ToRS Calendar

• 6 Sept. 2026, 14:00-17:00

  Empiricism and Humility: Characterizing the Problem Space for a (Future) Science of UAP

  Talk by Dr. Michael C. Cifone.

• 8 Sept. 2026, 16:30-17:30

  "Nye muslimske hjem" - Exhibition and talk

  Opening talk in connection with the opening of the exhibition "Nye muslimske hjem". 

• 9 Sept. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  Designing tools for a ‘Ajami Digital Philology: first results and further perspectives

  Guest lecture with Oreen Yousuf (PhD student, Uppsala University).

• 10 Sept. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  Post-growth entrepreneurship: the case of a tool library in Australia

  Talk by Sabrina Chakori.

• 11 Sept. 2026, 14:00-15:30

  Beyond the Screen: Creating Impact Through Film

  Session with filmmaker and activist Waad al-Kateab and impact producer and Action For Sama campaign director Rachael Chadwick.

• 15 Sept. 2026, 14:00-15:00

  Seized by Art: Grasping Untimely Art and Politics in the 1960s with Yoshio Nakajima

  Open lecture by professor William Marotti, University of California.

• 16 Sept. 2026, 19:00-21:00

  Copenhagen Conversations with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Didier Fassin

  Together with the National Museum of Denmark ToRS is organising the conversation series Copenhagen Conversations. Next iteration will be with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University, and Didier Fassin, École des hautes études en sciences sociale.

• 17 Sept. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  The Forest: Past and Future

  Conversation with Heather Swanson (University of Aarhus), Mathias Nielsen (University of Copenhagen), Erland Mårald (Umeå University), and Klara Härgestam (Örebro University). Moderated by Frederik Appel Olsen.

• 24 Sept. 2026, 10:00-15:00

  Research Communication for the Humanities

  This master class with Peter Hyldgård is specially organised for PhD students and early career scholars at ToRS and the Faculty of Humanities at large. We want to publicise this widely to attract applications.

• 25 Sept. 2026, 14:00

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

  Inaugural Lecture by Professor Andreas Bandak.

• 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, 15:00-16:00

  Roundtable Discussion & Friday Open Bar

  A casual, public-facing Friday open bar round-table discussion where students and any interested members of the public can interact with the workshop panellists from earlier in the day.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 11 June - 17 June 2028

  Activating Collections; Reimagining the roles of Polar libraries and archives

  The 31th Polar Libraries Colloquy.