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Research project to study digital platforms’ online communities receives distinguished grant

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A new research project on online communities on digital platforms has received an ERC Starting Grant. In the project, Assistant Professor Blake…

RESEARCHER’S PERSPECTIVE: When Power Rewrites History

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DR.dk recently reported on how the Trump administration is demanding that American museums remove “divisive narratives” and instead celebrate a…

Democracy is a conversation we will never be done with.

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On June 10, 2025, Mikkel Thorup, Professor of the History of Ideas at Aarhus University, defended his doctoral dissertation: “Rogue Democracy – an…

RESEARCHER'S PERSPECTIVE: "The US Turns Its Gaze Toward Europe – Again"

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Denmark takes over the EU Presidency on July 1, 2025, at a time of heightened geopolitical tension. The United States is once again turning its…

ERC Advanced Grant to Professor Ciara Kierans

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Professor Ciara Kierans has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the research project FILTERSCAPE – a research project that examines how nature,…

New research maps the presence of Buddhism in the Nordic countries

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In a new joint Nordic research collaboration, religious studies scholar Jørn Borup from Aarhus University, together with colleagues from across the…

RESEARCHER'S PERSPECTIVE: Group Singing Strengthens Democracy

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Researchers from the Unit for Song Studies at Aarhus University have published the first nationwide study of Danes' relationship with group singing.…

Amber, art and forgotten stories – Archaeologists investigate amber workshop from the end of the Ice Age

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One of Europe's oldest workshops for amber art is currently the subject of new excavations by a Danish-German research team. The site at Grabow in…

Aarhus University opens digital library for ancient Greek texts

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How can computers and algorithms be used to analyze ancient Greek texts such as the biblical texts and other texts by e.g. Plato, Sophocles and…

Join the new Masterclass and Mentorship Programme in Computational Humanities

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Are you a humanities researcher at Aarhus University looking to integrate computational and data science approaches into your research?

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Events

Learning from tripping and learning from reading

9 Sep
Tuesday 9 September 2025, at 11:00 Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C, building 1483, room 312 and online

Interacting Minds Centre Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Mette Leonard Høeg, postdoctoral researcher, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University

Long occupation of the Abbasid urban settlement of Jumeirah (Dubai). Recent advances, future perspectives, and lessons from complex network modelling

9 Sep
Tuesday 9 September 2025, at 11:00 Urbnet

Speaker: Dr. Agnieszka Lic, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Aesthetic seminar - The production of machine vision’s aesthetic score. With Nicolas Malevé.

11 Sep
Thursday 11 September 2025, at 14:15 Kasernen, Building 1584, Door A, Room 112. Langelandsgade 145, 8000 Aarhus C

All are welcome to Aesthetic seminar.

CAS Futures Lecture: Religion in an Urban World – Pasts and Futures

11 Sep
Thursday 11 September 2025, at 15:30 Nobel Auditorium

Lecture by Jörg Rüpke. NB! Registration is required! 

The tongue | Die tong by Mercy Kannemeyer (South Africa) and Claire French (Aarhus University).

11 Sep
Thursday 11 September 2025, at 16:00 Kabinet-Scene, Teater Katapult, Godsbanen, 8000 Aarhus C

South African playwright and screenwriter Mercy Kannemeyer joins us in Aarhus to read her new co-authored play with Claire French and others.

Friday Writing Café @IMC

12 Sep
Friday 12 September 2025, at 10:00 IMC, AU Nobelparken, building 1483, room 312

An open, selforganized space for doing concentrated writing

Fratrædelsesforelæsning ved Professor Lis Møller

12 Sep
Friday 12 September 2025, at 14:15 Kasernen, Store Sal. Bygning 1585. Langelandsgade 143, 8000 Aarhus C

Fin-de-siècle Diana. Den nye protagonisttype har modviljen mod den victorianske kvinderolle til fælles med the New Woman, men er også en dødsensfarlig…

Impact & Dissemination: a workshop for postdoctoral researchers

16 Sep
Tuesday 16 September 2025, at 09:30 Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C, building 1483, room 312 and online

This event is organised for Postdoc Appreciation Week by the Junior Researchers Association, IMC, with support from the Faculty of Health

What is going on here?

16 Sep
Tuesday 16 September 2025, at 13:00 Festsalen, room A222, building A (7210), Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NV

A Journey of Discovery into the Conditions of Children’s Social Fantasy Play in Danish Daycare.

PhD defence by Nils Falk Hansen, MA.

Erasing Communities: Coloniality, Racial Banishment, and Denmark’s Ghetto Policies

18 Sep
Thursday 18 September 2025, at 14:15 Nobelsalen (1485-123)

Lecture by Dr. Amani Hassani, Brunel, University of London followed by Q&A led by discussant Professor Louise Fabian, History of Ideas, AU.

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