Calendar

• 22 Apr. 2025, 10:00-12:00

  Comparison Controversies and the Dynamics of Holocaust Memory

  Lecture by Michael Rothberg (UCLA).

• 22 Apr. 2025, 10:15-12:00

  Introduction in Croatian dialects and non standard speeches in public space

  Guest lecture by Ivančica Banković-Mandić, PhD, Croaticum – Centre for Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language (University of Zagreb).

• 22 Apr. 2025, 13:00-16:00

  What is distinctive about the Second Person?

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Julia Zaenker.

• 22 Apr. 2025, 13:15-15:00

  Unwriting and Rewriting Climate

  HUM:Global Semester Lecture.

• 23 Apr. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  The Political Conceptualization of Denmark as a Green Pioneer Country

  Sustainable Seminar: Historian and PhD student at the European University Institute, Viktor Blum, will present his dissertation.

• 23 Apr. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Lady Reason Speaking: Philosophical Arguments in Verse

  A WHENCE Research Colloquium 2025. Presentation by Irina Hron.

• 23 Apr. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  Moby-Dick, the Ocean, and the Literary Origins of Silent Spring

  Talk by Michele Navakas (Miami University, Ohio/SDU Odense).

• 23 Apr. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Language at Work: Multilingualism in the Danish Agricultural Sector (MiDAS)

  Project presentation by Kamilla Kraft (Assistant Professor, UCPH/EGR).

• 24 Apr. 2025, 10:15-12:00

  Perception of Croatian language and culture – outside and inside view

  Guest lecture by Ivančica Banković-Mandić, PhD, Croaticum – Centre for Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language (University of Zagreb).

• 24 Apr. 2025, 10:15-15:00

  Challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability around the world

  ToRS seminar for researchers and students.

• 24 Apr. 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Walking the lines - Reflections on walking methods in Jordan

  The seminar series Circulations and Locality in Critical Border Studies is arranged by the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, funded by CEMES

• 24 Apr. 2025, 13:15-15:00

  The WEB CHILD Project. Why Study the Early Web’s Influence on Childhood in South Korea, the United States, and Denmark?

  Lecture by Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Associate Professor of Contemporary Cultural History at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

• 24 Apr. 2025, 15:00

  The Psychology of Violent Extremism

  Presentation by Associate Professor Milan Obaidi, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

• 24 Apr. - 25 Apr. 2025

  Intersubjectivity and Collective Memory

  Workshop.

• 25 Apr. 2025, 11:00-14:00

  Exploring the multiplicity of digital remains

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Astrid Waagstein.

• 28 Apr. 2025, 9:15-11:00

  Verbal aspect in Croatian for learners whose L1 is not a Slavic language

  Guest lecture by Ivančica Banković-Mandić, PhD, Croaticum – Centre for Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language (University of Zagreb).

• 28 Apr. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Russian Anti-Progressivism and Its Origins: A Critical Perspective on the Russia-Ukraine War

  Guest lecture with Professor Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University).

• 28 Apr. - 2 May 2025

  Architecture and Aging in modern Europe

  Network seminar Care and Aging: An Urban Ethnographic Exploration of People, Places, and Practices. Examples of age friendly architecture and discussions with the network.

• 30 Apr. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Textile Production and Sheep Husbandry in Early Iron Age Rogaland

  Lecture by Sigrid Vinje-Christensen

• 30 Apr. - 2 May 2025

  Stories into Song Workshops: Paul Auster’s City of Glass

  In these two co-creative workshops, hosted by James Peacock (Keele University, UK) and François Hugonnier (University of Angers, France), we aim to write a song adapted from Paul Auster’s City of Glass.

• 30 Apr. 2025, 15:00-16:30

  Art and Society Through Feminist Degrowth

  Performative and Collaborative Conversations with Degrowth Activist Scholar Anitra Nelson.

• 30 Apr. 2025, 16:00

  Wild and Domesticated Olive in Bronze Age Crete: Data from Linear A

  Talk by Rachel Pierini, Saxo-Institute (University of Copenhagen).

• 30 Apr. 2025, 16:30-17:30

  Pivot to Asia: Denmark and Trump 2.0

  Panel discussion

• 2 May 2025, 13:15-15:00

  The Warrior Ethos and The Spirit of Nationalism

  CSGN talk by Professor Sinisa Malesevic (University College Dublin).

• 2 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Narrative Text, Translator and Machine: In Search of User-Friendly Translation Technology for Literary Texts

  Lecture with Professor Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov.

• 2 May 2025, 15:15-17:00

  I and We: Sedimented Consciousness and Generativity

  CFS lecture by Saulius Geniusas, Professor of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• 5 May 2025, 13:00-16:00

  Barriers and Breakthroughs

  Celebratory seminar to mark the 150th anniversary of women's admission to the University of Copenhagen

• 5 May - 17 May 2025

  The Legal Document in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Visuality, Materiality, and Performance

  PhD School/course at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen (Saxo-Institute).

• 6 May 2025, 13:15-15:15

  War and peace: How to report on war in contemporary conflicts

  Guest lecturer Prof. Can Ertuna.

• 6 May 2025, 14:00

  On the Minefields of Memory: Rethinking past and present in the shadow of war against Ukraine

  Lecture.

• 6 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Transformative Talk: Feminist Ecological Economics and Degrowth

  Panel Conversation with Emma Holten and Tone Smith

• 6 May 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Sonic Probing: An Artistic Research Practice

  Presenter: Robert Willim (Lund University, SWE).

• 7 May 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Two Master’s Theses: Thinking-With Reciprocal Care and Rethinking “Green” Cooking Technologies

  With Emma Bondo Arentoft, ethnologist from UCPH and James Alon Sarick-Whiteside, M.Sc. student in Anthropology, UCPH. Emma and James will present their Master’s Theses.

• 7 May 2025, 15:00-17:00

  Environmental Humanities Research Group work-in-progress seminar with Georg Wink and Martyn Bone

  Talk by George Wink (ENGEROM) and work-in-progress session by Martyn Bone (ENGEROM).

• 7 May 2025, 15:15

  Athenian Democracy and Civic Participation: A critical reappraisal

  Lecture by Vincent Azoulay (EHESS, Paris).

• 8 May 2025, 10:00-11:30

  Generations: On Enjoying the Future

  Public Lecture with Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

• 8 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Contested Histories, Democratic Challenges: Decolonial Discourses in Polish Museums

  Lecture with Joanna Wawrzyniak, University of Warszawa.

• 8 May 2025, 13:15-15:00

  The essential guide media capture: Lessons from Turkey

  Guest lecturer Prof. Can Ertuna.

• 9 May 2025, 15:15-17:00

  When Death Comes

  CFS Lecture by Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada

• 12 May 2025, 10:15-12:00

  The Subject of Time

  CFS Lecture by Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada

• 12 May 2025, 13:00-17:00

  Situating disgust: negotiating contamination in an impure world

  Workshop with Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, US.

• 13 May 2025, 17:15-19:00

  Sprog, landskab og kultur – variationsmønstre i rumlig sprogbrug i wik-mungkan (Australien)

  Oplæg af Laurits Stapput Knudsen, University of Newcastle (Australia).

• 14 May 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Gender Instability in the Nordic gynæceum: How should we approach (implicit) arguments on women’s intellectual capacities?

  A WHENCE Research Colloquium 2025. Presentation by Bodil Hvass Kjems.

• 14 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

  Disability and Mobility

  Public talk by Eric Laurier (University of Edinburgh) and Daniel Muñoz (Universidad de Chile).

• 14 May 2025, 16:00

  Helmer Fogedgaard, teosof og seksualpolitisk aktivist

  I dette foredrag vil Peter Edelberg fortælle om Helmer Fogedgaard og lægge vægt på, hvordan hans teosofiske anskuelser hjalp ham i hans seksualpolitiske arbejde, samt præsentere hans arkiv.

• 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

  Wrapped in Silk and Written in Stone. Aesthetics of illusion and authenticity in Ottoman legal documents

  Lecture by visiting professor Nino Zchomelidse, in collaboration with the History section of the Saxo’ Institute.

• 15 May 2025, 9:30

  Full-day conference about Georgia

  Eastern European Studies’ Student Council, The Danish Foreign Policy Society U35, and the student organization European Horizons at UCPH invite you to a one-day conference about Georgia.

• 15 May 2025, 13:00-18:00

  Creative Responses

  A symposium on the complex and important role of art, literature and other creative activities in dealing with a changing worldview, highlighting the interplay of the local, regional and global in environmental art.

• 15 May 2025, 15:00

  Book launch

  Book launch: Simon Stjernholm, CCRS, presents his book Sensing Islam: Engaging and Contesting the Senses in Muslim Religiosity and Anders Ackfeldt, The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, presents his book Islamic Themes in US Hip-Hope Culture.

• 16 May 2025, 9:30-17:00

  Interdisciplinary Approaches and Scientific Methods in Viking Studies

  42nd Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium.

• 16 May 2025, 13:00-15:00

  From the “Dark Side of Transnationalism” to Socialist Globalisation: Eastern Europeans and the making of modern Vietnam

  Talk with Mate Rigo.

• 16 May 2025, 14:15

  Ethnography as sohbet. The challenges of conducting collaborative ethnographic research with Uyghur Sufis in exile

  Guest lecture by Professor Rachel Harris, SOAS, London.

• 19 May - 21 May 2025

  Call for Papers: Ethnographies of Energy

  Workshop at University of Copenhagen.

• 20 May 2025, 13:30-15:00

  The Persistence of Resistance: Rekindling agency and reimagining alternative media in the algorithmic age

  Public Seminar with Emiliano Treré

• 20 May 2025, 15:15-16:30

  European Dance Music Cultures and Sound

  Presenter: Jack McNeill (University of York, UK).

• 21 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Speculative Futures: Labour, Technology, and Ecological Justice

  This event will explore two key visions of the near future: one through the struggles of Amazon workers for labour and ecological justice, and the other through the ecological challenges of Silicon Valley’s AI-driven ambitions.

• 21 May 2025, 16:00

  On the Right Side of the King: a microhistorical study on the use of titles by early Ramesside viziers

  Talk by Bente Bladsgaard Jensen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (University of Copenhagen).

• 21 May - 23 May 2025

  Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?

  International conference.

• 22 May 2025, 13:00-20:00

  Mapping as Method

  Workshop funded by HUM:Global Seed Money Project.

• 22 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Museums and Engaged Humanities Facing the Russian War Against Ukraine: A View from Poland

  CEMES Lecture with Elżbieta Kwiecińska (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences) and Małgorzata Ławrowska von Thadden (ODMIN Foundation).

• 22 May - 23 May 2025

  Sense of Reality

  Workshop on the Sense of Reality.

• 23 May 2025, 9:00-16:00

  Digital Degrowth: Exploring Sustainable Technological Futures in Education

  Conference organised by the Education Technology Collective (ETCo) led by Lucas Cone and Magda Pischetola.

• 26 May 2025, 14:15-16:00

  Ontology and Social Science Theories: The Case of Group Formation

  CFS lecture by Patrik Aspers, Professor of Sociology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

• 26 May 2025

  Literature at KU

  Every year, the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies gather literature researchers from across the University of Copenhagen for a collegiate conference.

• 27 May 2025, 10:00-12:30

  Alternative Platforms, Alternative Politics

  HUM:Global Flagship Initiative Seminar.

• 28 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Mapping the Europeanisation of the Universities: The Transformation of Knowledge Institutions, c. 1980–1995

  In this seminar, the Europeanisation of the universities will be discussed in a comparative setting.

• 28 May 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Mending Maladies: Agnes’s jacket and her kinds

  Lecture by Subhasree Biswas.

• 4 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

  June CIRCLE

  Please join the CIRCLE seminar with Jasmine Jundan Zhang and Torkel Gissel Nielsen

• 10 June 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Provoking Care-full Cities

  SAXO Lecture with Dr Miriam Williams, Senior Lecturer in Geography and Planning in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University, Australia.

• 11 June 2025, 10:00-16:00

  Thoughts and lines: Ethnographic drawing, graphic novels and analytical potentials

  EASA Sensory Media Network workshop.

• 12 June 2025

  ICA 2025 Preconference: Activism Theory, Activist Practice: Bridging Boundaries Between Researching and Doing Activism

  Conference.

• 12 June - 13 June 2025

  Connections, Disruptions, and Reconnections in China Studies and Beyond

  The 17 biennial Conference of the Nordic Association of China Studies + PhD workshop.

• 13 June 2025, 9:00-11:30

  Free workshop June 2025: Danish for meetings

  In this workshop, you will get acquainted with typical meeting vocabulary, as well as phrases that will enable you to more actively take part in meetings held in Danish. 

• 18 June - 20 June 2025

  How women shaped the Nordic Enlightenment I

  Conference.

• 23 June 2025, 11:00

  Paraphrase. Rewriting the Rewritten

  Workshop.

• 25 June 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Weaving Worlds: A Social History of Odense Weavers’ Guild 1600-1850

  Lecture by Morten Grymer-Hansen.

• 30 June - 4 July 2025

  Textiles and dress in ancient times. Exploring sources, theories, methods and hands-on approaches

  Summer school.

• 4 Aug. - 5 Aug. 2025

  New Perspectives on the Early History of Ancient Greek

  Conference.

• 13 Aug. - 15 Aug. 2025

  Call for papers: Otherworldly Entertainment: A Conference on Horror, Magic, Gothic, and the Occult in Video Games

  The Dark Arts Research Group and the Digital Cultures and Languages research group at ENGEROM/UCPH will co-host a three-day international conference on horror, magic, gothic, and occult-themed video games.

• 18 Aug. - 19 Aug. 2025

  10th Explorations in Ethnography Language and communication

  Conference.

• 18 Aug. - 22 Aug. 2025

  Copenhagen Summer School in Women’s History of Philosophy

  Summer school.

• 22 Aug. 2025, 9:00-17:00

  The Future of Climate Justice in Denmark and Beyond: Diplomacy, Democracy, Activism

  Conference.

• 25 Aug. - 29 Aug. 2025

  Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind

  Annual event organized by the Center of Subjectivity Research and co-funded by the PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

• 27 Aug. - 28 Aug. 2025

  CfA: Emerging Research on Datafied Living

  Conference call for abstracts.

• 3 Sept. - 7 Sept. 2025

  Data Loss Reverberations

  Open Panel at 4S 2025: Data Loss Reverberations - Exploring Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies.

• 17 Sept. 2025, 16:15-18:00

  The “Secular” We vs. The “Religious” We: On Nationalist Theopolitics

  CFS lecture by Yaacov Yadgar, Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

• 29 Sept. - 30 Sept. 2025

  Call for papers: Collecting and classifying: How museums of the late-nineteenth century shaped the modern world

  This conference convenes international scholars and museum practitioners who will develop their ideas about a historical period characterised by powerful industrialists, who became influential art collectors and museum founders.

• 11 Oct. - 12 Oct. 2025

  Call for papers: Altered States of Consciousness in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents

  Conference.

• 14 Oct. - 17 Oct. 2025

  Exploring the Past, Informing the Future: Two Decades of Interdisciplinary Approaches in Archaeozoology

  11th ICAZ AGPM Working Group Meeting.

• 22 Oct. 2025, 14:15-16:00

  Scaffolding Social Freedom: Structural Supports for Intersubjective Autonomy

  CFS lecture by Joel Anderson, Professor of Moral Psychology & Social Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

• 13 Nov. - 14 Nov. 2025

  Being we

  Conference marking the end of the ERC project Who Are We? Self-identity, Social Cognition, and Collective Intentionality

• 15 Sept. - 17 Sept. 2026

  Call for papers: <br> The Ambient Music Conference

  Conference.