"2nd. PhD workshop on Labor and Behavioral Economics";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-06-08";"09:00";"2026-06-09";"17:00";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 35.3.13";"Organized by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"PhD workshop on Labor and Behavioral Economics About the Workshop The workshop aims to encourage new research at the intersection of behavioral and labor economics. Its goal is to provide a platform for PhD students and recent graduates to present their research and receive feedback on their work. Contributions from all areas and applications of behavioral and labor economics are welcome, including empirical and theoretical research. The workshop targets current PhD students and early-career researchers who have graduated in 2025 or later and are working as postdocs and assistant professors, or equivalent. Keynote Speakers: Ingar Haaland (NHH) and Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley) You can read more about the PhD workshop and see the program here Organizers: Simon Cordes (University of Bonn), Ida Maria Hartmann (CEBI, University of Copenhagen), Valentin Kecht (University of Bonn), Malte Jacob Rattenborg (University of Copenhagen) "
"Extracting Data from the American Carceral State";"Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC)";"2026-06-10";"13:00";"2026-06-10";"14:00";"South Campus, room 8A-0-57";"Talk by Professor Sharon Dolovich, UCLA Law.";"Talk by Professor Sharon Dolovich, UCLA Law. Abstract From the earliest days of the COVID pandemic, it was clear that people living in carceral settings faced an outsized risk of infection and death. In mid-March of 2020, I began keeping track of various data points relating to this aspect of the emerging threat. What started as a two-table spreadsheet rapidly grew to become the go-to clearinghouse in the United States for all available data on COVID in detention. By mid-2020, among other things, the data collected by the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project (BBDP) was being used by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) to populate its COVID-19 prison tracker. In 2023, BBDP pivoted to a new focus on all-cause carceral mortality and today maintains the most comprehensive database on deaths in custody in American prisons, jails, and detention centres – again substituting for the federal government, which since 2017 has failed to comply with Congressional mandates to collect and publish this data. This talk will provide an overview of this data-collection work – how it began, how we do what we do, why it is necessary, and what we can learn about the failures of the American carceral system from the fact that so many stakeholders have come to rely on the data we produce to make sense of what is happening inside the black box of our 6100 prisons, jails, and detention centers. Bio Sharon Dolovich is Professor of Law at UCLA and one of the leading scholars on prisons, punishment, and prisoners’ rights in the United States. Her research examines the constitutional and moral limits of incarceration, with particular attention to prison conditions, solitary confinement, state responsibility, and the lived realities of imprisonment. Registration Register for the event."
"Eyes Wide Shut: Police-Residents’ Relations in Danish Housing Projects";"Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC), Mikkel Jarle Christensen";"2026-06-11";"12:00";"2026-06-11";"13:00";"South Campus, room 6B-4-04";"Talk by Associate Professor Anja Kublitz, Aalborg University.";"Talk by Associate Professor Anja Kublitz, Aalborg University. This talk presents insights from a DFF‑funded research project on relationships between police and residents in Danish housing projects. Drawing on fieldwork conducted with police officers and immigrant families respectively, it offers an ethnographic account of how each group navigates social relations structured by ignorance – what Taussig (1999) calls public secrets. While residents navigate by “knowing what not to know,” the police operate with an awareness of “knowing that they don’t know.” The talk suggests that it is within this matrix of differentiated modes of ignorance that relations between police officers and residents at the urban margins unfold. Registration Register for the event."
"Ingrid Huitfeld, Norwegian Business School";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-06-11";"14:15";"2026-06-11";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"""The Distributional Effects of Cost-Sharing in a Universal Healthcare System"" Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"The Distributional Effects of Cost-Sharing in a Universal Healthcare System Abstract Patient cost-sharing is used as a tool to limit over-utilization of insured healthcare services in almost all high-income countries. We study its distributional consequences in the context of a publicly-funded universal health insurance system, where consumers (as tax-payers) are residual claimants on insurer spending. We highlight the distinction between consumers' elasticity of demand for healthcare services—which moderates how cost-sharing rules affect healthcare utilization—and their baseline level of demand—which moderates how cost-sharing rules affect out-of-pocket costs. Using detailed administrative data on the Norwegian national health insurance scheme, we study a 2010 policy change that raised the age threshold for cost-sharing exemption, thereby increasing patient cost-sharing substantially for adolescents. We find that females and native-born Norwegians have higher average utilization and thus have more at stake financially from cost-sharing, but are relatively less responsive to cost-sharing. In contrast, lower-income individuals as well as individuals with a chronic health condition have both higher average healthcare utilization as well as higher responsiveness. Cost-sharing therefore places a larger burden on these groups both in terms of the financial cost of out-of-pocket spending and in terms of reduced quantities of healthcare used. Ingrid Huitfeld is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Economics Department at the BI Norwegian Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oslo in 2017. She is also affiliated with the Research Department at Statistics Norway. Ingrid’s research focuses on topics in healthcare and labor economics. She is the principal investigator of a research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council: The Gender Pay Gap: Firms, Children, and Unpaid Work, where the primary goal is to learn more about the role of firms in driving gender differences on the labor market. You can read more about Ingrid Huitfeld here CEBI contact: Ida L. Kristiansen "
"Innovation Culture: Aligning Invention, Change, and Promise in Stockholm’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem";"Ethnographic Exploratory";"2026-06-12";"14:00";"";"15:30";"Faculty of Social Sciences, building 4, room 4.1.12, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen";"Talk with Angela Vandenbroek.";"Talk with Angela Vandenbroek. This talk proposes “innovation culture” as a way of understanding how entrepreneurial ecosystems coordinate and manipulate entrepreneurial practices and decision making through the management of conceptual ambiguity. Drawing on ethnographic research in Stockholm’s startup ecosystem, I will examine how these ecosystems deploy the concept of innovation in multiple ways. Innovation is deployed both as innovation-as-invention—referring to the technical and material production of novel ventures, products, services, and markets—and as innovation-as-change, which emphasizes catalyzing shifts in social practice, meaning, and relations toward desirable futures. The slippages between the two are further obscured by innovation-as-promise—a promissory discourse that subtly conflates invention with change at key stages of venture development, aligning entrepreneurs’ ambitions for meaningful change with venture capital values and logics. I aim to demonstrate how innovation culture uncritically renders these alignments as immutable, even as many entrepreneurs experience growing dissonance between the promised futures of their ambition and the outcomes of their practices."
"Nutritional Citizenship: Anticipation and Responsibility in Childhood Malnutrition Programs in Colombia";"Department of Anthropology";"2026-06-18";"15:00";"2026-06-18";"18:00";"Faculty of Social Sciences, room 2.0.63, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen. The defence is also available online. <a href=""https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/62192480488?pwd=VXhy6Ose3dhA0RkmfYjYK4vR4QXmN0.1"">Find Zoom link here</a>. Meeting ID: 621 9248 0488. Passcode: 097340.";"Public PhD defence by Vladimir Ariza-Montañez.";"Public PhD defence by Vladimir Ariza-Montañez. Abstract This article-based PhD dissertation explores how state and humanitarian efforts to improve child nutrition and care in Colombia redistribute responsibilities for children’s survival, growth, and future development between institutions and families, with particular attention to the Colombia–Venezuela border region. Focusing on early childhood health and nutrition programs informed by contemporary global health agendas such as the First 1,000 Days framework, the study examines how interventions are no longer conceived solely as forms of immediate protection, but as investments oriented toward future returns for the child, the family, and the nation. Within this paradigm, caregivers, especially mothers, become central actors in securing not only children’s present well-being but also their future potential. I conceptualize this sociomaterial redistribution of care, risk, and responsibility as nutritional citizenship. The research draws on three ethnographic case studies conducted in Yopal, Puerto Carreño, and Cúcuta, cities across the broader Colombia–Venezuela border region and characterized by high rates of malnutrition, fragile infrastructures, Indigenous communities, and migrant/floating populations. These case studies include an ambulatory nutritional care initiative, a Nutritional Rehabilitation Center, and a preterm Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) program. Fieldwork was conducted across three periods of engagement with varying degrees of temporal immersion and combined sustained observation of care practices, semi-structured interviews with caregivers, health professionals, coordinators, and program participants, as well as documentary analysis of policy documents, technical guidelines, operational manuals, and nutritional protocols. Using a sociomaterial analytical approach, the dissertation focuses on how caregivers and health workers engage with practices such as anthropometric monitoring, therapeutic feeding, breastfeeding, and skin-to-skin contact. These routine practices do more than manage malnutrition or prevent neonatal complications; they constitute the mother-child dyad as the fundamental unit of intervention and become key sites where care, risk, and responsibility are negotiated. Rather than operating only at a discursive or normative level, the redistribution of responsibilities is materially enacted through these low-tech devices, bodily routines, and intimate forms of care. In this way, state-led health and nutrition interventions become materially sustained by women’s largely invisible caregiving labor, as institutional expectations of securing the child’s “good future” ultimately rest on their shoulders. Assessment committee Associate Professor Helle Samuelsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (chair) Associate Professor Emily Yates-Doerr, Oregon State University, USA Senior Lecturer Michelle Pentecost, King’s College London, United Kingdom Supervisors Professor Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Professor Stine Krøijer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-supervisor) Moderator Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Email address to gain access to the thesis: vam@amthro.ku.dk. You will either receive a copy of the thesis or be informed where you can read a physical copy. After the defence, the department will host an informal reception in the Ethnographic Exploratory, Faculty of Social Sciences, building 4, room 4.1.12."
"EPRN Conference 2026";"EPRN & Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-06-19";"08:55";"2026-06-19";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 35, room 35.01.05";"I år mødes vi til Economic Policy Research Network (EPRN) konference fredag den 19. juni på Økonomisk Institut.";"I år mødes vi til Economic Policy Research Network (EPRN) konference fredag den 19. juni på Økonomisk Institut. Konferencen foregår både på dansk og engelsk og vil blive afholdt på Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet i bygning 35, lokale 35.01.05 Dagen foregår på dansk og engelsk med præsentationer fra Finansministeriet, Danmarks National Bank, DREAM, EPRU, Københavns Universitet og Aarhus Universitet. Hovedoplægget bliver præsenteret af Professor Daniel Waldenström fra IFN Stockholm. Her er det fulde konferenceprogram Du kan tilmelde dig konferencen her "
"Dancing with the Cryosphere: Science, Security, and 'Arctic' Climate Change";" Department of Political Science";"2026-06-19";"10:00";"";"13:00";"Faculty of Social Sciences, room 1.1.18, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen";"Public PhD defence by Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard.";"Public PhD defence by Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard. Photo by: Jette Mariboe, Danish Institute for International Studies Abstract The cryosphere – the frozen parts of the Earth system – has been the object of human exploration, strategic interests, and scientific curiosities for centuries. Today, climate scientists strive to understand how the cryosphere is changing, and what the implications are for the Arctic region and globally. This PhD dissertation investigates how climate science produces knowledge about the changing ‘Arctic’ climate, who participates in this scientific practice, and what the implications are for the knowledge produced and for those involved. The dissertation’s frame offers a methodological contribution on how to ‘dance’ as social scientists with natural scientists. It also places the project in relation to key literatures in International Relations and Science and Technology Studies and argues that it is problematic to assume that we can escape the human-nature binary and become more secure as a result. Rather, we must pay analytical attention to those who produce this binary: Climate scientists, but also security actors. By zooming in on cryospheric climate science at a point in time (2023-2025) where the Arctic region is experiencing continued climatic changes alongside major geopolitical shifts, the dissertation contributes three single-authored articles, each exploring a cryospheric ‘dance of agency’: First, with permafrost scientists in Fairbanks, Alaska, second, with Greenland ice sheet glaciologists, and third, with sea ice experts in Europe and Canada. Together, the articles show that climate science contains powerful security actors at the heart of its scientific practice. This symbiotic knowledge production between climate science and security politics has direct impacts on what we come to know about climate change. Resume (in Danish) Kryosfæren – den frosne del af vores økosystem – har været genstand for menneskelig udforskning, strategiske interesser og videnskabelig nysgerrighed i århundrede. I dag forsøger klimaforskere at forstå, hvordan kryosfæren forandrer sig, og hvad det betyder for den arktiske region og på globalt plan. Denne Ph.D.-afhandling undersøger, hvordan klimavidenskaben producerer viden om ’arktiske’ klimaforandringer, hvilke aktører denne videnskabelige praksis involverer, og hvad implikationerne er for den viden, som produceres. Afhandlingens kappe udfolder det metodiske bidrag: Hvordan samfundsvidenskabelige forskere kan ’danse’ med naturvidenskaben og dens forskere. Kappen placerer også projektet i relation til nøglelitteratur i international politik og videnskabs- og teknologistudier og argumenterer for, at det er problematisk at antage, at vi kan undslippe menneske-natur dikotomien og blive mere sikre af den grund. Vi må i stedet engagere os analytisk med dem, der producerer denne dikotomi: klimaforskere, men også sikkerhedspolitiske aktører. Ved at zoome ind på kryosfærisk klimaforskning på et tidspunkt (2023-2025) hvor den arktiske region oplever fortsatte klimatiske forandringer i samspil med geopolitisk opbrud, bidrager afhandlingen med tre videnskabelige artikler, som hver især undersøger en kryosfærisk ’agens-dans’: Først med permafrostforskere i Fairbanks, Alaska, dernæst med glaciologer på den grønlandske indlandsis, og til sidst med haviseksperter i Europa og Canada. Tilsammen viser artiklerne, at klimavidenskaben indeholder magtfulde sikkerhedspolitiske aktører centralt i den videnskabelige praksis. Denne symbiotiske vidensproduktion mellem klimavidenskab og sikkerhedspolitik har direkte konsekvenser for, hvad vi i sidste ende ved om klimaforandringer. Assessment committee Professor Michele Merrill Betsill, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (chairperson) Professor Klaus Dodds, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Professor Rocco Bellanova, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Supervisors Professor Christian Bueger, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen Ulrik Pram Gad, Danish Institute for International Studies (co-supervisor) Kristian Søby Kristensen, Royal Danish Defence College (co-supervisor) "
"CEBRA Annual Meeting 2026";"CEBRA in co-organisation with Danmarks Nationalbank and University of Copenhagen";"2026-06-22";"";"2026-06-24";"";"Bella Sky and University of Copenhagen";"The University of Copenhagen is pleased to welcome you to the 2026 CEBRA Annual Meeting. ";"The University of Copenhagen is pleased to welcome you to the 2026 CEBRA Annual Meeting. This year’s conference, co-organized with Danmarks Nationalbank, will once again bring together researchers, policymakers, and economists for an exciting and impactful event. About the Annual Meeting Since its inception in 2016, the CEBRA Annual Meeting has become one of the leading global forums in central banking. Each year, the conference attracts a growing number of high-quality research submissions and offers a rich program of sessions that foster open and productive exchange between economists, researchers, and students. We are delighted to welcome both returning participants and new members of the community. Read more about the Annual Meeting 2026. Deadline for paper submissions: 2 March 2026 "
"Legal and Forensic Barriers in Cases of Child Abuse &#8211; from a child rights perspective";"Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC), Mikkel Jarle Christensen";"2026-06-25";"12:00";"2026-06-25";"13:00";"South Campus, room 6B-4-04";"Talk by postdoc Martine Stagelund Hvidt, University of Copenhagen.";"Talk by postdoc Martine Stagelund Hvidt, University of Copenhagen. In this presentation, I explore key legal and forensic challenges that hinder the protection of children exposed to physical violence. My research shows that Danish law sets significant procedural barriers. Children aged 15–17 can only be video‑interviewed under exceptional circumstances, meaning that video interviews are rarely used in practice, even though 13–17‑year‑olds constitute the largest group of children affected by violence. Another barrier arises when conducting forensic medical examinations, which require parental consent. If consent is refused, authorities must obtain a court order or appoint an ad hoc guardian, which can cause delays. Because children heal quickly, time is critical, and such delays can jeopardize the documentation of fresh injuries. This presentation highlights how legal frameworks and forensic realities intersect and where the system may fall short in safeguarding vulnerable children. Registration Register for the event."
"Matters of Law: Archives, Evidence, and the Production of Accountability in the Syrian War";"Department of Anthropology";"2026-08-04";"14:00";"2026-08-04";"17:00";"Faculty of Social Sciences, room 35.01.06, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen. The defence will also be streamed online (link will follow).";"Public PhD defence by Petya Mitkova Koleva.";"Public PhD defence by Petya Mitkova Koleva. Abstract International criminal justice – as a system of laws and a field of practice – was conceived as a modality to address the legacy of conflict by bringing perpetrators of war time violence to account in a court of law. In recent years, as conflicts have increasingly become internationalised and that much harder to resolve, the field has shifted its focus from post-conflict contexts to situations of active warfare. Empirically anchored in the Syrian case, Matters of Law offers an ethnographic account of this shift through the experiences of a group of Syrian and international investigators whose work of collecting an archive of Syrian security intelligence documents grants them frontline perspectives on the ways in which international legal norms operate in chronic conflict and amid institutional decline. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the work traces the trajectory of the records in this archive from the battlefields of Syria to European jurisdictions and attends to the practices, logics and mental models that transform instruments of state violence into legal evidence. By exploring the changing affordances of these records across time and space, Matters of Law draws out the social and political relations which shape how the materiality of violence is given legal meaning in a dynamic context of internationalised warfare. As such, the dissertation works towards anthropology of legal becoming by expecting the conditions under which the law was brought to bear on the Syrian context. Probing the politics of archiving and the stakes of legal knowledge production, Matters of Law seeks to offer an understanding of the possibilities, limits and implications of seeking recourse through international law in active conflict. By raising questions about time, space and legal knowledge, Matters of Law thus seeks to offer a contribution to the anthropologies of crisis, chronicity, international criminal law, archives and evidence. Assessment committee Professor Atreyee Sen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (chair) Associate Professor Elizabeth Drexler, Michigan State University, USA Associate Professor Maria Sapignoli, University of Milan, Italy Supervisor Professor Henrik Vigh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Moderator Associate Professor Anja Simonsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark After the defence, the department will host an informal reception in the Ethnographic Exploratory, Faculty of Social Sciences, building 4, room 4.1.12. "
"Aristotle&#8217;s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places";"Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC)";"2026-08-13";"14:00";"";"17:00";"South Campus, Auditorium 4A-0-69";"In this lecture, Professor Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, will describe how doing research in prisons over a long period of time led me to the two poles of human experience: the 'desert' and the 'oasis'.";"Lecture by Professor Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge. Abstract In this lecture, I will talk about my new book, Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places. I describe how doing research in prisons over a long period of time led me to the two poles of human experience: the desert (which is morally unbearable) and the oasis (where the life force is affirmed). I show how these qualitatively different poles of human experience shape outcomes, such as violence, versus survival and moral growth. Staff in outstanding prisons have different dispositions, practices and intentions from staff in lower threshold prisons. They operate with clear attention to security, order, and the use of authority, but hold these values in tension with positive underlying assumptions about prisoners, punishment and rehabilitation. They know when to use ‘intelligent trust’ or ‘intelligent doubt’. Aristotle called this kind of value-balancing ‘practical wisdom’. I found a striking fit between my research findings over a professional lifetime, which effectively consist of the careful organisation of what prisoners and staff have to say, and the insights of traditional, religious, spiritual or indigenous wisdom, as well as recent social theory. Human beings need presence, connection, and resonance. These ingredients of the good life are literally a matter of life and death, and yet they are being undone in prisons and in our lives outside as both harden into a world of It. What can we do about a harshening criminal justice system and a hardening world? Registration Please register for the event here."
"Crime Trends in Borderlands: Similarities and Differences Across Nordic Border Regions";"Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC)";"2026-09-03";"12:00";"2026-09-03";"13:00";"South Campus, room 6B-4-04";"Talk by Professor Peter Lindström, Linnaeus University. ";"Talk by Professor Peter Lindström, Linnaeus University. Part of CCC Lunch Seminars. The five Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland) share a long-standing tradition of cooperation in criminal justice policy in general and policing in particular. Cross-national comparative analyses of criminal justice statistics, including police-recorded offences, are well established within Nordic criminological research. However, comparative studies of crime trends across major Nordic cities have been less common, while research focusing specifically on border areas remains largely absent, both in Nordic scholarship and in the broader international literature. In addition, previous research has made limited use of advanced statistical measures to assess similarities and differences in crime trends over time. The aim of this article is to analyse trends in police-recorded crime across three levels of analysis: (i) the national level, (ii) the city level, and (iii) borderlands. Particular attention is given to three distinct border regions: the urban Øresund region, encompassing the cities of Malmö and Copenhagen; the Tornio Valley, including the medium-sized twin towns of Haparanda and Tornio on either side of the Swedish–Finnish border; and rural municipalities along the Swedish–Norwegian border, where a joint police station was inaugurated in 2025. These border regions are currently included in an ongoing research project on police cooperation in borderlands. The study combines graphical visualisations with distance measures generated through Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithms and additional statistical measures to assess similarities and differences in crime trends over time. Preliminary findings indicate that crime trends within borderlands are more similar to one another than those observed among major cities or at the national level. The results suggest that enhanced cross-border police cooperation – including intelligence sharing on volume crime, joint police patrols and operations, and joint investigation teams – may play an increasingly important role in future borderland policing and crime prevention. Registration Please register here for the event."
"Adrian Lerche, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-09-10";"14:15";"2026-09-10";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Dr Adrian Lerche is a senior researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and is affiliated as Research Fellow with the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and as Research Associate with the Rockwool Foundation Berlin. He received his PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and was a post-doctoral researcher and Acting Professor at LMU Munich. His research covers topics such as wage inequality, old-age employment, fiscal support programs for firms, and the school-to-work transition. You can read more about Adrian Lerche here CEBI contact: Jakob Egholt Søgaard"
"Youth between punishment and welfare";" The Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC)";"2026-09-17";"12:00";"";"13:00";"South Campus, room 6B.4.04";"Talk by PhD fellow Lea Brinkgaard, University of Copenhagen.";"Talk by PhD fellow Lea Brinkgaard, University of Copenhagen. In Denmark, young lawbreakers above the age of criminal responsibility (15+) have historically been processed through the criminal justice system, the social welfare system, or– most often – a combination of both. Yet, the interinstitutional dynamics shaping youth crime measures between these spheres have been limitedly explored and rarely historicized. Drawing on my PhD research, this presentation examines decisive developments in youth crime control in the Danish welfare state, focusing on youth as a borderline category situated within a distinct interinstitutional space between punishment and welfare. Through archival and published sources, it traces how interactions between institutions, practices, and actors across criminal justice and social welfare spheres have translated into concrete, and at times burdensome, measures, such as the Youth Prison (1933–1973) and the Youth Contract (1991–). By bringing the sociology of punishment, welfare historiography, and youth history into dialogue, the presentation explores how Danish youth crime control has been shaped and reshaped through a mutually constitutive interplay between penal-welfare trajectories and historically contingent conceptions of youth. Read more about Lea Brinkgaard."
"Sara Abrahamsson, Norwegian Institute of Public Health";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-09-17";"14:15";"2026-09-17";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Sara Abrahamsson is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Fertility and Health (CeFH) at Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, Norway. She earned her PhD in Economics from the Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality, and Rationality (FAIR-CELE) at the Norwegian School of Economics. Her research focuses on labor economics, health economics, and the economics of education. You can read more about Sara Abrahamsson here CEBI contact: Ida Lykke Kristiansen "
"Department Day at Sociology";"Department of Sociology";"2026-09-22";"15:00";"2026-09-22";"17:30";"Faculty of Social Sciences, Auditorium 35-01-44, building 35, Gammeltoftsgade 15, 1353 København K";"Department of Sociology invites to department day. ";"Department of Sociology invites to department day. Notice that the date of the event has been updated to 22 September. Come and join us for an exciting and enriching department day dedicated to social engagement, intellectual stimulation, celebrations, and lots of fun! All students, staff, alumni, external examinators and other friends of the department are most welcome. More to be announced. "
"Sydney Constantini, Bocconi University & UBC";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-09-24";"14:15";"2026-09-24";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"You can read about Sydney Constantini here CEBI contact: N. Meltem Daysal"
"Call for papers: The 6th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop";"Peter Thisted Dinesen (University of Copenhagen)<br>Mikael Persson (University of Gothenburg)<br> Love Christensen (University of Gothenburg and Aarhus University)<br> Henning Finseraas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)";"2026-09-24";"";"2026-09-25";"";"Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen";"We are happy to invite proposals for the 6th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop.";"We are happy to invite proposals for the 6th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop taking place in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on 24-25 September, 2026. Aim The two-day workshop is dedicated to in-depth feedback on a smaller set of papers researching political behavior broadly defined (including, but not limited to, the adjacent subfields of political psychology, public opinion, and political representation). We welcome scholars applying all types of methods and data, and the workshop has no specific regional emphasis. Format and participants We expect to discuss approximately 10 papers. Each paper will be assigned an hour for discussion. Non-presenting scholars are also welcome as the discussion of the papers will be of broader relevance. The workshop is intended to bring together Nordic and international scholars within the field and we strongly encourage participation from people of all ranks and backgrounds. In addition to providing feedback, the workshop is intended to provide an opportunity to connect with new people – especially for junior scholars. Funding Thanks to funding from the Carlsberg Foundation, participation in the workshop is free of charge and meals and refreshments during the workshop are provided for participants. Accommodation for presenters (up to two nights) is also covered. Participants will have to cover their own travel. Deadline and submission Please submit your abstract to the workshop on the link below by 29 May, 2026. We expect to communicate decisions on acceptance of papers by mid-June. Submit your abstract."
"Anders Jensen, Harvard University";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-10-01";"14:15";"2026-10-01";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Anders Jensen's research focuses on public economics and development economics. One set of projects seeks to study the factors that shape the capacity to tax and the choice of tax policy over the long run of development. Ultimately, this line of work aims to shed light on how should, and can, a government go from raising 5-10 percent of GDP in taxes to around 35-40 percent, while encouraging development more broadly. A second line of work consists in working with tax authorities and other government departments in developing countries. The starting point here is the specific structure, policies and issues of a given country. Through close collaborations and the use of large micro-datasets, these projects study what governments can do, given constrained capacity to tax, to incrementally improve tax administration, tax enforcement, tax policy, and tax morale. In this line of work, he is currently collaborating with governments in Ghana, Zambia, Liberia, and Brazil. Anders Jensen received his PhD in Economics from London School of Economics in 2016 and spent one year at NBER as a post-doctoral fellow before joining HKS. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER, and an International Research Associate at IFS. You can read more about Anders Jensen here CEBI contact: Hjalte Fejerskov Boas "
"Models of Consciousness 2026";"Organising institutes and centres";"2026-10-12";"";"2026-10-16";"";"The HC Ørsted Institute, North Campus, Universitetetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø";"Five day conference.";"Five day conference. By the kind invitation of the Centre for the Philosophy of AI, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, we, the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science, and all of our organising and supporting institutions, are delighted to announce the seventh Models of Consciousness conference (MoC7) 2026. This year, the conference is dedicated to bringing together researchers on the following core themes: Philosophical foundations Methodologies and measurements AI, LLMs, and consciousness science Phenomenology and applied phenomenology As in previous years, we will gather dedicated discussion sessions on open questions. Inspired by the historical achievements, the Copenhagen interpretation in physics, we will organise collaborative work to achieve a common understanding “towards a methodological and conceptual consensus”. Programme and registration Read more on programme and registration on the conference website."
"Meta-analysis of psychological interventions aimed at reducing corruption tolerance";"Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC)";"2026-10-22";"12:00";"2026-10-22";"13:00";"South Campus, room 6B-4-04";"Talk by PhD student Ardian R. Afandi, University of Copenhagen.";"Talk by PhD student Ardian R. Afandi, University of Copenhagen. Corruption tolerance - the degree to which individuals accept or normalize corrupt conduct - poses a critical psychological barrier to anti-corruption efforts, yet no meta-analysis has systematically evaluated interventions targeting it. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizes empirical evidence on psychological interventions aimed at reducing corruption tolerance across five outcome types: attitudinal, normative, practical, intentional, and behavioral. Primary searches in Scopus, Web of Science, and APA PsycINFO, supplemented by grey literature screening, yielded 2,430 deduplicated records screened using machine-learning-assisted screening in ASReview. Effect sizes are synthesized using a four-level meta-analytic model (effects nested within studies nested within countries) expressed as Hedges' g, with confirmatory moderator analyses examining intervention type, tolerance type, and country-level corruption scores. This study provides the first quantitative synthesis of this literature, offering effect size estimates and evidence-based result for research and policy. Registration Sign up for the event."
"Gisle Natvik, Norwegian Business School";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-10-29";"14:15";"2026-10-29";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Gisle J. Natvik is a professor of economics at the Norwegian Business School (BI). His main research interests are within macro economics, monetary economics and political economy. Natvik's work has been published in European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Public Economics, and other journals. You can read more about Gisle Natvik here CEBI contact: Søren Leth-Petersen"
"Peter Haan, Frei Universität Berlin & DIW";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-11-19";"14:15";"2026-11-19";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Peter Haan is Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin and Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin. Studies in Economics and Political Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Toronto (degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Visiting Fellow at LSE, Paris School of Economics, Institute for Fiscal Studies und UCL London. Publications for example in American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics. He is also Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London and the Rockwool Foundation Berlin, a member of the Sozialbeirat (advisory group in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs) and spokesperson of the DFG Research group Labor market transformation. You can read more about Peter Haan here CEBI contact: Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen"
"Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-11-26";"14:15";"2026-11-26";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Moritz Kuhn is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, vice chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), a Research Fellow at the Center of Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, and at the CESIfo in Munich. He is also an Associate Editor at Macroeconomic Dynamics. His research focuses on macroeconomics with focus on labor markets, the causes and consequences of income and wealth inequality, and the design and effects of economic policies. You can read more about Moritz Kuhn here CEBI contact: Asger Lau Andersen"
"Andreas Fuster, Swiss Finance Institute";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-12-03";"14:15";"2026-12-03";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Andreas Fuster is Associate Professor of Finance at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Previously, he worked in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the financial stability department at the Swiss National Bank. Professor Fuster's research has been published in the top economics and finance journals. Professor Fuster studies household and real estate finance, banking, and behavioral and experimental economics. He is particularly interested in the effects of technological innovations on household credit markets. For instance, he finds that US Fintech lenders process mortgage applications faster than traditional lenders and can better adjust their processing capacities when faced with a demand shock; their loans also exhibit lower default rates. When considering how machine learning will reshape the mortgage market, he finds that credit risk assessments improve but that the benefits may not accrue to all groups in society equally. You can read more about Andreas Fuster here CEBI contact: Manuel Menkhoff"
"Anne Gielen, Erasmus University Rotterdam";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-12-10";"14:15";"2026-12-10";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Anne C. Gielen is a professor of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is also a Research Fellow at CESifo, IZA and Tinbergen Institute. She has previously worked at IZA in Bonn and Maastricht University, and has held visiting positions at the University of Sydney, The Melbourne Institute, and ISER - Essex University. She obtained her Ph.D. from Tilburg University. Gielen's research focuses on intergenerational mobility, social security, and health. She has been awarded various grants, including an NWO Vidi grant. Her work has appeared in the American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, the American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, the Journal of Human Resources and various other international journals. Through her diverse other professional roles, for example as Board member of the prof. F. de Vries foundation and Academic Partner of CPB, Gielen seeks to transform her scientific expertise into meaningsful societal impact. CEBI contact: Miriam Wüst"
"Sevgi Yuksel, New York University";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2026-12-17";"14:15";"2026-12-17";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior an Inequality (CEBI)";" Sevgi Yuksel is Associate Professor of Economics at New York University. Her research is in experimental and behavioral economics as well as applied theory You can read more about Sevgi Yuksel here CEBI contact: Florian Schneider"
"Kathrine B. Coffman, Harvard Business School";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2027-04-22";"14:15";"2027-04-22";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Katherine Coffman is the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiations, Organizations & Markets unit. Before joining HBS, she was an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University and a visiting assistant professor of economics at Stanford University. In her research, Professor Coffman uses experimental methods to study individual, team, and managerial decision making, with a focus on the role of gender stereotypes in shaping beliefs. Her work has been published in Management Science, the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Social Choice and Welfare. She is an associate editor of Management Science and the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics. Professor Coffman holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a BA in mathematics and economics from Williams College. You can read more about Kathrine Coffman here CEBI contact: Florian Schneider"
"Molly Schnell, Northwestern University";"Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"2027-05-27";"14:15";"2027-05-27";"15:30";"CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, room 26.2.21";"Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)";"Molly Schnell's work centers on health care and industrial organization. Her research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of provider behavior, specifically in regards to the opioid crisis, and her more recent work has shed light on the economic impact of school shootings. You can read more about Molly Schnell here CEBI contact: N. Meltem Daysal"