BBC reports on a digital artwork installation, Jsut Code, produced by the PIT researcher Winnie Soon and her collaborator Helen Pritchard (UK).

Professor emeritus Svend Erik Larsen, Comparative Literature, has been appointed by the national Portuguese research agency, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, and the European Research Foundation, ESF, to the panel responsible for awarding the basic grants to the national Portuguese research centers 2014-2020.

Professor emeritus Svend Erik Larsen, Comparative Literature, spent Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University College London. UCL has now appointed him Honorary Professor from 2014-2019, affiliated with the School of European Languages, Culture and Society.

PhD student Niels Christian Hansen, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, receives DKK. 300000 EliteForsk travel scholarship. The scholarship will take the young scientist to Washington, Seoul and Sydney, among other places.

A major international congress is currently being held in Barcelona, with Aarhus University joining the Danish Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs to present some Danish ideas about intelligent and sustainable urban development.

Professor Svend Erik Larsen, Comparative Literature, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Academia Europaea

An open series of lectures on world literature starts next week and will offer a total of six tandem lectures, during which internationally recognised researchers from universities abroad will collaborate with researchers from Aarhus University in an effort to put world literature into perspective.

Ystad has a Wallander package, Paris offers a Da Vinci trip, and Oxford has Harry Potter tours. It’s called film tourism, and it has grown into a world-wide phenomenon. In Denmark film tourism is still relatively new, but one expert believes that in future Danish towns and cities will play an increasingly major role when tourists want to see where…