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…

When the whole concept of tourism arose back in the Golden Age, there was also an anti-tourism movement. Artists rejected the idea of being streamlined tourists in favour of what they regarded as a more authentic form of travel. And the hunt for authenticity is still going on in the modern world.

Professor Svend Erik Larsen, Comparative Literature, has been appointed to the expert panel set up to evaluate research and research management in Latvia during Fall 2013

Professor Svend Erik Larsen, Comparative Literature, has been elected to the expert group on research policy of the Academia Europaea, Hercules: Higher Education, Research and Culture in European Society.