Calendar

• 4 Dec. - 7 Dec. 2023

  Crash course in Indo-European mythology and poetics

  Riccardo Ginevra will give a crash course in comparative Indo-European mythology and poetics.

• 7 Dec. 2023, 10:00-11:00

  Language background – what difference does it make?

  Ketty Andersson (Lund University) will talk about if and how language background may affect assessment and intervention for children in general, and particularly children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

• 7 Dec. - 8 Dec. 2023

  Common sense for humans and machines: Making decisions in the absence of information

  Seminar.

• 7 Dec. - 8 Dec. 2023

  Rethinking the rural North through environmental literature, film, and TV

  This conference seeks to investigate the multi-layered ways in which “the rural North” is negotiated, contested, and reimagined from an environmental humanities approach.

• 7 Dec. - 8 Dec. 2023

  Cultivating information, organizing culture: Exploring classification practices in modern culture

  The purpose of this conference is to begin a Nordic interdisciplinary conversation about how modern culture increasingly is articulated through and debated as questions of classification.

• 8 Dec. 2023, 11:00-12:15

  Film premiere: 'Ganbanaaxun Fedde: a transnational anti-slavery movement’ (36min.)

  Film premiere.

• 8 Dec. 2023, 13:00-17:00

  Georges Perec's Translated Places

  Trilingual Conference at the University of Copenhagen.

• 8 Dec. 2023, 13:15-15:30

  Kickoff event for The Prison Project

  Join us for a kickoff lecture and reception for the “Materiality of Incarceration in Mediterranean Antiquity” research project (Carlsberg: Semper Ardens), housed in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen.

• 8 Dec. 2023, 14:15-16:00

  Sexual love and interpersonal intentionality

  CFS lecture by Galen Strawson, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• 11 Dec. - 12 Dec. 2023

  With and Against the Current: Exploring Hydrofeminism(s)

  This symposium brings together transdisciplinary researchers, artists and writers who have inquired into and been inspired by watery histories and subjectivities.

• 12 Dec. 2023, 13:00-15:00

  ‘Sustainable Tuesdays’ event: Rock – Water – Life: ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa

  Sustainable Futures Reading Group reads Rock Water Life: ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa by Lesley Green.

• 13 Dec. 2023, 13:00

  Greenlandic Frames

  Public defence of PhD Thesis by Anders Grønlund.

• 15 Dec. 2023, 13:00

  Autonomy’s double bind

  Public defence of PhD Thesis by Turið Nolsøe.

• 15 Dec. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Author Meets Critic: Scientific Freedom: The Heart of the Right to Science

  A debate on scientific and academic freedom as a part of the human right to benefit from science on the occasion of the publication of Scientific Freedom: The Heart of the Right to Science (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).

• 5 Jan. 2024, 13:00

  Sproglig opmærksomhed via en flersprogethedsdidaktik

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Natascha Drachmann

• 12 Jan. 2024, 13:00-14:00

  Valedictory lecture with Anne Holmen

  Professor in Parallel Language Use, Anne Holmen will give her valedictory lecture Friday 12 January 2024 from 13:00-14:00 i lecture hall 4A.0.69.

• 12 Jan. 2024, 13:00-16:00

  My mistake! Production and perception of grammar anomalies

  PhD defence by Katrine Falcon.

• 25 Jan. 2024, 13:00-18:00

  Netværk for moderne miljø- og klimahistorie: Call for participation

  Møde for Netværk for moderne miljø- og klimahistorie (NMM).

• 26 Jan. 2024, 15:00-17:00

  Book Reception: Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood

  Reception for the new book, “Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood” (2nd Edition), written by Johan Farkas (Department of Communication, UCPH) and Jannick Schou, published by Routledge.

• 1 Feb. 2024, 15:00-17:00

  IN THE SAME SEA open house

  Join us for Caribbean music, snacks, research posters and our famous rum punch.

• 22 Feb. 2024, TBA

  Waste ethnographies workshop

  The workshop is conceived as a platform for open-ended inquiry and collaborative problem-solving, rather than a one-way knowledge dissemination event.

• 29 Feb. 2024, 14:15-16:00

  The phenomenology and structure of the second-person plural

  CFS lecture by Sarah Pawlett Jackson, University of London.

• 14 Mar. - 15 Mar. 2024

  Conference: Gendering Music Matter. Power, Affects, and Infrastructures of Music Industries

  Conference on the gender gap in the music industry.

• 18 Mar. 2024

  Call for Papers: Literary Studies at KU: Projects, Practices, Provocations

  We encourage all our colleagues, from PhD students to tenured faculty, to submit an abstract and share their current research, side projects, topics of current interest in literature and theory, methodological questions and challenges, or provocations.

• 18 Apr. 2024, 17:00

  The Rise of the West End: London, the Season and Metropolitan Shopping

  Talk by Professor Amanda Vickery, Queen Mary, University of London, and SCAS, Uppsala, Sweden.

• 25 Apr. - 26 Apr. 2024

  Call for papers: WASTE & VALUE conference

  The conference is hosted at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and the international collaborative research project WASTE: Consumption and Buddhism in the age of garbage.

• 13 May 2024, 14:15-16:00

  Distributed affect and deep place knowledge

  CFS lecture by John Sutton, University of Stirling & Macquarie University.

• 16 May - 18 May 2024

  Call for papers - Culture and the Mind: Voices, Sites and Practices

  Call for papers. CULTMIND will hold its first Annual Conference 16-18 May 2024 in central Copenhagen.

• 21 May - 23 May 2024

  XII NOLAN CONFERENCE – II FIEALC FORUM

  NOLAN/FIEALC 2024 offers a large interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on Latin America in the Nordic countries and beyond. 

• 30 May 2024, 15:00

  Frederick William I of Prussia

  Talk by Professor Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

• 5 June - 8 June 2024

  Call for papers: 11th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group

  The Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will host the 11th Bird Working Group (BWG) Meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology from Wednesday 5th June to Saturday 8th June 2024.

• 20 June 2024

  Call for papers: ICA 2024 Preconference: Reimagining Digital Activism: Navigating Complexities and Forging New Perspectives

  Conference.

• 26 June - 28 June 2024

  Researching the Reading Experience in the Digital Age: From Print, to the Bookternet and Back Again

  International conference where we explore some of the latest research on reading and readers.

• 12 Aug. - 16 Aug. 2024

  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.

• 9 Oct. - 11 Oct. 2024

  Call for papers: NKRF9: Rhetoric in Digital and Technological Transition

  The Section of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen invites you to NKRF9 2024.

• 10 Oct. 2024

  L’éclairage artificiel dans les arts et la littérature (Artificial lighting in the arts and in literature)

  A one-day symposium.

• 16 Oct. - 17 Oct. 2024

  Call for papers: Tangentiality

  International conference at the University of Copenhagen.