Københavns Universitets Videoportal

Arena (documentary)

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:13:44 GMT

"Arena" is the story of a small Afro-descendant village in south-western Colombia that supplies the local and regional construction markets with manually dug sand from the river. Tucked in between sugarcane plantations, the river constitutes a fundamental pillar in the village; it is from this that they draw meaning and sustain their community life. Fighting for their right to manually extract sand, the villagers have several times sought to formalise their activity, but without success. However, a competing mining claim is threatening their livelihoods and has now been granted a concession title by the national authorities. 'Arena' follows the villagers as they mobilise and appeal to the government institutions, to defend their livelihoods and their fundamental rights to work, territory, cultural integrity and a dignified life.

Arena (2018) is directed by filmmaker Ricardo León and based on Inge-Merete Hougaard’s PhD thesis work. CC BY-NC-ND

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Celebrating Oscar Salemink

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:24:22 GMT

In this event, The Department of Anthropology is celebrating Oscar Salemink’s decades of anthropological inquiry, teaching and engagement with numerous constituents both within Vietnam and more broadly within international organizations and more.

Chronic living - the future of health care (cc)

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:40:29 GMT

Today, most of us live until we are 80-90 years old. This means that we will live part of our life with one or more chronical conditions. To respond to this, health care must shift its perspective from a focus on fixing the body to improving the lives we are living. Professor MSO Ayo Wahlberg shares insights from the VITAL research project and the Chronic Living conference, which took place in March 2021.

Olivia creates value for one of the world's largest advisory services firm

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Anthropology student Olivia is writing her Master's thesis in collaboration with PwC, one of the world's largest audit, tax and advisory services firm, where she also works as a student assistant.

Anthropology at work: International students' mental health during the corona...

Wed, 27 May 2020 14:47:26 GMT

How does an idea for a research project come about?
When PhD Fellow Brian Noel McGahey from the Department of Anthropology found himself under lockdown during the corona crisis, he started to observe and interview the other international students in his student dorm. Listen to his story of how that developed into a full scale research project here.

Read more about the project's results on international students' mental health during the corona crisis here

The video is produced by the Faculty of Social Sciences in collaboration with Madeclear.

Social Movements in Times of Global Pandemic - Welfare

Wed, 27 May 2020 09:01:21 GMT

An online panel discussion on social movements in times of global pandemic hosted by the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

For full videos of all panel sessions and more info, please visit: https://www.sociology.ku.dk/research/Research_centers/commons/

MSc in Global Development

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:53:59 GMT

Introduction to Master of Science in Global Development - a two year master within the fields of economics and anthropology

Cashlessness

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:11:17 GMT

The anthropologists Camilla Ida Ravnbøl and Marie Kolling explore the impact of a global trend towards digitalizing economies on populations who are poor and highly cash-dependent. View this trailer and listen to the podcast: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/cashlessness-a-look-at-life-on-the-margins-of-a-digitalizing-economy...

International Master in Anthropology

Tue, 24 May 2016 08:44:33 GMT

International Master in Anthropology - Social Sciences make a difference.

By Tom Canning.

ADI - Professor Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:38:25 GMT

Keynote lectures by

Professor Michael Herzfeld, Anthropology, Harvard University
"When is Food Ethnic and What does that Imply? Reproducing Inequalities in the Framing of Asian Cuisines"

The Asian Dynamics Initiative (ADI) is pleased to announce the 7th annual international ADI conference

Food, Feeding, and Eating In and Out of Asia

Food, feeding, and eating activities are as old as life itself, but recently there has been a heightened interest in such issues within policy-making, international relations, and academic scholarship ranging from the bio-medical, philosophical, historical, and political to the social, cultural, economic, and religious. Food is both global and local: while foods, cuisines, recipes, people, and culinary cosmopolitanisms have been in global circuits of flows and circulations through various periods of history, the smells, sights, sounds, textures, and tastes of local foodscapes may evoke memories of ‘home’ and imaginations of travel alike. Moreover, with increasing numbers of people concentrated in large cities and urban agglomerations, the challenges of feeding people are becoming ever more complex. Against the backdrop of globalisation of Asia and Asian foods, this conference focuses on the wide-ranging aspects of production, consumption, distribution, disposal, and circulation of foods in and out of Asia.

Food, Feeding, and Eating In and Out of Asia is the 7th in a series of annual, interdisciplinary conferences initiated by ADI in 2008. ADI is a cross-faculty and interdisciplinary effort to meet the current challenges and demands for better knowledge of and deeper insights into Asian matters.