ToRS Kalender

7. nov. - 11. nov. 2016

9th Nordic NIAS Council Conference and PhD Course

Nordic Asian Studies in the 21st Century – Stocktaking for the Future, a conference with focus on current tendencies and future prospects for Asian studies within the Humanities and the Social Sciences. 

9. nov. 2016, kl. 10.00-11.30

The Ebola Crisis and China’s Search for a Role as a Responsible Great Power

As part of the ChinaTalks, we are proud to present Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations, LSE.

10. nov. 2016, kl. 13.15-15.00

JapanSessions: Media Coverage in Crisis

Public lecture on the media coverage of the Fukushima disaster by Dr Jens Sejrup, Dept, of Anthropology, UCPH. The lecture is part of the JapanSession series. All are welcome.

11. nov. 2016, kl. 10.00-12.00

Talking with the Pakistani Taliban

Lecture by Mona Kanwal Sheikh, PhD, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).

11. nov. 2016, kl. 16.00-18.00

Cheonghak Dong – beliefs and life style

Public Korea Studies Lecture by independent scholar Dorrit Wagner. The lecture is in Danish.

15. nov. 2016, kl. 15.15-17.00

SEASS lecture: Dealing with Environmental Disaster in Urbanizing Indonesia: Ten Years of Lapindo Mudflow, and Still

Public SEASS lecture by Anton Novenanto, Department of Sociology, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia: "Dealing with Environmental Disaster in Urbanizing Indonesia: Ten Years of Lapindo Mudflow, and Still"

22. nov. 2016, kl. 14.15-16.00

Duterte-style Populism: The Philippines in the Geopolitical Economy of Southeast Asia

Presentation by Bonn Juego, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä and currently guest researcher at NIAS. Comments by Nina Trige Andersen and Mark Philip Stadler.

23. nov. 2016, kl. 4.30

AMIS Culture Club: What is the Purpose of a National Museum?

How can a national museum continuously make itself relevant to a broad segment of visitors in a time of increasing migration and diversity? 

24. nov. 2016, kl. 16.00-18.00

Neighbourhood as social and commercial space in South Korea

Public Korea Studies Lecture by Antti Leppänen, PhD, University of Turku, Finland: "Neighbourhood as social and commercial space in South Korea: the self-employed and the ideology of communality"

25. nov. 2016, kl. 13.15-15.00

Development of Universal Social Security and Politics of Health Care in Indonesia

SEASS talk by Muhammad Ridha, activist and researcher engaged in Indonesia’s working and oppressed class movement.

1. dec. 2016, kl. 13.00-15.00

The Politics of Reform: Peoples Liberation Army under Xi Jinping

As part of ChinaTalks, we are proud to present You Ji, Professor of International relations and Head of Department of Government, University of Macau, PRC.

2. dec. 2016, kl. 10.15-16.45

Temporariness, circularity, mobility: internal migration and social citizenship in Europe and China

Workshop organised by the Dept. of Political Science. Open to interested scholars, but registration is required.

5. dec. 2016, kl. 10.00-12.00

Valuing Buddhist Things

Public guest lecture "Valuing Buddhist Things: Religious objects and knowledge transfer in British India’s hill stations" by Emma Martin, University of Manchester 

6. dec. 2016, 9 am

3rd AMIS/MIM Masters Conference

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7. dec. 2016, kl. 15.00-17.00

Math and Melody in Indian Science

Guest lecture by Prof. Ramasubramanian, IIT Bombay, Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.

8. dec. 2016, kl. 15.30-18.30

Innovation and Entrepreneurship – with a Sino-Danish twist

The UCPH China Staff Association is pleased to invite colleagues at the University of Copenhagen to our annual event, which, this year focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship.

14. dec. 2016, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag lecture - Sanae Suzuki

Newly arrived guest researcher at NIAS, Sanae Suzuki, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), will be presenting on "Conflict management by regional organizations".

16. dec. 2016, kl. 1.15

AMIS roundtable: Is Danish Research on Islam and Muslims Critical Enough?

Are scholars neglecting the existence of problematic interpretations of Islam among Danish Muslims?

16. dec. 2016, kl. 11.00-12.30

Europe in Crisis

Chinese Perspectives on European Crisis and the Common Environmental Crisis.

16. dec. 2016, kl. 13.30-15.30

OPEN SEMINAR: War or peace in East Asia?

Jonathan Holslag, Professor, Dept of Political Science, Free University Brussels and Stein Tønnesson, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo will discuss the prospect of peace in East Asia.   

10. jan. 2017, kl. 13.00-17.00

Unpacking the ‘neoliberal city’

A number of general terms are routinely evoked to describe contemporary urban conditions, such as globalization, (super)diversity, migration, gentrification, neoliberalism, securitization and gentrification.

19. jan. 2017, kl. 14.00-15.30

Chinese Culture in the Modern Globalized World

Guest lecture by Torbjörn Lodén

20. jan. 2017, kl. 9.30-17.30

TRODITIES: Research Workshop

ERC research workshop 'Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City’ to discuss preliminary findings and the future directions of research on Yiwu, China, based on the project participants' fieldwork. 

31. jan. 2017, kl. 16.30-18.00

Political Parties and Democracy in South Korea

Guest lecture by Erik Mobrand, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. 

1. febr. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Roundtable: Scandal in South Korea: Democratic Victory or Cancer in the System?

6. febr. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

More than mouthpieces: The other side to Southeast Asian journalism

SEASS lecture by PhD fellow Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen.

23. febr. 2017, kl. 13.00

Muslim Oratory and Knowledge Production: New Arenas and Actors

Annual meeting of the Scandinavia Network for the Study of Islam as Lived Religion

3. marts 2017, kl. 10.00-12.00

Korean nurse “guest workers” in Germany: Nursing care work as emotional labor

Korean studies talk on Korean nurse “guest workers” in Germany by Yonson Ahn, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

9. marts 2017, kl. 15.15-16.45

JapanSessions: Jakob Halskov og Philip Philipsen

Japanstudier alumne-event med Jakob Halskov, Fronteo Inc. og Philip Philipsen, LanguageWire A/S.

10. marts 2017, kl. 14.00-16.00

#Ambassador1Day

SEASS academic meet & greet seminar

10. marts 2017, kl. 17.00-19.00

Why do K-pop fans hate Psy's 'Gangnam Style'?

Join us for the next Korean Studies Seminar with Professor Keith Howard, SOAS, University of London.

13. marts 2017, kl. 13.15

The Memory of Interethnic Help and Rescue during Periods of Mass Violence

(especially related to the 1992-95-war in Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Guest lecture by Nicolas Moll, Sarajevo

14. marts 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag: States of Emergence

ADI and NIAS welcome you to an Asia brown bag talk with Peter Marcus Kristensen from the Dept. of Political Science. 

20. marts 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Kinas nationale sikkerhedsstrategi – hvad indeholder den og hvad er konsekvenserne for omgivelserne?

Center for Militære Studiers Kinaprogram og ThinkChina.dk inviterer til forelæsning om Kinas sikkerhedsstrategi med Liselotte Odgaard, lektor ved Forsvarsakademiet.

20. marts - 21. marts 2017

Viewing Each Other

A two-day conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the treaty between Japan and Denmark

24. marts 2017, kl. 13.15-15.00

Times of Migration: Un/documented Lives in Marseille

AMIS Public Lecture by Christine Jacobsen (University of Bergen). Christine Jacobsen takes ethnographic fieldwork as a point of departure for discussing some approaches to the temporalities of irregular migration.

24. marts 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Courtly Culture and the Question of Cosmopolitanism in Medieval India

Public guest lecture by Dr. Daud Ali, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

30. marts 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag: The independence of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy

Asia brown bag lecture by Kasandra Behrndt-Eriksen: "The independence of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy – looking at the cases of Angola and Sudan".

30. marts - 8. april 2017

Food, health and philosophy in East and West 2017

International and interdisciplinary PhD course 'Food, health and philosophy in East and West' taking place in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

5. april 2017, kl. 15.15

Apostasy and Counter Narratives. Two Sides of the Same Coin

Open guest lecture by Professor Göran Larsson, Gothenburg.

6. april 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag: Legacies of Detention in Myanmar

NIAS and ADI are pleased to invite you to an Asia brown bag lecture by Dr. Andrew M. Jefferson and Dr. Tomas Max Martin from the Danish Institute Against Torture.

6. april 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

Humanitarianism and Body Economies

This seminar develops the concept of body economies to highlight the ways in which bodies are, on the one hand, constituted as physio-psycho-social assemblages, on the other, are sites and means through which material and symbolic value is produced, transformed, transported, marketed and exchanged.

19. april 2017, kl. 2.00-4.30

Immigration, Integration and Multiculturalism – Canadian and Danish Perspectives

The seminar will be followed by a reception and opening of the photo exhibition: Canada: Day 1.

27. april 2017, kl. 15.15-17.00

JapanSessions: Toshio’s Movie Castle

Public guest lecture by Dr Shiro Yoshioka, University of Newcastle, who is currently writing a research monograph on the life and works of Miyazaki Hayao.  

27. april 2017

Religion, medier og formidling

Guest lecture by Professor Torkel Brekke, Oslo

28. april 2017, kl. 14.00-16.00

ChinaTalks: China and Russia: Assessing Strategic Convergence

ThinkChina.dk and Center for Military Studies UCPH invite you to ChinaTalks with Professor Lora Saalman, China and Global Security Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 

30. april 2017, 10 am

AMIS Culture Club Visit to the Copenhagen Christian Center, International Church

This Culture Club event involves participating in the monthly super church service, and after the service we are invited on a tour of the facilities.

5. maj 2017, kl. 13.30-17.30

Cross-Strait Relations and East Asian Peace

Pre-Shanghai Forum 2017 at Asia House organised by Fudan-European Center for China Studies and NIAS-Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. 

10. maj 2017, kl. 10.00-16.00

ICT Solution Design, Data Driven Decision Making and Data Management: Creative Data In A Global World

The seminar debates new forms of research and project formats for ICT4D

11. maj 2017, kl. 13.00-15.00

Public Lecture: Labor and Money in Yachen Gar

Talk by Dr. Yasmin Cho on how the invisible labour and economic activities conducted by Tibetan nuns contribute to the contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivalism in China.

31. maj 2017, kl. 9.30-15.30

Helping Hands Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens

Kick-off Event to launch the interdisciplinary research network Helping Hands: Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens, funded by the Danish Research Council 2017-2019.

31. maj 2017, kl. 10.00-16.00

Nationalism

In response to immigration and globalisation more generally, nationalism is on the rise. Not only in terms of populist right-wing nationalist parties, but also in terms of an increased focus on the nation and national identity in the political mainstream.

9. juni 2017, kl. 14.00-16.30

Award of the Ester Boserup Prizes

Open lectures with the recipients, Timothy Mitchell and Emilija Zabiliūtė: 'How Capitalism Captured the Future' and 'Living with Others: Illness, Health Ecologies and Relations among Urban Poor in Delhi'

10. juni - 11. juni 2017

Buyer’s Paradise

Buyer’s Paradise - NIAS research project as theatre performance. 

26. juni 2017, kl. 10.00-11.00

The politics of the handloom: craft, technology and the modern nation in China and India

Keynote lecture by Professor Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

26. juni - 28. juni 2017

ADI Conference 2017

Asia in Circulations, the 9th annual international ADI conference, takes place at the University of Copenhagen on 26-28 June 2017.

27. juni 2017, kl. 11.15-12.15

A Mahatma on the March: Towards an Aesthetics of the Ambulatory

Keynote lecture by Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

28. juni 2017, kl. 11.15-12.15

Southeast Asian Artists' Global Networks

Keynote lecture by Professor Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

28. juni 2017, kl. 15.30-17.30

Filmscreening: Guli's Children

Filmscreening of 'Guli's Children', a Joe Thomas Karackattu film, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

4. juli - 14. juli 2017

Newday Summer Course

A 10-days summer course in Lillehammer for students from East Asia and the Nordic countries: NEWDAY – the Nansen East–West Dialogue Academy - Creating better relations by seeking mutual understanding and harmony in diversity.

14. aug. 2017, kl. 14.15-17.00

Open lecture on health innovation: Engineering Solutions for Health Systems Strengthening

School of Global Health invites you to a lecture with Professor Muhammad H. Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. 

7. sept. 2017, kl. 15.00-16.30

Chinese Literature and the writer in the 21st Century

Four of contemporary China’s most renowned writers: Ge Fei, Bi Feiyu, Yang Hongying, and Dong Xi share their views on modernity in contemporary China’s literature. 

13. sept. 2017, kl. 14.15-16.00

ChinaTalks: Goodbye iSlave - A Manifesto for Digital Abolition

Guest lecture by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

22. sept. 2017, kl. 13.00-15.00

Life in Limbo: thwarted mobility and aspirations among refugees and migrants on the Balkan route.

Public seminar – jointly organised by the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies and Danish Refugee Council/Mixed Migration Platform

27. sept. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalks: Prospects for the 19th Party Congress and China's Future

Note: NEW VENUE! ChinaTalk with renowned China scholar, Professor David Shambaugh, on the upcoming 19th party congress. 

27. sept. 2017, kl. 16.00-18.00

AMIS Culture Club Film Festival "Dreaming of Denmark" by documentarist Michael Graversen

Michael Graversen has followed the unaccompanied minor Wasiullah for more than three years. Wasiullah is one of the young refugees who has disappeared from a Danish asylum center.

28. sept. - 29. sept. 2017

Care in Asia: beyond and across a clinic

Two-day-workshop on diversified care extended beyond and across a multiplicity of health institutions in Asia.

29. sept. 2017, kl. 12.15

BBB lecture series: The 'Tibetan' Singing Bowl

The significance of place attachment for a souvenir in motion. Guest lecture by Dr. Emma Martin, University of Manchester.

3. okt. 2017, kl. 12.00-14.00

Reading Ramayana in present-day contexts

Join us for a public guest lecture by Dr Arshia Sattar from Mahindra United World College of India, Pune.

3. okt. 2017, kl. 16.00-18.30

Myths and Women in Modern India - How to Understand Sita read from Valmiki’s Ramayana today

Public guest lecture by Dr Arshia Sattar, renowned Indologist, translator, facilitator, author, and director.

4. okt. - 6. okt. 2017

National Values and Social Cohesion

Conference at Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen, 4-6 October, 2017

6. okt. 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag talk: Sarah Swider

Sarah Swider from  the Dept. of Sociology will give a talk on "Building China: informal and precarious workers in China’s construction industry"

11. okt. 2017, kl. 14.00-16.00

The Reasons Behind the Rise of Western Europe from an “Indian Perspective”

Public lecture by Dr. Kaveh Yazdani, University of Bielefeld.

19. okt. 2017, kl. 9.00-12.00

Recent Work in the Prehistory of Southwest Asia

A series of four guest lectures on recent research into the prehistoric archaeology of southwest Asia organized by the Centre for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies.

19. okt. 2017, kl. 14.30-16.00

Transnational Man: the life and trial of Cho Un Kuk, war criminal

Public guest lecture by Robert Cribb, Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University.

23. okt. 2017, kl. 13.30-16.30

Fudan-UCPH seminar on Chinese history and historical writing

Afternoon seminar where scholars from Fudan University and the University of Copenhagen meet for a series of enriching talks and discussions on contemporary issues.

26. okt. 2017, kl. 14.45

The Economization of the Individual - Changes in Buddhist Inspired Practices of Meditation

Public talk with Professor Inken Prohl, Universität Heidelberg

27. okt. 2017, kl. 10.00-12.00

China’s Local Governance in a Comparative Perspective

The Fudan-European Centre in collaboration with ThinkChina are happy to facilitate a roundtable seminar.

27. okt. 2017, kl. 15.00-18.00

AMIS Culture Club: Film Festival "Strain Straniere" Elisa Amoruso

27. okt. 2017, kl. 15.00-18.00

AMIS Culture Club: Film Festival / Strane Straniere by Elisa Amoruso

The documentary Strane straniere (Strange Strangers) from 2016, directed by Elisa Amoruso is about five women from different countries: Sihem (Tunisia), Radi (Bulgaria), Sonia (China), Ana (Croatia) and Ljuba (Serbia). They have come to Italy in search of love, work, freedom, and sometimes by fate.

27. okt. 2017, 16

Technical knowledge in the late Chosǒn dynasty

Guest lecture Dr. Florian Poelking (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

30. okt. 2017, kl. 8.30-10.00

The New International Economic Order seen from Japan

Join us for a public talk by Professor Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Chief Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Kindly register

30. okt. 2017, kl. 13.00-16.00

Public lecture: Screening of 'Nowhere to Call Home' and Q&A with director Jocelyn Ford

Journalist, filmmaker and educator, Jocelyn Ford provides a rarely heard analysis informed by her 17 years in Beijing, along with suggestions for engaging the next generation on social justice issues.

2. nov. 2017, kl. 13.00

Inside a contested profession:

Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen defends her PhD thesis.

3. nov. 2017, kl. 14.00-16.00

Public lecture: A Sino-Jewish Encounter, A Humanitarian Fantasy

Public guest lecture with Professor Haiyan about the tens of thousands of European Jews who fled the Nazi genocide to Shanghai. 

4. nov. - 5. nov. 2017

Collaboration and Community-Building in Contemporary Art in Japan and Denmark

The seminar will include scholars, critics and artists that have knowledge about or experience with collaborative and community-based art practice in Japan, Denmark, and other places.

6. nov. 2017, kl. 14.30-16.00

Buddhism, Youth and Economics

Please join us in a new series of research seminars on Religion at Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS). The second seminar features a presentation by Elizabeth Lane Williams Ørberg.

13. nov. 2017, kl. 13.15

A Postcolonial Inquiry into Danish Politics of Displacement

Martin Lemberg-Pedersen talks about his project Spaces, Borders, Bodies. A Postcolonial Inquiry into Danish Politics of Displacement that examines continuities and ruptures between current and colonial Danish politics on spaces, borders and bodies.

20. nov. 2017, kl. 9.00-16.00

Dissertation Workshop: Ethnography of Connections

The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to new emerging south-south connections in an increasingly globalized world.

20. nov. - 24. nov. 2017

NNC Conference 2017

Environmental Asia, the 10th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference and PhD Course, takes place at Voksenåsen on 20-24 November 2017.

22. nov. 2017, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag talk: Andreas Møller Mulvad

In his talk Andreas Møller Mulvad predicts that there will be a new popular movement for democracy before the PRC turns 100 in 2049.

22. nov. 2017, kl. 13.00-16.00

Book Discussion Seminar: Religion as Critique

Book discussion Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace  with author Dr Irfan Ahmad, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Studies, and scholars from ToRS.

23. nov. 2017, kl. 14.00-16.00

AMIS Culture Club: Film Festival/ River Nomads

If we are to believe current media representations, African migrants move to Europe in massive numbers. This is however a typical ‘alternative fact’: internal migration within the continent is much more significant, both numerically, but also in terms of historical continuities and social lifestyles...

24. nov. 2017, kl. 13.00-17.30

CECS & CRS Workshop - Towards Pax & Lex Sinica?

The unstable situation in the Western world during the later years has pushed China and relations with China to the forefront of global and geopolitics as well as in international agreements, not least the Paris Accord on Climate Change from 2016, from which the US resigned in 2017.

27. nov. 2017, kl. 13.15-15.00

Zen and the art of magic, amulets and funerals

Public JapanSessions talk by Jørn Borup, Aarhus University: Zen and the art of magic, amulets and funerals - introduction to Japanese religion past and present.

27. nov. 2017, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalks: Rural Land Transfer Reforms and Chinese Urbanization

Migration and China’s Urbanization is not only influenced by hukou system and related institutional/social exclusions in host cities, but also by rural land factors in their sending places. 

27. nov. 2017, kl. 15.30-17.30

Workshop: Theory and the Anthropocene

Workshop with Professor Nils Bubandt, School of Culture and Society and co-director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), Aarhus University.

27. nov. 2017, kl. 16.00-18.00

Philosopher Kings and Oriental Despots

Public lecture by Eric S. Nelson, Associate Professor of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

27. nov. 2017, kl. 16.15

The Tear-Drenched Tumen

Public guest lecture by Dr. Jerôme de Wit, Junior Professor in Korean Studies, Universität Tübingen, Germany.

28. nov. - 29. nov. 2017

Fairytale & Silk Road: Seminars and Animation Show from the Chinese Film Delegation

A joint event by the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication and ThinkChina, University of Copenhagen.

4. dec. 2017, kl. 15.15-17.00

JapanSession: Dick Stegewerns

Public guest lecture on the history of Japanese cinema by Dick Stegewerns, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, UiO.

4. dec. 2017, kl. 16.15

Eating the “Spirit of the Grasslands”

The BBB-lecture series: Public talk with Séagh Kehoe, University of Nottingham, on “Eating the “Spirit of the Grasslands”: ”

4. dec. 2017, kl. 9.15-15.00

4th AMIS/MIM Masters Conference on Migration Studies

This annual masters conference is a collaboration between Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), University of Copenhagen, and Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University

8. dec. 2017, kl. 16.15

Mourning through Protest in Seoul

Public guest lecture by Dr. Liora Sarfati, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University.

14. dec. 2017, kl. 9.00-16.00

Conference: Made by China - China’s new era as an innovative nation

Many companies and organizations tend to look to Silicon Valley in the US for new innovation. At the MADE BY CHINA conference, you will learn why you should also look towards China when it comes to invention of new technologies and solutions.

14. dec. - 16. dec. 2017

Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies will be co-hosting the Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association at UCPH.

15. dec. 2017, kl. 10.00-13.00

ChinaTalks: The Birth of a Community Movie-Screening Circuit in Post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong

ChinaTalks with Evans Chan, one of the most singularly innovative and diverse figures in the Chinese cultural world, with screening of two films films and a lecture on some of the censorship issues created by China’s tightening control of Hong Kong’s political culture.

17. jan. - 18. jan. 2018

International Conference "China in International Economic Dispute Resolution"

Major international conference with globally renowned academics and practitioners who will offer in-depth analyses of China’s contemporary policies and involvement in trade, investment, commercial and energy disputes.

19. jan. 2018, kl. 11.00-13.00

China in International Economic Law: New Horizons

This seminar is a highly focused, open seminar with top international experts, commenting on most recent developments regarding China in international economic law.

30. jan. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia brown bag talk: Lai Sze Tso

Lai Sze Tso, Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, MIT on Using innovative technologies to improve personal and community health--with China as a case-study .

31. jan. 2018, kl. 14.00-15.30

Comparative perspectives on the transformation of religious space in China

Public event with professor Fan Lizhu and Chen Na of Fudan University, who will each be giving a lecture on the transformation of religious space in China.

6. febr. 2018, 11

India's Role in Asia-Pacific and the World

Center for Global South Asian Studies and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen is pleased to invite you to a talk by Mr. Ajit Gupte, Ambassador of India to Denmark.

6. febr. 2018, 11

India's Role in Asia-Pacific and the World

Centre for Global South Asian Studies and Dept of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, are pleased to invite you to a talk by Mr. Ajit Gupte, Ambassador of India to Denmark.

8. febr. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Death in the Philippines: corruption, drugs and contraception

Asia brown bag talk by Steffen Jensen, DIGNITY and Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University and Astrid Krabbe Trolle, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH

13. febr. 2018, kl. 13.15-15.00

Design of Prison Spaces: normalisation, humanisation or aspiration?

Lecture by Dominique Moran. Dominique Moran is Reader in Carceral Geography at the University of Birmingham and Chair of the Carceral Geography Working Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers.

16. febr. 2018, kl. 13.00-17.00

Fake News / Bullshit in Time and Space

Seminar organized by Vera Skvirskaja, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

16. febr. 2018, kl. 13.00-17.00

Fake News/Bullshit in Time and Space

Seminar addressing themes of ‘fake news’ and ‘bullshit’ from a range of different disciplinary angles, as well as cultural and regional-historical perspectives

23. febr. 2018, kl. 11.00

How India Became Democratic

Public talk by Dr Ornit Shani, Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa. Emerging Worlds Series organized by Centre of Global South Asian Studies (time changed to 11:00)

23. febr. 2018, kl. 13.30-17.30

Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly 2018

The assembly aims to promote networking within the Japan-related research communities in Denmark, and to provide a forum for Danish and Japanese researchers, business people and students to meet, discuss new ideas, and to promote Japan-related research and student scholarships.

23. febr. 2018, kl. 15.15

From Logogram to Phonogram: A Sumero-Japanese Comparison

Public guest lecture by Dr. Fumi Karahashi from Ancient Oriental Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo.

27. febr. 2018, kl. 16.00-17.30

Energy- and Geopolitics in China and USA

Public lecture by Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller organized by ThinkChina, the Danish Foreign Policy Society and the Centre for Military Studies.

28. febr. 2018, kl. 13.30-15.00

The New Geopolitics of Gas

Guest lecture by Dr Agnia Grigas. In her critically acclaimed book The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas, Dr Grigas argues that we are in the midst of an energy revolution. How does this new reality influence the strategic relations amongst the US, the EU, Russia and China?

2. marts 2018, kl. 10.15-12.00

Surveilled, re-educated and assimilated on the New Silk Road. China’s continued Muslim Challenge in Xinjiang

Public talk by Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Rune Steenberg. The talk will provide an insight into the current state of affairs in Xinjiang against a historical backdrop and address the extreme difficulties faced by local people in everyday life.

6. marts 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

Asymmetric Parity and the Allison Trap

Guest lecture with professor Brantly Womack, University of Virginia on the asymmetric rivalry of the U.S. and China, and his concept of the "Allison Trap".

7. marts 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalk: The Silk Road Trap - How China Damages Europe's Position in the Global Order

ThinkChina and Centre for Military Studies at University of Copenhagen invite you to a Chintalk by Jonathan Holslag, on the Belt and Road Initiative and its consequenses for Europe's position in the global order.

8. marts 2018, kl. 14.15-16.00

‘Feeling in seeing’: embodiment and visual politics

Lecture by Manos Tsakiris, Dept. of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

8. marts 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

ChinaTalk: China and the Re-Centering of Asia

ThinkChina and the Department of Political Science invite you to a Chinatalk by Professor Brantly Womack, University of Virginia.

12. marts 2018, kl. 16.15

Buddhism Under Stress? On the Modern Transmission of Buddhism

A talk by Andreas Doctor.

14. marts 2018, 10

Beastly Identification

Public lecture by Dr. Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford.

14. marts 2018, kl. 10.00-12.00

Beastly Identification: separating out innocent from murderous big cats in South Asia

Public talk by Nayanika Mathur, Associate Professor in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford. Emerging Worlds Series organized by Centre of Global South Asian Studies.

15. marts 2018

Beyond Tolerance. Navigating the Landscapes of Beneficence in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Public lecture by Dr. David Henig, University of Kent

15. marts - 16. marts 2018

Generation, Transition, and Creativity

10.30-12 public lecture, room 10.3.28 (3rd floor)

David Henig, University of Kent

Beyond Tolerance. Navigating the Landscapes of Beneficence in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

16. marts 2018, kl. 11.00-12.00

Jewish diaspora in Poland in the 20th century. Coexistence, conflict, reconciliation

Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Hab. Jerzy Krzysztof Eisler, Professor at the History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and director of the Warsaw office of the Institute of National Remembrance.

16. marts 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

Film screening of 'My Father's House' and Q&A with filmmaker Zhao Dayong

ThinkChina presents the Chinese filmmaker, Zhao Dayong, who will be screening the movie "My Fathers House", which offers a rare glimpse into an immigrant African community in China. 

19. marts 2018, kl. 18.00

Japan’s Gay Empire: Wartime Militarism and Sex Tourism on the Korean Peninsula

Talk by Dr. Todd A. Henry, Associate Professor, Modern Korean/East Asian History at University of California, San Diego.

19. marts 2018, kl. 18.00

Japan’s Gay Empire: Wartime Militarism and Sex Tourism on the Korean Peninsula

Talk by Dr. Todd A. Henry (UCSD), Associate Professor, Modern Korean/East Asian History, Director, Program in Transnational Korean Studies

21. marts 2018, kl. 10.30

The Nomos of World Literature

Public lecture by Prof. Aamir Mufti, University of California, Los Angeles. Note: location change to meeting room 4th floor

23. marts 2018, kl. 9.00

Workshop: The Housing of Technology in Art

The workshop aims to explore the intersections and tensions between art and technology in the early modern era.

5. april 2018, kl. 10.00-12.00

The 'Crisis of Liberalism': Reflections from Latvia, the Place Where History Never Ended

Open AMIS-CEMES Student Forum Lecture by Dr. Dace Dzenovska, Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, followed by a Q&A session. Arranged by CEMES Student Forum and AMIS.

5. april - 14. april 2018

Food, Health and Philosophy in East and West

PhD course organised in China. For PhD students and R&D professionals interested in food, health and the under-lying cultural, philosophical and scientific reasons for specific health views.

11. april 2018, kl. 10.15-12.00

Ajami traditions in the Horn of Africa and the concept of isograph

Lecture by Professor Giorgio Banti (Università di Napoli “l’Orientale”).

12. april 2018, kl. 10.15-12.00

Oromo Ajami

Lecture by Professor Giorgio Banti (Università di Napoli “l’Orientale”).

16. april 2018, kl. 10.30-12.30

Public lecture: Public Hermeneutics

Exploring public hermeneutics - a joint event between ThinkChina.dk and the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, UCPH

16. april - 17. april 2018

Gender and gender equality in 'welfare solutions' and 'entrepreneurship and business'

Workshop in Shanghai at the Nordic Centre Fudan, Fudan University. Deadline for abstract submission: 19 February

19. april 2018, kl. 14.00-16.00

Encountering urban diversity: Guided tour in Copenhagen's Nordvest with Linda Lapina

This guided tour of Copenhagen's Nordvest district examines encounters with difference in a contested urban setting.

19. april 2018, kl. 15.30-17.30

CANCELLED! North Korea: Between Threats, War and Media Spectacle

CANCELLED

20. april 2018, kl. 10.15-18.00

Beyond the Postcolonial?

At this seminar we set out to explore a set of themes that can provide a unifying framework or backbone for a new global history of the pre-industrial and pre-colonial world.

20. april 2018, kl. 14.00-17.00

Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth Century

Public guest lecture by Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin), author of What is Global History?

23. april 2018, kl. 9.30

Cultural Capital and the Rise of Pop Culture in South Korea

Reading by Dr. Shin Dong Kim (Professor of Media and Communication, Hallym University).

23. april 2018, kl. 9.30

Cultural Capital and the Rise of Pop Culture in South Korea

Reading by Dr. Shin Dong Kim (Professor of Media and Communication, Hallym University).

23. april - 27. april 2018

CANCELLED - Reading Jyotiḥśāstra Texts

Workshop with Dr. Ramasubramanian. The workshop is open to anyone interested in reading and learning about Jyotiḥśāstra texts, that is, texts on the astral sciences and divination. 

25. april 2018, kl. 10.30

Hoarding, Waste and Recycling

Mini-Seminar organized by Dr. Vera Skvirskaja, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH.

25. april 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Asia Brown Bag Talk: Nis Grünberg

Join us for a brown bag talk by Nis Grünberg, CBS,  on "The political economy of SOEs: National Champions or socialist institutions?"

25. april 2018, kl. 13.00-16.00

The importance of living in Ghetto areas – on health, social life, education and work?

The so-called ‘Ghetto areas’ in Denmark refer to areas with large neighbourhood
ethnic density. These areas are much debated in Danish politics, most lately in
the New Year speech of the Danish prime minister.

26. april 2018, 10

Archaeology, Language and History in Ancient Central Mexico

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies / American Indian Languages and Cultures invite you to participate in an international symposium.

26. april - 27. april 2018

Dissertation workshop: Ethnography of connections

Dissertation workshop that critically addresses a number of questions related to the study of connections in a world forever on the move.

30. april 2018, kl. 12.30

Lunch Talk: The Greatest Taboo or the Last Frontier’s Great Seduction?

Talk by Dr. Emily Anderson (Former Curator at the Museum of Man, San Diego).

1. maj 2018, kl. 11.00

Masculinity and Hindu Nationalism in India - Two Perspectives

Double lecture session in the Emerging Worlds Series on Masculinity and Hindu Nationalism in India with Sikata Banerjee and Atreyee Sen.

2. maj 2018, kl. 10.15

Creating a Japanese Christian Utopia in Manchukuo: The Final Failure of a Christian Imperialist Vision for Japan

Talk Dr. Emily Anderson (Editor of Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea).

3. maj 2018, kl. 11.00-12.00

Making an Illiberal Democracy: The Polish Case

Keynote lecture by Professor Leszek Koczanowicz, University of Wrocław, Poland.

3. maj 2018, kl. 14.15-16.00

Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: a book talk

Andrew DJ Shield presents on his book, which focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants

4. maj 2018, kl. 10.00-16.00

Tricky data – tackling dilemmas in data communication

Workshop on ethical and political dilemmas related to communicating data to either an academic or a wider public.

7. maj 2018, kl. 14.00-16.00

Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

Launch of Hongwei Bao’s new book on queer China, the first book to look at gay identity and queer activism in the People’s Republic of China from a cultural studies perspective.

7. maj - 8. maj 2018

Multilingualism

Seminar with researchers from the Multilingual Learning Center,  Fudan University in Shanghai and the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language, University of Copenhagen

8. maj 2018, kl. 16.30-17.30

Book Release: Women, Gender, and Research. Chinese and Nordic Perspectives

Reception to celebrate the release of the book "Women, Gender, and Research. Chinese and Nordic Perspectives".

14. maj 2018, 11

'Cold, but with a high standard of living' or something more? - Scandinavia from the Serbian perspective

Public lecture on Serbian fascination with Scandinavian culture by Dorijan Hajdu, PhD, Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade, Department of Scandinavian Studies.

15. maj 2018, 14

Mænd der hader kvinder

Workshop on issues in translation of belletristic literature from Scandinavian to Slavic languages with Dorijan Hajdu, PhD, University of Belgrade, Department of Scandinavian Studies

15. maj 2018, kl. 14.15-16.00

ChinaTalks: The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics: China, the United States and Geostructural Realism

ThinkChina and the Centre for Military Studies at University of Copenhagen invite you to a talk by Øystein Tunsjø, Professor of International Relations, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.

15. maj 2018, kl. 16.15-18.00

Freedom of expression, media, and cultural industries in Russia: a hodgepodge of values and ideologies

This workshop brings together two scholars, Elena Sherstoboeva (Higher School of Economics, Russia) and Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds, Britain).

16. maj 2018, kl. 13.30-15.30

Inauguration of the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS)

The official opening of the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) will take place at the TORS Centre of Knowledge, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark on Wednesday on 16 May.

17. maj 2018, 10

Serbia between East and West - and other important issues

Lecture on current events in Serbia by Dorijan Hajdu, PhD, University of Belgrade, Department for Scandinavian Studies

18. maj 2018, kl. 16.00

Riding on the back of the tiger?

Lecture by Dr. Sabine Burghart (Lecturer, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland).

18. maj 2018, kl. 16.00

Riding on the back of the tiger?

Lecture by Dr. Sabine Burghart (Lecturer, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland).

22. maj 2018, kl. 11.00-13.00

Witnessing Death: Photographing the Philippine Drug War

Public lecture by Professor Vincente L. Rafael, Professor of History, University of Washington.

22. maj 2018, kl. 11.00-13.00

Witnessing Death: Photographing the Philippine Drug War

Public lecture by Vicente L. Rafael, Professor of History, University of Washington.

22. maj 2018, kl. 14.30-17.30

Roundtable discussion with Vicente Rafael

Roundtable discussion with Vicente Rafael, Professor of History at the University of Washington.

23. maj 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Sacred Cetaceans: Comparing Whale Worship in Vietnam and Japan

Asia brown bag talk by Aike Rots, Associate Professor in Contemporary Japan Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.

24. maj 2018, kl. 9.30-10.45

Happiness and the good life in Japan

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Manzenreiter, University of Vienna, will give the keynote address at the 14th NAJS Conference held at University of Copenhagen.

24. maj - 25. maj 2018

NAJS Conference 2018

The Fourteenth Annual Conference organized by the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (NAJS) will take place at the University of Copenhagen on 24-25 May.

24. maj - 25. maj 2018

Value, Values and Religion in the Contemporary World (workshop)

Workshop on the resurgence of interest in theories of value and religion.

25. maj 2018, kl. 14.15-15.30

Epistemologies of the ‘Muslim Question’ in Europe. On the Politics of Knowledge Production in a Minefield

Amir-Schirin Moazami critically reflects of the politics of knowledge production undergirding hegemonic epistemologies on the “Muslim Question” in Europe. 

31. maj 2018, kl. 9.00-19.00

Ancient Egyptian Scientific Literature in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection

A workshop on May 31 which is open to all interested.

1. juni 2018, kl. 13.15-15.00

Pitfalls and Promises of Researching Super-diversity

Lecture by Susanne WessendorfEver since the notion of super-diversity was first coined in 2007 (Vertovec 2007), the idea of a concept which captures the increasing diversification of immigration-related diversity has gained much academic and policy attention. 

7. juni 2018, kl. 9.00-18.00

Immigrant Integration in Law and Policy - The Role of Public Entities and Private Enterprise

International conference which will discuss approaches to immigrant integration in different national settings.

14. juni 2018, kl. 14.30-16.30

ChinaTalks: Shan-shui City – Exploring Sustainable Urban Development in China

ThinkChina and the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, are pleased to invite you to a ChinaTalks lecture by Professor Hu Jie on Sustainable Urban Development in China.

15. juni 2018, kl. 14.00-16.00

The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East

CEMES Debate Meeting. Michael Provence presents his book followed by a discussion. All are welcome.

18. juni 2018, kl. 11.00-12.00

Hermann Kreutzman - Pamirian Crossroads and impacts of the New Silk Road Initiative

Professor Dr Hermann Kreutzmann, Chair of Human Geography, Department of Geography, Freie Universität Berlin, will give his keynote address entitled: "Pamirian Crossroads and impacts of the New Silk Road Initiative" as part of the 10th annual ADI Conference held at University of Copenhagen.

18. juni - 20. juni 2018

ADI Conference 2018

Join us for the 10th annual, international ADI conference. Keynote speeches by Professor Dr Hermann Kreutzmann, Freie Universität Berlin, and Professor Ran Wei, University of South Carolina as well as panels on a wide range of themes.

19. juni 2018, kl. 16.00-17.00

Ran Wei: A Clash of Cultures? The Cultural Influence of Smartphones and Mobile Devices in Confucian Asia

Ran Wei, Gonzales Brothers Professor of Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, will give his keynote address entitled: "A Clash of Cultures? The Cultural Influence of Smartphones and Mobile Devices in Confucian Asia", as part of the 10th annual ADI Conference held at University of Copenhagen.

21. juni 2018, kl. 10.00-16.00

Writing-up seminar

Writing-up seminar is an opportunity to discuss work-in-progress – to receive comments on one’s own work, defend arguments and methodological choices, as well as formulate constructive criticism.

27. juni 2018, kl. 10.00

Urban Assemblages and Embodied Memory in Post-Socialist Tashkent

Nikolaos Olma defends his PhD thesis.

20. aug. - 22. aug. 2018

Changing Global Hierarchies of Value? Museums, artifacts, frames, and flows

International Conference arranged by the University of Copenhagen and The National Museum of Denmark, 20 - 22 August 2018.

27. aug. 2018, kl. 15.30-17.00

ChinaTalk and Panel Debate: AIIB – Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ThinkChina and the University of Copenhagen invite you to this AIIB event featuring AIIB's Danish treasurer, Mr. Søren Elbech, as the main speaker. 

27. aug. 2018, kl. 17.00-18.30

Hierarchies of Misery in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines

Public guest lecture by Nicole Curato, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra.

29. aug. 2018, kl. 15.00-16.00

CNARC Roundtable

Egill Þór Níelsson, Nordic coordinator of CNARC, the China-Nordic Arctic Research Centre in Shanghai, will present news and views on the China - Nordic Arctic cooperation at this roundtable at NIAS.

3. sept. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

China's International Development Cooperation

Dr Yuan Zheng will deliver this lunch talk presentation to provide an overview of the global trends in development cooperation, as well as UNDP’s approaches to facilitate effectiveness of China’s “going-out”.

3. sept. - 5. sept. 2018

Global Citizenship Education Network

Global Citizenship Education Network: a 3 day workshop at University of Copenhagen.

7. sept. 2018, kl. 16.00

India Files: Four Futures - India-Denmark Relations in the 21st Century

The first of a series of public events about the future prospects of the India-Denmark bilateral relations. The expert panel sets focus on four futures in the intertwined arenas of commerce, culture, people and politics that lie ahead.

12. sept. 2018, kl. 13.00-15.00

The Lost World of Jewish Socialism in Europe

Guest lecture by Professor D. J. Walkowitz, New York University.

13. sept. 2018, kl. 15.00-16.30

Inter-Korean and Kim-Trump Summits and the Future of the Korean Divide

NIAS invites you to join a public guest lecture by  Professor Key-Young Son, Korea University

14. sept. 2018, 10

Why Ancient Myths Apply to the Present as well as to the Past

Guest lecture by Professor Robert Segal, Department of Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen.

14. sept. 2018, kl. 14.00-17.00

Tomas Skov Lauridsen defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Tomas Skov Lauridsen defends his PhD thesis "Bad Banking with Chinese Characteristics: Financialized Political Capitalism in China"

17. sept. - 18. sept. 2018

Coastal Communities and Disaster: Perspectives from Asia

Disaster Workshop on the JSPS project “Local Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction Research in Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Reconstruction in Tsunami Affected Areas” with international disasters specialists and scholars.

18. sept. 2018, kl. 17.00

The forgotten secret of Japanese books

Denmark-Japan Society, Dansk Bibliofilklub and JapanSessions, ADI invite you to a public guest lecture by Professor Peter Kornicki from the University of Cambridge.

19. sept. 2018, kl. 14.00

Socioeconomic aspects of ancient Egyptian private tomb construction

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Rune Olsen.

20. sept. 2018, kl. 13.00-15.00

Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat

Guest lecture by Professor Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford.

21. sept. 2018, kl. 10.00

Monsters in Korean Film

Lecture by Dr. Ji-Yoon An (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen).

21. sept. 2018, kl. 10.00

Monsters in Korean Film

Lecture by Dr. Ji-Yoon An from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

26. sept. 2018, kl. 15.15-17.00

Nagayo Sensai: The Japanese Pioneer of Primary Health Care and His Eureka Moments

Public talk by Eimi Watanabe on "Nagayo Sensai: The Japanese Pioneer of Primary Health Care and His Eureka Moments" at the Faculty Library of Social Sciences.

28. sept. 2018, kl. 11.00-12.00

À la Carte in the Pile Dwelling

Lecture by Manar Kerdy, Institute for Prehistory and Archaeological Science University of Basel.

2. okt. 2018, kl. 11.00

South Asia Lectures: Religious Nationalism, Populism, and Democracy in India

Public talk by Dr. Uday Chandra, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar, on Religious Nationalism, Populism, and Democracy in India.

3. okt. 2018, kl. 9.55

AMIS Culture Club: Visit to the Immigrant Museum

In this event we will visit the Immigrant museum i Furesø.

3. okt. 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

North Korea: Between Threats, War and Media Spectacle

At this event ToRS’ researchers present how North Korea is perceived in China, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea. The event is open to everyone, however registration is required.

3. okt. 2018, kl. 15.00-17.00

North Korea: Between Threats, War and Media Spectacle

At this event ToRS’ researchers present how North Korea is perceived in China, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea. The event is open to everyone, but registration is required.

4. okt. 2018, kl. 10.15

Holy Cities and Sacred Landscapes: An Ethnography of the Pilgrimage of 'Arbaiyyn in Najaf and Karbala, Iraq

Guest lecture by Professor Paulo Pinto, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro.

5. okt. 2018, kl. 9.00-17.00

Middle-class on the Move: Chinese family, gender and culture

At this seminar a distinguished group of scholars will reflect on the making of the Chinese middle-class in conceptual terms as well as the meanings and significances of the middle-class in contemporary China. 

8. okt. 2018, kl. 9.30-11.30

Science diplomacy and imperiled collaborative research during 5-years of diplomatic freeze between Norway and China

Prof. Tone Bleie addresses the challenges of science diplomacy and research cooperation between Norwegian and Tibetan institutions and scholars during the diplomatic freeze between Norway and China.

8. okt. 2018, kl. 13.30-15.30

Emerging Worlds: The Pricing of Progress

Public talk and discussion: "The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life" by Dr. Eli Cook, University of Haifa.

8. okt. - 11. okt. 2018

Transnational Custodianship of Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century

Working meeting and workshop on transnational custodianship of cultural heritage from Asia and Africa.

24. okt. 2018, kl. 10.15

Science Fiction in Korea

Lecture by Dr. Dennis Wuerthner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

24. okt. 2018, kl. 10.15

Science Fiction in Korea

Guest lecture by Dr. Dennis Wuerthner from  Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

24. okt. - 26. okt. 2018

The Refugees, Borders and Membership Conference at Malmö University

This years AMIS/MIM student conference collaboration has been changed to a conference at Malmö University

26. okt. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Talk by M. Jae Moon, professor in Public Administration

The Department of Political Science at UCPH will host a talk by M. Jae Moon, professor in Public Administration, Yonsei University, in cooperation with CBS.

29. okt. 2018, kl. 10.00-12.30

Seminar on welfare state regimes in East and West

Seminar at the Department of Sociology with presentations by  Chan-Ung Park, Professor of Sociology at Yonsei University, and scholars from UCPH.

29. okt. 2018, kl. 14.15-15.30

The effects of parental leave on career interruption of female workers in Korea

Public NIAS-ADI talk by Prof. Chan-Ung Park from the Department of Sociology, Yonsei University.

30. okt. 2018, kl. 13.15-15.00

CEHA seminar: Social Network Organization of Health

NEW VENUE - Yoosik Youm, Professor of Sociology, Yonsei University will introduce the ‘Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project’ (KSHAP) and selected research results. 

31. okt. 2018, kl. 9.00-11.30

Workshop: How do we map social networks and how can we ’say stuff’ about the qualities and forms of relations within them?

A joint workshop between the Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen & Department of Sociology, and Yonsei University.

1. nov. 2018, kl. 11.30-12.30

Insights from Asian Development Bank

Presentation by Tomoyuki Kimura, ADB’s Director General of the Strategy, Policy and Review Department

1. nov. - 3. nov. 2018

Myths and Narratives of Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism 1848-1918

The Habsburg and Ottoman Empires went down together as allies in the First World War 1914-18.

2. nov. 2018, kl. 10.15

The Empire of Crime: Criminalistic Fantasy of Modernity in Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea

Seminar by Dr. Jooyeon Rhee (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

2. nov. 2018, kl. 10.15

The Empire of Crime: Criminalistic Fantasy of Modernity in Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea

Seminar by Dr. Jooyeon Rhee from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

5. nov. - 9. nov. 2018

11th Annual NIAS Conference and PhD Course: Asia on the Move

The 11th annual NNC Conference and PhD Course, will take place in the High North venue UiT-The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø.

7. nov. 2018, kl. 15.30-17.00

AMIS Culture Club: Film Screening November

We watch the two documentaries ‘Fire under the Ashes’ and ‘Another Danish Spring’, and afterwards the director of ‘Fire under the Ashes’, Arash Setoodeh, will tell about his work.

9. nov. 2018, kl. 10.00-12.00

Book launch: Asylum Determination in Europe

Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided.

12. nov. 2018, kl. 15.00-16.30

ChinaTalks: Europe within China's Belt and Road: Superhighway or Diverging Lanes?

Dr Marc Lanteigne will give a public lecture on Europe's position within the Belt and Road Initiative. The lecture is moderated by Andreas Bøje Forsby.

14. nov. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Hyperstructures: Re-thinking large-scale infrastructure development in Highland Asian borderlands

Lunch talk by Galen Murton, Assistant Professor, James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

15. nov. 2018, kl. 16.30-18.00

Debat: Har vi brug for flere babyer?

Debatarrangement om konsekvenserne af lavfertilitet i Danmark, Kina og verdenen. Panelister: Pernille Fenger, Sisse Marie Welling, Søren Ziebe, Ayo Wahlberg, Antropologi, Københavns Universitet. Moderator: Trine Grönlund

23. nov. 2018

A Century of International Relations: The Politics of Crisis, Uncertainty, and Disorder

First Copenhagen-Tokyo IARU Conference in International Relations. Participation by invitation only.

27. nov. 2018, kl. 12.00-13.00

That's Offensive!

Frokostmøde ret og humaniora - Oplægsholder lektor Thomas Brudholm fra TORS - Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale StudierInstitut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier.

27. nov. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

The Socialist Tower of Babel in 1950s China

Lunch talk by  Lorraine Wong, Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago, New Zealand. Wong is currently a guest researcher at NIAS.

28. nov. 2018, kl. 12.30

Peace-Building on the Korean Peninsula and the Role of EU

Lunch talk by by Jae-Seung Lee, Professor & Jean Monnet Chair, Korea University.

29. nov. 2018, kl. 10.00-16.30

Diversity, Values and Social Cohesion

Increasingly, immigration gives rise to ethnic diversity in liberal democracies. One worry about diversity, which plays an important role in both academic and public debates, is whether diversity tends to drive down social cohesion and therefore the basis for well-functioning democratic institutions and egalitarian welfare states.

29. nov. 2018, kl. 10.15-12.00

A Robe of Meaning and Miracles

Lecture by Professor Eloi Ficquet, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

30. nov. 2018, kl. 9.30

Andreas Kim Taegŏn (1821-1846): The Clandestine Life and Heroic Afterlife of the First Korean Catholic Priest

Public lecture by Dr Pierre-Emmanuel Roux, Paris Diderot University,  on Andreas Kim Taegŏn - the First Korean Catholic Priest.

30. nov. 2018, kl. 9.30-11.00

Andreas Kim Taegŏn (1821-1846): The Clandestine Life and Heroic Afterlife of the First Korean Catholic Priest

Lecture by Dr. Pierre-Emmanuel Roux (Paris Diderot University).

3. dec. 2018, kl. 11.00-12.30

ADI Workshop: Digital Korean Studies

Workshop on Digital Korean studies with Junho Lee & Theodore Jun Yoo, Yonsei University, and Barbara Wall, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies UCPH.

4. dec. 2018, kl. 17.00-20.15

Religion, Gender and Body Politics

Seminar in LiteraturHaus.

5. dec. - 6. dec. 2018

The Last Ottoman Generation and Interwar Europe

The workshop will explore the lives of eight different Ottoman subjects and their impact on Europe after the collapse of the empire. The purpose is to shed light on this significant aspect of interwar Europe’s social, economic, cultural and political life by seeking out and investigating the lasting presence of Ottoman identities and networks in Europe.

6. dec. 2018, kl. 9.00-16.00

Speaking with the Past

An International Symposium on Language and History in Mesoamerica.

6. dec. 2018, kl. 9.00-12.00

Middle class on the move - Lifestyle, Gender, and Culture in Contemporary China

The workshop takes place in Beijing and is the 3^rd and last in a workshop series of three.  

6. dec. 2018, kl. 9.30-15.30

Contested Narratives in Islamic Central Asia

Workshop to mark the 10^th anniversary of ADI and as part of the project “Between Homogenization and Fragmentation” funded by Velux Fonden.

7. dec. 2018, kl. 10.00-12.00

Reading Group Seminar on Giovanni Arrighi: The Long Twentieth Century

The Critical Studies of Capitalist Transformation (CSCT) network is pleased to invite you to a reading group seminar at the Centre for Global South-Asian Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies on Giovanni Arrighi: The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power and the Origins of our Times.

7. dec. 2018, 13

Heritage and Threat symposium, exhibition and magazine launch

Final symposium on Heritage and Threat (HeAT) and opening exhibition of Conflict and Culture and launch of the magazine Conflict and Culture.

7. dec. 2018, kl. 13.00-16.00

Heritage and Threat

Conflict & Culture – final symposium, exhibition opening and magazine launch.

12. dec. 2018, kl. 17.30

Esther's Children - Between Iran and Zion

The Middle East Association NASIM, in collaboration with The Turban Times, organizes an event with Professor Lior B. Sternfeld of Pennsylvania State University on Iranian Jews.

13. dec. 2018, kl. 10.00-15.30

Five years of research on the literary tradition of the Muslims of the Horn of Africa: achievements and further perspectives

Final workshop of the ERC Project Islam in the Horn of Africa: a Comparative Literary Approach (IslHornAfr).

13. dec. 2018, kl. 10.30-11.30

Studying Chinese Politics with Professor David Shambaugh

Workshop with Professor David Shambaugh: "How has the field of study of Chinese politics evolved in the West during the seventy years of the People’s Republic of China?"

13. dec. 2018, kl. 12.00-13.30

Predicting China with Professor David Shambaugh

Luncheon discussion with Professor Shambaugh on continuity and change in China. 

13. dec. 2018, kl. 17.00-19.00

ChinaTalks: The Evolution of Chinese Leaders’ Styles: From Mao to Xi Jinping

Professor David Shambaugh will discuss the leaders' distinctiveness and continuities over time, and how each leader has affected the Chinese Communist Party as an institution and the PRC as a nation. 

14. dec. 2018, kl. 12.30-13.30

Facing the Challenges of Ethical Communication Across Differences in Disciplines, Cultures and Class: The Case of Bile Duct Cancer in the Mekhong Delta

Lunch talk by Prof. Rachel Harrison, SOAS

11. jan. 2019, kl. 12.30-13.15

Lunch talk: Getting Published - in English: Empathy and scholarship in the 21st century

David Stuligross will trace the process of getting published in English-language journals and books, emphasizing moments where scholar-authors have the greatest ability to influence a publisher’s decisions, as well as the moments where native Japanese writers might have the greatest difficulties – and how to overcome them.

11. jan. 2019, kl. 17.00

Necro Citizens - a collective reading with poets Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Maja Lee Langvad, and Eva Tind

Collective reading with poets Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Maja Lee Langvad, and Eva Tind. Copies of the book will be sold at the event.

24. jan. 2019, kl. 15.30-17.00

ChinaTalks: China as (near-) Arctic great power – drivers and perspectives

Public talk by Camilla Tenna Nørup Sørensen from the Institute for Strategy, Royal Danish Defence College (RDDC).

6. febr. 2019, kl. 15.00-17.00

India Files: Gandhi in Denmark

Reflections, History, Future. In this symposium, we revisit the forgotten connections forged between India and Denmark via Gandhi at the beginning of the 20^th century and reflect how these connections might shape the bilateral relations in the 21^st century.

7. febr. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.00

Japanese Immigration: A Brief Review & Current Issues

This presentation will provide an outline of the development of modern Japanese immigration policy, discuss current immigration-related issues Japan is grappling with, and look to draw comparisons to immigration policy and issues in Denmark.

7. febr. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.00

Japanese Immigration: A Brief Review & Current Issues

Outline of the development of modern Japanese immigration policy, current immigration-related issues Japan and comparisons to immigration policy and issues in Denmark.

7. febr. 2019, kl. 15.30-17.00

Stability on the Korean peninsula - How did we get there and will it last?

Public lecture by Liselotte Odgaard, research fellow at the Danish Foreign Policy Society.

19. febr. 2019, kl. 15.00

Yardsticks: ethnological trends in religion, applied to the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic Levant

Guest Lecture by Conn Herriott, PhD, Institute of Archaeology / Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

20. febr. 2019, 10

What is the 'preparation' in the preparing for death: the sanctions, post-invasion Iraq and the cancer war

Lecture by Hayder Al-Mohammad, assistant professor at University of Colorado Springs.

20. febr. 2019, kl. 10.00-12.00

What is the 'preparation' in the preparing for death: the sanctions, post-invasion Iraq and the cancer war.

Åben forelæsning ved Hayder Al-Mohammad, adjunkt på University of Colorado Springs, USA.

20. febr. 2019, kl. 15.30-17.00

ChinaTalks: China’s international relations and harmonious world

Public talk by Astrid H. M. Nordin, Director of  Lancaster University China Centre and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion.

25. febr. 2019, kl. 16.30-18.00

ChinaTalks: Political Economy and Military Power. Transition to a new power structure: From Globalization to regionalization

Public talk in the ChinaTalks series by Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller. The talk is organized by Think China, Centre for Military Studies, and The Danish Foreign Policy Society.

6. marts 2019, kl. 13.15-15.00

JapanSessions: Mikkel Felter

JapanSessions med Mikkel Felter: "Den Onde Censors Guide til den Gode Eksamen"

6. marts 2019, kl. 16.00-18.00

Jokowi - to be or not to be?

Public Southeast Asia Policy Briefing: Indonesia, the world’s third largest democracy, elects a new president and parliament.

8. marts 2019, kl. 13.00

Not there and (not) yet

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Valeria Guerrieri.

11. marts - 15. marts 2019

Nordic Korean Studies Days

Nordic Korean Studies Days is a 5 day intensive Korean Studies course designed to share expertise and cooperation among both teaching faculty and students of Nordic universities.

18. marts - 19. marts 2019

Workshop: The People's State

Workshop convened by Ravinder Kaur, University of Copenhagen, and Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford.

20. marts 2019, kl. 14.15-16.00

Respect your neighbour as yourself?: Caste in Kerala

Public seminar with Sharika Thiranagama, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University as part of the Global Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series.

21. marts 2019, kl. 14.15-16.00

Seminar: Two perspectives on Japanese foreign policy in East-Asia

Seminar with Prof. Dr. Junya Nishino and Prof. Dr. Tomoki Kamo from Keio University on Japanese foreign policy in East Asia

21. marts 2019, kl. 14.15-15.00

Ferruh Yilmaz

Ferruh Yilmaz will give a guest lecture about his book: How the Workers Became Muslims - Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe.

28. marts 2019, kl. 15.15

Remembering and Forgetting

Lecture by Professor Ayhan Aktar (Bilgi University, Istanbul).

28. marts - 29. marts 2019

Workshop: Present Tense, Past Perfect? Narrative constructions of social representations in Central Eurasia

A two-day workshop as part of the research project, “Between homogenization and fragmentation: textual practices as strategies of integration and identity maintenance among the Uyghurs of Xinjiang, China (20th‒21st centuries). By invitation only.

2. april 2019, kl. 13.15

The Past and Present of Korean Intercountry Adoption and Scandinavia

The talk will provide an overview on South Korean intercountry adoption with a particular focus on Scandinavia as key receiving societies.

2. april 2019, kl. 13.15

Youngen Koo: The Past and Present of Korean Intercountry Adoption and Scandinavia

Guest lecture by Youngeun Koo, Tuebingen University, on South Korean intercountry adoption and Scandinavia as key receiving societies.

5. april 2019, kl. 13.15-14.30

The 'innocence' of the "Children of the Caliphate"

The issue of the so-called ‘returnees’, i.e. European Fighters who have joined militias in the Middle-East in the aftermaths of the Arab Spring, belongs to one of the most controversial issues in the current political debates. Even more controversial, is the status of their children.

5. april 2019, kl. 15.00-16.00

Book launch: Secular bodies, affects and emotions

This book is about how we can think about the secular as something that is practiced, felt and experienced.

8. april 2019, kl. 12.30-13.30

Brown Bag Talk: From barbarians to minorities to assimilation: The future of China's ethnic minorities

Public talk by Associate Professor Magnus Fiskesjö, Cornell University, on the future of China's ethnic minorities.

9. april 2019, kl. 15.00

Human and Animal Interactions on the Iranian Plateau: An Overview of Current Bioarchaeological Studies

Guest Lecture by Dr Marjan Mashkour, CNRS (Centre national de Recherche Scientifique), MNHN (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle) Paris.

10. april - 11. april 2019

Conference: China, Sustainable Development and Economic Policy-Making

This conference brings together experts in law, economics, environmental protection and climate change, political sciences and cultural studies to discuss China's sustainable development.

12. april 2019, kl. 10.00-12.00

Special seminar: China, Sustainable Development, and Economic Policy-making

Seminar with international experts, commenting on most recent developments regarding China, sustainable development and economic policy-making.

12. april 2019, kl. 12.15

Was the Iranian Revolution of 1979 Inevitable?

Guest lecture by Professor Touraj Atabaki, Leiden University.

15. april 2019, kl. 15.30

Georgia – Homeland of Golden Fleece, Wine and Unique Alphabet

Lecture by Associate Professor Irene Darchia, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

24. april 2019, kl. 14.15-16.00

What is really happening in Xinjiang? Historical context, current developments and source criticism

Public talk by Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Rune Steenberg. The talk will provide an insight into the current state of affairs in Xinjiang against a historical backdrop and address the extreme difficulties faced by local people in everyday life.

24. april 2019, kl. 16.15-17.45

Belt and Road Initiative with new tracks?

Prof. Pascha: Japan´s multilateral infrastructure initiative: (Not only) a reaction to China and Prof. Jørgen Delman: China's road to a new world order - What is driving the BRI and why?

25. april 2019, kl. 12.30-13.30

Women's Empowerment through Social Safety Nets

Lunch talk with Marvi Memon on the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan.

25. april 2019, kl. 13.00

Methodological Approaches to the Study of Ritual Humor in Ancient Mesoamerica

Lecture by Professor Karl A. Taube, University of California at Riverside.

25. april - 26. april 2019

EastAsiaNet Workshop

ADI at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School are the hosts of this year's EastAsiaNet Workshop. Presentations will focus on '"The Good Life" in East Asia' and 'Revisiting the Internationalization of Japan'

29. april 2019, kl. 12.30-13.30

Lunch talk: War on the Cold War – Transitional Justice in Korea

Lunch talk with Sungju Park-Kang, University of Turku, Finland, on the issue of justice for victims of state violence in Korea.

29. april 2019, kl. 14.15-16.00

Between Work and Labor: Interstitial Selves in the Indian Construction Industry

Public seminar with Adam Sargent, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, as part of the Global Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series.

2. maj 2019, kl. 9.00-16.30

International Conference: A New Crossroad? Sinicization of Christianity in China

The Fudan-European Centre is convening a conference on Christianity in China. All are welcome.

3. maj 2019, kl. 13.30-16.00

Human Flow - Ai Weiwei

Human Flow is a documentary movie led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei.
The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.

6. maj 2019, kl. 13.30-16.00

Symposium: Persisk på KU fylder 100

Persisk (tidligere Iransk Filologi) på Københavns Universitet fylder 100 år den 6. maj 2019.

7. maj 2019, kl. 15.15-17.00

Laterality: A Sideways Look at Ritual

Guest Lecture by Simon Coleman, University of Toronto.

7. maj - 9. maj 2019

The Egyptological Conference in Copenhagen 2019

It is a great pleasure to announce the fifth, annual Egyptological Conference in Copenhagen (ECC) at the University of Copenhagen.

9. maj 2019, kl. 11.00-15.00

Internet and Politics in China: Taking stock and moving forward

An interdisciplinary seminar which aims to critically reflect on the current discussion on internet and politics in Greater China.

9. maj 2019

Rethinking the Himalayas

2nd Annual Nordic Himalaya Research Network Conference at University of Copenhagen for researchers in the Nordic region and beyond who work on aspects of research related to the Himalaya region, spanning India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet.

13. maj - 14. maj 2019

International Conference: Frontiers of Accumulation

International conference in 2019 at UCPH. Part of the Emerging Worlds program. Organized jointly by the CGSAS, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and ADI

20. maj - 22. maj 2019

Indological Workshop

The workshop investigates the interplay between two intellectual traditions of ancient and medieval India, Jyotiḥśāstra (the astral sciences) and the Purāṇas (religious texts of encyclopedic nature).

23. maj 2019, kl. 9.00

Issues in Indian Iconography

Indological Lecture by Gudrun Bühnemann (University of Wisconsin at Madison).

23. maj 2019, kl. 16.00-17.30

ChinaTalks: Will China 'forcefully reunify' Taiwan?

ChinaTalk on Taiwan by Professor of Chinese politics Peter Hays Gries, Lee Kai Hung Chair and Director of the Manchester China Institute at the University of Manchester.

24. maj 2019, kl. 10.15-12.00

The irony of open borders: Mobility, citizenship and ethnicity in Himalayan South Asia

Public seminar with Sara Shneiderman, Dept. of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, as part of the Global Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series. Please note change of time

24. maj 2019, kl. 13.00

The Game of Knowledge

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Jacob Schmidt-Madsen.

24. maj 2019, kl. 13.00-16.00

The Game of Knowledge

Jacob Schmidt-Madsen defends his PhD thesis.

28. maj 2019, kl. 14.00-17.30

Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Post-Earthquake Reconstruction: Comparisons and Findings from Nepal's 2015 Earthquake

This public seminar presents findings from an international research project investigating the socio-political effects of Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes in dialogue with scholars working on disasters in other areas of the world. Please register by 26 May noon.

11. juni 2019, kl. 13.00

Politics of Work

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Maansi Parpiani.

12. juni 2019, kl. 10.15-18.00

Europe Trouble: Welcome Culture and the Disruption of the European Border Regime

Closing conference for the research project "Helping Hands".

12. juni 2019, kl. 10.15-12.00

Solidarians and humanitarians in the land of Xenios Zeus: Responses to the “(European) migration crisis”

Lecture by Katerina Rozakou, Panteion University of Social and Political Science.

18. juni 2019, kl. 10.00-11.15

Dagmar Schaefer: Mobilities and histories of knowledge exchange in Eur(ope-)Asia-Africa. Or: Is China ‚Chinese'?

Professor Dr. Dagmar Schaefer,  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, will give her keynote address "Mobilities and histories of knowledge exchange in Eur(ope-)Asia-Africa. Or: Is China ‚Chinese'?" as part of the 11th annual ADI Conference held at University of Copenhagen.

18. juni 2019, kl. 10.15-11.45

Religious Authority and Agency among Muslim Women

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies invites to a public lecture eith Dr. Hilary Kalmbach (University of Sussex).

18. juni 2019, kl. 15.45-16.45

Kajri Jain - Gods in the Time of Democracy

Dr. Kajri Jain, Department Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto, will give her keynote address entitled: "Gods in the Time of Democracy", as part of the 11th annual ADI Conference held at University of Copenhagen.

18. juni - 19. juni 2019

ADI Conference 2019

Join us for the 11th annual, international ADI conference. Keynote speeches by Professor Dr. Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University and Dr. Kajri Jain, University of Toronto, as well as panels on a wide range of themes.

19. juni 2019, kl. 11.15-12.15

Eric Tagliacozzo - How the Indian Ocean Spice Trade Made the World Modern

Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History, Cornell University, will give his keynote address "How the Indian Ocean Spice Trade Made the World Modern".

19. juni 2019

PhD workshop: The Asian City

As part of the 11th annual ADI conference a PhD workshop exploring The Asian City will be held.

20. juni 2019, kl. 13.00

The Sociology of Morals. Catholic Faith and Generational Identities among Filipino Migrants in Copenhagen, Denmark

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Astrid Krabbe Trolle.

20. juni 2019, kl. 13.00-16.00

The Sociology of Morals. Catholic Faith and Generational Identities among Filipino Migrants in Copenhagen, Denmark

Astrid Krabbe Trolle defends her PhD thesis.

24. juni - 19. juli 2019

IARU Summer Course: Borderland

IARU summer course "Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South" in Chiang Mai, Thailand organized jointly by University of Copenhagen and UC-Berkeley.

25. juni 2019, kl. 13.00

Ambiguous Interplays – Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark from Kobane to Afrin

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Anne Sofie Schøtt.

25. juni 2019, kl. 14.00-16.00

Ancient foods, fiber, and bugs: microbiomes and functional genetics to discover past human behaviors

Lecture by Stephanie Schnorr, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Austria.

16. aug. 2019, kl. 10.00-12.00

Asylum seeking in the South Pacific: Perspectives on the case of Manus Island

Stories of the treatment of asylum seekers at the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in Papua New Guinea have attracted much international attention. In this public lecture, the case of will be addressed and analyzed from different perspectives.

22. aug. - 23. aug. 2019

Trading the World: Routes, Resources, Realignments

The final, closing research workshop of the "Emerging Worlds Program".

5. sept. 2019, 15

Womb-Caves of Mongolia and Wutai Shan (China): A Ritual of Fertility or of Rebirth?

Lecture by Isabelle Charleux, director of researches at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research/GSRL (Group Societies, Religions, Laicities)), EPHE-PSL, Paris.

5. sept. 2019, 15

Womb-Caves of Mongolia and Wutai Shan (China): A Ritual of Fertility or of Rebirth?

Lecture by Isabelle Charleux, director of researches at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research/GSRL (Group Societies, Religions, Laicities)), EPHE-PSL, Paris.

5. sept. - 6. sept. 2019

Conference: Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring

Conference hosted by the project Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe.

6. sept. 2019, 13

Østeuropa 1989 og nu

Fælles seminar i anledning af, at det i år er 30 år siden, at muren i Berlin faldt og de kommunistiske regimer brød sammen i Østeuropa.

10. sept. 2019, kl. 10.00-11.00

Shanghai Library presentation at NIAS

Representatives from the Shanghai Library will give a presentation of their national collection of periodicals from the Qing and Republican periods.

10. sept. 2019, kl. 16.30-18.00

Frauds, fakes and fentanyl - How profits and corruption have driven dangerous medicine in China and beyond its borders

Public talk by award-winning journalist Kathleen McLaughlin organized by ThinkChina. Registration is required.

11. sept. 2019, kl. 15.00

Preliminary results from the renewed project at Tel Tsaf

Lecture by Professor Danny Rosenberg.

11. sept. 2019, kl. 16.00

Wealth and Collapse

Lecture by Dr. Hans-Georg Gebel, Freie Universität Berlin.

12. sept. 2019, kl. 15.30-17.00

Sino-Danish collaboration on energy policies and the critical policy challenges in China’s energy transition

Public seminar with presentations by Xia Jianjun, Tsinghua University and Jørgen Delman, China Studies, University of Copenhagen. Registration is required.

12. sept. - 15. sept. 2019

Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways

The 3rd Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research.

16. sept. 2019, kl. 12.30-13.30

Why understanding the RSS is important

Seminar with Walter Andersen on his and Shridhar Damle’s co-authored book entitled Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India (2018).

17. sept. 2019, kl. 12.30-13.30

Love, Money and Obligation: Transnational Marriage and Local Complexity

Join us for a brown bag talk by Dr. Patcharin Lapanun from Khon Kaen University, Thailand.

18. sept. 2019, 15

Kinesiske statsformer og livsformer

Forelæsning 1/3 i efterårets forelæsningsserie Strukturel Dialektik på Saxo Instituttet er v/ Thomas Højrup.

19. sept. 2019, kl. 9.15

The Green Hills: Environment and Society in Pre-Industrial Korea

Guest lecture by Dr. John Lee, East Asian History, Durham University, on the the environmental history of pre-modern Korea

19. sept. 2019, kl. 9.15

The Green Hills: Environment and Society in Pre-Industrial Korea

Guest lecture by Dr. John Lee (East Asian History, Durham University).

24. sept. 2019, kl. 14.15

Project Gongan

This year Denmark and South Korea celebrates the 60th anniversary of cultural exchange. Therefore Jazz Denmark invites two traditional Korean musicians, Bung Gill Choi (changoo), and Eunhee Choi (gayagum) to start a new musical collaboration between the two countries.

24. sept. 2019, kl. 14.15

Project Gongan

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of cultural exchange between Denmark and South Korea,  Jazz Denmark has invited two traditional Korean musicians to start a new musical collaboration between the two countries.

25. sept. 2019, 11

The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918-1921

Lecture by Associate Professor Beka Kobakhidze, Ilia State University, lecturer at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).

25. sept. 2019, kl. 13.00

In the Shadow of Illegality

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Bani Gill.

25. sept. 2019, kl. 13.00-16.00

In the Shadow of Illegality

Public defence of PhD thesis by Bani Gill.

25. sept. 2019, kl. 14.00-17.00

PhD defence - Xuan Li

Xuan Li, Dept. of Political Science defends her PhD thesis "Youth Policy, Youth Civic Engagement and Youth Civic Culture across Socio-political Settings: Comparing China and Europe"

27. sept. 2019, kl. 14.15-15.25

Hooked: Art and Attachment

Guest lecture by professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia/University of Southern Denmark.

30. sept. 2019, kl. 13.30-15.00

China’s Reconnection to Europe via the BRI

Guest lecture by Professor Xiangming Chen, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut on "China’s Reconnection to Europe via the BRI: The China-Europe Freight Train and its Two-ended Urban and Regional Impacts".

2. okt. 2019, kl. 14.00

Swords into Bank Shares: Finance, Conflict, and Political Reform in Meiji Japan

Applied Economics Seminar with Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University arranged by the Department of Economics.

3. okt. 2019, kl. 15.15-17.00

Cancelled - Enchanted Geography: India in the West African Popular Imagination

Open lecture with David Kofi Amponsah, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

4. okt. 2019, kl. 9.00-12.00

Seminar: Elderly Care on the Move - Chinese/Danish Perspectives

ThinkChina and the Co-ordination for Gender Research are hosting a half day seminar on ageing societies and elderly care.

4. okt. 2019, kl. 16.00-18.30

Øl, quiz og fordybelse med Zetland - præsenteret af TABU

Arrangementet bliver både fagligt og social arrangement - og er for hele ToRS.

7. okt. 2019, kl. 12.00-13.30

ChinaTalks: China’s propaganda campaign in Sweden, 2018–2019

Public talk by Björn Jerdén, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, on China’s recent propaganda campaign in Sweden.

7. okt. - 10. nov. 2019

From Kabul to Kolkata: Of Belonging, Memories and Identity

Photo exhibition by Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz. The exhibition documents the Afghan community or the ‘Kabuliwalas’ of Kolkata and is inspired by Tagore's short story from 1892.  

8. okt. 2019, kl. 10.00-11.30

Regulating algorithmic news recommendation in non-democracies - the case of Russia

Lecture by Dr Mariëlle Wijermars, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University. This is the first of three lectures in the Frontier Seminar Series: "An interdisciplinary approach to digital threats”.

10. okt. 2019, kl. 15.15-16.45

Facing the Uyghur Plight

Interview with Uyghur consultant, translator and human rights activist Rushan Abbas.

14. okt. 2019, kl. 14.00-15.30

Subordinates or Partners: Government-Nonprofit Relationships in Public Service Delivery in China

Guest Lecture by Yijia Jing, Prof. in Public Management and International Relations, Fudan University, 

22. okt. 2019, kl. 15.00-16.30

The Hong Kong crisis - from local conflict to global challenge

This public seminar explores the political crisis in Hong Kong from multiple perspectives, including its local, regional and global implications.

22. okt. 2019, kl. 15.00-17.30

Film screening: Strangers? (HaUlpan)

See the award winning Israeli Documentary ‘A Hebrew Lesson’ (English subtitles) followed by a Q&A with the director Ron Rotem.

28. okt. 2019, kl. 13.00-16.30

The Challenges of Existence in Ignored Studies: The Kurdish Case

University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University cordially invite you to a one-day conference.

30. okt. 2019, kl. 12.30-17.30

Bier og honning

Tværfagligt seminar om bier og honning på Københavns Universitet

30. okt. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.30

The Return of Chen Ching Lin: A Chinese Deserter in the British Raj, 1943-46

India-China Conjunctures lecture by Cao Yin, Associate professor in the Department of History, Tsinghua University.

31. okt. 2019, kl. 10.00-11.30

ChinaTalks: Wrongful Conviction and Judicial Reform in China

Public talk by He Jiahong, lawyer, writer and professor at Renmin University on causes for wrongful convictions and judicial reform in China. 

1. nov. 2019, kl. 14.00-15.30

Reconstructing Past Foodways in the Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic of southwest Asia

Friday Lecture at Archaeology, by Associate Professor Tobias Richter, University of Copenhagen.

1. nov. 2019, kl. 8.30-18.30

Seminar on Digitalization and Legal Culture: Western and Chinese Perspectives

One-day seminar on digitalization, geopolitics, law and legal culture with keynote presentations by Prof. He Jiahong, Renmin University of China and Dr. Hanne Marie Motzfeldt, University of Copenhagen

6. nov. 2019, kl. 9.00-13.30

Peace Process on the Korean Peninsula

Seminar organized jointly by NIAS and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and the Republic of Korea. All are welcome - registration is required.

7. nov. 2019, kl. 14.00-16.00

Welcome to Zhang Xihua and Paul Gilroy

Each of the two newly promoted honorary doctors at the Faculty of Humanities; Zhang Xihua (ToRS) and Paul Gilroy (IKK), will lecture for approximately 35-40 minutes, followed by 5-10 mn Q & A.

7. nov. 2019, kl. 14.15-16.00

Messianic conceptions of politics and authoritarianism in Turkey from the mid-19th Century to present

Lecture by Dr Alp Eren Topal, University of Oslo.

12. nov. 2019, kl. 9.15

Between Tradition and Modernity: Understanding Government Reforms in Late Nineteenth Century Korea

Guest lecture by Dr. Holly Stephens, Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Edinburgh.

12. nov. 2019, kl. 17.00-18.30

A Short History of the Evolution of the Sine Function In Indian Mathematics

Guest lecture by Prof. K. Ramasubramanian, Department of Humanitites and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay.

13. nov. 2019, kl. 12.15-15.00

#OPRØR OVERALT I VERDEN. Er der en sammenhæng?

Med hjælp fra en bred vifte forskere stiller vi spørgsmålet: Er der sammenhæng mellem de mange oprør overalt i verden, bl.a. Chile, Hong-Kong, Irak, Libanon, Catalonien og Algeriet?

13. nov. 2019, kl. 14.00-17.00

PhD defence: Priya Dershini Parmalingam

"Why litigate? The role of political, bureaucratic and strategic incentives on recourse to trade litigation: Comparing the experiences of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand in the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism"

13. nov. 2019, kl. 14.00-15.30

Book Launch: Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

Professor Anne Ring Petersen (UCPH) and associate professor Moritz Schramm (SDU) explore, together with other authors, offer a review of the origin of the concept of migration in the cultural scene of Berlin and how it has taken on a variety of meanings and works in different ways within different national, cultural and disciplinary contexts.

13. nov. 2019, kl. 14.00-16.00

Perfect motherhood: Middle-class mothers in urban China

Public guest lecture by Dr. CHEN Meng,  School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University.

18. nov. 2019, kl. 15.00-16.30

The Significance of the Qing Period for China-India Relations

This talk explores the evolving India-China relationship in the Qing period from the perspective of rulers in Beijing.

18. nov. 2019, kl. 15.00-16.30

The Significance of the Qing Period for China-India Relations

India-China Conjunctures lecture by Matthew W. Mosca, Associate Professor, University of Washington.

19. nov. 2019, kl. 17.00-20.00

Film Screening and Discussion of Lost in Lebanon

Film screening and discussion of "Lost in Lebanon"
AMIS Culture Club
Presented with Syrian Doc Days

Directed by: Georgia Scott, Sophia Scott

21. nov. - 22. nov. 2019

Heritage, Aesthetics and Belonging. Gender in Turkish Neo-Ottomanism

Workshop at the Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul.

27. nov. 2019, 12

“Our border was thinner than a sheet of paper.” Co-existence between Christians and Muslims in late-Ottoman Cappadocia (1870s-1923)

Lecture by Dr Aylin de Tapia (Aix Marseille Université/CNRS).

27. nov. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.30

China's "360-degree" Digital Governance and Information Operation: An update

Talk by Dr. Kingwa Fu, Associate Professor, Hong Kong University. This is the third and final lecture in the Frontier Seminar Series: "An interdisciplinary approach to digital threats”.

28. nov. 2019, kl. 13.30-14.30

Making Islam Relevant: Changing Dynamics of Islamic Authority in the West

Open lecture by Professor Masooda Bano, University of Oxford.

28. nov. 2019, kl. 15.00-16.30

CANCELLED! ChinaTalks: Cold Games - The Emergence of Sino-American Strategic Competition in the Arctic

CANCELLED! Public talk with Marc Lanteigne from Political Science, University of Tromsø: The Arctic University of Norway.

2. dec. - 6. dec. 2019

NNC Conference: Digital Asia

"Digital Asia - Cultural, Socio-Economic, and Political Transformations" is the 12th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference & PhD Course organized in collaboration with CESEAS, Lund University.

4. dec. 2019, kl. 14.00-15.30

Migration as Comic

A dialogue with Halfdan Pisket

5. dec. 2019, kl. 13.00-17.00

6th AMIS-MIM MASTERS CONFERENCE

The aim is to provide an opportunity for master's students in Advanced Migration Studies in Copenhagen and International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Malmö to meet and exchange experiences and ideas.

5. dec. 2019, kl. 15.00-16.30

ChinaTalks: The New Superpower Rivalry between China and the US

ChinaTalks public lecture with Prof. Øystein Tunsjø, Head of the Asia-program at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.

6. dec. 2019, kl. 10.00-11.30

Situationen i Iran

Den danske ambassadør i Teheran, Danny Annan, holder tale om den aktuelle situation i Iran.

6. dec. - 7. dec. 2019

Gamejam

Guest talks by Dr. Matti Karhulahti and Dr. Jung Yeop Lee as well as presentations of the Games & Award Ceremony.

6. dec. - 7. dec. 2019

Gamejam

Guest talks by Dr. Matti Karhulahti and Dr. Jung Yeop Lee as well as presentations of the Games & Award Ceremony.

9. dec. 2019, kl. 12.30-13.30

Spring of Hope or Winter of Despair? - Social Democratic movement in Thailand after the 2019 election under the rise of monopoly capital

Lunch talk by Sustarum Thammaboosadee, PhD, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Thammasat University, Thailand.

11. dec. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.30

Taking stock of Sino-Nordic relations

Public seminar with a range of perspectives on relations between the Nordic countries and China, exploring different avenues for advancing existing cooperation, while also identifying potential obstacles. 

11. dec. 2019, kl. 15.00-18.00

Seminar: Vi syndere!?

Seminar for Teologi og Assyriologi på Københavns Universitet (STAKU).

11. dec. 2019, kl. 15.15

The Visual Resistance of the Hong Kong Protest Movement: From Post-it Notes to PR Machine

ChinaTalks: Public lecture by Mai Corlin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

12. dec. 2019, kl. 12.30-13.30

Lunch talk with Mai Corlin

Join us for a lunch talk on the Visual Resistance of the Hong Kong Protest Movement by Mai Corlin, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

12. dec. 2019, kl. 13.15-16.30

Mnemonic migration

Kick-off seminar for a project on literature and collective memory and how it migrates between cultures and people.

13. dec. 2019, kl. 10.00-12.00

Guest Lecture by Gregory Feldman

Migrants, citizens, and states: Relocating the source of empowerment in a precarious world

16. dec. 2019, 11

Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia

Gæsteforelæsning med professor Madawi al-Rasheed fra The Middle East Center på London School of Economics.

16. jan. 2020, kl. 13.00-14.30

Tracking Routes: Imperial Competition in the Late 19th Century Burma–China Borderlands

Public talk by Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.

27. jan. 2020, kl. 12.30-13.30

A New Chapter in Cross-Strait Relations? Lessons from the Taiwan Presidential Elections

Lunch talk by Arthur S. Ding, Emeritus Professor from the National Chengchi University in Taipei.

30. jan. 2020, kl. 13.00

PhD defence - Mikkel Dehlholm

The title of the dissertation is  "Global capitalism and the Rise of the Market-Leninist Developmental State – A methodological globalist analysis of China’s economic and social development since 1978."

4. febr. 2020, kl. 11.00-13.00

Democracy and its discontents

A public seminar/teach-in on India’s recent controversial legislation and popular dissent.

4. febr. 2020, kl. 14.00-17.00

Policing Southeast Asia: Challenges for Field Researchers

This event features researchers who have been studying how the police operates in Burma/Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand, and facilitates discussion about the challenges they have faced.

12. febr. 2020, kl. 13.00-15.00

South Asian Currents: Delhi 2020 – How to Read an Indian Election

Discussion on how to read the election results and what they reveal about the nature of contemporary Indian politics.

12. febr. 2020, kl. 14.30-17.00

The hidden history of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

Public talk by historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U on his book ‘The hidden history of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century’.

13. febr. 2020, kl. 16.00-17.30

ChinaTalks: Cold Games - The Emergence of Sino-American Strategic Competition in the Arctic

Guest lecture with Marc Lanteigne, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromsø: The Arctic University of Norway.

18. febr. 2020, kl. 15.00-17.00

Pradip Sarkar, tabla maestro and Shubham Sarkar, violin exponent

Join us for a music event on classical Indian music including performances by renowned artists.

21. febr. 2020, kl. 10.00-11.00

Transformations of Tibetan Sacred Landscapes: Modernisation, Buddhist Economics, and State Secularism

Public guest lecture by Anna Sehnalova, Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.

21. febr. 2020, kl. 12.00-13.30

Migrants, Minorities, and Populism in Asia

Lunch lecture by Tom Pepinsky, Professor of Government and Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University.

21. febr. 2020, kl. 13.00

Migrating authoritarianism

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Birgitte Stampe Holst.

21. febr. 2020, kl. 13.15-14.30

The role of the East-European writer after 1989

Guest lecture by Adam Zagajewski.

22. febr. 2020, kl. 14.00

Protection of endangered heritage during armed conflicts

Lecture by Joanne Dingwall McCafferty, PhD student at Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

25. febr. 2020, kl. 9.15-10.30

Translation, Transcoding, Code Switching?

Lecture by Dr. Marion Eggert (Korean Studies, Ruhr University Bochum).

25. febr. 2020, kl. 9.15-10.45

Translation, Transcoding, Code Switching? Linguistic Interfaces in Korean Poetry of Chosǒn times

Guest talk by Dr. Marion Eggert, Korean Studies, Ruhr University Bochum.

28. febr. - 29. febr. 2020

Food and drink in feasting

International two-day conference.

10. marts 2020, kl. 10.00-16.00

Re-launch of the Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies has returned to UCPH, where it first started. Join us for the re-launch event with presentations by scholars from UCPH, CBS and beyond.

12. marts 2020, kl. 16.00-17.30

CANCELLED! A Great Unrecorded History: LGBTQ+ History and Heritage across World Cultures

This event has been cancelled!

12. marts 2020, kl. 16.00-17.30

CANCELLED!! The Meaning and Function of Apologies in Danish and Chinese; Intercultural Clashes and Crisis Communication

CANCELLED! Public lecture by Xia Zhang from Copenhagen Business School. All are welcome

17. marts 2020

CANCELLED! Keeping the ghosts alive: Everyday negotiations with and resistance to illiberal peacebuilding in Indonesia

The event is postponed until further notice.

21. marts 2020, kl. 14.00

Kulturarv som konfliktskaber og konfliktløser?

Forelæsning v/ Ingolf Thuesen, institutleder ved Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet. Anvendt af UNESCO som ekspert i forbindelse med overgreb mod kulturarv i Mellemøsten.

24. marts 2020, kl. 15.00-16.30

CANCELLED! Falling fertility: a cause for concern?

CANCELLED! Sustainability lecture on falling fertility rates. Speakers: Prof Hagai Levine, Prof Rémy Slama and Prof Ayo Wahlberg.

25. marts 2020, kl. 10.00-16.00

CANCELLED! Ultra-Low Fertility: is reproductive sustainability possible in the 21st century?

CANCELLED! Sustainability Science Centre and Low Fertility Research Platform present a sustainability symposium on falling fertility rates.

2. april 2020, kl. 10.00-11.00

CANCELLED! The cost of dying alone: Nōkotsudō, memory and the afterlife of human remains in contemporary Japan

CANCELLED! Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies invites you to a guest lecture by Dr. Paulina Kolata.

3. april - 31. maj 2020

Identities Virtual Symposium: The Viral Condition

Explore short essays, think pieces, reflections and field notes from the state of the COVID-19 lockdown that help think through the profound social-political effects of this twenty-first century viral condition.

14. april 2020, kl. 13.15-15.00

Book Launch: Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online

Presentation by Assistant Professor Andrew Shield, Institute for History, Leiden University. Introduction by Marie Sandberg, AMIS, University of Copenhagen

23. april 2020, kl. 15.00

Fighting for Virtue

Online launch of the book "Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand", written by Duncan McCargo and recently published by Cornell University Press.

25. april 2020, kl. 14.00

Kronborg som verdenskulturarv

Forelæsning v/ Poul Grinder-Hansen, Seniorforsker, Nationalmuseet. Forfatter til bogen ”Kronborg – Fortællingen om et slot”.

6. maj 2020, kl. 15.00-16.30

Virtual Book Talk: Disenfranchised

Joel Andreas, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University will present his latest book "Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China".

14. maj 2020, kl. 16.00-17.30

CANCELLED! China Goes Green - Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

CANCELLED! ChinaTalk by Judith Shapiro from the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.

26. maj 2020, kl. 14.00-15.00

Chinese Peace in Africa – Peacekeeper or Peacemaker?

Virtual book talk with Steven C.Y. Kuo, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

28. maj 2020, kl. 11.00-12.00

Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

Virtual book talk in which Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei will present their latest book Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World, published by Princeton University Press.

28. maj - 29. maj 2020

POSTPONED - SANR 2020

The 4th annual meeting of "South Asia across the Nordic Region" will take place at the University of Copenhagen.

29. maj 2020, kl. 11.00-12.00

Combating COVID-19: The Chinese and Danish Perspectives

This webinar will feature presentations by Prof. Dr. Zhu Chouwen, Vice President of Shanghai’s Zhongshan Hospital, and Prof. Flemming Konradsen, director of the School of Global Health, University of Copenhagen.

26. juni 2020, 15

West African post-slavery and liminal diasporic egalitarianism

AMIS lecture by anthropologist Dr Paolo Gaibazzi, currently Associated Researcher at the ZMO-Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.

27. aug. 2020, kl. 16.00-17.30

Book launch: Brand New Nation

Register here for the virtual book launch of Ravinder Kaur’s "Brand New Nation - Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India".

3. sept. 2020, kl. 16.00-17.15

Book launch: South Asian Sovereignty

Online book launch of South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power (Edited by David Gilmartin, Pamela Price, Arild Engelsen Ruud).

23. sept. 2020, kl. 18.30-19.30

Rallying for Democracy? Thailand's Latest Student Protests

Webinar with NIAS Director Duncan McCargo, Senior Researcher (PRIO) Marte Nilsen, and foreign news journalist and former Asia correspondent for Aftenposten Kristoffer Rønneberg.

24. sept. 2020, kl. 2.00

What Happened To The 'New Malaysia'? Politics Since The 2018 Elections

Webinar sponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network, NYU Wagner and NIAS. NOTE: This virtual event will take place on 24 Sep at 2AM in Denmark.

2. okt. 2020, kl. 10.15-12.00

Writing Through Fences: A History from Below

AMIS Guest Lecture by Behrouz Boochani, Associate Professor in Social Sciences, UNSW and Omid Tofighian, Adjunct Lecturer, UNSW/University of Sydney.

8. okt. 2020, kl. 14.00-15.30

The Greek Revolution and European Republicanism, 1815-1830. Ideas of Nation, People and Citizenship in the Making of the Constitutional State

Presentation by Mogens Pelt and Nicolai Mariegaard

19. okt. - 20. okt. 2020

PhD workshop

Two-day intensive NNC PhD workshop for doctoral students from various disciplines focusing on a diverse range of Asia related topics. 

21. okt. 2020, kl. 2.15

Giving Voice to Yezidi and Armenian Women – Cosmopolitan Memory and Transnational Narratives. Biographical Sources and Genocide

Dr. Maria Småberg, Lund University. This guest lecture will be organized as a webinar. 

22. okt. 2020, kl. 13.00

Mindful Work

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Marianne Viftrup Hedegaard.

23. okt. 2020, kl. 10.15-11.30

China’s New Minority: Africans in China, Their Identities and Well-Being

Online seminar with presentations by Padmore Adusei Amoah, Obert Hodz and Roberto Castillo.

29. okt. - 30. okt. 2020

Inaugural Symposium of The MSA Nordic

This conference brings together scholars of cultural and collective memory and researchers working on memory questions within related disciplines.

3. nov. 2020, kl. 14.00-15.00

Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts

Pauline Stoltz, Aalborg University in conversation with Duncan McCargo, NIAS about transitional justice and memory politics.

9. nov. 2020, kl. 14.15

Mosque or Cemevi. Questions of Tradition, Identity and Spirituality

A webinar with Helen Haas, PhD fellow, University of Tartu. 

16. nov. 2020, kl. 13.30

Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party

Online launch and discussion of Duncan McCargo and Anyarat Chattharakul's book "Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party"

18. nov. 2020, kl. 18.00

Thailand’s New Political Generation – From Future Forward to Youth Protests

Forum for Asian Studies webinar with Duncan McCargo, Director of NIAS and Petra Desatova, Postdoctoral Researcher at NIAS.

20. nov. 2020, kl. 13.00

Historieundervisning som erindringsarena

Selma Bukovica Gundersen forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling.

20. nov. 2020, kl. 13.00

Historieundervisning som erindringsarena. Brug af historie, sprog og religion til etnisk adskillelse og konstruktion af en umulighedsdiskurs i Bosnien-Hercegovina

PhD defence (in Danish) with Selma Bukovica Gundersen.

30. nov. 2020, kl. 18.00

Thailand's New Political Generation: Forward to the Future?

Online lecture with Duncan McCargo, NIAS moderated by Andrew Nathan, Columbia University

2. dec. 2020, kl. 14.00-15.30

East-West Reflections on Demonization

Virtual book launch of "East-West Reflections on Demonization" edited by Geir Helgesen and Rachel Harrison.

3. dec. 2020, kl. 13.00-17.00

7th Masters conference on Migration studies: Current PhD-projects in the Øresund region

The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for master’s students to learn about recently finished and ongoing PhD projects and for students at different levels to interact.

4. dec. 2020, kl. 14.00-15.00

Against Political Equality: the Confucian case

Virtual book talk with Professor Tongdong Bai on his newest book ‘Against Political Equality: the Confucian case’.

7. dec. 2020, kl. 13.00

The Meanings of the People in Turkish Politics: A Genealogy

PhD defence by Spyros Sofos.

7. dec. 2020, kl. 16.00-18.30

Min(d)ing the methods

Department of Anthropology will host a 2,5 hour debate on the possibilities and possible pitfalls of decolonial methods in the social sciences.

15. dec. 2020, kl. 14.15

Gendered Nostalgia: Neo-Ottomanism in Islamist Women’s Media in Turkey

A webinar with Petek Onur, Marie Curie fellow, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

16. dec. 2020, kl. 10.00-13.00

Yi Ma defends his PhD thesis

Yi Ma defends his PhD thesis "Soft law implementation in the European Union and in China".

17. dec. 2020, kl. 14.00-15.30

Forbidden Memory and Rediscovered Images: Violence, Erasure, and the Cultural Revolution in Tibet 

ADI-Inalco event based on Forbidden Memory by Tsering Woeser, edited and introduced by Robert Barnett. They will be joined by historians and social scientists to discuss political violence, photography and historical erasure. 

21. jan. 2021, kl. 14.00-16.30

Arab Diasporas in Europe: Spaces of Political Subjectivity Formation and Activist Engagement

The Arab Reform Initiative and the University of Copenhagen are pleased to announce a half-day conference.

3. febr. 2021, kl. 12.00-13.30

Asian Futures

First in a series of events on Asian futures in the twenty-first-century. Presentations by Asia scholars from the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

4. febr. 2021, kl. 15.00-16.30

Making Sense of Myanmar’s 1.2.21 Military Coup

Academic discussion of the unfolding crisis in Myanmar with Helene Maria Kyed, Stein Tønnesson, Myat The Thitsar, Matthew Walton, and May Sabe Phyu.

5. febr. 2021, kl. 13.00

Where Do We Go From Here?

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Erik Sporon Fiedler.

8. febr. 2021, kl. 14.00

Medical Science in Ancient Egypt: A translation and interpretation of Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg (PLouvre E 32847 + PCarlsberg 917)

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Sofie Schiødt.

16. febr. 2021, kl. 14.15-16.00

Challenging the master narrative of modern Turkey. Alevi life experiences of religious and political engagement

A webinar with Hege Markussen, postdoc researcher in the history of religions at Lund University.

26. febr. 2021, kl. 15.00-16.30

AMIS seminar - Danish desires to export asylum responsibility to camps outside Europe: A research-based discussion

This AMIS seminar gathers some of Denmark's foremost experts on asylum and migration policy to contribute research-based, multidisciplinary perspectives for discussing the currently unfolding processes in Danish asylum politics.

26. febr. 2021, kl. 16.00-17.30

Perils and Promises of Democracies in Southeast Asia

How has the January 6th event been understood within 5 different Southeast Asian countries with variable levels of democracy: Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

2. marts 2021, kl. 15.00-16.30

Nine-Tenths of the Law. Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia

Online book launch and discussion of Christian Lund's "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia", Yale University Press 2021.

4. marts - 6. marts 2021

Chronic Living

International conference on vitality and quality of health in the 21 century. 

5. marts 2021, kl. 16.00-17.30

How to Get Published in an Asian Studies Journal

How do you go about publishing an article in the field of Asian studies? This question and many more will be addressed by experienced editors: Julie Chen, Hyung-Gu Lynn, and Duncan McCargo.

9. marts 2021, kl. 14.00-16.40

Aktualiseringer af diasporiske konfigurationer ti år efter det arabiske forår

Webinar arrangeret af projektet Mediatized Diaspora (Københavns Universitetet) og Forum for Islamforskning.

15. marts - 16. marts 2021

Thailand Update: Protests Revisited

A two day conference on mass student-led rallies and political protest in Thailand.

16. marts 2021, kl. 12.00-13.15

Asian Futures: India's China Challenge

Asian Futures seminar series: Join us for a virtual talk by Ananth Krishnan and a discussion of his book India's China Challenge - A Journey through China’s Rise and What It Means for India.

7. april 2021, kl. 18.15-19.00

(Inter-)nationalism and the New Turkey. The Rise and Fall of International Education at Istanbul’s Robert College, 1913-1933

Professor Reşat Kasaba, University of Washington, will discuss Erik Sjöberg’s project “(Inter-)nationalism ...

15. april 2021, kl. 14.00-15.15

Asian Futures: Making It Count - Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China

Asian Futures series: Virtual talk by Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University) and discussion of his book Making It Count.

23. april 2021, kl. 13.30-15.00

Lecture 2: Travelling concepts: a debate on the meanings of post-slavery

Roundtable debate with prof. Alice Bellagamba, University of Milan-Bicocca, prof. Dr. Baz Lecocq, Humboldt University Berlin, and prof. Dr. Felicitas Becker, Ghent University, moderated by associate prof. Lotte Pelckmans, University of Copenhagen (AMIS).

26. april - 27. april 2021

Religious responses to Covid-19 in media and politics: Muslim, Jewish and Christian experiences

Webinar organized by the research project Mediatized Diaspora: Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe & Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies, University of Copenhagen.

27. april 2021, kl. 12.00-14.00

Migrant Dreams

AMIS book seminar with Samuli Schielke.

28. april 2021, kl. 15.30-16.30

Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945: Cases from Six Countries

Online book talk by Eve Zucker and Ben Kiernan.

5. maj 2021, kl. 15.00-16.30

The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China

Launch and discussion of Mai Corlin's book about the Bishan Commune established in 2011 by artist, editor and filmmaker Ou Ning.

6. maj 2021, kl. 15.15

Narrated Empires: Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism

Book launch webinar with Johanna Chovanec, doctoral fellow, Vienna, and Dr. Olof Heilo, Vienna
Narrated Empires.

10. maj 2021, kl. 15.00-17.00

Contemporary slavery, forced displacement and diasporic activism in West Africa

A conversation with anti-slavery activist Salif Ladji Kamara (RMFP) and AMIS thesis writers Nolwenn Marconnet and Leah Durst-Lee.

10. maj 2021, kl. 15.00-16.00

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India

A book launch of Aase J. Kvaneid's Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account.

19. maj 2021, kl. 14.30-16.00

Unpacking Myanmar's Failed Coup?

Online roundtable discussion with Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Myat The Thitsar, Helene Maria Kyed and Liv Stoltze Gaborit.

20. maj 2021, kl. 14.15-16.00

Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey. State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic

Webinar with Sevgi Adak, Assistant Professor at The Aga Khan University, London

27. maj 2021, kl. 15.45-16.45

SANR keynote: Nosheen Ali

Nosheen Ali (NYU) will give the keynote address "Sarzameen-e-Be-Aain (My Land without the Constitution): Nature and Delusion in Gilgit-Baltistan" at SANR 2021.

27. maj - 28. maj 2021

South Asia across the Nordic Region 2021

The 4th annual meeting of SANR will be hosted  by the University of Copenhagen. Programme now available.

28. maj 2021, kl. 13.00-14.00

Cut, Pleated and Draped - National Dress and Monastic Attire in Bhutan

Join us online for a talk with Mareike Wulff from Humboldt University, on Bhutanese monastic and national dress in comparison.

28. maj 2021, kl. 16.00-17.30

Asian Futures: The Viral Condition

Panel debate focusing on infrastructures of inequality in relation to vaccines and public health with Dwai Banerjee, Emilija Zabiliute and Ayo Wahlberg.

16. juni 2021, kl. 10.00-11.30

Asian Futures: From the Asian to the Indo-Pacific Century?

Panel discussion with Akio Takahara (Tokyo University), Premesha Saha (ORF) and S.D. Muni (JNU).

18. juni 2021, kl. 13.30-15.00

Exile, Humanitarianism, and the Mobility of Belonging among Tuareg former slaves from Mali in Niger

The 4th SlaFMig-AMIS lecture will be given by Souleymane Diallo, lecturer at Münster University, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

21. juni - 25. juni 2021

Revisiting the Hilly Flanks: the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods in the eastern Fertile Crescent

Conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies, UCPH.

28. juni 2021, kl. 11.30-12.30

Global China and its Discontents: Lessons from Zambia and Hong Kong

Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, UCLA, will give the inaugural keynote address at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition" 

28. juni 2021, kl. 18.00-19.00

Emerging Economies, International Order and International Law: Continuities, Changes and Challenges

Professor Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, School of Law, University of Arkansas will give one of the keynote addresses at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition"  

28. juni - 30. juni 2021

Asia and Africa in Transition

12th annual ADI conference, and 13th NNC conference organized jointly by Asian Dynamics Initiative, NIAS, School of Global Health, Sustainability Science Centre, ThinkChina, Global Development

29. juni 2021, kl. 11.15-12.15

Demographic challenges and opportunities in Asia and Africa

Reiner Klingholz, former director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development, will give a keynote address at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition" 

30. juni 2021, kl. 11.15-12.15

Deciphering the meantime in an era of climate change

Jonathan Rigg, Professor in Human Geography, University of Bristol is the final keynote speaker at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition".

30. juni 2021, kl. 15.30-17.30

Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First Century India

Asian Dynamics Initiative host a roundtable on Ravinder Kauers book. 

1. juli 2021, kl. 18.00

Structured Agencies of Paramilitaries in the Kurdish-Turkish Conflict

Public defence of PhD Thesis by Özlem Has.

5. juli - 9. juli 2021

Memory Studies Association conference 2021 in Warsaw

The programme for the next Memory Studies Association conference in Warsaw (online) 5-9 July is now ready.

19. juli - 21. juli 2021

Exchange of Knowledge Between Literate Cultures

This conference explores the different aspects of how knowledge is exchanged between literate cultures.

24. aug. 2021, kl. 13.00-16.00

Seminar on Danish Research Council (DFF) applications

Former member of the Arts and Humanities Council (FKK) professor Margit Warburg will give two presentations on DFF applications and answer questions.

2. sept. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

Grønland-Danmark, hvordan fortæller vi historien?

Dialogmøde dansk-grønlandske relationer gennem 300 år.

3. sept. 2021, kl. 13.00

Al Zubarah and Freiha

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Agnieszka Bystron.

6. sept. 2021, kl. 21.00

Migration and Art: Screening and discussion with Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani

In collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), Cinemateket arranges a screening of the film ‘Chauka, Please Tell us the Time’ (2017).

9. sept. 2021, kl. 14.00-16.00

Asian Futures: After the War

Roundtable discussion with regional perspectives on Afghanistan by scholars from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

9. sept. 2021, kl. 14.00-16.00

Asian Futures: After the War

Roundtable discussion with regional perspectives on Afghanistan by scholars from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

21. sept. 2021, kl. 15.00

The Best We Share. Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

 Join us for a book talk with Christoph Brumann from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

23. sept. 2021, kl. 15.15-16.30

Taming the City: Urbanisation, Buddhism, and new Religious Topographies in Post-Soviet Buryatia

Public lecture by Dr. Kristina Jonutytė, Vilnius University organized by the Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies.

23. sept. 2021, kl. 17.15

Resistant students: pathways of student activism in Post-Arab Spring Egypt

Online lecture by Saif Alislam Eid, researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. The lecture is no. 1/9 in the online lecture series on Arab media and diaspora Post-Arab Spring.

30. sept. 2021, kl. 17.15

Different forms of Othering: Arab Diaspora Social Media in Sweden: Site of Information or Site of Struggle?

Online lecture by Dr Mahitab Ezz El Din, assistant professor at Linnaeus University, Sweden. The lecture is no. 2/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

7. okt. 2021, kl. 17.15

Arab Resistance in the Diaspora Post-Arab Spring: Potentials, Limitations, and Future Prospects

Online lecture by Dr Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. The lecture is no. 3/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

13. okt. 2021, kl. 15.15

JapanSessions: Kenneth Johansen

Alumni career talk by Kenneth Johansen, ZeroNorth. 

14. okt. - 16. okt. 2021

The Emergence of Nones: Authority – Diversity – Complexity

First meeting in the Nordic research network: Complexity and Beyond in Studies of Religiosity in the Nordic Countries (CBSR). Day one is public via Zoom.

14. okt. 2021, kl. 17.15

Was not doomed to defeat: Contingency and Radical Possibilities in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011

Online lecture by Dr Atef Said, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The lecture is no. 4/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

21. okt. 2021, kl. 17.15

Discursive Game of (De)Sectarianization: Assad’s Acting ‘As if Not’

An online lecture by Dr Mustafa Menshawy is a postdoc at the University of Lancaster. The lecture is no. 5/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

26. okt. 2021, kl. 12.30-13.30

Lunch talk: Petra Desatova

Join us for a talk on "Authoritarian Electoral Management: Lessons from the 2019 Thai election" by Petra Desatova from NIAS. 

28. okt. 2021, kl. 10.15-12.00

When South Korea Became Super Corporate

Join us for a talk by Dr. Mike Prentice from University of Sheffield. 

28. okt. 2021, kl. 15.00

Jørgen Bæk Simonsen holder afskedsforelæsning

Lektor Jørgen Bæk Simonsen (Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier) holder afskedsforelæsning torsdag den 28/10 kl. 15.00

28. okt. 2021, kl. 17.15

Social media and contentious politics a decade on from the Arab uprisings

An online lecture by Dr. Yazan Badran, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. The lecture is no. 6/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

29. okt. 2021, kl. 10.00

Resourceful and socially connected

Public PhD defence by Peter Roy Harmsen.

29. okt. 2021, kl. 10.15-12.00

Religion og kommunalpolitik – hvorfor nu det?

Panelmøde med kommunalvalgets spidskandidater i Københavns Kommune

1. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

Hvad kan Dostojevskij sige os i dag?

Forfatter og teolog Sørine Gotfredsen i samtale med historiker og journalist Christoffer Emil Bruun.

2. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

Campuspanel om Brødrene Karamazov

Dostojevskijs sidste og store roman belyses fra forskellige faglige vinkler af Isak Winkel Holm (Litteraturvidenskab), Iben Damgaard (Teologi), Amnon Lev (Jura) og Tine Roesen (Russisk).

3. nov. 2021, kl. 12.45-13.30

Marie Curie fellowships and own research

Associate professor Trine Brox will present how she strategically works with attracting young researchers to her research centre through the Marie Curie fellowship programme.

3. nov. 2021, kl. 14.15-16.00

Turkish Friday Sermons. Diyanet and the Construction of National Identity

Webinar with professor Elisabeth Özdalga.

3. nov. 2021, kl. 15.00-17.00

Brødrene Karamazov

I anledning af nyoversættelsen af Brødrene Karamazov fortolker tre forskere den berømte russiske forfatter, Fjodor Dostojevskijs sidste, store værk på KUB Søndre Campus.

3. nov. 2021, kl. 15.15-17.00

JapanSessions: Takuya Kondo, Mitsui

Guest lecture with Takuya Kondo from the Copenhagen branch of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. on Japanese economic and work culture.  

4. nov. 2021, kl. 12.30-13.30

Lunch talk: Terese Gagnon

"From Seed Sovereignty to "Self-Reliance": Shifting Relationships Between People and Plants in Mae La Camp" by Terese Gagnon, Postdoc at NIAS. 

4. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

Tale og tavshed: Dostojevskij, Bakhtin og det apofatiske

Ekspertpanel med Alex Fryszman (København), Johanna Lindbladh (Lunds Universitet), Anker Gemzøe (Aalborg Universitet), Ingunn Lunde (Universitetet i Bergen).

4. nov. 2021, kl. 17.15

Time and Mobility/Immobility: The chronopolitics of mobility and the temporalities of suffering and hope

An online lecture by Dr Roza Tsagarousianou, Associate Professor in Media and Communication at University of Westminster, London. The lecture is no. 7/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

5. nov. 2021, kl. 13.15-15.00

Boglancering: Dostojevskij – En introduktion

Tine Roesen præsenterer sin nye bog om Dostojevskijs forfatterskab, udgivet på Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

5. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

Oversætterpanel

Med Dostojevskij-oversætterne Trine Søndergaard, Marie Tetzlaff og Tine Roesen. 

8. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.30

Dostojevskijs arv fra Pusjkin og Gogol

De to forfattere præsenteres, og deres indflydelse på Dostojevskijs forfatterskab diskuteres af René Wad Andersen, Marie Tetzlaff og Tine Roesen.

9. nov. 2021, kl. 12.00-13.00

Enlightenment and the Gasping City

Lunch talk by Dr Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko on "Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Pollution, Purification and Buddhism in Postsocialist Mongolia".

9. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

AFLYST: At nærlæse Dostojevskij

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10. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-17.30

Dostojevskij og den russiske modernisme

Samtale mellem to eksperter i den russiske modernisme, ph.d, forfatter og oversætter Mette Dalsgaard og ph.d.-studerende Jesper Nyeng.

11. nov. 2021, kl. 13.00-15.00

Festivalafslutning

Alle er velkomne på Torvet på Søndre Campus til festivalens afslutning og overrækning af quizpræmier.

11. nov. 2021, kl. 17.15

Turkish Paramilitarism Exported: The Case of SADAT in Post-Arab Spring Middle East

An online lecture by Dr Özlem Has, Visiting Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The lecture is no. 8/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

12. nov. 2021, kl. 10.15-12.00

Kvinnene innenfor klassisk religionssosiologi og deres betydning for moderne teori

KU’s og ToRS’ nye æresdoktor professor Inger Furseths holder tiltrædelsesforelæsning med titlen "Kvinnene innenfor klassisk religionssosiologi og deres betydning for moderne teori".

12. nov. 2021, kl. 14.00-16.00

Invisibility in African Displacements

Book launch.

12. nov. 2021, kl. 14.15-16.00

The 1984 Winter Olympics and the Making of Sarajevo

A hybrid seminar with Zlatko Jovanovic.

17. nov. 2021, kl. 15.15

Islamsk økonomi og finansiell integrering/ekskludering av muslimer i Norden

Gæsteforelæsning med professor Torkel Brekke, Oslo

18. nov. 2021, kl. 12.30-13.30

Lunch talk: Kuan-Jen Chen

"The Imminent Proto Cold War Standoff in the Western Pacific Rim, 1945-1949" by Kuan-Jen Chen, Postdoc at ADI and NIAS.

18. nov. 2021, kl. 17.15

Exile: a polyvalent term

An online lecture by ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, England. The lecture is no. 9/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

25. nov. 2021, kl. 15.00-16.30

Shi’ism, Sunnism, and the Idea of Islamic Orthodoxy

Invitation by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, to a Carsten Niebuhr Lecture at the David Collection by Professor Rob Gleave, University of Exeter.

26. nov. 2021, kl. 10.00-12.00

Sexual Violence & War in East Asia

Hybrid conference with presentations by Yonson Ahn, Louise Edwards, Na-Young Lee, and Vera Mackie. All are welcome!

29. nov. 2021, kl. 11.00-17.00

Memories of War – Wars of Memory

Seminar aiming to explore Serbian memory politics in relation to the wars that have characterized the twentieth century in South-Eastern Europe.

29. nov. 2021, kl. 12.00-16.00

Undervisningens Dag

Efter mere end to års pause, afholder Studienævnet for ToRS igen Undervisningens Dag.

29. nov. 2021, kl. 12.00-16.00

Teaching Day

After a break of more than two years, the Study Board for ToRS is once again organising “Teaching Day”.

30. nov. 2021, kl. 16.00-18.00

PhD pre-defence seminar – Pernille Friis Jensen

Gendered Mosques and Women’s Belonging: A study of mosques as gendered organizations in Denmark and implications for women’s participation. PhD pre-defence seminar with Pernille Friis Jensen, Ph.d. fellow, ToRS.

1. dec. 2021, kl. 12.45-13.30

Participation in COST network

Associate professor Trine Brox will present how she strategically works with attracting young researchers to her research centre through the Marie Curie fellowship programme.

2. dec. 2021, kl. 11.15-13.00

Anatolian Alevis between the Past and Today: The Legacy of Hacı Bektaş Veli among Urban Alevis in Izmir

Seminar with Helen Haas, PhD fellow at the University of Tartu.

2. dec. 2021, kl. 12.30-13.30

Lunch talk: Myunghee Lee

"Authoritarian Successor Parties, Their Supporters, and Mass Mobilization: Lessons from Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia, and Indonesia" by NIAS postdoc Myunghee Lee

2. dec. 2021, kl. 13.00-17.00

8th AMIS-MIM Masters conference 2021: Invisibility in Migration Studies

8th AMIS-MIM joint student conference 2021.

3. dec. 2021, kl. 10.15

Muslim Piety in the Context of Everyday Life Aesthetics and Devotional Engagement in Zanzibar

A presentation by Professor Kjersti Larsen, Oslo.

3. dec. 2021

Muslim Devotional Practices. Rituals, Theology and Aesthetics

Conference.

6. dec. 2021, kl. 9.00-18.00

Continentalist Ideas in Modern and Contemporary History

International seminar on continentalism organised by the project “Continentalism and geopolitics: The idea of ‘big space’ political formations in comparative historical perspective”.

8. dec. 2021, kl. 15.15-17.00

JapanSessions: Karen Ejersbo Iversen

Public guest lecture "Japan needs to accelerate digital transformation - but how?" by Dr Karen Ejersbo Iversen from the Danish Digitization Agency.

9. dec. 2021, kl. 14.15-17.30

Annual CJAS event

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies' Event 2021 in honour of Professor Emeritus Jørgen Delman, China Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

14. dec. 2021, kl. 12.00-14.00

Anatomy of Conflict: Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of Armed Violence in the Middle East

A ground-level overview of conflicts in the Middle East given by Chris McIntosh, a former military officer and humanitarian who has seen conflicts of the Middle East in numerous contexts, and from different perspectives.

15. dec. 2021, kl. 12.45-13.30

Applying for Velux HUMPraxis

More information will follow.

18. jan. 2022, kl. 13.00-14.00

Lunch talk: Erik Baark

"China's Digital Silk Road" VIRTUAL lunch talk by Erik Baark, NIAS Associate and Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. PLEASE NOTE: TIME CHANGE

26. jan. 2022, kl. 14.15-16.00

Spectral Polities and Brute Force: Subversive Archaism and the State in Thailand

Public talk by Professor Emeritus Michael Herzfeld, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. This is a hybrid event.

18. febr. 2022, kl. 12.00-15.30

Religionssociologiske perspektiver på religion i Danmark

Afskedsseminar for professor Margit Warburg, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier.

18. febr. 2022, kl. 12.00-15.30

Lokaleændring: Religionssociologiske perspektiver på religion i Danmark

Lokaleændring til arrangement: Religionssociologiske perspektiver på religion i Danmark d. 18. febr. 2022. Lokalet er ændret til lokale 23.0.49. 

21. febr. 2022, kl. 14.00-15.30

[CANCELLED] Mother Language: Global, Regional, and Linguistic Perspectives

Talk by H.E. Mr M. Allama Siddiki, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Denmark followed by a discussion to mark International Mother Language Day.

24. febr. 2022, kl. 12.00-13.00

Revolutions and Middle East History

Professor Abdel Razzaq Tikriti (Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History, University of Houston) will talk about his research on revolutions and revolutionary movements in modern Arab history.

24. febr. 2022, kl. 15.00-17.00

The occupied Palestinian territories: A reality of unequal rights?

Meet Ori Givati, Advocacy Director with Breaking the Silence, and Sarit Michaeli, Advocacy Advisor with BTselem for a conversation about human rights in the West Bank and Gaza.

4. marts 2022, kl. 12.15-14.00

Krigen i Ukraine – set fra Rusland, Østeuropa og verden

Dette seminar belyser krigen i Ukraine, som den ses inde fra Rusland og Ukraine, fra politiske ledere og civile protestbevægelser og fra den omgivende verden, herunder Polen, Balkan, Kina, Indien, Japan, og Sydkorea. NB: Der er lukket for fysiske tilmeldinger, men man kan stadig deltage online.

8. marts 2022, kl. 16.00-17.30

Work in Progress

The Diversity and Equality Network at the University of Copenhagen invites you to its 3^rd public meeting on 8^th March to mark International Women’s Day.

15. marts 2022, kl. 15.00-16.30

AMIS Seminar: The diasporic mobilization of Ukrainians in Denmark: Ukrainian voices

In this seminar, we hear from the Association of Ukrainians in Denmark (AUD) about the work they are doing, the history and profile of the Ukrainian community in Denmark, and the mobilization of that community over the last years.

18. marts 2022, kl. 14.15-15.45

Krigen i Ukraine – kampen om sandheden

Omdrejningspunktet for seminaret er den informationskrig, der udspiller sig på baggrund af konflikten - hvad er det historiske og kulturelle bagtæppe for de forskellige værdiforståelser?

19. marts 2022, kl. 21.30

Ukraine: This Place We Call Our Home

Cinemateket viser den danske kortfilm Ukraine: This Place We Call Our Home af Thora Lorenzen og Sybilla Tuxen. Filmen introduceres af lektor Vera Skvirskaja (ToRS). Der fri entré til visningen, men husk billet.

24. marts 2022, kl. 14.15

Beirut from ‘October Revolution’ of 2019 to the 4th August Explosion in 2020:

Online seminar with Dr. Maria M. Rijo Lopes da Cunha, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Art as Forum, IKK, UCPH.

25. marts 2022, kl. 17.00-21.00

En tilstand af belejring - en hyldest til den palæstinensiske digter Mahmoud Darwish

ToRS arrangerer i  samarbejde med Muniam Alfaker og Det Palæstinensiske Kulturinstitut i Danmark et event, der hylder den palæstinensiske digter Mahmoud Darwish, som døde i 2008.

30. marts 2022, kl. 14.00-16.00

Boglancering: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark

Anne Sofie Schøtt, adjunkt på Forsvarsakademiet og ph.d. fra Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, præsenterer sin nye bog.

30. marts 2022, kl. 16.15-17.30

The Empowerment and Resistance of Mexico’s Indigenous Women through Textile Creations

Guest lecture by Dr. Lorena Ojeda Dávila, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia.

31. marts 2022, kl. 7.00-9.00

When the Eternal Meets the Imperishable: Plastics and Religion in Contemporary Asia

Join this Zoom panel about the use of plastics in religion. All are welcome.

1. april 2022, kl. 13.00

Different Media Attitudes Towards the Post-2011-Sexual Violence in the Arab World

Workshop with Dr Jihan M. Z. Mahmoud, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (Aarhus University).

5. april 2022, kl. 13.00

Post-2011 Arab diasporas: Non-linear dynamics of identity formation and political mobilization

Workshop with Dr Sarah Anne Rennick, Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (Lund University).

6. april 2022, kl. 12.30-17.30

Complexity and Beyond in Studies of Religiosity in the Nordic Countries (CBSR)

The seminar will address the meaning of changing relations between the state and religious communities.

7. april 2022, kl. 16.00-18.00

Aspects of Gender and environmental violence in Modern Arabic literature

Lecture by Assistant Professor Jihan Zakarriya, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (Aarhus University).

20. april 2022, kl. 14.00

Approaching Past and Changing Foodways Through Ground Stone

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Patrick Nørskov Pedersen.

20. april 2022, kl. 15.15-16.30

Secular Geology, Mineral Rights, and Cosmologies of Land

Guest lecture by Pamela E. Klassen, University of Toronto.

25. april 2022, kl. 17.00-19.00

Kærlighed, konfetti & korte skørter - brændende temaer i årets Eurovision

Eurovision er en af årets største musikalske festdage – og så handler det om europæisk kulturhistorie og identitetspolitik, og er en kampplads for køn & queer dagsordner, social ulighed, nation-branding og europæiske værdier.

29. april 2022, kl. 14.15-16.00

Early Sámi Play & Games: Sustainability & Peace

Guest lecture by Professor John Kilbourne, Grand Valley State University, Michigan.

3. maj - 5. maj 2022

PhD-course WASTE: Cultural imaginaries and materiality

3-day course for PhD-students

4. maj 2022, kl. 10.00-18.30

Workshop: The Ottoman World and the North in the Eighteenth Century

Workshop: The Ottoman World and the North in the Eighteenth Century

5. maj 2022, kl. 14.00-16.00

Gender, culture and testing

Guest lecture by Abdel Rahman M. Altakhaineh, PhD, School of Foreign Languages, The University of Jordan 

9. maj 2022, kl. 13.00-15.00

South Asia Talks: Shalom India - Discovering South Asian Jewish Identities through literature

South Asian Jewish traditions are a less commonly known. Yet they contribute actively to the diverse cultural and religious landscape of South Asia.

12. maj - 13. maj 2022

Tibetan Materialities Workshop

This workshop is part of a larger effort to create an international academic forum with focus on Tibetan materialities.

12. maj 2022

Tibetan Materialities Workshop

The Tibetan Materialities workshop will take place at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

16. maj 2022, kl. 10.00-12.00

Paper and Electronic Records in Indian Police Procedure and Corporate Customer Service

An original provision of the Indian Code of Criminal Procedure, maintained since 1861, requires that oral testimony of complainants must be “reduced to writing” by an authorized official. 

19. maj 2022, kl. 16.15-18.00

Kom og mød dine færdige kandidater!

Reception for nye kandidater fra ToRS F2022.

20. maj 2022, kl. 11.00-12.00

Research methodologies and ethical challenges in digital migration studies - Caring for (big) data?

DIGINAUTS book launch.

20. maj 2022, kl. 14.00

Fra mainstream til diaspora: flerstemmighed og de mange sandheder i arabiske medier

Lektor Ehab Galal, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier (KU) holder afskedsforelæsning.

23. maj - 24. maj 2022

Unknown Futures

A two-day seminar on Hong Kong

30. maj 2022, kl. 14.15-16.00

Webinar: Rethinking the Rise of Religious Politics: Perspectives from Turkey

Webinar with Dr Ceren Lord: Rethinking the Rise of Religious Politics: Perspectives from Turkey.

31. maj 2022, kl. 15.00-16.30

The Danish Special Act and the Reception of Ukrainian refugees in Denmark

At this seminar researchers and experts will take a 360-degree view of the Danish Special Act, considering it in relation to the EU Temporary Protection Directive, exploring its effects on the reception of Ukrainian refugees in the Danish health care system and within municipal housing.

1. juni 2022, kl. 15.15-17.00

CApE-talk: Clive Hamilton

Join us for a talk on the anthropocene and climate change. 

3. juni 2022, kl. 14.00

Women and Gendered Mosque Organisations

PhD defence by Pernille Friis Jensen.

7. juni 2022, kl. 10.00-15.00

Workshop: Modest Fashion. An Expression of Contemporary Muslim Women’s Lifestyles and Identities in Europe

Workshop: Modest Fashion. An Expression of Contemporary Muslim Women’s Lifestyles and Identities in Europe

7. juni 2022

Modest Fashion

Workshop funded by Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES).

14. juni - 15. juni 2022

Buddhism in the Anthropocene

This workshop will bring together scholars working on Buddhist responses to the array of concatenating phenomena that characterize the Anthropocene.

20. juni 2022, kl. 14.15-16.00

Migrants are not props to alert about the dangers of climate change

Director Francois Gemenne from The HUGO Observatory will give a public lecture on climate change induced migration with the title Migrants are not props to alert about the dangers of climate change.

23. juni - 24. juni 2022

Engineering Buddhism

Workshop exploring how Buddhism is playing a role in providing platforms and resources for matters that were once largely considered state or political affairs.

17. aug. 2022, kl. 12.00-14.00

Recent and Coming Cycles of Climate Unrest

Lecture with Andreas Malm.

17. aug. - 19. aug. 2022

RE:MIGRATION - New perspectives on movement, research, and society

The 21st Nordic Migration Research Conference – RE:MIGRATION.

31. aug. - 1. sept. 2022

Practices, Aesthetics and Entanglements in Contemporary Muslim Piety

Conference. 

14. sept. 2022, kl. 10.00-11.15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

Reading group exploring how post-1970s spirituality has synchronized with neoliberalism.

15. sept. 2022, kl. 15.00-16.30

Al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia)

Carsten Niebuhr Lecture at the David Collection by Professor Maribel Fierro, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean – CSIC.

16. sept. 2022, kl. 13.00-15.00

Residual pan-Slavism and representations of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Eastern Europe

Talks by Associate Professors Vladimir Đorđević and Marek Čejka (both Department of Territorial Studies, Mendel University, Brno).

17. sept. 2022, kl. 17.00-18.30

Arctic Reflections - Climate Change and the Role of Arts and Culture in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)

Presentation with the Greenlandic artist Jessie Kleemann,  postdoc Ania Mauruschat and associate professor Kirsten Thisted.

22. sept. 2022, kl. 13.30-14.30

Public Lecture: Baul - A religious musical tradition of Bengal

Parvathy Baul will introduce into the many facets of the Baul tradition.

22. sept. 2022, kl. 16.00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

22. sept. 2022, kl. 16.00-18.00

Beyond “Sorry”: Grandmothers Against Removal, Memory Activism and the Struggle for Self-determination

Lecture by Rosanne Kennedy (Australian National University).

23. sept. 2022, kl. 15.00-17.00

Spotlight on Protests in Iran

ToRS is organizing a roundtable on the current protest movement in Iran.

29. sept. 2022, kl. 9.00-10.00

Smag for forandring I

Første samtale i serien Smag for forandring - en samtalerække om mad, regenerativt jordbrug og nye fælleskabsformerer - er med forfatteren Malte Tellerup. Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE) arrangerer serien.

29. sept. 2022, kl. 13.00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

29. sept. 2022, kl. 13.00-14.00

Pakistan’s Climate Emergency

Pakistan sees increasing amounts of floods. In order to fully comprehend the issue, we will investigate topics such as North-South Dynamics, Ecological Fragilities, Planning of Cities and Developmental Infrastructures.

29. sept. 2022, kl. 15.00

Op og ned i Mexico: Epigrafisk feltarbejde i det centralmexicanske højland

ToRSdagsmøde med Jesper Nielsen og Christophe Helmke.

30. sept. 2022, kl. 14.30-16.00

Double book launch: Powers of Pilgrimage & Exemplary Life

Discussion of new books and directions in the anthropological study of Christianity.

6. okt. 2022, kl. 12.00-13.45

CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC

CApE invites researchers and students at UCPH humanities and other interested parties to join our IPCC reading group (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN).

6. okt. 2022, kl. 15.00-17.00

Contested Memory and History Education in Bosnia-Herzegovina

ToRS Research Seminar.

11. okt. 2022, kl. 11.15-17.30

Book launch: Breathing Aesthetics and Asbestos: The Last Modernist Object

Lectures by Arthur Rose (University of Exeter), Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York University), Stefanie Heine (University of Copenhagen).

11. okt. 2022, kl. 19.00

Turkish Jews and Their Diasporas: Entanglements and Separations

With opening remarks by Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University) and participation of editors İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu (Northwestern University), Kerem Öktem (Università Ca' Foscari) and contributing authors Özgur Kaymak (Istanbul University) and Duygu Atlas (Onlyherstory). 

12. okt. 2022, kl. 10.00-11.15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

Reading group exploring how post-1970s spirituality has synchronized with neoliberalism.

13. okt. 2022, kl. 9.00-10.00

Smag for forandring II

Anden samtale i serien Smag for forandring - en samtalerække om mad, regenerativt jordbrug og nye fælleskabsformerer - er med kulturgeograf Emmy Laura Pérez Fjalland. Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE) arrangerer serien.

13. okt. 2022, kl. 13.00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

24. okt. 2022, kl. 15.00-17.00

Denialism is dying - what comes next?

 Talk by Adrienne Buller.

27. okt. 2022, kl. 12.00-13.45

CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC I

CApE invites researchers and students at UCPH humanities and other interested parties to join our IPCC reading group (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN).

28. okt. 2022, kl. 14.00-16.00

CApE Reading Group: Jane Bennett’s vibrant work

On the occasion of Jane Bennett’s visit to Copenhagen on 21 November 2022, the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking is hosting a reading group that focuses on her work.

28. okt. 2022, kl. 14.00-15.00

Aesthetics, Ethics & Creativity in Contemporary Islam

Guest lecture by Anders Ackfeldt, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (Lund University).

28. okt. 2022

8th Contemporary Buddhist Studies writing workshop

Writing workshop on Contemporary Buddhist Studies.

31. okt. 2022, kl. 13.00

The Shadow Sides of Positive Psychology and the Turn to Resilience

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Mille Kirstine Bygballe Keis.

1. nov. 2022, kl. 14.00-15.30

Holy Infrastructures: Notes on Catholicism and the Elementals

Guest lecture by Professor Valentina Napolitano (University of Toronto).

2. nov. 2022, kl. 14.00-18.00

The Taste of Change

Research seminar by Center for Applied Ecological Thinking.

2. nov. 2022

The Market Economy and Ritual Discards

Workshop on the intersection of ritual practices, the market economy and attendant discard in the contemporary period.

3. nov. 2022, kl. 15.15-17.00

Dagens Rusland set gennem litteraturen: Sergej Lebedev

Den russiske forfatter Sergej Lebedev om hvad der i hans øjne præger dagens Rusland.

9. nov. 2022, kl. 11.00-13.00

India Files: Denmark - India in the 21st century

India Files is a series of conversations on policy and politics with a special focus on India-Denmark bilateral relations.

9. nov. 2022, kl. 11.00-13.00

India Files: Denmark - India in the 21st century.

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11. nov. 2022, kl. 14.00-16.00

CApE Reading Group: Jane Bennett s vibrant work II

On the occasion of Jane Bennett’s visit to Copenhagen on 21 November 2022, the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking is hosting a reading group that focuses on her work. Everyone is welcome.

16. nov. 2022, kl. 10.00-11.15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

Reading group exploring how post-1970s spirituality has synchronized with neoliberalism.

16. nov. 2022, kl. 15.00-17.00

Futures: Denmark in a Post-Global World Order

This November 16th 15:00-17:00 ADI event will center around the role of Denmark in a post-global world order.

17. nov. 2022, kl. 9.00-10.00

Smag for forandring III

V. Jeppe Sengupta Carstensen. CApE inviterer til en samtalerække om mad, regenerativt jordbrug og nye fælleskabsformer under titlen Smag for forandring.

17. nov. 2022, kl. 12.00-13.45

CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC II

CApE invites researchers and students at UCPH humanities and other interested parties to join our IPCC reading group (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN).

18. nov. 2022, kl. 13.00

Mediatisation of a revolution: (De)mobilisation among diasporic Syrian dissidents in Europe

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Zenia Bredmose Henriksen Ab Yonus.

21. nov. 2022, kl. 17.00-18.45

Ecological Actions

Talk with Jane Bennett and conversation with Emma Holten, Lars Tønder and Melissa Van Drie. 

25. nov. 2022, kl. 13.00-16.00

Personal Sources in Migration Studies

Workshop with presentations by Tony Kushner, Sonia Cancian and Gabriel Abarca-Brown.

25. nov. 2022, kl. 16.00-18.00

De serbiske drag queens

Hvordan den serbiske dragscene rykker grænser i det nationalkonservative Serbien.

1. dec. 2022, kl. 9.00-10.00

Smag for forandring IIII

V. Ida Bencke. CApE inviterer til en samtalerække om mad, regenerativt jordbrug og nye fælleskabsformer under titlen Smag for forandring. 

5. dec. 2022, kl. 16.45-18.00

At oversætte klimakrisen: Transformation & Urgency

Debat om nogle af de centrale begreber, der præger den internationale klimadebat

7. dec. 2022, kl. 9.30-12.00

Tribal Ecologies in Modern India

This workshop explores tribal critiques of climate change and environment-disruptive extractive practices, along with tribal interpretive practices and epistemologies about the environment more broadly.

8. dec. 2022, kl. 12.00-14.00

CANCELLED: CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC III

CANCELLED.

8. dec. 2022, kl. 14.00-17.00

Ukraine: The Culture Front

Seminar on Ukraine, December 2022.

14. dec. 2022, kl. 10.00-11.15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

Reading group exploring how post-1970s spirituality has synchronized with neoliberalism.

15. dec. 2022, kl. 13.00-15.30

Sensing the Vibratory Planet Workshop: Reimagining Pollinator Relationships

This workshop is dedicated to multiplying the ways in which humans conceive of knowing and living planetary relations.

15. dec. 2022, kl. 16.00-18.00

Slovenian folk-pop music at the crossroads of heritage and tourism

Guest lecture by Natalija Majsova and Jasmina Šepetavc, University of Ljubljana.

16. dec. 2022, kl. 13.00

Engaged Subjects

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Maria Lindebæk Lyngsøe.

18. jan. - 21. jan. 2023

Islamic Piety. Reconsidering Concepts and Frameworks

Four day conference by The Many Roads in Modernity (Modernity). 

19. jan. 2023, kl. 14.00-20.00

Sustainable Drug Discovery Network Cross-UCPH Dialogue Meeting

Workshop - by invitation only

27. jan. 2023, kl. 13.00

The role of UNESCO

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Joanne Dingwall McCafferty.

27. jan. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

CApE TALKS #1: The Great Fall: Loss, Mourning, and Utopia in a World of Waste

A talk about the shit that piles up everywhere, what it does to us and what we can do about it by Mikkel Krause Frantzen, postdoc and vice-director at Center for Applied Ecological Thinking. 

7. febr. 2023, kl. 12.00-14.00

CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC III

We continue this group from last semester as we find it important to mark the occasion of the ongoing work of the IPCC to complete the 6th Assessment Report and to gain insights into its findings and approaches.

9. febr. 2023, kl. 9.00-10.00

Smag for forandring I: At få jord under neglene

Oplæg v. kunsthistoriker, forsker og landkvinde, Gry Hedin.

9. febr. 2023

The 9th Contemporary Buddhist Studies writing workshop

The ninth CCBS writing workshop will take place on Thursday February 9, 2023

16. febr. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Ottoman Selves, Ottoman Others: On Fives Sites of Post-Imperial Memory

Guest lecture by Dr. Jeremy F. Walton, University of Rijeka

16. febr. 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics I, Land Ethics

First meeting in the reading group: Environmental Virtue Ethics. 

20. febr. 2023, kl. 12.00

Klimakademi for humanister - ansøgningsfrist 20/2

CApE afholder i samarbejde med Klimaakademiet et akademi for humanister.

23. febr. 2023, kl. 9.00-10.00

Smag for forandring II: At svare på jordens kald

Oplæg v. klimaaktivist og højskoleunderviser, Sarah Hellebek.

23. febr. 2023, kl. 13.15-15.00

Danske mediers dækning af flygtninge: ukrainere & syrere som casestudie

Oplæg ved cand.mag. & journalist Cecilie Krabbe.

2. marts 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics II, Environmental Virtues

Second meeting in the reading group: Environmental Virtue Ethics.

3. marts 2023, kl. 13.00

Convergence And Cultural Encounters: The Calendar Wheels of Early Colonial Central Mexico (16th century)

Public defence of PhD thesis by Mikkel Bøg Clemmensen.

6. marts 2023, kl. 16.00-18.30

Rethinking Ecology and Sustainability

Two prominent thinkers, Kate Soper and Allan Stoekl, are addressing the need for rethinking our place in nature, and how we produce, consume and act in thought-provoking ways.

8. marts 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

CApE TALKS #2: Bæredygtig kødproduktion – mulighed eller modsigelse?

En snak om bæredygtig kødproduktion af Lise Tjørring, postdoc på Center for Applied Ecological Thinking.

10. marts 2023, kl. 12.15-14.00

The Supernatural in Serbian Folk Religion: a century of ethnological research

This guest lecture by Associate Professor Marko Pišev, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Belgrade will provide an overview of the folk religious beliefs in Serbia from an anthropological standpoint.

10. marts 2023, kl. 13.00

German Muslims on the International Theology Programme in Turkey

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Maximilian Lasa.

17. marts 2023, kl. 11.15-12.00

Polish perspectives on the Russo-Ukrainian war and their historical background

Guest lecture held by British historian Roger Moorhouse on Polish perspectives on the Russo-Ukrainian war and their historical background.

20. marts 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics III, Environmental Virtues and Education

Reading group directed by Leo Catana 

21. marts 2023, kl. 13.00-16.30

Environmental virtue ethics: Environmental virtue ethics and education

Workshop directed by Karen Elizabeth Jordan, University of Iceland.

24. marts 2023, kl. 10.00-16.00

Ecotone Existences – How to Live and Build with the Wet In-between

This pilot workshop is the first in a planned series of four Blue Humanities events.

27. marts 2023, kl. 10.00-17.30

Conflict, cultural heritage and the new roles of the museum in and around Europe

This open one-day seminar will explore the role of cultural heritage in conflicts in and around Europe and the new role of museums in this.

28. marts 2023, kl. 14.00

Open Lecture: Auditing Halal and Standardising Halal Expertise in Indonesia and Malaysia

Dr Eva Nisa from the Australian National University will present her paper Auditing Halal and Standardising Halal Expertise in Indonesia and Malaysia

28. marts 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Palestinian Women of Syria Speaking Back

Forelæsningen introducerer et forskningsprojekt, hvor palæstinensiske kvinders mundtlige overlevering af historien kommer til at stå som et modsvar, et 'Speaking Back', til gængse fortællinger om Palæstina og palæstinensisk historie.

29. marts 2023, kl. 17.00-19.00

Litterære folkehøringer: Ild

Litterær folkehøring på Albertslund Bibliotek med Carsten Jensen og Alexandra Moltke Johansen. Arrangør: CApE.

14. april 2023, kl. 13.15

Talal Asad’s Genealogies of Religion 1993–2023

Seminar.

21. april 2023, kl. 16.00-18.00

CANCELLED: Apocalypse No, lecture by Timothy Morton

Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled.

24. april 2023, kl. 14.00-20.00

Rights of Nature – Scientific Seminar and Celebration of Mother Earth Day

A conversation about the concept of Pachamama, Environmental Studies and beyond.

25. april 2023, kl. 14.00

Åbent seminar: (U)lige adgang for alle

Migration Research Platform (UCPH) afholder et åbent seminar om etniske minoriteters møder med den danske velfærdsstat. 

25. april 2023, kl. 15.00

Book launch: Danish perspectives on China

Centre for Military Studies invites you to book launch.

26. april 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Loving the planet - Lecture by Emanuele Coccia

Lecture by Emanuele Coccia, an Italian philosopher who has been studying the metaphysics of plants and their role in the theory of knowledge.

26. april 2023, kl. 15.00

Fernisering af kunst på ToRS - nyudsmykning af instituttets fælleslokaler

På ToRS har vi i den seneste tid arbejdet med nyudsmykning af instituttets fælleslokaler. I den anledning inviterer vi til fernisering af ToRS’ nye kunstværker.

27. april 2023, kl. 10.30

Documentary Film Screening: Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World

Associate Professor Stephen Epstein presents the documentary film "Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World".

28. april 2023, kl. 10.00-12.00

Planetary Outsides

Talk by Martin Savransky.

28. april 2023, kl. 10.00-12.00

India's First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism

Open lecture by Professor Vineet Thakur, Leiden University.

28. april 2023, kl. 10.30

North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture: Comedy, Communism & Crash Landing on You

This talk by Associate Professor Stephen Epstein examines how South Korean images of North Korea have evolved in recent years

1. maj 2023, kl. 9.00-14.30

Verdensomsorg og klimakrise: Aktivisme

CApE Festival.

1. maj 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

Performing Identities: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Transnational Context

Open lecture with Professor Jane Chin Davidson, Art History, Global Cultures, California State University, San Bernardino.

2. maj 2023, kl. 10.00-15.30

AMIS Student Conference

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: a Conference on Queer perspectives on Migration

2. maj - 4. maj 2023

The Egyptological-Assyriological Conference in Copenhagen 2023

The conference aims to create a safe space for young scholars to gain knowledge from experts, make acquaintances with people of the same interest, and practice and develop their presentation skills.

3. maj 2023, kl. 9.00-17.00

Verdensomsorg og klimakrise: Æstetik

CApE Festival.

3. maj 2023, kl. 14.00-15.30

How can we best understand spiritual alternativity?

This mini-seminar unpacks the dichotomy of organized and unorganized religions, sometimes called fuzzy religions.

3. maj 2023, kl. 14.15-15.30

Belonging in Unceded Territory: Immigration and Settler Identity in Vancouver

AMIS Guest Lecture by Antje Ellermann, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam) territory.

4. maj 2023, kl. 16.00-18.00

Climate Sorrow, lecture by Judith Butler

We are happy to invite you to an open lecture with Judith Butler as a part of the CApE Festival: Verdensomsorg og klimakrise. 

4. maj - 5. maj 2023

Business Spirits: Contested Terrains of Trade Models and Religious Value

Can we analyze religion and economy without assuming that these are two a priori distinct fields of action?

8. maj 2023, kl. 12.00

Unchanged Foodways

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Anne Jörgensen-Lindahl.

8. maj 2023, kl. 15.00-19.00

Glitter Continent: Unifying visions of a fragmented Europe - this year’s Eurovision in a historic perspective

This afternoon seminar explores the main ideological, political and aesthetic issues in this year’s Eurovision and places the popcultural celebration of Europe in a historic perspective.

9. maj 2023, kl. 16.00

Launch – UCPH School of Archaeology

Join us on 9 May for a festive launch of the UCPH School of Archaeology with speeches and a keynote address followed by a reception.

10. maj - 11. maj 2023

Myanmar Borderlands

A hybrid workshop at the University of Copenhagen

10. maj 2023, kl. 17.00-19.00

Litterære folkehøringer: Jord

Litterær folkehøring på Albertslund Bibliotek med historiker Bo Fritzbøger.

11. maj 2023, kl. 17.00-18.30

Den politiske filosofis historie: arabiske perspektiver

ToRS er vært for et åbent seminar om det arabiske bidrag til den politiske filosofi. Anledningen er udgivelsen af værket Den politiske filosofis historie: frem til 1600 på Hans Reitzels forlag i efteråret 2022.

16. maj 2023, kl. 11.00

Russian Exceptionalism and the War against Ukraine

Guest lecture with Professor Marina F. Bykova.

22. maj - 23. maj 2023

Buddhist, Spiritual and Ecological Movements

A two-day workshop that will explore the ways that Buddhist modernism continue to transform spiritual and ecological movements within and beyond the 21^st century.

22. maj - 26. maj 2023

13 International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE)

International conference

26. maj - 27. maj 2023

Museums and National Identity

What does it mean to be Danish? Or European? And how do museums help foster a national identity among their visitors? This symposium will feature presentations from scholars, museum curators, and directors to answer these questions.

30. maj 2023, kl. 14.00-15.30

Syria - Cultural Continuity from Antiquity to Present

Guest lecture with Dr. Filiz Çakır Phillip (Former Leading Curator, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada).

31. maj 2023, kl. 10.00-17.00

Living with Plants: Mini forest as Communal Reforestation

Can we create Minimetsä in other European or Nordic cities – such as Copenhagen?

1. juni 2023, kl. 14.00-15.30

Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Preconflict Aleppo

Guest lecture with Paul Anderson, University of Cambridge

2. juni 2023, kl. 8.30-12.00

World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees and Societies

The Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan Jørgensen, and the UCPH migration research platform at University of Copenhagen invites you to attend a discussion about the World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees and Societies (WDR23).

2. juni 2023, kl. 12.00-13.00

Plastic Temporalities and the Materiality of Connection on Christmas Island

Presentation by Saskia Adelle Abrahms-Kavunenko, CCBS, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. Discussant: Trine Brox, Associate Professor, CCBS, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

7. juni 2023, kl. 15.15-16.00

Material culture. A shared heritage: The origin and use of textile patterns in Himalaya and on the Tibetan Plateau

Presentation by Ellen Bangsbo.

9. juni 2023, kl. 13.00

BRAND NEW NATION – Capitalist Dreams and Nationalists Designs in Twenty-First-Century India

Disputsatsforsvar af Ravinder Kaur.

10. juni 2023, kl. 10.00-13.00

Workshop with T.J. Demos: Radical Futurisms and Chronopolitics

Workshop with T.J. Demos.

15. juni - 16. juni 2023

Postmemory work and the digital in Southeast Asia

This workshop sets out to develop a comparative perspective on postmemory work and the digital, with a focus on Southeast Asia.

22. juni - 25. juni 2023

31st AKSE Conference

The University of Copenhagen will host the 31st biennial AKSE Conference as an in-person event from 22 (Thursday) to 25 (Sunday) June 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

29. juni 2023, kl. 17.00

Babylon: More on Myth and Reality

Talk by Heather Baker (Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History, University of Toronto).

30. juni 2023, kl. 13.00

Sheep and Goat Husbandry at the Eanna Temple in Uruk During the Long Sixth Century

PhD Defence by Rasmus Johan Aarslev.

24. aug. 2023

Waste interventions, case work, and fieldwork workshop

Workshop.

25. aug. 2023, kl. 14.15-16.00

Japanese Art during the Second World War: A Global Perspective

Inaugural lecture: Novo Nordisk Foundation Visiting Professor in Art & Art History, Asato Ikeda.

25. aug. 2023, kl. 14.15-16.00

Japanese art during the Second World War: A Global Perspective

Inaugural lecture: Novo Nordisk Foundation Visiting Professor in Art & Art History, Asato Ikeda.

26. aug. 2023, kl. 13.00-16.00

De litterære folkehøringer: Internationalt Symposium

Til de litterære folkehøringer på Albertslund Bibliotek kan du være med til at give naturen en stemme, når vi lader eksperter og forfattere give nye bud på hvordan vi kan og må forstå naturen og vores plads i verden.

28. aug. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

West-Östlicher Diwan

Celebratory lecture by Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.

29. aug. 2023, kl. 16.00-18.00

Adventures in the Vegetality of Time: Sexual Difference, Diachrony, and Other Plant Matters

A lecture by Professor Michael Marder.

1. sept. 2023, kl. 13.00

The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856: The Call of Ṭhạkur

Doctoral defence by Peter Birkelund Andersen.

5. sept. 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

CApE Talks: Degrowing concrete - on the history and future of the world’s most used and most destructive material

A talk by Matthias Schmelzer.

6. sept. 2023, kl. 10.00-11.30

Atmospheric Politics in the Indian Ocean

Public lecture with Debjani Bhattacharya. 

11. sept. 2023, kl. 15.15-16.30

Fyraftensforedrag: Status på krigen i Ukraine

Lektor ved Forsvarsakademiet Jonas Gejl Kaas vil give en analyse af situationen i Ukraine og diskutere betingelserne for en forhandlet løsning på krigen i lyset af den ukrainske modoffensiv.

11. sept. - 15. sept. 2023

Asia Week 2023

Between 11 and 15 September, the Asian Dynamics Initiative invites you to dive into a realm of intellectual exploration and cultural enlightenment bridging the Global North and South during Asia Week.

12. sept. 2023, kl. 15.00-16.30

Golden Days i CApE: Andrea Fjordside Pontoppidan og Sophie Wennerscheid, modereret af Line Marie Thorsen

I en samtale mellem litterat og madforsker Sophie Wennerscheid og redaktør og forfatter Andrea Pontoppidan skal vi bringe humanistisk forskning ud over rampen og kaste lys over kartoflens mange historier.

14. sept. 2023, kl. 15.00-16.30

Golden Days i CApE: Karin Lorentzen og Line Marie Thorsen, modereret af Sophie Wennerscheid

I en samtale mellem kunstner og aktivist Karin Lorentzen og kunsthistoriker og miljøantropolog Line Marie Thorsen sætter vi fokus på kunstens rolle i gentænkningen af vores forhold til det danske landskab, og hvordan kunstnere konkret genskaber jorden, vores måde at forholde os til den og dyrke den.

22. sept. 2023, kl. 9.00-16.30

Courtly, Cute, or Queer: New Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Visual Culture

In this seminar, six internationally acclaimed scholars within Japanese art history and visual culture will challenge stereotypes of dominant gender discourses in Japan.

25. sept. - 26. sept. 2023

ADI Symposium: Being Digital in China

This symposium involves leading scholars in the field and critically reflects on the current discussion on being digital and digitalization in China.

27. sept. 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

Strangelove Ecology: How we learned to stop worrying and love climate change

Talk by Pierre Charbonnier.

28. sept. - 29. sept. 2023

Optimism | Africa-Asia Seminar 2023

Convened by the Global Development Network (University of Copenhagen) and the IARU alliance Global Transformation Network

28. sept. 2023, kl. 16.00-18.00

Belarus Does Not Exist

Belarus Research Network for Neighbourhood Policy is organising a conference in Copenhagen to discuss the current security situation in the Baltic Sea Region and its implications for Nordic-Baltics states. 

5. okt. 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

Salvaging the Anthropocene

Lecture by Troy Vettese, environmental historian and post-doctoral researcher associated with ECOINT at the European University Institute in Fiesole.This lecture will offer a critique of the Anthropocene scholarship. 

5. okt. 2023, kl. 16.00-18.00

Perpetrator Disgust: The Moral Limits of Gut Feelings

Book Launch.

9. okt. 2023, kl. 11.00-12.00

Resilience and courage three years on: Belarusian oppositional leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visits University of Copenhagen

Talk by the Belarusian oppositional leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

9. okt. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

Public Talk: Author Quinn Slobodian (Professor of History at Wellesley College) with Rune Lykkeberg (Dagbladet Information).

9. okt. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Crack Up Capitalism

Public talk with historian Quinn Slobodian, bestselling author of Crack Up Capitalism. Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.

11. okt. 2023, kl. 15.00-17.00

CApE Lecture: Julia Nordblad and Niklas Olsen

For this CApE Lecture event, Julia Nordblad and Niklas Olsen will each deliver a lecture, followed by a panel discussion and an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.

12. okt. 2023, kl. 9.30-17.00

AMIS 10th Anniversary Celebration

AMIS celebrates its 10^th anniversary on 12 October 12 2023 at South Campus, UCPH, marking the first intake of students to the Master of Arts programme in 2014.

12. okt. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Efter Festen – samtale om post-vækst, velstand og velfærd

Samtale mellem Rune Baastrup (Teknologirådet og Deltager Danmark), Charlotte Louise Jensen (Concito) og Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen (Center for Applied Ecological Thinking).

13. okt. 2023, kl. 13.00-15.00

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

In this public talk acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh will discuss his recent book The Nutmeg’s Curse with debater, lecturer and author Carsten Jensen.

13. okt. 2023, kl. 13.00-15.00

The Nutmeg’s Curse

Public talk with acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh.

23. okt. 2023, kl. 17.00-18.00

Artist talk: Abbas Akhavan

This artist talk presents Canadian artist Abbas Akhavan (b. 1977 in Tehran), who is currently doing a major solo exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, titled “Curtain Call”.

26. okt. 2023, kl. 10.00-15.00

The Ethics of Practice-Based Research

This workshop is designed as a platform for open-ended inquiry and collaborative problem-solving,

26. okt. 2023, kl. 15.00-16.00

Archaeology of early Islam

The School of Archaeology invites you to a guest lecture by Dr Agnieszka Lic.

27. okt. 2023, kl. 13.00

Museums and the Securitization of Cultural Heritage

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Marie Elisabeth Berg Christensen.

27. okt. 2023, kl. 13.00

Museums and the Securitization of Cultural Heritage

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Marie Elisabeth Berg Christensen.

30. okt. 2023, kl. 19.00-20.30

Copenhagen Conversations – On Time

Talk with anthropologist Joel Robbins, Cambridge, and historian Francois Hartog, EHESS, Paris.

1. nov. 2023, kl. 10.00-19.00

The Designed Planet

This workshop is facilitated by Troy Vettese and Niklas Olsen.

1. nov. 2023, kl. 15.15-17.00

Conceptualizations of HONOUR in Indian and Pakistani Englishes

Talk by Ansa Mahmood og Kim Ebensgaard Jensen.

2. nov. 2023, kl. 10.00-12.00

Sacred Canopies: LGBT+, Buddhism and Economics in Vietnam

Six speakers and a roundtable discussion exploring the question: how to theorize new spiritual and sexual formations in post-Socialist Vietnam? 

2. nov. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

An Invented Queer Tradition: Tongzhi literature in Taiwan

In this presentation, Chi Ta-wei situates his award­ winning novella The Membranes (1996)*, in the context of Taiwanese tongzhi literature.

2. nov. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

An invented queer tradition: Tongzhi literature in Taiwan

Presentation.

2. nov. 2023, kl. 15.00-16.45

Day of the Dead / Día de los muertos

To celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Jesper Nielsen, associate professor of American Indian languages and cultures, will hold a presentation.

3. nov. 2023, kl. 13.00

Transkulturelle forbindelser

Tijana Mišković forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling.

3. nov. 2023, kl. 14.00-18.00

Master Class in Neoliberalism

Master Class with Troy Vettese and Niklas Olsen.

4. nov. 2023, kl. 9.30

Birdwatching

There are quite a few birding hides and several interesting species. Maybe we'll get lucky and see some twites, bearded tits, and bohemian waxwings.

4. nov. 2023, kl. 14.00-18.00

Transcultural Japan

Public lecture.

6. nov. 2023, kl. 13.15-15.00

Politics of storytelling and administrations of memory

Lecture by Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus).

6. nov. 2023, kl. 15.15-17.00

Memory of religious traces in contemporary culture

Lecture by Maria Asavei (Charles University Prague).

7. nov. 2023, kl. 10.00-12.00

Follow-up meeting - UCPH Green Solutions Centre India delegation

Join us for an “India visit follow-up meeting” to hear the reflections from the UCPH Green Solutions Centre India delegation on November 7th from 10.00 – 12.00 at Mærsktårnet

7. nov. 2023, kl. 10.00-11.30

Time as Method in Migration Studies

The Mobilities Research Cluster at Saxo is delighted to invite everyone to a talk with Melanie Griffiths (University of Birmingham) on time and migration.

7. nov. 2023, kl. 13.30-16.30

A Momentary Ontology of Heritage: community attachments to the past in an urban World Heritage Site in Istanbul

Lecture by Chris Whitehead (Newcastle).

8. nov. 2023, kl. 14.15-15.30

Iconic Socioclasm: Destroying Cultural Heritage to Shatter Social Identities

Guest lecture by Christoph Günther (University of Erfurt).

9. nov. 2023, kl. 13.30-16.30

Remembering activism and the agency of the aesthetic

Lecture by Ann Rigney (Utrecht).

9. nov. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Archaeology in Downtown Mexico City: The Aztec Great Temple

Leonardo López Luján gives an honorary doctor lecture.

10. nov. 2023, kl. 10.30-13.30

The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East

This seminar looks at the longstanding and ongoing instrumentalization of cultural heritage in the politics of the Middle East.

13. nov. - 15. nov. 2023

Transmission, Translocation, and Transcreation

Conference.

16. nov. 2023, kl. 9.15-14.30

Literature and Reconciliation in a Transoceanic Perspective

One-day seminar. The aim of the seminar is an exchange between three projects, which deal with reconciliation between indigenous/enslaved populations and settler states/former colonial powers.

16. nov. 2023, kl. 13.00-18.00

Centralasiatisk konference på KUA

Fagrådene for Asienstudier og Østeuropastudier inviterer til heldagskonference om Centralasien i festsalen på Søndre Campus!

17. nov. 2023, kl. 13.00-15.00

Waste temporalities and practices in India and Japan

Panel discussion.

27. nov. 2023, kl. 10.00-19.00

Workshop: Nordic Business and the Challenge of Environmentalism since the 1970’s

A workshop facilitated by Niklas Olsen.

27. nov. 2023, kl. 15.30

Hope in Feminist Memory Narratives in Post-Yugoslav Literature

After-work lecture by Dara Sljukic, PhD Candidate from Central European University in Vienna.

28. nov. 2023, kl. 10.15-12.00

Migration & diaspora in Asia

Talks by Kimiko Suda (TU Berlin), Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield) and Markus Bell (La Trobe University, Melbourne).

29. nov. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Texts, Forgeries, and the Legitimate Ruler in 19th century Islamic West Africa

Talk by Associate Professor Mauro Nobili (University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign).

30. nov. - 1. dec. 2023

Nordic seminar 2023

A two-day seminar on interpreting in the Nordic countries.

1. dec. 2023, kl. 14.15-16.00

Cultural Heritage, War and Geopolitics: The Case of Ukraine

This seminar delves into the intricate role of cultural heritage in light of Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine.

4. dec. 2023, kl. 10.00-15.00

‘Afterlife’ workshop

Considering the afterlife of constellations of places, people and things can reveal much about politics, aspirations, and well-being in this life.

4. dec. 2023, kl. 15.15

The Root Causes of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Why Did So Many Get Russia and Ukraine Wrong?

Guest lecture by Taras Kuzio (Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine and Associate Research Fellow, Henry Jackson Society, London,

5. dec. 2023, kl. 11.15-12.45

Is degrowth the way forward in the climate crisis?

Comprehensive societal efforts are required to tackle climate change and other environmental crises – but what kind of political program should guide these efforts?

5. dec. 2023, kl. 14.00-15.30

Revolutions aesthetic: A cultural history of Ba'thist Syria

Guest Lecture by Max Weiss.

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.

8. dec. 2023, kl. 11.00-12.15

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

Film premiere.

9. dec. 2023, kl. 10.00-16.30

Jordliv

Workshop, der tager udgangspunkt i en visning af filmen “Jeg tror, vi starter som lys” af antropologerne Emma Harris og Sille Skovgaard, der undersøger regenerative landmænds eksperimenterende landbrugspraksisser.

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.

25. jan. 2024, kl. 13.00-18.00

Netværk for moderne miljø- og klimahistorie: Call for participation

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

22. febr. 2024, kl. 15.30-17.00

The Continuous Upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa Since 2011

Guest Lecture by Professor Gilbert Achcar, discussion with Dr. Fanar Haddad from Copenhagen University and Q&A session with Professor with Achcar.

22. febr. 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.

23. febr. 2024, kl. 8.30-16.45

Perseverance and Challenge: A Two-Year Retrospective on the Russian-Ukraine War

Conference.

23. febr. 2024, kl. 15.00

Etic and emic approaches for the identification of cities and villages in archaeology

Guest Lecture by Professor Hagit Nol, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

23. febr. 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

Book launch: The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East: Iran, Palestine and Beyond

The event will feature a keynote intervention by Professor Gilbert Achcar (University of London), and a panel discussion with panellists and contributors Marral Shamshiri, Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, Rasmus Elling and Sune Haubølle.

1. marts 2024, kl. 10.15-12.00

Karahantepe: A New Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site in Şanlıurfa-Turkey

Public talk by Professor Necmi Karul from Istanbul University.

1. marts 2024, kl. 14.15-16.00

The Collapse: How Ukrainians Destroyed the Empire of Evil

Ukrainian historian and documentarist Oleksandr Zinchenko shows his film "The Collapse: How Ukrainians Destoryed the Empire of Evil".

4. marts - 8. marts 2024

Nordic Baltic Korean Studies Days 2024

The principal motivation of the course is to enable students with an interest in Korean Studies to meet and study alongside their peers in order to develop a pan-Nordic-Baltic network and sense of community.

6. marts 2024, kl. 14.00-15.30

Innovation in the Global South

Shaping a Sustainable Future Together: Join the Conversation

6. marts 2024, kl. 16.00-17.30

Islam and the Modern State

The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies invites to a Carsten Niebuhr Honorary Lecture at the David Collection by Professor Nathan J. Brown from The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

7. marts - 8. marts 2024

Working Titles: Understanding the use of official titles during the New Kingdom

Workshop on high officials’ use of titles within administration, politics and religion during ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 BC).

11. marts 2024, kl. 9.00-17.00

Comparing Concepts of the Environment

A workshop hosted by Uppsala University, Centre for Sustainable Futures, and Center for Applied Ecological Thinking.

12. marts 2024, kl. 10.15-15.00

Evidencing hate

A workshop coordinated by Near Eastern Archaeology and Minority Studies (Birgitte Schepelern Johansen and Susanne Kerner).

13. marts 2024, kl. 15.00-17.30

Seminar on literature and the environment

Seminar with Professor Jay Watson (University of Mississippi) and Professor Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa).

14. marts 2024, kl. 16.00-17.30

Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action

The internationally renowned sociologist Prof. Dana Fisher from American University is visiting CApE to open up a public conversation about her new book, “Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action”.

15. marts 2024, kl. 10.00-17.00

Things ceasing to be: Cormac McCarthy’s environmental vision

One-day symposium.

15. marts 2024, kl. 16.00

After-work lecture: Joseph Clemmesen

Lecture.

21. marts 2024, kl. 15.15-17.00

Britain, the Bedouin, and the ‘War on Locusts’: imperialism and internationalism in the 20th Century Middle East

Seminar with historian Prof. Robert Fletcher (University of Missouri).

25. marts 2024, kl. 9.00-18.00

Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity

Conference.

4. april 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

Mexican Archaeology Today: New Perspectives on an Old History

Lecture by Dr. José Luis Punzo Díaz, Centro INAH, Michoacan, Mexico.

8. april 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

CApE Talks: Care, ecological crisis and the dead ends of modernization

Talk by Manuela Zechner (postdoc).

8. april - 10. april 2024

Space and Agency in Contemporary Muslim Piety

Three day workshop.

9. april 2024, kl. 15.15-16.30

Teaching Sounds in India - Some Notes on Sound Pedagogy

Presenters: Shubhasree Bhattacharyya (Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India)

11. april 2024, kl. 12.30-18.30

Rumi 750 years

Seminar.

12. april 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

Klimaangst og klimahåb

Debatarrangement med Kristian Leth og Mikkel Krause Frantzen.

15. april 2024, kl. 16.00-19.00

The People of India

Online roundtable of scholars across anthropology, history, and political science.

15. april - 16. april 2024

Rethinking Transcultural Interactions in Visual Art

This conference focuses on the transcultural turn in art history by examining its theoretical, methodological, and analytical potentials and limits.

17. april 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

Serbia and Srebrenica, Denial, Distortion and Impunity

Guest lecture by Olga Manojlović Pintar.

22. april - 24. april 2024

Waste: Cultural Imaginaries and Materiality

This 3-day PhD course is relevant to PhD students interested in climate change, toxicity, economic systems, religion, ecology, and material culture from a humanities perspective.

22. april 2024, kl. 17.00-19.00

Ecological Reparation – aesthetics, politics and articulations

Talk and screening.

23. april 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

CApE Talks: The Colour of Energy: A solarpunk story of wild green electricity

Talk by Laura Watts, Visiting Professor, Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE).

24. april 2024, kl. 16.30-18.30

Pop & pailletter – med politisk punch?

Dette eftermiddagsseminar sætter fokus på brændende tematikker i årets Eurovision.

25. april 2024, kl. 10.00-18.30

Russian Regime Ideology: Concepts, Historical Parallels, International and Domestic Resonances of Putinism

Workshop.

25. april 2024, kl. 15.00-18.00

Learn Hindi and Urdu

Come and learn Hindi and Urdu for an afternoon with the teachers and students at UCPH.

25. april 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

”Naturens kriser”: Udgivelsesreception for Slagmark #88

Udgivelsesreception i anledning af udgivelsen af et temanummer om naturens kriser på det danske tidsskrift for idéhistorie, Slagmark. 

25. april - 26. april 2024

WASTE & VALUE conference

Registration is now open. Limited spaces available. Hosted by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and the research project WASTE: Consumption and Buddhism in the age of garbage.

26. april 2024, kl. 16.00

Fyraftensforelæsning

Fyraftensforelæsning med Karen Philippa Larsen.

30. april 2024, kl. 14.15-15.00

A coup d'état according to the party constitution?

Guest lecture by Tomas Sniegon.

2. maj 2024, kl. 14.00-15.30

Humanistiske perspektiver på atomkraft: Atomkraftens fortalere i Danmark – En samtidshistorisk analyse

Første event i serien "Humanistiske perspektiver på atomkraft” ved professor Niklas Olsen samt professor og institutleder Casper Sylvest (SAXO).

2. maj 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

Development aid in the 21st century

Panel discussion.

3. maj 2024, kl. 15.00-17.00

Hvor går EUs grænse?

Debatmøde: Grib chancen - mød fremtidens EU-profiler

7. maj 2024, kl. 16.00

Navigating dangerous emotions and progress in Bhutan: Buddhist lesson for sustainability

Talk with Dasho Karma Ura.

8. maj 2024, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: De gule veste sveder for en køligere fremtid

Første event i serien Ph.d. til morgenmad med Anne-Sofie Dichman.

8. maj 2024, kl. 16.00-17.30

Valg i Indien 2024

Asian Dynamics Initiative inviterer til valgarrangement i forbindelse med valget i Indien.

14. maj - 17. maj 2024

Syrian Images Beyond the Archive

The research project Archiving the Future: Recollections of Syria in War and Peace and the Syrian artist Khaled Barakeh hope to foster a conversation beyond traditional research avenues that engages the Danish public in discussions on topics such as loss, exile, and accountability in a Syrian context.

16. maj 2024, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Videnskabsaktivisme i klimakrisen

Andet event i serien Ph.d. til morgenmad med Frederik Appel Olsen.

16. maj 2024, kl. 13.15-17.00

Death, mourning, and burial in migratory contexts

Copenhagen Migration Symposium.

16. maj 2024, kl. 14.00-17.00

Ester Boserup Prize 2024

Professor Michael J. Watts will receive the Ester Boserup Prize 2024 and give a lecture entitled 'A Tale of Two Women Economists: Ester Boserup, Polly Hill, and the study of Agrarian Systems'.

16. maj 2024, kl. 15.30-17.30

Mikkel Krause Franzen's Endgame Emotions

Book launch and reception.

22. maj 2024, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Danskernes holdninger til klimakrisen – er vi virkelig splittede?

Sidste event i serien Ph.d. til morgenmad med Andrea Veggerby Lind.

23. maj 2024, kl. 14.00-15.30

AFLYST: Humanistiske perspektiver på atomkraft: Efter katastrofen – kunst og nye forestillingsrum efter Fukushima

Andet event i serien "Humanistiske perspektiver på atomkraft". Foredrag om kunst og nye forestillingsrum efter Fukushima-katastrofen ved postdoc Line Marie Thorsen (ToRS). 

24. maj 2024, kl. 15.00-17.00

The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World

Book talk by Ajay Singh Chaudhary.

30. maj 2024, kl. 9.00-13.00

What is the next step in your career?

Seminar for PhD students and postdocs at ToRS.

3. juni 2024, kl. 16.00-19.00

Hvad nu hvis...

Første event i en eventrække om nye forestillinger om en positiv klimaneutral fremtid.

5. juni - 8. juni 2024

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

The 11th Bird Working Group (BWG) Meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology

6. juni 2024, kl. 14.00-15.30

Humanistiske perspektiver på atomkraft: Safe, Natural, Cheap, and Necessary? – Nuclear Power at Display in Visitor Centers

Third event in the series "Humanistiske perspektiver på atomkraft". Talk on nuclear power at display in visitor centers by postdoc Hanna Klaubert (Linköpings University).

10. juni 2024, kl. 11.15-12.30

Crimea: current situation and the future

Workshop with the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Ukrainian research community.

10. juni 2024, kl. 13.00

Storks, Humans, and Landscape on the Konya Plain, Turkey

Lecture by Professor Nerissa Russell, Department of Anthropology, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, Cornell University.

18. juni - 19. juni 2024

Authoring slavery - Forms and Conditions for Narrating Slavery

Seminar at Aarhus University, Denmark. Deadline for abstracts 1 March 2024.

24. juni 2024, kl. 15.30-17.00

Serious Play in the City of Cyclists

Talk by international guest and cultural anthropologist Rebecca Journey (UChicago).

12. aug. - 16. aug. 2024

Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School

The third Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School will take place at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

3. sept. 2024, kl. 14.00-15.00

Midlertidighed (Temporality)

Photo exhibition and reception.

9. sept. 2024, kl. 15.00-17.00

Økomarxisme til debat

Oplæg ved Kristoffer Balslev Willert, Maria Cariola Eriksson, Martin Karlsson Pedersen og Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen.

12. sept. 2024, kl. 9.00-20.00

Narrating Global Conflict

In celebration of the launch of HUM:Global in 2024, we are organizing a one-day conference.

12. sept. - 14. sept. 2024

Perpetrator images as documentary, evidentiary, and affective

Two-day workshop.

16. sept. 2024, kl. 16.00-19.00

Hvad nu hvis…

Eventrække hvor vi gennem kunstens og videnskabens prisme åbner for nye forestillinger om en positiv fremtid for både mennesker og resten af naturen.

19. sept. 2024, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Oliedødvande i nordisk litteratur

Ph.d. til morgenmad med Karl Emil Rosenbæk.

23. sept. - 27. sept. 2024

Asia Week 2024

Festival about Asia's art, culture and society. 

25. sept. 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

Litteratur under besættelse og i eksil

Palæstinensiske forfattere på ToRS: Samtale med Mazen Maarouf og Maya Abu Alhayyat 

26. sept. 2024, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Cheminova, kemisk forurening og miljøretfærdighed

Ph.d. til morgenmad med Sebastian Lundsteen Nielsen.

26. sept. 2024, kl. 12.00-14.00

Black African refugee (im)mobility in post-2022 Europe

Talk with Aghogho Akpome, associate professor at the Department of English at University of Zululand, South Africa.

27. sept. 2024, kl. 14.00-15.30

Drawing the Global South: India and Beyond

Inaugural lecture by Professor Ravinder Kaur.

27. sept. 2024, kl. 16.00

The human use of complex caves during the late prehistory of the southern Levant

Guest lecture by visiting postdoc Dr Micka Ullman, The Institute of Archeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2. okt. 2024, kl. 13.15-15.00

Secondhand Sacred: Material religion and the ethics of circulation

Guest Lecture by James S. Bielo, Associate Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Northwestern University.

2. okt. 2024, kl. 14.30-16.00

75 years of India-Denmark Diplomatic Relations

Talk and discussion on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 155th birth anniversary.

2. okt. 2024, kl. 15.00-17.00

Lancering af nyt tidsskrift: RELevans, religionsvidenskabelige perspektiver på aktuelle samfundsemner

Kom og vær med til at fejre lanceringen af et nyt tidsskrift: RELevans!

3. okt. - 4. okt. 2024

Biographies of Excess

This workshop seeks to explore these issues through the lens of biographical approaches to religious ideas, objects, and people.

4. okt. 2024, kl. 14.00-17.00

Global Awareness and the Theosophical Society 1875-1950

PhD defence by Bjarke Stanley Nielsen.

8. okt. 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

Crises and Conversions

Book launch.

9. okt. 2024, kl. 10.30-12.30

Garga’s Knowledge of the Crow (vāyasavidyā) and the Dawn of South Asian Ornithology

Public Talk by Professor Kenneth G. Zysk (University of Copenhagen).

9. okt. 2024, kl. 13.15

Mamá

Screening of the film Mamá, by Tzotzil director Xun Sero.

9. okt. 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

CApE Talk: Naturorienteret dydsetik

Oplæg med Leo Catana.

9. okt. 2024, kl. 15.00-16.30

Book launch seminar of “The Road To Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s”

Asian Dynamics Initiative invites all to the book launch of “The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s” by author and earlier student of UCPH, Satnam Singh.

9. okt. 2024, kl. 16.15-18.00

October 12: Celebrating What? Indigenous perspectives in today's debates

Panel discussion featuring experts on current challenges and triumphs faced by Indigenous communities today.

10. okt. 2024, kl. 11.00-17.00

30 Years of Zapatismo. From Rebellion to Renewal

Seminar about the legacy of the Zapatistas.

10. okt. 2024, kl. 13.00-18.30

Decentring the Art Institution for a Postmigrant Society

HUM:Global Talk! seminar.

11. okt. 2024, kl. 13.00-14.00

75 years of India-Denmark Diplomatic Relations

Hybrid talk.

23. okt. 2024, kl. 13.00-15.00

Sprogkulturelle møder og hybride realiteter: Kontaktzoneord i Kalaallit Nunaat (Grønland)

Oplæg ved Stephanie Mašková.

23. okt. 2024, kl. 14.15-16.00

Memory Activism and the Victimhood Paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Guest Lecture by Jasna Dragović-Soso (London School of Economics).

23. okt. - 25. okt. 2024

A Tide of Ghosts: Esotericism and Art beyond Fact and Fiction

A two-day multidisciplinary conference exploring how the use of fictionings, in various entanglements of art, politics, and esotericism, bleeds into the real and how the two relate, if they ever are truly separate.

25. okt. 2024, kl. 10.30-12.00

Translation Asia Roundtable

One of the aims of this roundtable is to raise awareness of how important it is to learn languages to understand cultures.

28. okt. 2024, kl. 13.00-15.00

Modern-Day Crusaders: Religious Extremism and the Erosion of Democracy in Europe

HUM:Global Talk! with Neil Datta, Executive Director of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

28. okt. 2024, kl. 13.30-15.00

Journalism and Media in exile

This event examines authoritarian transnational repression practices against journalists and media in exile.

28. okt. 2024, kl. 16.30

Remaking money for a sustainable future

Talk by Ester Barinaga, professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Lund University and a professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School.

30. okt. 2024, kl. 13.00-15.00

Lecture by Russian exile writer Maria Stepanova

Russian exile writer Maria Stepanova will lecture on post-Soviet European memory and literary writing. Tine Roesen will moderate the talk.

31. okt. - 5. dec. 2024

NY ANSØGNINGSFRIST: Hvad skal vi med landbruget? Danske landbrugsvisioner i en global krisetid

Workshop-række i efteråret 2024.

4. nov. 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

Palestine and Israel

Hum:Global semester lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé.

4. nov. 2024, kl. 16.00-19.00

Hvad nu hvis... Friheden

3. event i serien ‘Hvad nu hvis’, denne gang om frihedsbegrebet.

7. nov. 2024, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Naturens Berøringer: Udforskninger af Afstandsberøringer i den Tyske og Engelske Romantik

Martin Arndals afhandling udforsker fremkomsten af og muligheden for en form for afstandsberøring fundet i værker fra den tyske og engelske romantiske periode.

7. nov. 2024, kl. 13.30-17.00

RELevans seminar om religion og klima

Seminaret om religion og klima sætter fokus på natur- og klimadagsordenen i forskellige religiøse traditioner og nationale kontekster.

8. nov. 2024, kl. 13.00

Reclaiming Homelands

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Katrine Stevnhøj.

8. nov. 2024, kl. 15.00-17.00

Belonging Flexibly: Non-Muslim migrants from Muslim Asia

HUM:Global Talk! photography exhibition.

8. nov. 2024, kl. 15.15-17.00

Perspektiver på Peter Sloterdijk

Seminar.

11. nov. 2024, kl. 15.00-16.30

Forurening: juridiske, historiske og litterære perspektiver

Panelsamtale mellem Liv Nimand Duvå, Sebastian Lundsteen Nielsen og Bent Ole Gram Mortensen.

14. nov. 2024, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Klimaborgerting: Vejen mod den grønne omstilling?

Ph.d. til morgenmad med Ingrid Helene Brandt Jensen.

15. nov. 2024

Sanitary Rituals: Menstruation among the Newars in Sankhu, Nepal

Pre-defence review of Sierra Humbert’s thesis.

16. nov. - 18. nov. 2024

Nature, Theosophy and related esoteric currents

This two-day conference invites reflection and research on understanding the particular views and practices cultivated by the Theosophical and other esoteric currents in relation to nature.

21. nov. 2024, kl. 14.30-16.00

Ancestors or property? Rights to the image and the continued enslavement through archives

Talk with Tamara Lanier (joining online).

21. nov. 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

Når steder taler – om stedsbaseret læring og naturbevarelse

Samtale om stedsbaseret læring mellem kulturgeograf og forfatter Emmy Laura Fjelland Perez og religionshistoriker Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen.

22. nov. 2024, kl. 10.00-18.00

Denmark and Sweden's aid to the Palestinians and their involvement in new humanitarian projects

Workshop organized by Liora Sion, ToRS, the University of Copenhagen and Maria Småberg, CMES, Lund University.

22. nov. 2024, kl. 13.00-16.30

Stages of Memory and Testimony Institutional responsibility, victim participation, and politics of listening

Seminar with Nuran David Çalış, playwright, documentary filmmaker, and director and Emilie Pine, professor of modern drama at University College Dublin, author and playwright.

22. nov. 2024, kl. 14.00

Crossing Practice Realities

PhD defence by Jesper Lee Jyderup.

25. nov. 2024, kl. 15.15-17.00

Remote Ethnography: Epistemological and ethical issues related to researching Xinjiang since the 'People's War on Terror'

Public lecture by Dr Rune Steenberg, Palacky University Olomuc.

25. nov. - 26. nov. 2024

Online workshop: Exploring Media Narratives in War, Conflict, and Peace – A Scholarly Exploration

This workshop will offer an opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue with scholars, journalists, and broader audiences. Furthermore, selected papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume.

26. nov. 2024, kl. 13.15-14.45

Ukraine’s Grassroots Amidst Russia’s War

Public lecture by Dr Marnie Howlett, Russian and East European Politics lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA).

27. nov. 2024, kl. 14.00-17.00

Japanese shakuhachi concert and talk on music, farming and nature

Concert and talk on music, farming and nature with Katsuya Nonaka.

27. nov. 2024, kl. 16.30

Poesi og samtale med Amina Elmi og Elias Sadaq

Event.

27. nov. 2024, kl. 17.00-19.00

Byzansforskningens betydning for Østeuropæiske Studier og for tværkulturel forståelse i Europa

Kollekvium.

28. nov. 2024, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Hvordan overbeviser Kenyan Peasants League økologi-skeptiske bønder?

Oplæg med med Sophia Wathne.

28. nov. 2024, kl. 15.15-17.00

Bordering Power: Unpacking the Authoritarianism-Migration Nexus in Egypt

Public lecture by Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Glasgow.

29. nov. 2024

Building Buddhist Worlds

This one-day workshop explores the building of new urban infrastructures in Asia that leverage Buddhism’s sustainable ideals and image. Tremendous urban infrastructure aspirations and needs face Asia.

3. dec. 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

Soldiers and Kings

Talk by Professor Jason De León from UCLA as part of the School of Archaeology Lecture Series.

5. dec. 2024, kl. 14.15

Entangled Ways of Knowing on a Damaged Planet

Guest lecture with professor Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen.

6. dec. 2024, kl. 9.00-12.00

“Afterwar” & "Dealing with Trauma through Art"

HUM:Global Talk! film screening and panel discussion.

10. dec. 2024, kl. 11.00-12.00

Memories of Forced Migrations as a Resource for Enhancing Intercultural Cohesion in Europe

Open lecture by Eleonora Narvselius (Lunds Universitet).

10. dec. 2024, kl. 13.30-15.30

Atlanticism in a changing world

HUM:Global Talk! public roundtable discussion.

10. dec. 2024, kl. 15.00-16.30

The Wasteocene is Still Here (But We Are Trying to Sabotage It)

Lecture by Professor Marco Armiero (Institut d'Història de la Ciència (IHC) Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain).

11. dec. 2024, kl. 8.45-9.45

Transoceanic Memory

Open lecture by Hanna Teichler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

11. dec. 2024, kl. 12.30-16.30

Fighting Food Waste - KU Workshop

Workshop with researchers at KU.

11. dec. 2024, kl. 13.00-14.00

Defending Trees, Remembering Hope

Open lecture by Ann Rigney (Universiteit Utrecht).

11. dec. 2024, kl. 14.00

Settler Colonial Studies, Terminations of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism

Lecture by Moshe Behar (University of Manchester).

17. dec. 2024, kl. 16.00-17.30

To Make It Happen: The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs

Guest lecture by Kasper Opstrup, assistant professor in modern cultural studies at the University of Copenhagen.

18. dec. 2024, kl. 12.00-14.00

Et nyt Syrien, et nyt Mellemøsten?

Mellemøststudier på Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier har i hast sammensat et panel af forskere og forfattere til at give deres umiddelbare bud på spørgsmålet om et nyt Syrien og ny region.

15. jan. 2025, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ren natur, ren befolkning? – Økologisk tænkning på den franske højrefløj

I serien Ph.d. til morgenmad holder Marie Kongsted Møller oplæg om sin afhandling "Pleated ecologies. Resisting everyday dispositions to fascism".

16. jan. 2025, kl. 9.00-18.30

Language Myths

Workshop on the political uses of historical languages.

16. jan. 2025, kl. 12.30-16.00

The heritage of Christian missions from colonial times to the present

Celebrating the publication of Prof. Tone Bleie’s (University of Tromsø) book "A New Testament".

21. jan. 2025, kl. 15.00-17.00

In and Out of the Toxic Zone: An Immersive Experience with Sounds, Visuals and Words

CApE will host three interrelated interventions that delve into the relationship between art, narratives and politics in the context of toxic ecologies, in Denmark and elsewhere, followed by a panel discussion.

27. jan. 2025, kl. 16.30

The Regenerative Farming School

In this talk, Sarah Hellebek, co-founder of the Regenerative Farming School, will explain the process of founding a new school and making decisions on the structure and curriculum.

5. febr. 2025, kl. 15.00-16.30

Har vi brug for nymaterialismen til at forstå nutidens kriser?

Kom og vær med i en samtale om de igangværende økologiske kriser, hvor vi i fællesskab forsøger at blive klogere på, hvor vi befinder os i dag.

7. febr. 2025, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Mediernes problembarn: Klimajournalistik

Hvordan er dansk klimajournalistik udfordret i en tid, hvor klimaet er højt på dagsordenen? Og hvordan kan man imødekomme disse udfordringer? Det har Line Weldingh undersøgt i sin ph.d.-afhandling.

13. febr. 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 1: Juliane Engelhardt

Seminar med Juliane Engelhardt, Københavns Universitet.

26. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 2: Nina Koefoed

Seminar med Nina Koefoed, Aarhus Universitet.

28. febr. 2025, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: En kirke uden orgler? Folkekirkelige dilemmaer i klimamålenes tid

Katinka Amalie Schyberg fortæller om sin afhandling ”Church and Climate Change in Counterpoint: An Ethnography of Environmental Engagements within the Danish People’s Church” skrevet ved IT-Universitetet i København.

4. marts 2025, kl. 13.15-14.30

AMIS Culture Club: Vagrants, Vagabonds, Immorals

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

6. marts 2025, kl. 14.00-17.30

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

HUM:Global Talk! Exhibition and Talk.

11. marts 2025, kl. 12.15-13.00

Asia House in Action

Four speakers will present the activities of Asia House with a special focus on career opportunities in Asia.

11. marts 2025, kl. 14.15-15.30

”Magic is a muscle!” Teaching, learning and ritualization in Swedish Wicca

Guest lecture by Olivia Cejvan, PhD, Post Doc at the University of Malmö Sweden.

12. marts 2025, kl. 15.15-16.30

The end of the end of history

A conversation between Sergey Lebedev and Kathrine Tschemerinsky.

13. marts 2025, kl. 10.30-12.00

Korean memories of wartime forced labour and the 'history war'

Guest talk by Nikolai Johnsen, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London).

13. marts 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 3: Niels Reeh

Seminar med Niels Reeh, Syddansk Universitet.

13. marts 2025, kl. 16.00-17.30

Transformative Talk: Consumer Empowerment

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19. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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.

25. marts 2025, kl. 9.30-17.00

Fieldwork and Gender Studies in the Middle East

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

26. marts 2025, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Partnerskaber for en bæredygtig madomstilling

Oplæg med Jesper Lee Jyderup.

27. marts 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 4: Troels Krarup (discussant Brian Arly Jacobsen)

Seminar med Troels Krarup, Aalborg Universitet og Brian Arly Jacobsen, Københavns Universitet.

27. marts 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

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

CApE Talk by Professor Oxana Timofeeva.

27. marts 2025, kl. 14.15-17.00

From Occultism to Occulture – or when 93 became 23

Guest lecture by Kasper Opstrup, Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen.

27. marts 2025, kl. 15.15-16.30

Mayors and Migration Policies in the United States and Europe

Discover how mayors have emerged as crucial players in migration policy in the US and Europe. In this talk, Professor Els de Graauw will present her research on mayors’ leadership on immigration, integration, and the challenges they face.

1. april 2025, kl. 13.30-15.00

Israeli Visual Politics and Digital Archives in a Time of Genocide

Lecture with Rebecca L. Stein (Duke University).

2. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Hvor vover de? Vrede som katalysator for klimakampen

Oplæg med Frida Hviid Broberg.

3. april 2025, kl. 15.00-17.00

Religionsdidaktik i skolen

Didaktik-seminar med diskussion af bogen: Jes Heise Rasmussen og Karna Kjeldsen, Religionsdidaktik i skolen (2025, Gyldendal).

8. april 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 5: Sasja Stopa

Seminar med Sasja Stopa, Aarhus Universitet.

9. april 2025, kl. 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).

11. april 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Performative Environmentalism and the Everyday Legitimation of Climate Coloniality

Talk by Manisha Anantharaman, Sciences Po.

22. april 2025, kl. 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).

23. april 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 6: Cecilie Bjerre

Seminar med Cecilie Bjerre, Syddansk Universitet.

24. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 10.15-15.00

Challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability around the world

ToRS seminar for researchers and students.

24. april 2025, kl. 13.15-15.00

The WEB CHILD Project. Why Study the Early Web’s Influence on Childhood in South Korea, the United States, and Denmark?

Lecture by Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Associate Professor of Contemporary Cultural History at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

25. april 2025, kl. 15.15-18.00

Verden set fra Rusland: Idéer, ideologier og utopier

Boglancering.

25. april 2025, kl. 16.00-18.00

Skiftende mellem sprog

Forfatter og oversætter Sidse Laugesen fortæller om sine erfaringer med at skrive på kinesisk og oversætte til dansk.

28. april 2025, kl. 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).

28. april 2025, kl. 15.15-17.00

Russian Anti-Progressivism and Its Origins: A Critical Perspective on the Russia-Ukraine War

Guest lecture with Professor Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University).

30. april 2025, kl. 15.00-16.30

Art and Society Through Feminist Degrowth

Performative and Collaborative Conversations with Degrowth Activist Scholar Anitra Nelson.

30. april 2025, kl. 16.00

Wild and Domesticated Olive in Bronze Age Crete: Data from Linear A

Talk by Rachel Pierini, Saxo-Institute (University of Copenhagen).

30. april 2025, kl. 16.30-17.30

Pivot to Asia: Denmark and Trump 2.0

Panel discussion

2. maj 2025, kl. 14.15-17.00

Pop og pailletter – i krigens skygge?

Nordic Humanities Center inviterer til seminar om TV-sangkonkurrencen Eurovision, og hvilken kampplads for politiske trakasserier, konkurrencen også er.

6. maj 2025, kl. 13.15-15.15

War and peace: How to report on war in contemporary conflicts

Guest lecturer Prof. Can Ertuna.

6. maj 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Transformative Talk: Feminist Ecological Economics and Degrowth

Panel Conversation with Emma Holten and Tone Smith

6. maj - 8. maj 2025

Egyptological-Assyriological Conference in Copenhagen 2025

This annual, student-run conference features a series of presentations from speakers in the disciplines of Egyptology, Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology who will present research and topics related to this year's theme: "Tales Untold".

7. maj 2025, kl. 9.00-9.45

Ph.d. til morgenmad: Klimakompensation og CO2-markeder – hvordan legitimeres en omstridt klimapraksis?

Oplæg med Kirstine Lund Christiansen

7. maj 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 7: Anne Lundahl Mauritsen

Seminar med Anne Lundahl Mauritsen, Aarhus Universitet.

8. maj 2025, kl. 13.15-15.00

The essential guide media capture: Lessons from Turkey

Guest lecturer Prof. Can Ertuna.

8. maj 2025, kl. 14.15-16.00

Satanism and magic

Lecture by Per Faxneld, Professor in the Study of Religions at Södertörn University, Sweden.

8. maj - 9. maj 2025

Marginal Subjects - Emotional Resonances: Navigating Research Collaborations and Audiences

Two-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies. 

10. maj 2025, kl. 10.30-18.00

Jordforbindelser

På andelsgården Brinkholm inviterer projektet Jordforbindelser til en række sanselige workshops og oplevelser, hvor vi mærker, smager, lytter og forbinder os med jorden på nye måder.

14. maj 2025, kl. 16.00

Helmer Fogedgaard, teosof og seksualpolitisk aktivist

I dette foredrag vil Peter Edelberg fortælle om Helmer Fogedgaard og lægge vægt på, hvordan hans teosofiske anskuelser hjalp ham i hans seksualpolitiske arbejde, samt præsentere hans arkiv.

15. maj 2025, kl. 9.30

Heldagskonference om Georgien

Østeuropastudiers Fagråd og studenterforeningen European Horizons inviterer til heldagskonference om Georgien i festsalen på Søndre Campus.

15. maj 2025, kl. 9.30

Full-day conference about Georgia

Eastern European Studies’ Student Council, The Danish Foreign Policy Society U35, and the student organization European Horizons at UCPH invite you to a one-day conference about Georgia.

15. maj 2025, kl. 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. maj 2025, kl. 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. maj - 21. maj 2025

Call for Papers: Ethnographies of Energy

Workshop at University of Copenhagen.

21. maj 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 8: Trine Hass (discussant Martin Fog Arndal)

Seminar med Trine Hass, Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, og Martin Fog Arndal, Københavns Universitet.

21. maj 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

Speculative Futures: Labour, Technology, and Ecological Justice

This event will explore two key visions of the near future: one through the struggles of Amazon workers for labour and ecological justice, and the other through the ecological challenges of Silicon Valley’s AI-driven ambitions.

21. maj 2025, kl. 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).

27. maj 2025, kl. 10.00-12.30

Alternative Platforms, Alternative Politics

HUM:Global Flagship Initiative Seminar.

11. juni 2025, kl. 10.00-16.00

Thoughts and lines: Ethnographic drawing, graphic novels and analytical potentials

EASA Sensory Media Network workshop.

12. juni - 13. juni 2025

Connections, Disruptions, and Reconnections in China Studies and Beyond

The 17 biennial Conference of the Nordic Association of China Studies + PhD workshop.

22. aug. 2025, kl. 9.00-17.00

The Future of Climate Justice in Denmark and Beyond: Diplomacy, Democracy, Activism

Conference.

11. okt. - 12. okt. 2025

Call for papers: Altered States of Consciousness in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents

Conference.