News Archive
DIS To Show at International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York
May 15, 2013
DIS students will again be displaying their work at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York this coming weekend.
“American Dream in Pop Culture” Panel Great Success
May 15, 2013
Last week, DIS students and local Danes explored the impact and relevance of the “American Dream in Pop Culture” at a DIS sponsored panel at Studenterhuset.
DIS Faculty Member Speaks About Kierkegaard on National TV
May 10, 2013
DIS faculty, Brian Söderquist, Ph.D., gave a talk on the famous Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard on Danish National TV this week.
Course Field Study Takes Students Sailing Like Vikings
May 9, 2013
Nordic Mythology students spent their first weekend in May on a field study sailing on a reconstructed Viking ship in the Roskilde Fjord.
DIS Hosts American Dream Series on Pop Culture
Apr 11, 2013
What is the American Dream and how is it perceived in Europe?
DIS Alumna Publishes Video with Northwestern's STITCH Fashion Magazine
Apr 4, 2013
DIS alumna Diane Tsai, created a video about Danish fashion while studying here in Copenhagen which was published in Northwestern University’s fashion magazine STITCH upon her return.
DIS Academic Visit Makes the News in Turkey
Apr 4, 2013
DIS students are just back from week-long study tours and the class traveling with the Sociology program to Istanbul, Turkey made the local news!
Mar 25, 2013
DIS and students from the Cross-Cultural Communication Core Course held a reception last week with journalists and asylum seekers to celebrate a recent collaboration project.
Catch Up With Faculty News at DIS
Mar 22, 2013
Recently, Program Directors at DIS updated their contacts around U.S. campuses with academic developments and faculty news from Copenhagen. Here are just some of the highlights from each program:
IEW Spring 2013 Comes to a Conclusion
Mar 22, 2013
DIS would like to thank the group of education abroad professionals, faculty, student affairs staff, and other administrators from a range of U.S. universities and colleges that took part in the bi-annual International Educators Workshop (IEW) in Copenhagen over the last week.
DIS Hosts International Career Night
Mar 20, 2013
Last month, DIS hosted its biannual International Career Night.
Heather Krog Returns to DIS to Lecture for the First of the Diversity Talk Series
Mar 15, 2013
Watch DIS Diversity Vlogger, Peter Shapiro, summarize the first Diversity Talk which focused on Race & Identity in Copenhagen.
DIS Program Director Interviewed on Danish TV and Published
Mar 15, 2013
Helle Rytkønen, Program Director for Communication at DIS, has been busy this week appearing as an expert on Danish television and having a chapter published in a new book.
DIS Alumna Opens Her Own Furniture Store
Mar 15, 2013
DIS Alumna Manasi Manjrekar has opened a furniture store in her homeland of India selling many pieces of her own work.
DIS Faculty Lectures at Whitman College
Mar 15, 2013
Anne Okkels Birk, DIS faculty for Criminology and Criminal Justice in Scandinavia, was invited to Whitman College earlier this month where she gave a lecture to students and community members about Danish prisons.
