Calendar

• 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.

• 14 Mar. 2025, 14:00-16:30

  Democratic Subjects: Towards a New Social History of Ancient Greek Democracy

  Inaugural lecture by professor Christian Ammitzbøll Thomsen.

• 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.

• 18 Mar. 2025, 15:00

  Republican Radicalism in the Age of Revolutions, 1789-1848

  Join the Radicality Cluster at Saxo Inaugural seminar with Nicolai von Eggers.

• 18 Mar. 2025, 16:00-19:00

  The Palestine Exception

  Screening of the documentary “The Palestine Exception” followed by a discussion.

• 19 Mar. 2025, 10:00-15:30

  Workshop on Digital Methods & Ethics in Open Source Investigation

  Workshop on 19 March 2025 with Al Jaloud (PAX Memoria) and Jeff Deutch (Pax Memoria/Centre for Internet and Human Rights).

• 19 Mar. 2025, 10:15-12:00

  The City in the Country

  Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin) in conversation with Elena Meyer-Clement (Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH).

• 19 Mar. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  The True and the Good – Truth as Authenticity and a Meta-Goal in Birgitte Thott

  A WHENCE Research Colloquium 2025. Presentation by Jelena Bundalovic.

• 19 Mar. 2025, 15:00-16:00

  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” Philosophical 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, 10:00

  Gross National Happiness: The Development Philosophy of a Buddhist Monarch

  Virtual Talk by Dasho Paljor J. Dorji (Dasho Benji), Special Advisor, National Environment Commission of Bhutan.

• 20 Mar. 2025, 13:00-14:00

  The Öresund Bridge and Sustainable Transport - Perspectives on Its Impact on the Transport System

  Open, digital seminar. Presentation by Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt.

• 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 defence 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, 14:15-16:30

  The Destruction of Writing – Book Burnings in Chinese and Global History

  Lecture by Professor Enno Giele (Heidelberg).

• 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. 

• 27 Mar. 2025, 13:00

  Subjectivity and Sociality

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Mette Vesterager.

• 27 Mar. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  CApE Talk: Soul and Environment: Psycho-anthropology of the Nonhuman Worlds

  CApE Talk by Professor Oxana Timofeeva.

• 27 Mar. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  Literature in Motion: Black Authors and the Movies

  Talk by Dr Sarah Gleeson-White (University of Sydney).

• 28 Mar. 2025, 14:00

  Author Meets Critics Debate: An All-Consuming History of Energy

  Online event where Jean-Baptiste Fressoz will present his book More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy (Allen Lane 2024), followed by comments by Julia Nordblad and Rune Korgaard.

• 31 Mar. 2025, 9:00-16:30

  Kalaallit Inuit Performance

  Isumasioqatigiinneq eqqaasitsisoq - A re-membering seminar.

• 31 Mar. - 1 Apr. 2025

  Precarisation Across Literatures

  In this workshop, scholars will present and discuss their contributions to the forthcoming edited collection Precarisation Across Literatures.

• 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

• 10 Apr. 2025, 9:30-18:30

  Traveling Marble: Agents, Networks, Technologies (18th-20th centuries)

  This seminar explores the distribution patterns of white marble, with particular emphasis on the 18^th, 19^th and 20^th centuries, but with perspectives on antiquity

• 10 Apr. 2025, 14:00-15:30

  CIP seminar: Charlotte Sun Jensen

  CIP invites to a CIP-seminar 10 April 2025 with Charlotte Sun Jensen (PhD): 'Three stages in navigating language policies: International employees' second language socialisation in a Danish state administration'.

• 11 Apr. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Performative Environmentalism and the Everyday Legitimation of Climate Coloniality

  Talk by Manisha Anantharaman, Sciences Po.

• 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, 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. - 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

• 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

• 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, 15:15-16:30

  Sonic Probing: An Artistic Research Practice

  Presenter: Robert Willim (Lund University, SWE).

• 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, 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).

• 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.

• 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, 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, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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