Professor Mette Løvschal takes us on a journey over thousands of years when she uncovers the history of heath and pasture landscapes. Her research doesn’t only tell us about the past. It also makes us wiser about human-made nature today – from East Africa to East Jutland. Now Mette Løvschal receives…

Marie Vejrup Nielsen will serve as acting head of the School of Culture and Society when Andreas Roepstorff steps down on 15 May 2023.

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters recently appointed ten new members of the Class of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Anja Bechmann from Aarhus University has been appointed to one of these prestigious posts.

Associate Professor Rikke Toft Nørgård from the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University is the Coordinator of a new cross-European consortium. Research institutions, cultural organisations and creative industries are working together to develop new models for collaboration between culture,…

From 28 November to 2 December, an intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) summoned by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) will start negotiations on an international treaty to end plastic pollution. However, 13 leading plastics scientists point out that the final agreement will be…

Nicola Witcombe and nordics.info have been awarded funding by the Council of Baltic Sea States

With an ERC Starting grant, Jihan Zakarriya seeks to broaden our perspective on feminisms in the Gulf. Taking a multidisciplinary comparative approach, her team will study how the mobilization of laws are operationalising women's agencies and practices and generate political change.

Elisa Uusimäki is per 15 November appointed professor at Department of Theology

The Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award is granted to Rubina Raja for her deep-founded humanities research, which crosses disciplinary boundaries. The bestowal of the award demonstrates that humanities frontrunner research also takes place in Denmark.