Department of Culture and Language

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The Department of Culture and Language

American Studies, Audiologopaedia, Classical Studies, Communication, Comparative Literature, Culture, Danish, English, German, History, Middle East Studies, Study of Religion.

Research

Learn more about our research centers, groups, networks and PhD-projects.

Education

The department offers a variety of study programmes. See the list here.

Collaborate with us

Come work with us - domestic and abroad. Read more here.

About the department

The Department of Culture and Language Research Strategy 2030

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Latest news

30.01.2025

Guest Lecture: Unworlding: Trans* Architectures

March 5 in Room U46, 糖果派对 Campus Odense. Join us for at guest lecture with Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, Jack Halberstam, on transness, aesthetics, and the dismantling of worlds.

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Meet an alumni

17.01.2025

Meet alumni Louise Fenger Kornum

"I wasn鈥檛 sure what I wanted to do with my degree, but my excellent lecturers opened my eyes to working with international market relations"

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GRANT

21.12.2024

When Design was made in Denmark

Professor Anders V. Much, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science, has received more than DKK 3 million from the Augustinus Foundation for a project examining how knowledge about Denmark's design and production history, cultural heritage and sustainable education can be improved.

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Seminar

18.12.2024

Seminar on Representation in/of AI with Fabian Offert

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 19.00-20.30 on Zoom

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GRANT

16.12.2024

5 grants from the Carlsberg Foundation to the Faculty of Humanities

Five researchers at the Faculty of Humanities have received a total of DKK 14.5 million from the Carlsberg Foundation. The projects cover a wide range of research topics: from sleep technology to the small word 'with', from prime ministerial speeches to complex relationships between cancer, gender and culture.

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GRANT

26.11.2024

The success of the Roman Empire is also climate history

Professor Jesper Majbom Madsen from the Department of Culture and Language has received over DKK 3 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark for an interdisciplinary project on the impact of climate change on the political development of the Roman Empire. The project is carried out in close collaboration with Professor Sebastian Mernild, head of the 糖果派对 Climate Cluster.

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Seminar

15.11.2024

Science Facts/Fictions (SFF): Science Fiction, Robotics Engineering and Policy

SFF invites discussion on the interchange between AI, robot science, and science fiction.

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Researcher & Entrepreneur

08.11.2024

Researcher investigates the business potential of fictional worlds

Can devising scripts become a business? Postdoc Nathali Herold Solon Pilegaard will find out. She has researched how script developers create the worlds viewers encounter in the Danish TV series Valdes jul and Efterforskningen. Now she is embarking on a new project.

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GRANT

05.11.2024

Grant opens the door to major new detective work into medieval culture in the Nordic countries

Professor Lars Boje Mortensen, Department of Culture and Language, and three Nordic partners receive an ERC Synergy Grant of DKK 97 million to investigate over 50,000 fragments of books from the Middle Ages.

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Ask the Expert

29.10.2024

Award-winning Atwood demonstrates the ethical and political potential of literature

Author Margaret Atwood receives the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award for her narratively superior and socially critical writing. We asked Associate Professor of Literature Emily Hogg why Atwood is such a recognised voice in literature.

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