Is contemporary citizen involvement a method of practising local democracy, or is it merely a way of legitimizing a political discourse? This is one of the questions that are being discussed in the first issue of Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation.

Next Thursday, assistant professor Karina Lykke Grand will receive a grant from Ole Haslund´s Art Foundation, for her innovatory dissemination of knowledge regarding Danish art from the Golden Age.

As part of this year´s Junior Researcher Contest, Clara Zielinski from Elsinore Grammar School has written a synopsis on cultural transfers. Associate professor Steen Bille has been her mentor. They have both been very pleased with the cooperation, and Clara Zielinski is grateful for the input and source references provided by Steen Bille.

The Velux Foundations have granted just under six million to a research project that sets out to shed light upon the Transatlantic slave trade, through a study of literature.

Architects, designers and artists meet with scientists, when the most important event in the field of media architecture takes place, here in Denmark, in November.

On November 13th and 14th, Aarhus University is hosting an international conference on Old Norse mythology. The list of participants shows that the unique Old Norse material is a research area with an international appeal.

Young Academy of Europe (YAE) is an organization of younger, European top researchers, from all academic areas. Jacob Ladegaard has been granted a 5-year membership of the academy.

A sound file on Youtube has provided the Student choir at musicology, Aarhus University with a unique, international opportunity: The choir has been invited to participate in the staging of Verdi´s Requiem at New York´s legendary Carnegie Hall in May 2015.

Harvard students are attending a summer school at Aarhus University for the seventh year in a row.