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Video installation to forge ties between staff and students

Icelandic Ragnar Kjartansson is the artist behind the new installation of non-stop video art in Maersk Tower. The investment is considered to be the crown jewel of the prestigious construction.

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Culture

University of Copenhagen history: Ole Rømer discovers that light ... hesitates

A young Danish researcher gets an article published which revolutionises science. He has not written the text – but the discovery is his: Ole Rømer has found out that light has a certain speed.

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Culture

University of Copenhagen history: The fire of 1728

290 years ago, all of the University of Copenhagen buildings burnt down, including the university library with all its books. For the university, this is still significant.

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Culture

Guide: Language schools to learn Danish in Copenhagen

A guide to Danish lessons in Copenhagen for everyone interested in having a couple of phrases in their pocket for daily conversations in class, or maybe just for picking up the cute Dane at the Friday Bar.

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Campus

7 things you have to see at UCPH on Culture Night

Dead animals, explosions, lectures and hidden corners of UCPH that are normally locked up. Let us be your guide to the Culture Night on 12th October.

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Culture

Pop culture is really also high culture

It was research on popular culture that got Erik Steinskog into Le Monde and the Washington Post. But his heart and soul is with opera too. It's all a part of the same musical orbit.

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Campus

7 tips for cheaper textbooks

It will drain your bank account when the bill for your textbooks runs up to several thousand kroner. However if you want to get the books on the cheap, help is at hand. The University Post offers you seven tips to balance your budget.

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Campus

Join UCPH for the Copenhagen Pride Parade

This year’s Pride is just around the corner. Up to 30,000 people are expected to participate in the rainbow parade on Saturday 18th August, and there is still space for you on the UCPH float.

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Culture

22 books (and one TV series) for your summer holiday enjoyment

What do you have on your reading list this summer? We asked some of the university’s best-read faculty, staff and students to give us their recommendations for what we should be reading on our holiday

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Culture

Studenterhuset inspires a new culture house - in Boston

CultureHouse will open in Boston, USA next month. However the concept of the new US culture house actually comes from Copenhagen’s very own student watering hole, Studenterhuset.

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