News

2024.10.08

New chart-topping Italian podcast “L'invasione” on the Indo-Europeans – featuring Birgit Rasmussen

Birgit Rasmussen has been interviewed for the chart-toping Italian podcast L'invasione on…

Formidling

2023.11.22

Copenhagen Roots contribute to Bronze Age novel

Bjarne, Anders, Thomas and Birgit helped author Kristian Bang Foss with linguistic input from Bronz…

2023.11.12

eLetter to Science: Archaeolinguistic anachronisms in the Indo-European phylogeny of Heggarty et al. 2023

Reserachers from Roots of Europe have responded to the conclusions of Heggarty et al. 2023 in an…

2023.11.10

Johan Ulrik Nielsen is awarded the Gold Medal for his Prize dissertation 🥇

Indo-Europeanist Johan Ulrik Nielsen finishes his MA with a prize dissertation - and he was awarded…

2023.09.01

IE-CoR is published - and Matthew Scarborough was a great part of it

The Indo-European Cognate Relations Database is published after several years of hard work. Postdoc…

2023.08.11

Julia Sturm featured in ERC news

Postdoc Julia Sturm was features in ERC News article with prof. Michaël Peyrot, Leiden University.

2023.06.27

Matthew Scarborough receives Marie Curie fellowship

Matthew Scarborough has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship for…

2023.05.24

New research assistant: Marc Canby

2023.05.04

New book: The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited

New book edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen and Eske Willerslev.

2023.04.23

New book: The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek

Matthew Scarborough's book on the classification of the Aeolic dialects of Greek is out now!

2022.09.21

New book: The Indo-European language family

New book on the Indo-European language family.

2022.06.18

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg receives internationalisation scholarship from Carlsberg

We are happy and proud to announce that Dr. Tobias Mosbæk Søborg, member of the Roots of Europe…

2022.03.23

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg’s PhD dissertation receives prize from the Indogermanische Gesellschaft

In February 2021 Tobias Mosbæk Søborg defended his PhD dissertation, Sigmatic verbal formations in…

New member of Roots of Europe

2022.03.01

Nicolas Jansens on research stay with Roots of Europe

From 1 March to 31 May 2022 Nicolas Jansens from the University of Heidelberg is at a research stay…

New member of Roots of Europe

2022.02.01

Matthew Scarborough new postdoc at Connecting the Dots project

On 1 February Matthew Scarborough started as a new postdoc at the Connecting the Dots project. He…

2021.04.12

Prizes from the Indogermanische Gesellschaft

The Indogermanische Gesellschaft has announced the prizes for the best theses in Indo-European…

2021.04.12

Seminar course on “Indo-European Poetics and Mythology” by Riccardo Ginevra

This semester former Roots of Europe researcher Riccardo Ginevra is going to teach an…

2021.03.03

Two new postdocs have been awarded a Marie Curie-Skƚodowska scholarship

Roots of Europe welcomes Julia Sturm from Harvard University and Corinna Scheungraber from the…

2019.12.18

Project Connecting the Dots has received a grant of 6.2 million DKK

Thomas Olander, associate professor at the Roots of Europe centre, has received a grant of 6.2…

2019.12.18

Laura Massetti has received a scholarship of DKK 700.000 from the Carlsberg Foundation

Foundation Visiting Fellowships at the University of Oxford for the project Hermes – God of Fire.…

2019.10.23

Customs and Cultural Differences in the Academic Environment

Guus Kroonen, Professor with special responsibilities at Indo-European Studies, share his story…

2019.10.17

Great New Project in Collaboration with Stockholm University

Million funding to the research project Myths of Prehistory: Unravelling the Speech and Beliefs of…

2019.10.17

Launch of the Official Roots of Europe Facebook Page

An official facebook page for the research centre Roots of Europe has been created. Here different…

2019.10.01

Hjelmslev as Name of the Month

Names in Denmark at University of Copenhagen have this month focused on the name Hjelmslev in their…

2019.09.24

New Intern at Roots of Europe

From september 24th – november 18th will Pernille Østman be attached to Roots of Europe Research…

2019.09.01

Ordinary Professorship to Indo-European Studies

It is with great pleasure we announce that Birgit Anette Rasmussen (Olsen) from the first of…

2019.09.01

New Research Project

Thomas Olander’s research project Connecting the Dots: Reconfiguring the Indo-European family tree…

2019.08.28

New Book out

Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics, edited by…

2019.06.15

First and Third Prize to Indo-Europeanists from University of Copenhagen

At the annual prize competition for the best Master’s thesis by the Society for Indo‑European…

2019.06.14

New Professorship at Indo-European Studies

Guus Kroonen has been granted the title Professor with special responsibilities. Congratulations…

Research

2019.02.28

New Marie Skłodowska Curie-fellow at Roots of Europe

The Austrian linguist Stefan Höfler has been granted a two-year Marie Skłodowska Curie scholarship…

Article

2018.12.26

Ancient languages read aloud

Thomas Olander contributes to the expansion of knowledge about anicent and dead languages by readin…

2018.07.31

First and second place to Indo-Europeanists from University of Copenhagen

At the annual prize competition for the best Master’s thesis by the Society for Indo-European…

2018.06.29

Launch of "The Homeland Timeline Map"

Mikkel Nørtoft has launched his interactive map of prehistoric migrations.

Article

2018.06.14

A Step Closer to the Urheimat

Videnskab.dk has talked to Guus Kroonen about some of the linguistic results of the…

Indo-European languages

2018.05.09

New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia

A new study has discovered that horses were first domesticated by descendants of hunter-gatherer…

2018.05.01

New postdoc Laura Massetti

Laura Massetti started as a Marie Sklodowska Curie-fellow on her project “Family Myths: Phraseology…

2017.12.05

Gold Medal for Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn

At the UCPH Annual Commemoration 17 November Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn was awarded a Gold Medal for…

2017.12.05

Research grant for James Alan Johnson from the Wenner Green Foundation

With the funding, James Johnson will be able to carry through excavations in Russia and have the…

2017.09.04

New project member at “Homeland” project

Mikkel Nørtoft is employed as a research assistant at the “Homeland” project from 1 September 2017…

Article

2017.07.20

Birgit Anette Olsen (Rasmussen) Featured in Danish Newspaper

The Danish news paper Kristeligt Dagblad has as a part of their series 'The World's best Danes' mad…

Article

2016.12.08

Finnish and Indo-European

Bjarne Simmelkjær Hansen and Adam Hyllested explain how the Finnish language differentiates from…

2016.12.07

Prize Paper from DNSL Honored at the Annual Commemoration 2016

At the University´s Annual Commemoration on November 18th 2016, the University awarded a silver…

2016.09.15

New Researchers at Roots of Europe

Two new postdoctoral researchers will be based at Center for Roots of Europe from 2016.

Article

2016.05.27

The Worth of a Historical Linguist

Bjarne Simmelkjær Hansen has been interviewed by UniAvisen where he tells about how historical…

2016.02.25

Indo-European Studies in the Press

Two articles regarding Indo-European Studies demonstrate the interdisciplinary co-operation in the…

2015.11.16

Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology

On October 9th Associate Professor Thomas Olander defended his doctoral dissertation ”Proto-Slavic…

2015.11.11

New publication examines the linguistic roots of Europe

The publishing house Museum Tusculanum has released “The Linguistic Roots of Europe”.

2015.06.05

Job announcement: postdoctoral researcher in Archaeology

A position as a postdoctoral researcher in archaeology has been announced. The position is part of…

2014.09.21

PhD defence and new postdoc by Adam Hyllested

On 12 September 2014 Adam Hyllested defended his PhD thesis Word Exchange at the Gates of Europe:…

2014.07.05

PhD defence and new postdoc by Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen

On the 20 June 2014 Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen defended his PhD thesis Archaisms and…

2014.04.12

New professor

Birgit Anette Rasmussen blev pr. 1/7-2014 ansat som professor mso ved faget Indoeuroæisk og…

Article

2014.01.20

The Tale of Ale

Adam Hyllested takes on the role as expert as he answers a question about the word 'ale' in a Q&A…

2013.08.26

VELUX-funded research project

The new three years research project Individual, kin and family in prehistoric Europe - what words…

New book

2013.06.28

New book: Indo-European accent and ablaut

The book Indo-European accentology and ablaut has just been published at Museum Tusculanum Press.

2013.05.21

Funeral service for Jens Elmegård Rasmussen

The service will be held at 1.30 PM on Tuesday 28 May at 1.30 PM at Allehelgens Kirke, Ungarnsgade…

2013.05.16

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen 15 March 1944 - 15 May 2013

On 15 May, our research group was greatly saddened by the passing of our project leader, Jens…

2013.01.07

Videos available

The video recordings from 'Tracing the Indo-Europeans: Origin and migration' are now available…

2012.06.25

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead has successfully defended her Ph.d. dissertation in Leiden 26 April 2012

26 April 2012 Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead defended her Ph.d. thesis on pickpocket compounds from…

2012.04.09

New publication

The sound of Indo-European – phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics has recently been published…

2011.03.10

Etymology and the European Lexicon: Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that the 14th Congress (Fachtagung) of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft …

2010.07.15

Bjarne Sandgaard Hansen appointed as Ph.D. fellow

As of 1 September 2010, Bjarne Sandgaard Hansen has been appointed as a Ph.D. fellow at Roots of…

2010.07.08

Guus Kroonen new postdoctoral scholar

As of 1 December 2010, Guus Kroonen is a postdoctoral scholar at Roots of Europe.

2010.07.01

Roots of Europe gets deputy head of centre

As of 1 July 2010, associate professor, DPhil Birgit Anette Rasmussen (Olsen) has been appointed…

2010.07.01

Oliver Simkin new postdoctoral scholar

As of 1 July 2010, Oliver Simkin is a postdoctoral scholar at Roots of Europe.

2009.09.10

New features on the homepage

Roots of Europe's homepage has recently been enriched with some new features.

2009.03.17

Postponement of block seminar

Benedicte Nielsen's block seminar on nominal composition has been postponed to the autumn term.

2009.02.06

Adam Hyllested appointed as Ph.D. fellow

As of 1 February 2009, Adam Hyllested has been appointed as a Ph.D. fellow within Roots of Europe.

2009.01.07

Jenny Larsson assigned ass. prof. at Stockhom University

Ph.D. Jenny Helena Larsson has been assigned associate professor of Baltic languages at the…

2008.12.20

Report from guest lecture and opening reception

On 5 September 2008, the opening of the centre was marked officially by a celebratory guest lecture…

2008.11.27

Forthcoming deadline

The deadline for registration of participation in the international conference The Sound of…

2008.10.20

Change of hours of Jenny Helena Larsson's block seminar

The scheduled hours of Jenny Helena Larsson's block seminar entitled Introduction to…

2008.09.10

New homepage

The homepage of the research project Roots of Europe - Language, Culture, and Migrations has now…

2008.07.01

A new research project is launched

Launching of the research project Roots of Europe - Language, Culture, and Migrations.

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

New book: Sub-Indo-European Europe

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg featured at videnskab.dk

Thomas Olander elected vice president of the Society for Indo-European Studies

New book: Power, gender, and mobility

New PhD student at Roots of Europe: Tore Rovs Kristoffersen

The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated: new research project

New book: Indo-European interfaces

To gamle studiekammerater forsvarer deres ph.d.-afhandling inden for samme uge

eLetter featured in the »Indo-European News« podcast episode

New chart-topping Italian podcast “L'invasione” on the Indo-Europeans – featuring Birgit Rasmussen

Copenhagen Roots contribute to Bronze Age novel

eLetter to Science: Archaeolinguistic anachronisms in the Indo-European phylogeny of Heggarty et al. 2023

Johan Ulrik Nielsen is awarded the Gold Medal for his Prize dissertation 🥇

IE-CoR is published - and Matthew Scarborough was a great part of it

Julia Sturm featured in ERC news

Matthew Scarborough receives Marie Curie fellowship

New research assistant: Marc Canby

New book: The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited

New book: The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek

New book: The Indo-European language family

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg receives internationalisation scholarship from Carlsberg

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg’s PhD dissertation receives prize from the Indogermanische Gesellschaft

Nicolas Jansens on research stay with Roots of Europe

Matthew Scarborough new postdoc at Connecting the Dots project

Prizes from the Indogermanische Gesellschaft

Seminar course on “Indo-European Poetics and Mythology” by Riccardo Ginevra

Two new postdocs have been awarded a Marie Curie-Skƚodowska scholarship

Project Connecting the Dots has received a grant of 6.2 million DKK

Laura Massetti has received a scholarship of DKK 700.000 from the Carlsberg Foundation

Customs and Cultural Differences in the Academic Environment

Great New Project in Collaboration with Stockholm University

Launch of the Official Roots of Europe Facebook Page

Hjelmslev as Name of the Month

New Intern at Roots of Europe

Ordinary Professorship to Indo-European Studies

New Research Project

New Book out

First and Third Prize to Indo-Europeanists from University of Copenhagen

New Professorship at Indo-European Studies

New Marie Skłodowska Curie-fellow at Roots of Europe

Ancient languages read aloud

First and second place to Indo-Europeanists from University of Copenhagen

Launch of "The Homeland Timeline Map"

A Step Closer to the Urheimat

New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia

New postdoc Laura Massetti

Gold Medal for Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn

Research grant for James Alan Johnson from the Wenner Green Foundation

New project member at “Homeland” project

Birgit Anette Olsen (Rasmussen) Featured in Danish Newspaper

Finnish and Indo-European

Prize Paper from DNSL Honored at the Annual Commemoration 2016

New Researchers at Roots of Europe

The Worth of a Historical Linguist

Indo-European Studies in the Press

Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology

New publication examines the linguistic roots of Europe

Job announcement: postdoctoral researcher in Archaeology

PhD defence and new postdoc by Adam Hyllested

PhD defence and new postdoc by Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen

New professor

The Tale of Ale

VELUX-funded research project

New book: Indo-European accent and ablaut

Funeral service for Jens Elmegård Rasmussen

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen 15 March 1944 - 15 May 2013

Videos available

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead has successfully defended her Ph.d. dissertation in Leiden 26 April 2012

New publication

Etymology and the European Lexicon: Call for Papers

Bjarne Sandgaard Hansen appointed as Ph.D. fellow

Guus Kroonen new postdoctoral scholar

Roots of Europe gets deputy head of centre

Oliver Simkin new postdoctoral scholar

New features on the homepage

Postponement of block seminar

Adam Hyllested appointed as Ph.D. fellow

Jenny Larsson assigned ass. prof. at Stockhom University