ToRS Calendar

• 25 Sept. 2026, 13:30-15:00

  Arab Women’s Autobiographies

  Lecture by Professor Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, the American University of Sharjah.

• 25 Sept. 2026, 15:00-16:00

  Roundtable Discussion & Friday Open Bar

  A casual, public-facing Friday open-bar roundtable discussion where students and any interested members of the public can interact with the workshop panellists from the event 'Roundtable: Research Communication for the Humanities' earlier in the day.

• 25 Sept. 2026, 9:30-14:00

  Research Communication for the Humanities

  This is a day-long panelled workshop bringing together some of Denmark’s professional science communicators to discuss various aspects of science communication for the humanities. Students and interested faculty members are welcome to drop in.

• 25 Sept. 2026, 14:00

  The Power of Examples: Conversations in and around Comparative Culture Studies

  Inaugural Lecture by Professor Andreas Bandak.

• 30 Sept. 2026, 16:30

  Script without Reading: The Social Life of Cuneiform in the Bronze Age Levant

  ToRS Ancient Studies Lecture Series: A talk with with Prof Jana Mynářová, Charles University Prague

• 30 Sept. 2026, 14:30-16:00

  India-Denmark Bilateral Relations

  Talk by Ambassador Manish Prabhat.

• 1 Oct. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  Workshop on Digital Methods in Open Source Investigations

  Workshop with Azza El-Masri and Jeff Deutch on advanced searching skills. This workshop is the first in a series of OSINT digital methods training sessions organised by the Visual Justice Lab.

• 3 Oct. - 4 Oct. 2026

  Spirits, Elementals, Ghosts, Vampires, Fairies, and Other Occult Beings in Modern Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents

  International Theosophical History Conference.

• 6 Oct. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  Can we mine ourselves out of the climate crisis? Lessons from resisting lithium mining in Serbia

  A talk with Nina Djukanović Hons, Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Belgrade.

• 7 Oct. 2026, 16:15-18:00

  Late antique religion between animism and cosmotheism

  Guest Lecture with Johan Brun Mendes Cederfeldt, PhD-candidate, Department for the Study of Religion, Aarhus University.

• 7 Oct. 2026, 10:30-12:00

  National Narratives, Their Recasting, and their Consequences

  Talk by Dr Nicholas Haas.

• 9 Oct. 2026, 13:00-16:00

  Teaching memory: History education and memory mediation in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

  PhD defence by Marija Krgovic

• 20 Oct. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy

  Book conversation with author Manuela Zechner and discussants Salvatore Paolo De Rosa and Sophia Wathne.

• 21 Oct. 2026, 13:30-15:30

  Ways into Ecosocial Education

  Guidebook launch and workshop.

• 22 Oct. 2026

  The Promise of Violence: Collective Memory and the Making of Revolutionaries in Iran

  Global Talk! with Assistant Professor Younes Saramifar, University of Amsterdam.

• 22 Oct. 2026, 16:00

  Early Farming in Southwest Asia: Revolution, Worst Idea in Human History, or Something in Between?

  Inaugural lecture by professor Tobias Richter.

• 28 Oct. 2026, 10:30-12:00

  India After Non-Alignment: The Quest to Become a Pole in International Politics

  Talk by Dr Happymon Jacob.

• 11 Nov. 2026, 14:00-18:00

  Education and textbooks in the Middle East and Beyond

  An event hosted by PhD student Kræn Kielsgaard and MA-student Cathrine Andrea Norup from Middle Eastern Studies

• 26 Nov. - 27 Nov. 2026

  Care - in what Universe?

  Two-day conference

• 11 June - 17 June 2028

  Activating Collections; Reimagining the roles of Polar libraries and archives

  The 31th Polar Libraries Colloquy.