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Speech: Kirsten Hastrup at UCPH anthropology's 70 year anniversary

The Department of Anthropology celebrated 70 years with a talk from Professor Kirsten Hastrup. Here is her full speech

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Social lessons from football: A just-for-fun manifesto

It is just amateur soccer, but Şafak reckons that important lessons can be learned from the pitch

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Comment: Why are UCPH canteens closed evenings and weekends?

She has studied in China and the UK, but she has never encountered such restricted opening hours

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Comment: YDUN lowered the level of competition

Hans Bonde responds in the debate over the YDUN programme for women researchers: Women felt encouraged to apply because they knew that practically no men would

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Comment: A genuine meritocracy supports qualified women

Response to Hans Bonde and Jens Ravnkilde: You need to fact-check and address the historical disadvantage experienced by women

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Comment: Danish gender equity programme founders while men benefit

It is about gender quotas and earmarked funding for women in academia. The Danish government’s YDUN programme was a one-off initiative that provided DKK 110m in research funding to female researchers for 2014. Here two professors puts it into a broader perspective

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Comment: No 'gender inequality ocean' among Danish researchers

Targeting funding at women researchers is illegal and not meritocratic argues UCPH Professor in response to two Cosmology Professors claiming a "gender inequality ocean"

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Comment: Is the lab ready yet?

Copenhagen needs world-class science facilities if it is to compete and attract talent, says international physicist. And it needs a streamlined and agile way of creating and modifying them

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Comment: Denmark must not succumb to polarisation in the wake of Copenhagen attacks

UCPH professor Vincent F. Hendricks knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of racial profiling. It is crucial that Denmark resist racial and religious generalisations in the aftermath of the attacks, he says

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Comment: From feminism to favouritism?

Affirmative action polices like at the University of Copenhagen to get more women professors will actually do no favours to women, argues Professor Hans Bonde

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