Calendar

5 Dec. 2025, 9:00-11:00

Free English punctuation workshop 2025

Join our free, intensive two-hour workshop, which focuses specifically on the four punctuation marks that tend to cause most problems: the comma, the semicolon, the colon and the apostrophe. For all UCPH staff. 

5 Dec. 2025, 10:15-12:00

Anthropological and Cultural Linguistic perspectives on conceptualisations of the (changing) Arctic

Presentation by Arne Peters, Universitetet i Bremen.

5 Dec. 2025, 12:00-13:00

Ways of Thinking and Doing Research: Ethnographic and Cartographic Inquiries

Webinar with Nitin Bathla and Namra Khalid.

5 Dec. 2025, 14:30

The Body Politic in Motion

Public defence of PhD thesis by Thore Keitum Fisker.

8 Dec. 2025, 9:00-17:00

Influencer Research: Age, Body, and Gender in Contemporary Digital Culture

International research seminar.

8 Dec. 2025, 9:15-10:15

From Britons to Britishers: Mapping a Global Imaginary

Talk by Professor Stuart Ward. The first keynote talk of the conference "Spatial Imaginations of Europe: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law" and covers a longue durée perspective of the conference themes. 

8 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

The New Gulf: Power, Peace and Human Rights in a Changing Regional Order

Panel talk with Lars Erslev Andersen (DIIS), Fannie Agerschou-Madsen (Roskilde University), Maryam al Khawaja (human rights activist and director of the FreeAlKhawaja Campaign).

8 Dec. 2025, 15:30-16:30

Russia's Europe 1870-2025: Hated, Loved, Hated, and so it goes

Talk by Professor Iver B. Neumann. The second keynote talk of the conference "Spatial Imaginations of Europe: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law" and covers longue durée perspective of the conference themes.

8 Dec. - 9 Dec. 2025

Spatial Imaginations of Europe, 1870s-2020s: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law

Conference organized by CEMES, INNER_LEAGUE and CHIOS.

9 Dec. 2025, 8:45-16:00

Archaeology & Science Day

9 Dec. 2025, 13:00-14:00

Connected at the margins of imperialism? Vladivostok, London and the network of global shipping

Talk by Professor Madeleine Herren. The third keynote talk of the conference "Spatial Imaginations of Europe: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law" and covers a longue durée perspective of the conference themes.

9 Dec. 2025, 15:30-17:00

Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy

Book launch and bubbles.

10 Dec. 2025, 14:00-16:00

CV workshop

SoA invites (especially early career) researchers to a CV workshop.

10 Dec. 2025, 15:15-17:00

Reading War, Making Memory

Book launch. 

10 Dec. 2025, 16:00-18:00

Kings, Chronicles and Computers: Towards a Computer-assisted Study of Ancient Chronography

Lecture by Eythan Levy, University of Zurich.

10 Dec. 2025, 17:00-20:00

The Brink of Dreams documentary film screening and debate

HUM:Global Semester Lecture at docUNight.

10 Dec. 2025, 17:00-19:00

Creative Approaches to Environmental Humanities

Seminar with visual anthropologist Albert Osbæck Adelkilde, the Arctic University of Norway and PhD student Margaréta Hanna Pinter, Centre for Sustainable Futures.

10 Dec. 2025, 18:30-20:30

Artificial General Intelligence: A Philosopher’s Manifesto

Public talk by Anandi Hattiangadi, Professor of Philosophy at Stockholm University.

11 Dec. 2025, 10:15-12:00

The Future of Memory Studies

 Seminar with Ann Rigney, Utrecht University and Joanna Wawrzyniak, University of Warsaw.

11 Dec. 2025, 13:00-14:00

Working with local communities: Challenges and opportunities

Open, digital seminar.

11 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

Zionism is Racism from the Standpoint of its Victims

Guest Lecture by Professor Max Weiss (Princeton University).

12 Dec. 2025, 9:00-11:00

Free lecture on presentation skills

Do you want to supercharge your presentation skills? Sign up for this lecture and gain insights into how to become a more engaging and confident speaker.

12 Dec. 2025, 14:00-15:00

Digital Humanities Reading Group: December

This session’s text is TBD.

12 Dec. 2025, 14:15

Organic residue analysis in archaeology

Talk by Ester Oras, Professor of Archaeochmistry, University of Tartu, Estonia, Visiting Professor at Globe Institute, UCPH.

16 Dec. 2025, 14:00-16:00

Reading for Enigmas: A Method for Decoding Race and Capital

Book talk by Jap-Nanak Kaur Makkar, University of Kentucky, on her book manuscript Enigmas of Capital: Literature and Theory in the Late Twentieth Century.

17 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

Science in Resistance: The Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice

Book event with author Fernando Racimo.

18 Dec. 2025, 15:00

Breaking with Tradition

Public defence of PhD thesis by Rebecca Bristow.

9 Jan. 2026, 14:00-15:00

Digital Humanities Reading Group: January

This session’s text is TBD.

14 Jan. 2026, 10:00-12:00

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

CSF Reading Group reads: Thea Riofrancos' “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism”.

16 Jan. 2026, 11:00

The Making of Activist Identity

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Mads Skovgaard.

16 Jan. 2026, 13:00

The Islamic Juridical Vacuum

Doctoral defence by Jesper Petersen.

20 Jan. 2026, 14:00-16:00

Interdisciplinarity – a process of negotiated imagination?

A talk on Art-Science Collaborations and Methodological Reorientations with Marianne Achiam followed by a discussion with Eva la Cour and Johanna Paschen. 

22 Jan. 2026, 15:00-17:00

Anthropocene History

Lecture by Sabine Höhler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

23 Jan. 2026, 10:00-12:00

Free workshop: Describe your work and research in Danish

In this 2-hour intensive workshop, you will be introduced to vocabulary for describing your work tasks.

27 Jan. 2026, 13:00-20:00

Multilateralism: A global view

The State of Multilateralism Roundtable.

29 Jan. - 30 Jan. 2026

Copenhagen Winter School in Phenomenology

PhD course on phenomenology

29 Jan. - 30 Jan. 2026

Call for papers: Imagining the Child’s Mind

International conference.

21 Feb. - 1 Mar. 2026

Open call: Modes of Organizing – Study trip to Ghana

Join Center for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS) in February 2026 for a week-long study trip to Ghana.

9 Apr. - 10 Apr. 2026

The Borderlands Between Perception and Imagination

Workshop.

23 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2026

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

Conference.

23 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2026

Call for papers: Religious Embodiment and Conversion Practices in Early Modern Europe and Beyond, 1500-1800

Conference. 

3 June 2026, 9:00-17:00

Call for abstracts: Whose Protest Counts? Power and Exclusion in Online Activism

ICA 2026 pre-conference.

15 June - 17 June 2026

Call for papers: How Women Shaped the Nordic Enlightenment II: The Political Public Sphere

Conference.

22 June - 26 June 2026

Summer School 2026

Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind.

20 Aug. - 21 Aug. 2026

Call for papers: Carousels and other colonial spectacles

International conference about performing race and racialization at European courts c. 1500–1700.

2 Sept. - 5 Sept. 2026

Experiencing transition in modern urbanization

TRANSITION Session at the 17^th conference of the European Association for Urban History, Barcelona, Spain.

10 Sept. - 11 Sept. 2026

The Given

International conference.

15 Sept. - 17 Sept. 2026

The Ambient Music Conference

Conference.