Dutch theater scene into Danish literary and cultural history. The…

Children experience encounters with cultural institutions such as museums and theatres in very different ways. This is one of the findings of the research project BØV – Children’s Encounters with the National Cultural Heritage, conducted by researchers from Aarhus University. In collaboration with…

David Charles Harvey has been appointed Professor of Critical Heritage Studies at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University. He took up the position from 1 March 2026.

Julia Föcker is Professor of Special Needs Education at DPU, Aarhus University. For several years, she has led the development of gamified learning technologies for children with visual impairments and blindness, collaborating closely with experts in neuropsychology, engineering, design, and…