Calendar

• 25 Feb. 2025, 13:15-16:00

  Danish and Swedish Children’s Films

  Guest lecture on ‘The Child in Cinema: Modes of Representation, Perspective, and Participation’ by Malena Janson, Stockholm University, combined with a presentation by Anders Lysne and panel on current children’s cinema.

• 25 Feb. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Voices as Relations

  Presenter: Jacek Smolicki (Uppsala University, SWE).

• 26 Feb. 2025, 10:15-12:00

  "Smart" for whom? Policy mobilities and the politics of the smart city in Japan and South Korea

  Guest talk by Marco Zappa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).

• 26 Feb. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Ambivalent landscapes and atmospheres of care

  Sustainable Seminar with talks by Siri Agnete Schwabe and Natalia Rodriguez Castañeda.

• 26 Feb. 2025, 16:00

  When Occultism Went North: The Esoteric Environment in Sweden, 1880–1930

  Lecture by Johan Nilsson, a postdoctoral researcher in the history of religion at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

• 26 Feb. 2025, 17:00

  Curse like an Egyptian: text and material culture of a ritual of banishment

  Talk by Fredrik Norland Hagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (University of Copenhagen).

• 27 Feb. 2025, 13:30-15:00

  Disrupting la nota roja: a shift in the portrayal of feminicide in Mexico?

  A CIRCLE seminar with Daniela Villegas.

• 27 Feb. 2025, 16:00-20:00

  Workshop #3: The Hologram: On the conversation on Palestine

  Please join us in this workshop session where we are going to talk about the conversation on Palestine. Everyone is welcome!

• 28 Feb. 2025, 13:00

  Fractal gender dynamics in Danish university education

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Simone Mejding Poulsen.

• 3 Mar. 2025, 16:00-20:00

  Workshop #4: The Hologram and difficult feelings

  This final Hologram session will be open for anyone struggling with the problematic frameworks that diagnose and treat mental illness as an individual problem on a burning planet.

• 4 Mar. 2025, 10:00-12:00

  Global Histories of AI

  Lecture by Unso (Eun Seo) Jo. Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University.

• 4 Mar. 2025, 13:15-14:30

  AMIS Culture Club: Vagrants, Vagabonds, Immorals

  Screening of the documentary 'Vagrants, Vagabonds, Immorals' (23 minutes).

• 4 Mar. 2025, 13:15-16:00

  Screening of "Flee" followed by a Q&A with the director

  Screening of Flee (Flugt, Denmark 2021) followed by a discussion with the film’s director Jonas Poher Rasmussen.

• 4 Mar. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Unworlding: Anarchitecture After Everything

  Lecture by Jack Halberstam.

• 5 Mar. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  A rich textile assemblage of an Ancient Egyptian mummy at the National Museum of Denmark – the Lives of a Mummy project

  Lecture by Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi.

• 5 Mar. 2025, 15:00

  New Approaches to Religious Migration in Early Modern Europe

  Lecture by Alexander Schunka (Freie Universität, Berlin).

• 5 Mar. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  Ecocide in Ann Leckie’s “The Raven Tower”

  Work-in-progress seminar with Maria Damkjær (ENGEROM).

• 6 Mar. 2025, 10:00-12:00

  Internal Jewish Dress Regulations and Christian Perceptions of Jewish Dress in Early Modern Central Europe

  Lecture by Cornelia Aust, Professor in Jewish Studies, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf.

• 6 Mar. 2025, 14:00-17:30

  Restoring Global Memories & Local Ecologies: Metallophyte plants and colonial history in DR Congo mining

  HUM:Global Talk! Exhibition and Talk.

• 7 Mar. 2025, 14:00-17:00

  Prelude to the International Women’s Day

  Presentations.

• 7 Mar. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  Migrant Emotions: Inclusion and Exclusion in Transnational Spaces

  Book launch

• 7 Mar. 2025, 15:00

  Subordination or Subversion?

  Guest speaker: Kirsten Rykind-Eriksen.

• 10 Mar. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Interspecies communication: making sense of cows and other animals

  Sustainable Seminar with biologist Elodie Mandel-Briefer and artist Elina Birkehag.

• 11 Mar. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Auditory Asides: Listening Habits and Non-Linear Temporalities

  Presenter: Malcolm Troon (University of Sussex, UK).

• 13 Mar. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Africa Seminar: Missionaries, Traders, and Cultural brokers

  Africans have played a crucial role in shaping trans-regional networks, political and religious institutions, and markets in South Asia from the precolonial era to the present. This seminar focusses on Africans in the western Indian city of Mumbai (known as Bombay before 1996). 

• 13 Mar. 2025, 16:00-17:30

  Transformative Talk: Consumer Empowerment

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• 13 Mar. - 14 Mar. 2025

  Advances in the Analysis of Archaeological Textiles and Skins

  Join us in Copenhagen to learn more about the different approaches and methods that can be harnessed to study archaeological textiles and skins, from leading experts in this multi-faceted field of research.

• 18 Mar. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Cultural institutions in the crosswinds

  Lecture with Mariano Martín Zamorano, CECUPS, University of Barcelona.

• 18 Mar. 2025, 13:15-15:00

  Thinking Big: Maria Mälksoo on Ritual Deterrence

  Seminar.

• 19 Mar. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Dress, Consumption, and Fashionable Change: Evidence from Probate Inventories in Southern Sweden, 1760-1880

  Lecture by Christina Dackling.

• 19 Mar. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  What is a “French Concept”?

  In this lecture, Giuseppe Bianco will centre on the supposed uniqueness of French philosophy from its origins in the early 19th century.

• 19 Mar. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Gerðr galdrs (the Gerdr of incantation)

  Lecture by Flavia Teoc (Aarhus).

• 19 Mar. 2025, 16:00

  Industrial-Colonial Oil Landscapes: the case of the Iraq-Kirkuk Pipeline and the H5 Pumping Station in Jordan

  Talk by Tobias Richter, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (University of Copenhagen).

• 20 Mar. 2025, 16:00-19:00

  Screening of "Explanation for Everything" (2023)

  SCREENING EUROPE Film Club Presents a pearl from the Venice Film Festival and a gripping drama about youth, identity, and the deep societal divides shaping our world, from Hungary to the U.S.

• 21 Mar. 2025, 13:00

  Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth Century Magazines

  Doctoral defense by Maria Damkjær.

• 21 Mar. 2025, 14:00-17:00

  Coastal and Oceanic Imaginations - the Nordics and beyond

  Open Seminar in MoSka.

• 24 Mar. - 25 Mar. 2025

  School of Archaeology retreat

  Retreat for archaeologists at the University of Copenhagen

• 25 Mar. 2025, 9:30-17:00

  Fieldwork and Gender Studies in the Middle East

  Public workshop on fieldwork and gender studies in the Middle East.

• 25 Mar. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Sound Studies and Sonic Methodologies in Russia since the 2010s

  Presenter: Maksim Zhiganov.

• 25 Mar. 2025, 17:15-19:00

  Børnesprog

  Oplæg af Ewa Dąbrowska (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität) med et foredrag om børnesprog.

• 26 Mar. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  Liberalism in Texas and French Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s

  HUM:Global Talk! Seminar with Leonard V. Smith

• 26 Mar. - 28 Mar. 2025

  Media and the Public Sphere in the Danish-German Composite State around 1800

  Workshop on the importance of cultural media, which contributed significantly to the formation and consolidation of a "German-Danish Republic of Letters" (in Kiel and Copenhagen) between 1770 and 1850. 

• 1 Apr. 2025, 14:15-16:00

  REWIND, RECYCLE, REMAKE: How sequels and remakes shaped Hollywood and beyond

  Guest lecture by visiting PhD researcher Atalya de Cock from Ghent University.

• 2 Apr. 2025, 14:30-16:00

  Book Talk: Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control

  Join us for a presentation and discussion of Billy Holzberg’s new monograph Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control.

• 3 Apr. 2025, 15:00

  Scandinavian Lotteries in the Eighteenth-Century

  Lecture by Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen (NTNU, Trondheim).

• 3 Apr. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel

  Talk by Elisha Cohn (Cornell University).

• 8 Apr. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Endangered Sounds: Participatory podcast and immersive mixing for political resistance in internal areas

  Presenter: Dario Galleana (University of Turin, IT).

• 9 Apr. 2025, 16:00

  Revisiting the Predynastic: New Archaeological Work in the Naqada Region of Upper Egypt

  Talk by Scott Haddow, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (University of Copenhagen).

• 9 Apr. - 11 Apr. 2025

  Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 20

  The 20th International Seminar on the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts

• 16 Apr. 2025, 14:00-14:45

  Textile production

  Lecture by Jose V. Avila Fernandez.

• 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, 13:15-15:00

  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, Victor Blum, will present his dissertation.

• 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. - 25 Apr. 2025

  Intersubjectivity and Collective Memory

  Workshop.

• 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).

• 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).

• 2 May 2025, 14:15-16:00

  I and We: Sedimented Consciousness and Generativity

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

• 6 May 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Sonic Probing: An Artistic Research Practice

  Presenter: Robert Willim (Lund University, SWE).

• 7 May 2025, 15:00-17:00

  A Flood of Imitation: Intertextual aesthetics of ecological crisis in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God

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

• 8 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Contested Histories, Democratic Challenges: Decolonial Discourses in Polish Museums

  Lecture with Joanna Wawrzyniak, University of Warszawa.

• 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

• 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).

• 20 May 2025, 15:15-16:30

  European Dance Music Cultures and Sound

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

• 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, 9:00-16:00

  Digital and Computational Humanities Day

  Join us for a dynamic one-day event celebrating digital and computational research within the Faculty of Humanities.

• 22 May - 23 May 2025

  Sense of Reality

  Workshop on the Sense of Reality

• 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

  CFP: Literature at KU

  Annual conference.

• 12 June 2025

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

  Conference.

• 12 June - 13 June 2025

  Call for proposals: 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

  Call for papers: How women shaped the Nordic Enlightenment I

  Conference.

• 30 June - 4 July 2025

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

  Summer school.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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