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New book published (Open Access): Guus Kroonen (ed.). 2024. Sub-Indo-European Europe:…

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg, who holds a PhD degree from the Roots of Europe centre and is now a postdoc a…

At the General Assembly of the Society for Indo-European Studies in Basel on 10 September 2024,…

New book out! Power, gender, and mobility: Aspects of Indo-European society. Edited by Riccardo…

On 1 September 2024, the Roots of Europe centre will have a new PhD student: Tore Rovs…

The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated: new research project

The volume Indo-European interfaces: Integrating linguistics, mythology and archaeology has been…

Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn og Mikkel Nørtoft Johansen, begge kandidater i Indoeuropæisk fra NorS, har…

The eLetter in Science written by many of the Copenhagen Roots in response to the controversial…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New research assistant: Marc Canby

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

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

New book on the Indo-European language family.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mikkel Nørtoft has launched his interactive map of prehistoric migrations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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