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Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text – TEXT

TEXT examines how artificial intelligence has altered the conditions for the many elements and phases involved in creating and reading texts. The millennia-old tradition of […]

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Claus T Kreiner
12. March 2025

Cutting-edge research that delivers real-time impact on society

Claus Thustrup Kreiner on how CEBI generates community impact and relevance.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

DNRF Chair Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is a professor of communication whose research focuses on the changing role of news and media in society. The aim of this […]

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Aarhus Center for Econometrics (ACE)

The Aarhus Center for Econometrics (ACE) focuses on the development of econometric theory and methodology for the analysis of modern economic data and models. ACE […]

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Center for Changing Urban and Rural Lives (TRANSITION)

TRANSITION studies how the transition from rural to urban-centric societies has shaped people’s lived experiences throughout the 20th century. The transition from societies in which […]

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Rubina Raja
4. February 2025

Looking Back to Gain a Full Perspective as You Move Forward

We can only understand the present and shape the future by understanding the past.
Conversation with center leader Rubina Raja.

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Mette Birkedal Bruun.
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20. January 2025

A Historical Outlook

Conversation with professor Mette Birkedal Bruun about how the humanities can create value for and have an impact on the world outside the DNRF research center.

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Professor Ana Antic

Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND)

Can the emotional worlds of diverse groups of people be translated? Are the core characteristics of the human mind universal across cultures, ethnic groups and…

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Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

Center for Global Mobility Law (MOBILE)

MOBILE examines the foundational relationship between law and mobility to create new understandings of how different legal regimes interact, vary across regions, change over time…

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Professor Lasse Heje Pedersen

Center for Big Data in Finance (BIGFI)

The center for Big Data in Finance (BIGFI) will seek to generate a fundamentally new understanding of finance based on the rapid increase in available…

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Professor Kasper Lippert Rasmussen

Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination (CEPDISC)

In 2005-6 the Royal Danish Theatre (RDT) contemplated a discount to ethnically non-Danish theatergoers, who only constituted 0.1% of the audience in the previous season.…

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Professor Rubina Raja - head of center, UrbNet

Center for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet)

Becoming urban is widely recognized as one of the great turning points of history. The innovations, cultural entanglements and environmental exchanges afforded by urbanism led…

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Professor Peter Vuust - head of center, MIB

Center for Music In The Brain (MIB)

The Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Music In the Brain (MIB) is an interdisciplinary research center aiming at addressing the dual questions of how…

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Professor Claus Thustrup Kreiner - head of center, CEBI

Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Inequality across people in income, wealth and many other outcomes arises from differences in circumstances and differences in behavior. Much economic research on the causes…

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Professor Mette Birkedal Bruun

Center for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY)

PRIVACY aims to launch privacy studies as a new re­search field. The goal is to develop: systematized historical knowledge of dynamics that shape, induce or…

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