From 28 November to 2 December, an intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) summoned by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) will start negotiations on an international treaty to end plastic pollution. However, 13 leading plastics scientists point out that the final agreement will be ineffective in addressing the full suite of problems posed by plastics unless negotiators include all relevant chemical issues associated with plastics across the life-cycle.

Nicola Witcombe and nordics.info have been awarded funding by the Council of Baltic Sea States

With an ERC Starting grant, Jihan Zakarriya seeks to broaden our perspective on feminisms in the Gulf. Taking a multidisciplinary comparative approach, her team will study how the mobilization of laws are operationalising women's agencies and practices and generate political change.

Anna Frohn Pedersen will be affiliated the the Eye and Mind Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher from 15 November 2022.

As of November, David Yen-Chieh Liao is affiliated the DEMINOVA project as a postdoctoral researcher.

Elisa Uusimäki is per 15 November appointed professor at Department of Theology

The Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award is granted to Rubina Raja for her deep-founded humanities research, which crosses disciplinary boundaries. The bestowal of the award demonstrates that humanities frontrunner research also takes place in Denmark.

It may not be obvious, but we will do the experiment anyway. We have asked one of our talented researchers who, in addition to being a incarnated football geek, is also particularly well versed in the history of European philosophy, the following questions: How would the European Philosopher's All Star football team look if you were to set the team up for the football championship for men?

Learn more here when associate professor in the history of ideas, Casper Andersen, justifies his ultimate 3-5-2 formation.

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Marianne Pade, Professor of Classical philology, has received the Queen's honour for her extensive work in the service of science.

Anisa Bhutia is joining the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University as a PostDoc affiliated with the AMR@LAB.