From Port to Port: Chilean-Danish Collaboration on Art and Mural Painting
by Life is full of meaning and symbols. Life is full of art. And if we think of the sea as a big road that connects …
Category: Art and Humanities
Danish scientific expeditions: A history of complex South-North relations
by In November 2021, a three volumes history of Danish scientific expeditions was published. One of the authors is an Affiliate Professor at the Department of …
Global South in the North, Global North in the South
Associate Professor Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University was born and raised in Colombia during the mid-70s to mid-1980s. Her mother …
Art and Humanities / Gender equality / News / Peace, justice and strong institutions / Social Sciences
Women’s voice in media still missing
“Women and girls are half of humanity. Giving equal time and weight to their stories is an important part of creating a better, freer world …
A magnificent and captivating exhibition
April 21st this year the museum by the name Louisiana that is located in Humlebæk, North of Copenhagen, opened a new exhibition by the artist …
Sami-youth in Finland: “Our culture is threatened by climate change – and we are not even part of the conversation about it”
by Talking about climate change on several levels and with different meanings – is something essential to Anni-Sofia Niittyvuopio (21), Head of the Youth Council of …
Ravinder Kaur: From ‘Third World’ to ‘Emerging Market’
To talk about development is to talk about change. And along the notion of change comes the idea of ‘the new’. The notion of development goals for the future world has been around for quite some time. In this article we look at the contemporary notion of change and ‘the new’ in the region generally referred to as the ‘developing world’. This article specifically focuses on the rise of India as a ‘brand new nation, and how we went from talking about ‘developing countries’ or ‘Third World’ countries to ‘Emerging Markets’.
REVIEW: Veronica Velasco’s Nuuk at the Copenhagen Asian Film Festival (CAFF)
Veronica Velasco’s movie ‘Nuuk’ (2019) has been described elsewhere as “The Filipino Take on a Nordic Noir Film”. To what extend this claim plays a role in choosing Nuuk for the Copenhagen Asian Film Festival’s (CAFF) “Closing Gala Film” has not been expounded. However, a picture on Filipino immigrant diaspora in the Danish postcolonial region, is definitely a well-chosen theme to give special attention to.