Tidligere arrangementer

Arrangementer der er blevet afholdt på Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier.

• 21. maj - 22. maj 2026

  CULTURAL MEMORY, CONFLICT AND THE POST-YUGOSLAV SPACE

  Seminar on education, commemoration and informal memory practices.

• 19. maj 2026, kl. 13.00-15.00

  Innovation as a Research Perspective: from Knowledge to Impact – at ToRS

  Workshop 3: Fra idé til virkelighed – PoC-ansøgning.

• 13. maj 2026, kl. 19.00

  Klæder skaber folk - tøj i det prædynastiske Egypten (c. 4000-3000 f.v.t.)

  Foredrag med Anne Drewsen, Saxo Instituttet.

• 6. maj 2026, kl. 16.00

  The archaeology of olive oil: excavating an olive oil “factory” in Jordan in the 3rd millennium BC

  Lecture by James Fraser, Director, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research.

• 29. april 2026, kl. 12.15-13.00

  Migration and Europe: a tale of two stories

  This session will explore the contrast between media narratives, statistical realities, public…

• 27. april 2026, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Fashion and the Embodied Expression of Belief, Worldview, and Religion

  Guest lecture by Reina Lewis, Emerita Professor of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion,…

• 27. april 2026, kl. 9.00-10.30

  Development, Progress and the Twenty-First Century Welfare State in India and Beyond

  Public lecture by Professor Louise Tillin, King’s College London.

• 27. april - 28. april 2026

  Working Theory. Politics of Development in the Twenty-First Century

  Dissertation workshop.

• 17. april 2026, kl. 10.15-17.00

  “Civilizationalism” in Ideology, Geopolitics and Authoritarian Outreach

  Workshop.

• 16. april 2026, kl. 16.00-18.00

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

  Lecture by Eythan Levy, University of Zurich.

• 16. april 2026, kl. 10.15-13.15

  Managing informant relations in research

  Workshop on research ethics.

• 15. april 2026, kl. 19.00

  Fra bunkepul til Biedermeier: Begær og erotik i miniaturemalerier fra den islamiske verden

  Foredrag med Rasmus Bech Olsen, Davids Samling.

• 14. april 2026, kl. 10.00-13.00

  Innovation as a Research Perspective: from Knowledge to Impact – at ToRS

  Workshop 2: Stakeholder mapping and value creation.

• 13. april 2026, kl. 14.00-18.00

  Yūkaku – Love District

  Seminar and exhibition opening.

• 9. april 2026, kl. 14.00-17.00

  Wars of Impunity?

  Launch event of Special Issue of Middle East Critique: “The Impunity Politics of Contested Security…

• 26. marts 2026, kl. 15.00-19.00

  Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Mexico

  A seminar by Professor Lorena Ojeda-Dávila, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo…

• 20. marts 2026, kl. 15.00-17.00

  Remembering illiberal regimes in Eastern Europe and beyond

  Public talk on Polish and post-Yugoslav memories of the communist past.

• 19. marts 2026, kl. 11.00-12.15

  Learn how to write a strong narrative CV

  Seminar with Professor Mikkel Bille and Associate Professor Nina Grønlykke Mollerup

• 18. marts 2026, kl. 19.00

  Rekonstruktionen af Irtysenu: Fra 19. århundredes obduktion til 21. århundredes genopdagelse

  Foredrag med Alma Foldbjerg El-Naaman, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier.

• 18. marts 2026, kl. 10.00-12.00

  Workshop on Resilient Cultural Heritage

  Preparation for the DFF call to open later in the spring of 2026.

• 17. marts 2026, kl. 10.15-11.45

  Innovation as a Research Perspective: from Knowledge to Impact – at ToRS

  Workshop 1: Identifying Innovation Potential.

• 10. marts 2026, kl. 10.00-12.00

  A Multilingual Nation

  Lecture by Professor Rita Kothari, Ashoka University.

• 4. marts 2026, kl. 14.15-16.00

  Mød den russiske eksiljournalist Jelena Kostjutjenko

  I 2023 udgav Kostjutjenko bogen Mit elskede land, som er baseret på hendes mangeårige reportager.…

• 3. marts 2026, kl. 15.00-16.00

  Generative AI and Teaching at ToRS

  Join the presentation by Regnar Kristensen.

• 27. febr. 2026, kl. 14.00-15.30

  Diasporic State-building: Transnational Networks and the Making of Post-2003 Iraq

  HUM:Global Talk! with Dr Oula Kadhum of SOAS, University of London.

• 26. febr. 2026, kl. 16.15-18.00

  Winter Graduation at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

  CCRS ALUMNI: Graduation event.

• 26. febr. 2026, kl. 16.15-18.00

  Vinterdimission på Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier

  ToRS ALUMNE: Dimission.

• 23. febr. 2026, kl. 10.00-12.00

  What It Means to Imagine Turkey

  Guest Lecture by Sertaç Sehlikoglu (University College London).

• 20. febr. 2026, kl. 9.00-13.15

  Destroyed, Forgotten, and Reappearing Heritage in Japan

  ToRS is proud to host six public lectures in two panel sessions by international experts in Japanes…

• 18. febr. 2026, kl. 19.00

  Bronzealder på Cypern - Udgravninger ved Erimi-Pitharka

  Foredrag med Lærke Recht, Moesgaard Museum.

• 6. febr. 2026, kl. 14.30-16.30

  Digitalization of Memory Practices – China, Serbia, and Beyond

  Book talk and panel discussion.

• 30. jan. 2026, kl. 13.00-16.00

  Opdag Asien

  Introduktionsoplæg om Indien, Japan, Kina og Korea.

• 30. jan. 2026, kl. 13.00-16.00

  Scientology, santalere og religionssociologi

  Afskedsseminar for lektor Peter B. Andersen, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier.

• 30. jan. 2026, kl. 11.00-12.00

  Uncanny Transcripts from a Chinese Cemetery: Multivocality and the Heritagization of Death

  Lecture with Yew-Foong Hui (anthropologist and Professor at Hong Kong Shue Yan University).

• 20. jan. 2026, kl. 13.30-16.30

  Networking the War

  Inaugural international workshop of the research project ‘Networking the War’: An…

• 15. jan. 2026, kl. 12.30-16.00

  I krigens skygge: Danmark, Norden og geopolitikkens genkomst

  Konference arrangeret af Nordic Humanities Center.

• 10. dec. 2025, kl. 15.15-17.00

  Reading War, Making Memory

  Book launch.

• 8. dec. 2025, kl. 15.00-16.30

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

  Panel talk with Lars Erslev Andersen (DIIS), Fannie Agerschou-Madsen (Roskilde University), Maryam…

• 2. dec. 2025, kl. 15.00-18.00

  Stranger

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

• 2. dec. 2025, kl. 13.00-14.30

  Decolonizing Ecofeminism: Gender, Extraction, and the Politics of Green Transition

  Seminar by Dr. Sanna Karhu, University of Helsinki.

• 28. nov. 2025, kl. 13.00

  Body Dust: Menstrual Waste among the Newar in Sankhu, Nepal

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Sierra Josephine Louise Humbert.

• 24. nov. 2025, kl. 15.00

  Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness

  Talk by Laura Feldt, University of Bergen.

• 19. nov. 2025, kl. 17.00

  Max Weber and Rudolf Steiner in Munich

  Talk with Aaron French, Postdoc researcher in the project ‘Twisting the Fabric of Space: On the Art…

• 18. nov. 2025, kl. 15.15-17.00

  Zionism, White Innocence and Islamophobia

  Public talk by Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (King’s College).

• 18. nov. 2025, kl. 9.30-16.30

  Resilient Cultural Heritage

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

• 13. nov. 2025, kl. 17.00-19.00

  The Baniwa People of Northwestern Amazonia and their language

  Lecture by Sandra Cronhamn (Lund University).

• 7. nov. 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Regional order in the middle east after 7th October

  Roundtable.

• 7. nov. 2025, kl. 13.15-15.00

  The ambivalent geopolitics of civilizationism in Putin's Russia

  Lecture by Mark Bassin, Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas, Södertörn University,…

• 6. nov. 2025, kl. 13.00-17.00

  Religion og populærkultur

  RELevans-seminar 2026.

• 31. okt. 2025, kl. 9.00-17.00

  From Stalinism to Putinism: Overcoming the past in creating the future

  Conference.

• 30. okt. 2025, kl. 16.30-18.00

  Day of the Dead

  The faculty will be celebrating the Day of the Dead with a beautiful altar by Mexican artist Ana…

• 28. okt. 2025, kl. 16.00

  Textile archaeology and burial practices in the Nile valley

  Talk by Associate Professor Elsa Yvanez, Saxo Institute.

• 23. okt. 2025, kl. 9.00-16.30

  The American Military versus the Chinese Military: Comparing intentions and capabilities

  Conference.

• 20. okt. 2025, kl. 10.30-12.00

  Sproglig mangfoldighed som styrke

  En rundbordssamtale om oversættelse, identitet og sproglig mangfoldighed.

• 3. okt. 2025, kl. 10.00-11.00

  Ryokan: Mobilising Hospitality in Rural Japan

  Guest talk by Associate Professor Chris McMorran, National University of Singapore.

• 2. okt. 2025, kl. 14.15-15.45

  The killing of journalists in Gaza: The Gaza Project

  Join ToRS for the urgent and timely conversation with Hoda Osman, Executive Editor, Arab Reports of…

• 29. sept. 2025, kl. 17.00-19.30

  Maize Day

  Join us for a festive and inspiring celebration of Día del Maíz with a rich cultural and academic…

• 29. sept. 2025, kl. 9.30-16.00

  Genforhandlinger af relationen mellem Kalaallit Nunaat/Grønland og Danmark

  Seminar arrangeret af ToRS. Hvor står vi? Hvor langt er vi nået? På hvilke præmisser?

• 26. sept. 2025, kl. 15.00-17.30

  RELevans nr. 2: Religion og klima

  Release af ny udgivelse i tidsskriftet RELevans.

• 26. sept. 2025, kl. 14.00-15.00

  Being Dead in Sweden – Necro Politics and Postmortem Relations

  Public lecture by Professor Magdalena Nordin, Göteborg Universitet.

• 25. sept. 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Systems of Justice, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and Growing out of it - exhibition extended

  Reception in connection with painting exhibition in acrylic by Rubya Mehdi.

• 22. sept. 2025, kl. 15.15-17.00

  Extremism through Literature

  Literary Talk with Sasha Filipenko.

• 18. sept. 2025, kl. 17.00-17.55

  Una Canger i samtale med Magnus Pharao

  Lektor em. Una Canger, Indianske Sprog og Kulturer, taler med lektor Magnus Pharao om sin vej genne…

• 18. sept. 2025, kl. 15.00-16.30

  An Impossible Friendship

  Booktalk with Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi.

• 17. sept. 2025, kl. 15.00-17.00

  A Christian monk in love with Islam: The Italian Jesuit Paolo Dall'Oglio and his witness in Syria

  Guest lecture by Dr. Paolo La Spisa (Associate Professor, University of Florence, Italy).

• 12. sept. 2025, kl. 15.00-17.00

  Nature as tutor: seasons, cycles and polarities as didactical tools in Swedish Wicca

  Lecture by Olivia Cejvan, project researcher, Department of Society, Culture and Identity, Malmö…

• 22. aug. 2025, kl. 9.00-17.00

  The Future of Climate Justice in Denmark and Beyond: Diplomacy, Democracy, Activism

  Conference.

• 20. aug. 2025, kl. 13.00-16.00

  Digging, Safeguarding, Leading: Four Decades of Near Eastern Archaeology with Ingolf Thuesen

  Ingolf Thuesen is retiring this year. On this occasion, we invite you to a seminar where colleagues…

• 1. juli 2025, kl. 13.00

  You can´t take anything for granted

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Anne-Mai Flyvholm.

• 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.

• 11. juni 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…

• 4. juni 2025, kl. 16.00-18.00

  Countering the Global. Antiglobal Religion, Global Dissent, and Multiple Globalisms

  Bogreception for Countering the Global. Antiglobal Religion, Global Dissent, and Multiple Globalism…

• 3. juni 2025, kl. 14.15-16.00

  Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 8: Trine Hass

  Seminar med Trine Hass, Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab.

• 27. maj 2025, kl. 14.00-15.30

  Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond

  Book Talk by Nora Fisher-Onar.

• 27. maj 2025, kl. 10.00-12.30

  Alternative Platforms, Alternative Politics

  HUM:Global Flagship Initiative Seminar.

• 23. maj 2025, kl. 10.00-12.00

  Sufi shrines and stories of saints in post-war Sri Lanka

  Research seminar with M. Shobhana Xavier (Queen's University, Canada).

• 21. maj 2025, kl. 16.00

  Texts from Above: a Corpus-level Approach to the Materiality of Cuneiform Writing

  Talk by Seraina Nett, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (University of Copenhagen)…

• 21. maj 2025, kl. 13.30-14.15

  Theorising while the world is burning

  Public talk by Simon Kjær Hansen, director of the Queen Mary’s Centre, University of Copenhagen.

• 20. maj 2025, kl. 11.15-12.30

  The Afterlives of Energy: Tracing Power in the Indian Anthropocene

  Public talk by Professor Amita Baviskar, Ashoka University, India.

• 19. maj - 21. maj 2025

  Call for Papers: Ethnographies of Energy

  Workshop at University of Copenhagen.

• 16. maj 2025, kl. 14.00

  Condensed Rhythms: Power, Place, and the Spatial Imaginary in Korean Hip-hop

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Amos Zaki Talcott Farooqi.

• 15. maj 2025, kl. 9.30

  Heldagskonference om Georgien

  Østeuropastudiers Fagråd og studenterforeningen European Horizons inviterer til heldagskonference o…

• 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…

• 7. maj 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 7: Anne Lundahl Mauritsen

  Seminar med Anne Lundahl Mauritsen, Aarhus Universitet.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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).

• 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).

• 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…

• 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…

• 25. april 2025, kl. 15.15-18.00

  Verden set fra Rusland: Idéer, ideologier og utopier

  Boglancering.

• 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…

• 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…

• 24. april 2025, kl. 10.15-15.00

  Challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability around the world

  ToRS seminar for researchers and students.

• 23. april 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 6: Cecilie Bjerre

  Seminar med Cecilie Bjerre, Syddansk Universitet.

• 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…

• 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).

• 8. april 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 5: Sasja Stopa

  Seminar med Sasja Stopa, Aarhus Universitet.

• 3. april 2025, kl. 15.00-17.00

  Religionsdidaktik i skolen

  Didaktik-seminar med diskussion af bogen: Jes Heise Rasmussen og Karna Kjeldsen, Religionsdidaktik …

• 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.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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. 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).

• 12. marts 2025, kl. 15.15-16.30

  The end of the end of history

  A conversation between Sergey Lebedev and Kathrine Tschemerinsky.

• 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 opportunitie…

• 27. febr. 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 2: Nina Koefoed

  Seminar med Nina Koefoed, Aarhus Universitet.

• 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…

• 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).

• 13. febr. 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Religion, køn og velfærd(sstat) 1: Juliane Engelhardt

  Seminar med Juliane Engelhardt, Københavns Universitet.

• 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".

• 16. jan. 2025, kl. 9.00-18.30

  Language Myths

  Workshop on the political uses of historical languages.

• 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…

• 11. dec. 2024, kl. 14.00

  Settler Colonial Studies, Terminations of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism

  Lecture by Moshe Behar (University of Manchester).

• 11. dec. 2024, kl. 13.00-14.00

  Defending Trees, Remembering Hope

  Open lecture by Ann Rigney (Universiteit Utrecht).

• 11. dec. 2024, kl. 12.30-16.30

  Fighting Food Waste - KU Workshop

  Workshop with researchers at KU.

• 11. dec. 2024, kl. 8.45-9.45

  Transoceanic Memory

  Open lecture by Hanna Teichler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

• 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).

• 5. dec. 2024, kl. 14.15

  Entangled Ways of Knowing on a Damaged Planet

  Guest lecture with professor Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen.

• 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.

• 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.

• 27. nov. 2024, kl. 17.00-19.00

  Byzansforskningens betydning for Østeuropæiske Studier og for tværkulturel forståelse i Europa

  Kollekvium.

• 27. nov. 2024, kl. 16.30

  Poesi og samtale med Amina Elmi og Elias Sadaq

  Event.

• 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…

• 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.

• 22. nov. 2024, kl. 14.00

  Crossing Practice Realities

  PhD defence by Jesper Lee Jyderup.

• 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,…

• 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…

• 8. nov. 2024, kl. 15.15-17.00

  Perspektiver på Peter Sloterdijk

  Seminar.

• 8. nov. 2024, kl. 13.00

  Reclaiming Homelands

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Katrine Stevnhøj.

• 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…

• 4. nov. 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Palestine and Israel

  Hum:Global semester lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé.

• 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…

• 28. okt. 2024, kl. 13.30-15.00

  Journalism and Media in exile

  This event examines authoritarian transnational repression practices against journalists and media…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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. 2024, kl. 13.00-15.00

  Sprogkulturelle møder og hybride realiteter: Kontaktzoneord i Kalaallit Nunaat (Grønland)

  Oplæg ved Stephanie Mašková.

• 10. okt. 2024, kl. 13.00-18.30

  Decentring the Art Institution for a Postmigrant Society

  HUM:Global Talk! seminar.

• 10. okt. 2024, kl. 11.00-17.00

  30 Years of Zapatismo. From Rebellion to Renewal

  Seminar about the legacy of the Zapatistas.

• 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…

• 9. okt. 2024, kl. 13.15

  Mamá

  Screening of the film Mamá, by Tzotzil director Xun Sero.

• 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).

• 8. okt. 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

  Crises and Conversions

  Book launch.

• 4. okt. 2024, kl. 14.00-17.00

  Global Awareness and the Theosophical Society 1875-1950

  PhD defence by Bjarke Stanley Nielsen.

• 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!

• 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…

• 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…

• 27. sept. 2024, kl. 14.00-15.30

  Drawing the Global South: India and Beyond

  Inaugural lecture by Professor Ravinder Kaur.

• 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

• 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.

• 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).

• 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…

• 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…

• 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

• 30. maj 2024, kl. 9.00-13.00

  What is the next step in your career?

  Seminar for PhD students and postdocs at ToRS.

• 16. maj 2024, kl. 15.30-17.30

  Endgame Emotions

  Book launch and reception.

• 8. maj 2024, kl. 16.00-17.30

  Valg i Indien 2024

  Asian Dynamics Initiative inviterer til valgarrangement i forbindelse med valget i Indien.

• 3. maj 2024, kl. 15.00-17.00

  Hvor går EUs grænse?

  Debatmøde: Grib chancen - mød fremtidens EU-profiler

• 2. maj 2024, kl. 16.00-18.00

  Development aid in the 21st century

  Panel discussion.

• 30. april 2024, kl. 14.15-15.00

  A coup d'état according to the party constitution?

  Guest lecture by Tomas Sniegon.

• 26. april 2024, kl. 16.00

  Fyraftensforelæsning

  Fyraftensforelæsning med Karen Philippa Larsen.

• 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. 10.00-18.30

  Russian Regime Ideology: Concepts, Historical Parallels, International and Domestic Resonances of Putinism

  Workshop.

• 24. april 2024, kl. 16.30-18.30

  Pop & pailletter – med politisk punch?

  Dette eftermiddagsseminar sætter fokus på brændende tematikker i årets Eurovision.

• 17. april 2024, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Serbia and Srebrenica, Denial, Distortion and Impunity

  Guest lecture by Olga Manojlović Pintar.

• 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.

• 25. marts 2024, kl. 9.00-18.00

  Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity

  Conference.

• 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).

• 15. marts 2024, kl. 16.00

  After-work lecture: Joseph Clemmesen

  Lecture.

• 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…

• 12. marts 2024, kl. 10.15-15.00

  Evidencing hate

  A workshop coordinated by Near Eastern Archaeology and Minority Studies (Birgitte Schepelern…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 6. marts 2024, kl. 14.00-15.30

  Innovation in the Global South

  Shaping a Sustainable Future Together: Join the Conversation

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.

• 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),…

• 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-Universitä…

• 23. febr. 2024, kl. 8.30-16.45

  Perseverance and Challenge: A Two-Year Retrospective on the Russian-Ukraine War

  Conference.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 4. dec. 2023, kl. 10.00-15.00

  ‘Afterlife’ workshop

  Considering the afterlife of constellations of places, people and things can reveal much about…

• 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 wa…

• 30. nov. - 1. dec. 2023

  Nordic seminar 2023

  A two-day seminar on interpreting in the Nordic countries.

• 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).

• 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…

• 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.

• 16. nov. 2023, kl. 13.00-18.00

  Centralasiatisk konference på KUA

  Fagrådene for Asienstudier og Østeuropastudier inviterer til heldagskonference om Centralasien i…

• 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…

• 13. nov. - 15. nov. 2023

  Transmission, Translocation, and Transcreation

  Conference.

• 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…

• 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.

• 9. nov. 2023, kl. 13.30-16.30

  Remembering activism and the agency of the aesthetic

  Lecture by Ann Rigney (Utrecht).

• 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).

• 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).

• 6. nov. 2023, kl. 15.15-17.00

  Memory of religious traces in contemporary culture

  Lecture by Maria Asavei (Charles University Prague).

• 6. nov. 2023, kl. 13.15-15.00

  Politics of storytelling and administrations of memory

  Lecture by Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus).

• 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…

• 3. nov. 2023, kl. 13.00

  Transkulturelle forbindelser

  Tijana Mišković forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling.

• 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…

• 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…

• 1. nov. 2023, kl. 10.00-19.00

  The Designed Planet

  This workshop is facilitated by Troy Vettese and Niklas Olsen.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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,

• 13. okt. 2023, kl. 13.00-15.00

  The Nutmeg’s Curse

  Public talk with acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh.

• 12. okt. 2023, kl. 9.30-17.00

  AMIS 10th Anniversary Celebration

  AMIS celebrates its 10th anniversary on 12 October 12 2023 at South Campus, UCPH, marking the first…

• 9. okt. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Crack Up Capitalism

  Public talk with historian Quinn Slobodian, bestselling author of Crack Up Capitalism. Market…

• 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.

• 5. okt. 2023, kl. 16.00-18.00

  Perpetrator Disgust: The Moral Limits of Gut Feelings

  Book Launch.

• 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…

• 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…

• 6. sept. 2023, kl. 10.00-11.30

  Atmospheric Politics in the Indian Ocean

  Public lecture with Debjani Bhattacharya.

• 1. sept. 2023, kl. 13.00

  The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856: The Call of Ṭhạkur

  Doctoral defence by Peter Birkelund Andersen.

• 28. aug. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

  West-Östlicher Diwan

  Celebratory lecture by Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.

• 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…

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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…

• 9. juni 2023, kl. 13.00

  BRAND NEW NATION – Capitalist Dreams and Nationalists Designs in Twenty-First-Century India

  Disputsatsforsvar af Ravinder Kaur.

• 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,…

• 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…

• 22. maj - 26. maj 2023

  13 International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE)

  International conference

• 16. maj 2023, kl. 11.00

  Russian Exceptionalism and the War against Ukraine

  Guest lecture with Professor Marina F. Bykova.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 8. maj 2023, kl. 12.00

  Unchanged Foodways

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Anne Jörgensen-Lindahl.

• 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…

• 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…

• 28. marts 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

  Palestinian Women of Syria Speaking Back

  Forelæsningen introducerer et forskningsprojekt, hvor palæstinensiske kvinders mundtlige…

• 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…

• 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…

• 10. marts 2023, kl. 13.00

  German Muslims on the International Theology Programme in Turkey

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Maximilian Lasa.

• 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,…

• 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.

• 23. febr. 2023, kl. 13.15-15.00

  Danske mediers dækning af flygtninge: ukrainere & syrere som casestudie

  Oplæg ved cand.mag. & journalist Cecilie Krabbe.

• 27. jan. 2023, kl. 13.00

  The role of UNESCO

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Joanne Dingwall McCafferty.

• 16. dec. 2022, kl. 13.00

  Engaged Subjects

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Maria Lindebæk Lyngsøe.

• 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.

• 8. dec. 2022, kl. 14.00-17.00

  Ukraine: The Culture Front

  Seminar on Ukraine, December 2022.

• 25. nov. 2022, kl. 16.00-18.00

  De serbiske drag queens

  Hvordan den serbiske dragscene rykker grænser i det nationalkonservative Serbien.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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).

• 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…

• 6. okt. 2022, kl. 15.00-17.00

  Contested Memory and History Education in Bosnia-Herzegovina

  ToRS Research Seminar.

• 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.

• 29. sept. 2022, kl. 15.00

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

  ToRSdagsmøde med Jesper Nielsen og Christophe Helmke.

• 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…

• 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.

• 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).

• 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…

• 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…

• 7. juni 2022

  Modest Fashion

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

• 3. juni 2022, kl. 14.00

  Women and Gendered Mosque Organisations

  PhD defence by Pernille Friis Jensen.

• 1. juni 2022, kl. 15.15-17.00

  CApE-talk: Clive Hamilton

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

• 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.

• 19. maj 2022, kl. 16.15-18.00

  Kom og mød dine færdige kandidater!

  Reception for nye kandidater fra ToRS F2022.

• 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…

• 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.

• 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…

• 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.

• 20. april 2022, kl. 14.00

  Approaching Past and Changing Foodways Through Ground Stone

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Patrick Nørskov Pedersen.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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).

• 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).

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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 3rd public…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 15. dec. 2021, kl. 12.45-13.30

  Applying for Velux HUMPraxis

  More information will follow.

• 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…

• 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:…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 18. nov. 2021, kl. 17.15

  Exile: a polyvalent term

  An online lecture by ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the…

• 17. nov. 2021, kl. 15.15

  Islamsk økonomi og finansiell integrering/ekskludering av muslimer i Norden

  Gæsteforelæsning med professor Torkel Brekke, Oslo

• 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…

• 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…

• 11. nov. 2021, kl. 13.00-15.00

  Festivalafslutning

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

• 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…

• 9. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

  AFLYST: At nærlæse Dostojevskij

  AFLYST

• 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 Ren…

• 5. nov. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

  Oversætterpanel

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

• 5. nov. 2021, kl. 13.15-15.00

  Boglancering: Dostojevskij – En introduktion

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

• 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…

• 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…

• 3. nov. 2021, kl. 15.00-17.00

  Brødrene Karamazov

  I anledning af nyoversættelsen af Brødrene Karamazov fortolker tre forskere den berømte russiske…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 29. okt. 2021, kl. 10.15-12.00

  Religion og kommunalpolitik – hvorfor nu det?

  Panelmøde med kommunalvalgets spidskandidater i Københavns Kommune

• 29. okt. 2021, kl. 10.00

  Resourceful and socially connected

  Public PhD defence by Peter Roy Harmsen.

• 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,…

• 28. okt. 2021, kl. 15.00

  Jørgen Bæk Simonsen holder afskedsforelæsning

  Lektor Jørgen Bæk Simonsen (Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier) holder…

• 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 i…

• 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…

• 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.…

• 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…

• 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.…

• 3. sept. 2021, kl. 13.00

  Al Zubarah and Freiha

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Agnieszka Bystron.

• 2. sept. 2021, kl. 16.15-18.00

  Grønland-Danmark, hvordan fortæller vi historien?

  Dialogmøde dansk-grønlandske relationer gennem 300 år.

• 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…

• 19. juli - 21. juli 2021

  Exchange of Knowledge Between Literate Cultures

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

• 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…

• 1. juli 2021, kl. 18.00

  Structured Agencies of Paramilitaries in the Kurdish-Turkish Conflict

  Public defence of PhD Thesis by Özlem Has.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 Medi…

• 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…

• 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.

• 5. febr. 2021, kl. 13.00

  Where Do We Go From Here?

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Erik Sporon Fiedler.

• 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…

• 7. dec. 2020, kl. 13.00

  The Meanings of the People in Turkish Politics: A Genealogy

  PhD defence by Spyros Sofos.

• 20. nov. 2020, kl. 13.00

  Historieundervisning som erindringsarena

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

• 29. okt. - 30. okt. 2020

  Inaugural Symposium of The MSA Nordic

  This conference brings together scholars of cultural and collective memory and researchers working…

• 22. okt. 2020, kl. 13.00

  Mindful Work

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Marianne Viftrup Hedegaard.

• 25. april 2020, kl. 14.00

  Kronborg som verdenskulturarv

  Forelæsning v/ Poul Grinder-Hansen, Seniorforsker, Nationalmuseet. Forfatter til bogen ”Kronborg –…

• 21. marts 2020, kl. 14.00

  Kulturarv som konfliktskaber og konfliktløser?

  Forelæsning v/ Ingolf Thuesen, institutleder ved Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier,…

• 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!

• 28. febr. - 29. febr. 2020

  Food and drink in feasting

  International two-day conference.

• 25. febr. 2020, kl. 9.15-10.30

  Translation, Transcoding, Code Switching?

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

• 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…

• 21. febr. 2020, kl. 13.15-14.30

  The role of the East-European writer after 1989

  Guest lecture by Adam Zagajewski.

• 21. febr. 2020, kl. 13.00

  Migrating authoritarianism

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Birgitte Stampe Holst.

• 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…

• 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…

• 11. dec. 2019, kl. 15.00-18.00

  Seminar: Vi syndere!?

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

• 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 &…

• 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.

• 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…

• 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 oprø…

• 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 Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay…

• 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) an…

• 30. okt. 2019, kl. 12.30-17.30

  Bier og honning

  Tværfagligt seminar om bier og honning på Københavns Universitet

• 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.

• 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…

• 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.

• 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.

• 25. sept. 2019, kl. 13.00

  In the Shadow of Illegality

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Bani Gill.

• 25. sept. 2019, 11

  The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918-1921

  Lecture by Associate Professor Beka Kobakhidze, Ilia State University, lecturer at the Georgian…

• 24. sept. 2019, kl. 14.15

  Project Gongan

  This year Denmark and South Korea celebrates the 60th anniversary of cultural exchange. Therefore…

• 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).

• 12. sept. - 15. sept. 2019

  Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways

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

• 11. sept. 2019, kl. 16.00

  Wealth and Collapse

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

• 11. sept. 2019, kl. 15.00

  Preliminary results from the renewed project at Tel Tsaf

  Lecture by Professor Danny Rosenberg.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…

• 24. maj 2019, kl. 13.00

  The Game of Knowledge

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Jacob Schmidt-Madsen.

• 23. maj 2019, kl. 9.00

  Issues in Indian Iconography

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

• 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) a…

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 12. april 2019, kl. 12.15

  Was the Iranian Revolution of 1979 Inevitable?

  Guest lecture by Professor Touraj Atabaki, Leiden University.

• 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…

• 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…

• 8. marts 2019, kl. 13.00

  Not there and (not) yet

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Valeria Guerrieri.

• 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.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 7. dec. 2018, kl. 13.00-16.00

  Heritage and Threat

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

• 6. dec. 2018, kl. 9.00-16.00

  Speaking with the Past

  An International Symposium on Language and History in Mesoamerica.

• 4. dec. 2018, kl. 17.00-20.15

  Religion, Gender and Body Politics

  Seminar in LiteraturHaus.

• 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).

• 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.

• 27. nov. 2018, kl. 12.00-13.00

  That's Offensive!

  Frokostmøde ret og humaniora - Oplægsholder lektor Thomas Brudholm fra TORS - Institut for…

• 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).

• 24. okt. 2018, kl. 10.15

  Science Fiction in Korea

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

• 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.

• 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…

• 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.

• 21. sept. 2018, kl. 10.00

  Monsters in Korean Film

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

• 20. sept. 2018, kl. 13.00-15.00

  Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat

  Guest lecture by Professor Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford.

• 19. sept. 2018, kl. 14.00

  Socioeconomic aspects of ancient Egyptian private tomb construction

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Rune Olsen.

• 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.

• 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.

• 27. juni 2018, kl. 10.00

  Urban Assemblages and Embodied Memory in Post-Socialist Tashkent

  Nikolaos Olma defends his PhD thesis.

• 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…

• 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.

• 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.

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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)…

• 15. maj 2018, 14

  Mænd der hader kvinder

  Workshop on issues in translation of belletristic literature from Scandinavian to Slavic languages…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.

• 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).

• 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).

• 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…

• 25. april 2018, kl. 10.30

  Hoarding, Waste and Recycling

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

• 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 learnin…

• 12. april 2018, kl. 10.15-12.00

  Oromo Ajami

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

• 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”).

• 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…

• 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…

• 14. marts 2018, 10

  Beastly Identification

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

• 12. marts 2018, kl. 16.15

  Buddhism Under Stress? On the Modern Transmission of Buddhism

  A talk by Andreas Doctor.

• 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.