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.

In a busy workday, reading and discussing literature can offer a way to strengthen well-being and foster a sense of community in a workplace like a hospital. At least, that’s the view of the researchers behind the project "Narrative Medicine in Clinical Practice," who have previously investigated…

As generative AI becomes an increasingly prominent part of daily life, friendly and even romantic relationships with chatbots have become a reality. But what happens when we no longer share our thoughts only with other people, but also with machines? Researchers from the School of Communication and…

How do we understand mental illness through culture, language, and texts—and what does that reveal about the dominant norms and discourses of our time? These are the questions explored in a new Master's Course in Scandinavian Languages and Literature. The topic is highly relevant in a period when…

In 2015, cognitive science was introduced as a bachelor’s degree at Aarhus University — the first of its kind in Denmark. From the very first intake, the programme attracted great interest. Now, ten years later, nearly 900 applicants have competed for 80 study places. The journey has been driven by…

The Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University leads a large EU-funded research network that will investigate how climate and environmental change affects human health – across Africa and Europe.

Jussi Parikka, professor of Digital Design and Information Science, together with his collaborator, artist Abelardo Gil-Fourniers, participates in the official exhibition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale with their video essay "Lumi", which means snow in Finnish. The large video installation…