ToRS Calendar

• 18 Aug. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  Settler-Colonial Logics in Climate Fiction

  Talk with Professor Nicole Seymour (California State University, Fullerton (US), and fellow at Center for Applied Ecological Thinking).

• 20 Aug. 2026, 9:00-12:00

  Falsehoods, Fandom, and Frictions: Digital Politics in East Asia

  HUM: Global Flagship Initiative “Alternative Platforms, Alternative Politics” workshop.

• 26 Aug. 2026, 13:00-16:00

  Undone: Life, care and violence at Danish domestic violence shelters

  PhD defence by Marie Louise Leine Rasmussen

• 28 Aug. 2026, 8:30-17:00

  Esotericism and Folklore: Building Bridges, Developing Dialogue

  One-day conference

• 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.

• 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.

• 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, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 11 June - 17 June 2028

  Activating Collections; Reimagining the roles of Polar libraries and archives

  The 31th Polar Libraries Colloquy.