Calendar

• 22 July - 25 July 2025

  The Twenty-Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR)

  The faculty of the humanities, University of Copenhagen, is hosting the 25^th biannual meeting of The International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) at South Campus, July 22-25.

• 4 Aug. - 5 Aug. 2025

  New Perspectives on the Early History of Ancient Greek

  Conference.

• 13 Aug. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move

  CSF’s Reading Group Reads Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move by Vincanne Adams.

• 13 Aug. - 15 Aug. 2025

  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. - 22 Aug. 2025

  Copenhagen Summer School in Women’s History of Philosophy

  Summer school.

• 18 Aug. - 19 Aug. 2025

  10th Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication

  Conference.

• 20 Aug. 2025, 13:00-16:00

  Farewell seminar for Ingolf Thuesen

  Ingolf Thuesen is retiring this year. On this occasion, we invite you to a seminar where colleagues and collaborators will reflect on Ingolf's research and his significant contributions to Near Eastern archaeology.

• 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.

• 26 Aug. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Exploring the Life of Solar Panels

  Talk with Alexander Dunlap, postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University Institute for Global (IGS), USA, and a visiting research fellow in the Global Development Studies Department, University of Helsinki, Finland. 

• 27 Aug. - 28 Aug. 2025

  Emerging Research on Datafied Living

  Conference.

• 28 Aug. 2025, 14:00-15:00

  Off-gridding and state subsidies. Science-based livestock production in rural–urban Denmark

  TRANSITION Dialogue with Frida Hastrup, University of Copenhagen.

• 3 Sept. 2025, 15:30-17:30

  Generative Listening

  Applied Ecological Listening #1 - Part of a workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Mark Peter Wright and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening

• 3 Sept. - 7 Sept. 2025

  Data Loss Reverberations

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

• 10 Sept. - 12 Sept. 2025

  The European Histories of HIV/AIDS

  The European Histories of HIV/AIDS symposium is an international gathering focused on exploring diverse national responses to the AIDS epidemic across Europe, contrasting them with the US-centric historical narratives.

• 11 Sept. - 12 Sept. 2025

  Working with contemporary history in collections: The Baltic Case

  Workshop and meeting, Malmö Konstmuseum, September 11^th-12^th 2025.

• 12 Sept. 2025, 14:15-16:00

  You Say You Want a Revolution? Building a kaleidoscopic chorus against, without and beyond violence

  Inaugural Lecture by Novo Nordisk Foundation Visiting Professor in Art & Art History, Marsha Meskimmon.

• 17 Sept. 2025, 13:15-15:00

  Memory Activism and Child Victimhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  GPS seminar and CEMES lecture with Professor Jasna Dragovic-Soso.

• 17 Sept. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  A Christian monk in love with Islam: The Italian Jesuit Paolo Dall'Oglio and his witness in Syria

  Guest lecture by Dr. Paolo La Spisa (Associate Professor, University of Florence, Italy).

• 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.

• 17 Sept. 2025, 19:00-21:00

  Copenhagen Conversations

  Together with the National Museum of Denmark, associate professor Andreas Bandak has launched the conversation series Copenhagen Conversations - this time with  Jane Bennett and Tim Ingold.

• 18 Sept. 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Mattering presence: Thinking about the other things that happen when we are present with unknown others

  Open, digital seminar.

• 18 Sept. 2025, 14:00-16:30

  Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations

  Book presentation with the editors and authors.

• 24 Sept. 2025, 15:30-17:30

  Listening After Nature

  Applied Ecological Listening #2 - Part of a workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Mark Peter Wright and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening.

• 26 Sept. 2025, 14:00-16:30

  Why Philosophy of Psychology?

  Inaugural lecture by Professor Thor Grünbaum.

• 29 Sept. - 30 Sept. 2025

  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.

• 2 Oct. 2025, 15:30-17:30

  Spiritual Listening

  Applied Ecological Listening #3 - Part of a workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Mark Peter Wright and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening.

• 9 Oct. 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Nature at Work: Reinterpreting Danish Rural Literature in the Age of Ecological Crisis

  TRANSITION Dialogue with Anne Fastrup and Tue Andersen Nexø, University of Copenhagen.

• 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

• 5 Nov. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Knowledge and emotions of the global: children’s encounters with the global imaginary after 1945

  Seminar with Björn Lundberg.

• 6 Nov. 2025, 10:00-16:00

  CIP Symposium 2025: New Literacies - the role of multilingualism and generative AI

  CIP hosts its annual symposium Thursday 6 November 2025 on 'New Literacies - the role of multilingualism and generative AI'.

• 13 Nov. - 14 Nov. 2025

  Being we

  Conference showcasing results from the two large ERC and Carlsberg Foundation funded projects on the we that CFS has conducted since 2020.

• 18 Nov. 2025, 11:00-12:00

  Peter Seeberg and the National Museum of Denmark’s Studies of Industrial, Skilled and Unskilled Workers

  TRANSITION Data Lab with Jeppe Barnwell, University of Copenhagen.

• 20 Nov. 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Human-Nature Encounters in Urban Space

  Open, digital seminar.

• 3 Dec. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Association rules in usage-based linguistics

  Lecture by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen.

• 11 Dec. 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Working with local communities: Challenges and opportunities

  Open, digital seminar.

• 23 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2026

  Call for papers: Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 - present

  Conference.

• 15 Sept. - 17 Sept. 2026

  The Ambient Music Conference

  Conference.