Calendar

• 4 Nov. 2025, 12:00-17:00

  Beautiful Trouble: Planetary aesthetics, poetics and creative methodologies

  Third seminar in the Peace and Planet's methodology seminar series.

• 4 Nov. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Copenhagen Climate Sound Series #2: Sonic Agriculture

  Talk with Elodie F. Briefer (University of Copenhagen, Behavioural Ecology Group) and Katy Overstreet (University of Copenhagen, Centre for Sustainable Futures). 

• 4 Nov. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Reconceptualising Sonic Home

  Presenter: Jacqueline Waldock (UK).

• 5 Nov. 2025, 12:00-14:00

  Investigating the AI ecosystem: Dependencies, marketplaces, and the appification of AI

  Public lecture by Fernando van der Vlist, University of Amsterdam, Anne Helmond, Utrecht University and Esther Weltevrede, University of Amsterdam.   

• 5 Nov. 2025, 14:00-15:00

  Tech and resistance #2

  Webinar with Brigitte Pemberger "Teaching outside the box: The analogue before digital project".

• 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

  This year’s CIP Symposium explores the role of multilingualism and generative AI in the development of new literacies in higher education.

• 6 Nov. 2025, 13:00-14:45

  Resonating with soil: A speculative sonic inquiry into environmental perception

  This CIRCLE seminar with Eleni-Ira Panourgia proposes a listening session and discussion on sound and environmental perception.

• 7 Nov. - 8 Nov. 2025

  Workshop: Investigating language and knowledge in the multilingual university

  This workshop brings together experts from three fields – Education, Applied Linguistics and Sociology – to explore how interdisciplinary collaboration can help address how language and language practices contribute to shaping knowledge-building and sharing?

• 7 Nov. 2025, 13:00

  Variation through Accommodation: Individual, Contextual, and Regional Traces of Phonetic Alignment in Interaction

  Public PhD defence by Anna Kai Jørgensen. 

• 7 Nov. 2025, 13:15-15:00

  The ambivalent geopolitics of civilizationism in Putin's Russia

  Lecture by Mark Bassin, Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas, Södertörn University, Stockholm, and Visiting Professor of Eurasian Studies at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University.

• 7 Nov. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Regional order in the middle east after 7th October

  Roundtable.

• 11 Nov. 2025, 9:00-15:00

  Conversing with and walking alongside: A workshop exploring the potential of writing with art

  Workshop with Marsha Meskimmon.

• 11 Nov. 2025, 10:00-12:00

  The place of women: Beyond the stereotypes of rural and insular speech communities

  Lecture by Professor Emma Moore (University of Sheffield, UK).

• 11 Nov. 2025, 15:00

  Managing furious insanity: Hospital cell confinement and its alternatives in eighteenth-century Denmark

  Presentation by Benjamin Brandt Christiansen (postdoc, the Saxo Institute).

• 11 Nov. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  Propositional Listening

  Presenter: Jacob Eriksen (Struer, DK).

• 11 Nov. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Hateful speech in political debates on social media

  Presentation of a PhD-project by Mattia Retta, University of Helsinki.

• 12 Nov. 2025, 13:00

  In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, how global is mental health?

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Maura Cranny Ntow.

• 12 Nov. 2025, 14:15-16:00

  Armed Internationalists - Transnational Volunteering in the Twentieth Century

  Book launch with the authors Morten Heiberg, Enrico Acciai, Carl-Henrik  Bjerström and discussant Rasmus Mariager (Saxo), followed by a small reception.

• 12 Nov. 2025, 14:15-15:30

  Emotional Devices: Attachments and Enchantments in a Changing Social World

  Honourary lecture with Monique Scheer.

• 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.

• 13 Nov. 2025, 10:00-17:00

  Nature – Multidisciplinary Dialogues Between Research and Art

  A one-day seminar hosted by the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE), University of Copenhagen.

• 13 Nov. 2025, 15:15-17:30

  Honorary Lecture and Memorial Event

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• 14 Nov. 2025, 10:00-12:00

  Humanising Technology: Reflections on Design, Ethics and Inclusion

  Honourary lecture with Sun Sun Lim.

• 14 Nov. 2025, 14:00-15:00

  Digital Humanities Reading Group: November

  This session, we will discuss Stockwell, Peter, and Michaela Mahlberg. “Mind-Modelling with Corpus Stylistics in David Copperfield.”

• 14 Nov. 2025, 14:00

  How We Think

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Frederik T. Junker.

• 14 Nov. 2025, 17:00-19:00

  Philosophical salon: Érotique Cosmique

  Two lectures and a musical performance on Georges Bataille’s erotic and ecological vision of the cosmos.

• 17 Nov. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Copenhagen Climate Sound Series #3: Listening Underwater

  Performance lecture by artist Jana Winderen (Norway), a livestream from aboard a Norwegian research vessel somewhere between Svalbard and Greenland from Michael Kjær (University of Copenhagen) and audio-visual artist John Grzinich and discussion with Holger Schulze (Sound Studies Lab, University of Copenhagen). 

• 18 Nov. 2025, 9:30-16:30

  Resilient Cultural Heritage

  How do we protect cultural heritage in a world shaped by climate change and conflict?

• 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.

• 18 Nov. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  Four More Years: Celebrating the extension of the UCHP UNESCO Chair in the Right to Science

  Event.

• 18 Nov. 2025, 15:00

  Between the Hand and the Eye – Emil Hannover and 'Danish' Art Histories

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Signe Margrethe Havsteen.

• 18 Nov. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator"

  Lecture by Daria Evangelista (visiting researcher, Department of Communication)

• 19 Nov. 2025, 10:00-11:00

  Motorways, Nightclubs, and the Sound of Belgium: The Rural–Suburban Continuum as a Creative Terrain

  TRANSITION Talk with Ilja Van Damme, University of Antwerp.

• 19 Nov. 2025, 17:00

  Max Weber and Rudolf Steiner in Munich

  Talk with Aaron French, Postdoc researcher in the project ‘Twisting the Fabric of Space: On the Art and Politics of the Hidden’, ToRS. 

• 20 Nov. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Recentering the Subaltern: Microhistory as Method

  HUM:Global Talk! with Sue Peabody.

• 20 Nov. 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Human-Nature Encounters in Urban Space

  Open, digital seminar.

• 21 Nov. 2025, 13:00

  The Fabric of Spectacle: Stagings of Triumph at the Court of Denmark-Norway, c. 1577-1634

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Casper Thorhauge Briggs-Mønsted.

• 24 Nov. 2025, 13:15-15:00

  The Critical Potential of Literary Compositions of Peace

  Talk by Maria Mårsell, postdoc at INSPIRE

• 24 Nov. 2025, 16:00

  EU AI-policy: Between Geo-economic Pragmatism and Ambitions of Sovereignty

  CEMES ANNUAL KEYNOTE with professor Daniel Mügge, University of Amsterdam.

• 25 Nov. 2025, 13:30-15:00

  Breaking Down the Silos of Memory Research: Theories, Methods, Concepts

  Guest lecture by professor Astrid Erll, Frankfurt.

• 26 Nov. 2025, 8:15-10:00

  Transforming Production Culture: Towards Social Sustainability in the Film Industry

  Lecture by Skadi Loist.

• 26 Nov. 2025, 13:00-15:00

  Climate Politics When It’s Too Late

  Book presentation by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton in discussion with Liz Jensen.

• 27 Nov. 2025, 14:00-19:00

  European Co-production: Designing Talent, Stories and Audiences

  This seminar is a hands-on exploration of how they could work, especially if they are to truly support new voices, young talent, and reach the right audiences.

• 27 Nov. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Golden Shit: (Un)Wrapping Gender Aesthetics

  Lecture by Irina Hron, Docent and Co-Director of Thinking the European Republic of Letters.

• 27 Nov. 2025, 16:00-17:15

  Imagining another nature: indigenous knowledges, environmental narratives, and questions of pluralism

  Join this lecture by Phd Fellow Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen from Aarhus Universitet, as the first in the open lecture series New Histories of Ideas.

• 1 Dec. - 2 Dec. 2025

  The Global History of the Establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1919 to 1922

  This seminar will discuss the draft book chapters of a new monograph on the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).  

• 1 Dec. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  On the Trail of Frankenstein’s Monster

  Celebrating the publication of two new books, this event explores dialogues across centuries and mountain peaks. With Filippo Andreatta, Sarah Messerschmidt and Dehlia Hannah.

• 1 Dec. - 4 Dec. 2025

  Master Class: Ways of Making and Knowing in Plant Humanities: Cultivating Understanding in Visual Cultures of Vegetation

  Master class organized by Center for Practice-based Art Studies (PASS) and Aarhus University.

• 2 Dec. 2025, 15:00-18:00

  Stranger

  Screening of the film “Stranger” (112 min) followed by a panel discussion.

• 2 Dec. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  The production of social space through sound: A social work perspective on the auditory dimension of social spaces

  Presenter: Anna Hampel (Hamburg, DE).

• 3 Dec. 2025, 10:30-11:30

  Unpacking the Diversity of “Places Left Behind”

  TRANSITION Talk with Anja Jørgensen, Aalborg University.

• 3 Dec. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Association rules in usage-based linguistics

  Lecture by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen.

• 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. 

• 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, 15:30-16:30

  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, 13:00-14:00

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

  Talk by Professor Madeleine Herren-Oesch. 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.

• 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.

• 11 Dec. 2025, 13:00-14:00

  Working with local communities: Challenges and opportunities

  Open, digital seminar.

• 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.

• 17 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

  Science in Resistance: The Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice

  Book event with author Fernando Racimo.

• 9 Jan. 2026, 14:00-15:00

  Digital Humanities Reading Group: January

  This session’s text is TBD.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 20 Aug. - 21 Aug. 2026

  Call for paper: 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.