The Australian professor Alistair Thomson has gained international acclaim for turning the stories of ordinary people into an important area of historical research.

A new study focuses on three groups of international students, who have been asked what they think about Aarhus University. Some of the respondents feel that it’s hard to make friends among the Danes, and as soon as the lessons end many Danes start speaking Danish.

On 29 February the University International Club is visiting the State and University Library, where hundreds of students and researchers work every day and where the lines of books run for miles all the way from the basement and up into the tall tower.