A new multidisciplinary anthology, Managing Melancholy, analyses how theology, medicine and law shaped understandings of melancholy and mental states in early modern Nordic Lutheran societies.

The Bible contains far more exciting, brutal, and meaningful stories than those most children - and adults - know from traditional children’s Bibles. In collaboration with his wife, Associate Professor Frederik Poulsen from the Faculty of Theology has written a book featuring alternative biblical stories.

How are efforts to tackle plastic pollution changing the lives of those who make a living from waste in Kenya? Researchers at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen, in partnership with researchers at Kenyatta University and Busara in Nairobi, will be exploring this question over the next five years.