🚀 Please welcome the newest cohort of UCPH Forward! 24 extraordinary UCPH scholars with bold research ideas and big visions on how to revive the university. Biggest congratulations 🥂 Københavns Uni

In Tehran, Iran, in the year 1979, a significant event unfolded that marked a crucial moment in the struggle for women's rights in the country. Approximately 100,000 Iranian women gathered and marched against the newly implemented hijab law, which required all women to wear the

This ring, discovered in the burial site of a woman around 1,200 years ago in Birka, an ancient Viking city near present-day Stockholm, Sweden, has significant historical value. It serves as tangible proof of direct connections between the Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate.

A university is not a recruitment agency! And education does not exist to simply serve the economy. The value of an arts degree doesn't lie in a graduate's salary but in their ability to write, create, curate, argue and think critically - in this case about troubling policies

Great mentoring program in Denmark spanning academia and industry. Pay it forward and sign up with DANWISE

who's most hurt by putin blowing up the black sea grain deal:

Anna Ancher (Danish,1859-1935) - Helga reading at a table　1900　oil on canvas　private collection

#Talom Danske Universiteter. I DK bruges færre midler på videregående uddannelsesinstitutioner pr. studerende end gennemsnittet i OECD. I Danmark var omkostningerne på ca. 74.000 kr., mens gennemsnittet i OECD er på knap 94.000 kr. Link: dkuni.dk/tal-og-fakta/f… #dkuni

This #Barbie is 18th-century chic 🎀

Millions of “secondhand” garments flood Ghana’s capital each week – but much of it has never even been worn. The Or Foundation's Yvette Tetteh swam down her country’s longest river to raise awareness about the fast fashion pollution overwhelming Accra.

Fra den social-økonomiske virksomhed SheWorks i Kolding, som arbejder med design og viden fra kvinder med flygtninge- og migrantbaggrund - og med bæredygtig design: sheworks.dk #Sustainability #fashion

"At vælge modtagerne af @Carlsbergfondets Forskningspriser er både svært og vidunderligt, med så mange spændende mennesker i dansk topforskning. Årets modtagere supplerer både hinandens profiler og viser videnskabens store mangfoldighed," – Marie Louise Nosch lige nu ved #CFforskpris

So what did Vikings really look like? TV/movies tell us they looked like dollar-store biker gangs, wearing black leather, covered in dirt and allergic to colours... but in reality... they looked like 1970s pop singers. Seriously, thread time.🧵 Photo: Roberto Fortuna

We are thrilled to present next week's DIAS Wednesday Lecture by Marie Louise Nosch, President of Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Prof. at Københavns Uni The lecture takes place from 11.15-12.15 and is open to all. We hope to see you in the DIAS Auditorium

The short documentary (dir. H. Michel-Béchet) on the EuroWeb Training School in Crete on Textile Tools from Bronze Age Malia, organized by EFA, Università di Firenze and the INSTAP – SCEC, in which I participated, has just been released. Check it out! youtu.be/PZbw6dhf9s8?si…

Today i got denied my Full professorial title by the University of Sydney. For the second time. As long as it is done in the name of Queer theory Then it's Kosher. The rest, as we well know, is history. No matter what you do: being a woman means You ain't ever enough.

I en ny erklæring reflekterer ALLEA over, hvilke retningsgivende principper, der bør lægges vægt på i det kommende EU-rammeprogram for forskning og innovation. Læs deres opfordringer via royalacademy.dk/da/Aktuelt/ALL… eller nedenfor: #ALLEA #sciencepolicy #forskningspolitik

Silk is a thread that opens up the weave of human history – honored to write this piece with my brilliant colleagues Peter Frankopan and Feng Zhao aeon.co/essays/silk-is… via Aeon Magazine

✍️ As Chair of the #PACE SubCommittee on Youth met with a delegation of Danish scholars from Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab and 🇩🇰 Young Academy, led by Marie Louise Nosch! The scholars' profiles are diverse: from fashion history, social semiotics and book studies to social work and youth policy💪