ToRS Calendar

24 Mar. 2015, 14:15-16:00

Infantile Wordings. Subversive Infantilisation in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature

Seminar with Fedja Borčak, visiting Ph D candidate from Linnaeus
University

7 May 2015, 15:15-18:00

Coca-Cola Socialism

Lectures and seminar with Dr Radina Vučetić, University of Belgrade and Dr Bojan Aleksov, University College London

8 June 2015, 10:15-12:00

The Friday Sermon. A restricted and circumscribed discourse

Turkey during the inter-war period. Seminar with Professor Elisabeth Özdalga, Bilkent University, Ankara

28 Oct. 2015, 15:15-17:00

The Making of the Greek Genocide: Cosmopolitan memory and the contested remembrance of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

Forskningsseminar med Erik Sjöberg, Umeå Universitet

6 Nov. 2015, 14:15-17:00

Sport and National Identity in Southeastern Europe

Seminar with PhD-candidate Dario Brentin, University of Graz / University College of London and Postdoctoral Researcher Zlatko Jovanovic, University of Copenhagen

18 Nov. 2015, 15:15-17:00

Ottoman Times in Prime Time: Representations of the Ottoman Legacy in Greek Television Fiction

Seminar with Georgia Aitaki, PhD candidate in Film Studies, University of Gothenburg. This seminar aims at providing an overview of the ways that issues and events related to the Ottoman legacy have been portrayed in Greek television fiction.

20 Nov. 2015, 14:15-17:00

Subverting Master Narratives: New Discourses in Contemporary Greek, Bosnian and Spanish Literature

Seminar with Assistant Professor Trine Stauning Willert, University of Copenhagen; PhD-candidate Fedja Borčak, Linnaeus University and Dalila Tatarević, MA in Spanish Studies (Aarhus University)

3 Mar. 2016, 14:15-16:00

The Study of Religion and the Humanities in Twentieth-Century Europe

Seminar with Professor Kocku von Stuckrad, Groningen

3 Mar. 2016, 10:30-12:30

Religious Pluralism in European History

Public lecture by Professor Kocku von Stuckrad, Groningen.

25 May 2016, 1:15

Authoritarian Movements in Central Europe in the Interwar Period

Open lecture with Docent Adrian Velicu, Karlstad University.

25 Aug. 2016, 11:15-12:00

Don't We Have Enough Problems?

When Kosovo Exports its Crisis. Public lecture by Associate Professor Isa Blumi, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS), Stockholm University

12 Oct. 2016, 14:15

Mosques, Schools and Clubs

Muslim Women's Paths to Education in post-Ottoman Bosnia-Herzegovina (1878-1941). Public lecture with Associate Professor Fabio Giomi, Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, CNRS, Paris

12 Oct. 2016, 16:30

Public screening

Welcome to a public screening of the educational film Bosnian Muslim Women’s Rituals. Bulas Singing, Reciting and Teaching in Sarajevo by Catharina Raudvere, Copenhagen, and Zilka Spahić-Šiljak, Sarajevo

23 Feb. 2017, 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

13 Mar. 2017, 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

5 Apr. 2017, 15:15

Apostasy and Counter Narratives. Two Sides of the Same Coin

Open guest lecture by Professor Göran Larsson, Gothenburg.

27 Apr. 2017

Religion, medier og formidling

Guest lecture by Professor Torkel Brekke, Oslo

15 Mar. - 16 Mar. 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

15 Mar. 2018

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

Public lecture by Dr. David Henig, University of Kent

15 June 2018, 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.

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.

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.

28 Mar. 2019, 15:15

Remembering and Forgetting

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

7 Nov. 2019, 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.

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).

8 Oct. 2020, 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

21 Oct. 2020, 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. 

9 Nov. 2020, 14:15

Mosque or Cemevi. Questions of Tradition, Identity and Spirituality

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

20 Nov. 2020, 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.

15 Dec. 2020, 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 Feb. 2021, 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.

7 Apr. 2021, 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 ...

6 May 2021, 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.

20 May 2021, 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

14 Oct. - 16 Oct. 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.

3 Nov. 2021, 14:15-16:00

Turkish Friday Sermons. Diyanet and the Construction of National Identity

Webinar with professor Elisabeth Özdalga.

12 Nov. 2021, 14:15-16:00

The 1984 Winter Olympics and the Making of Sarajevo

A hybrid seminar with Zlatko Jovanovic.

2 Dec. 2021, 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.

3 Dec. 2021, 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.

3 May - 5 May 2022

PhD-course WASTE: Cultural imaginaries and materiality

3-day course for PhD-students

4 May 2022, 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

12 May 2022

Tibetan Materialities Workshop

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

30 May 2022, 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.

1 June 2022, 15:15-17:00

CApE-talk: Clive Hamilton

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

7 June 2022, 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

14 June - 15 June 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.

23 June - 24 June 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, 12:00-14:00

Recent and Coming Cycles of Climate Unrest

Lecture with Andreas Malm.

31 Aug. - 1 Sept. 2022

Practices, Aesthetics and Entanglements in Contemporary Muslim Piety

Conference. 

14 Sept. 2022, 10:00-11:15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

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

17 Sept. 2022, 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, 16:00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

29 Sept. 2022, 13:00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

6 Oct. 2022, 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).

11 Oct. 2022, 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). 

11 Oct. 2022, 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).

12 Oct. 2022, 10:00-11:15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

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

13 Oct. 2022, 13:00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

24 Oct. 2022, 15:00-17:00

Denialism is dying - what comes next?

 Talk by Adrienne Buller.

27 Oct. 2022, 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 Oct. 2022, 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 Oct. 2022

8th Contemporary Buddhist Studies writing workshop

Writing workshop on Contemporary Buddhist Studies.

2 Nov. 2022, 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.

11 Nov. 2022, 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, 10:00-11:15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

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

17 Nov. 2022, 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).

21 Nov. 2022, 17:00-18:45

Ecological Actions

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

7 Dec. 2022, 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, 12:00-14:00

CANCELLED: CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC III

CANCELLED.

14 Dec. 2022, 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, 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.

18 Jan. - 21 Jan. 2023

Islamic Piety. Reconsidering Concepts and Frameworks

Four day conference by The Many Roads in Modernity (Modernity). 

19 Jan. 2023, 14:00-20:00

Sustainable Drug Discovery Network Cross-UCPH Dialogue Meeting

Workshop - by invitation only

27 Jan. 2023, 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 Feb. 2023, 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 Feb. 2023

The 9th Contemporary Buddhist Studies writing workshop

The ninth CCBS writing workshop will take place on Thursday February 9, 2023

16 Feb. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics I, Land Ethics

First meeting in the reading group: Environmental Virtue Ethics. 

16 Feb. 2023, 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

2 Mar. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics II, Environmental Virtues

Second meeting in the reading group: Environmental Virtue Ethics.

6 Mar. 2023, 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.

20 Mar. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics III, Environmental Virtues and Education

Reading group directed by Leo Catana 

21 Mar. 2023, 13:00-16:30

Environmental virtue ethics: Environmental virtue ethics and education

Workshop directed by Karen Elizabeth Jordan, University of Iceland.

24 Mar. 2023, 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.

14 Apr. 2023, 13:15

Talal Asad’s Genealogies of Religion 1993–2023

Seminar.

21 Apr. 2023, 16:00-18:00

CANCELLED: Apocalypse No, lecture by Timothy Morton

Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled.

26 Apr. 2023, 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.

28 Apr. 2023, 10:00-12:00

Planetary Outsides

Talk by Martin Savransky.

3 May 2023, 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.

4 May - 5 May 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?

4 May 2023, 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. 

22 May - 23 May 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 May - 23 May 2023

Buddhist, Spiritual, Esoteric and Ecological Movements in the 21st Century: A Dynamic Legacy

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.

31 May 2023, 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 June 2023, 14:00-15:30

Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Preconflict Aleppo

Guest lecture with Paul Anderson, University of Cambridge

2 June 2023, 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.

10 June 2023, 10:00-13:00

Workshop with T.J. Demos: Radical Futurisms and Chronopolitics

Workshop with T.J. Demos.

24 Aug. 2023

Waste interventions, case work, and fieldwork workshop

Workshop.

29 Aug. 2023, 16:00-18:00

Adventures in the Vegetality of Time: Sexual Difference, Diachrony, and Other Plant Matters

A lecture by Professor Michael Marder.

5 Sept. 2023, 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.

27 Sept. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Strangelove Ecology: How we learned to stop worrying and love climate change

Talk by Pierre Charbonnier.

5 Oct. 2023, 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. 

11 Oct. 2023, 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.

26 Oct. 2023, 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,

30 Oct. 2023, 19:00-20:30

Copenhagen Conversations – On Time

Talk with anthropologist Joel Robbins, Cambridge, and historian Francois Hartog, EHESS, Paris.

1 Nov. 2023, 10:00-19:00

The Designed Planet

This workshop is facilitated by Troy Vettese and Niklas Olsen.

2 Nov. 2023, 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? 

3 Nov. 2023, 14:00-18:00

Master Class in Neoliberalism

Master Class with Troy Vettese and Niklas Olsen.

4 Nov. 2023, 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.

8 Nov. 2023, 14:15-15:30

Iconic Socioclasm: Destroying Cultural Heritage to Shatter Social Identities

Guest lecture by Christoph Günther (University of Erfurt).

17 Nov. 2023, 13:00-15:00

Waste temporalities and practices in India and Japan

Panel discussion.

27 Nov. 2023, 10:00-19:00

Workshop: Nordic Business and the Challenge of Environmentalism since the 1970’s

A workshop facilitated by Niklas Olsen.

4 Dec. 2023, 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.

5 Dec. 2023, 14:00-15:30

Revolutions aesthetic: A cultural history of Ba'thist Syria

Guest Lecture by Max Weiss.

5 Dec. 2023, 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?

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.

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.

22 Feb. 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.

13 Mar. 2024, 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 Mar. 2024, 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 Mar. 2024, 10:00-17:00

Things ceasing to be: Cormac McCarthy’s environmental vision

One-day symposium.

8 Apr. 2024, 14:00-16:00

CApE Talks: Care, ecological crisis and the dead ends of modernization

Talk by Manuela Zechner (postdoc).

8 Apr. - 10 Apr. 2024

Space and Agency in Contemporary Muslim Piety

Three day workshop.

11 Apr. 2024, 12:30-18:30

Rumi 750 years

Seminar.

22 Apr. - 24 Apr. 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 Apr. 2024, 17:00-19:00

Ecological Reparation – aesthetics, politics and articulations

Talk and screening.

23 Apr. 2024, 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).

25 Apr. - 26 Apr. 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.

7 May 2024, 16:00

Navigating dangerous emotions and progress in Bhutan: Buddhist lesson for sustainability

Talk with Dasho Karma Ura.

14 May - 17 May 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 May 2024, 15:30-17:30

Mikkel Krause Franzen's Endgame Emotions

Book launch and reception.

24 May 2024, 15:00-17:00

The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World

Book talk by Ajay Singh Chaudhary.

6 June 2024, 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).

24 June 2024, 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.

12 Sept. - 14 Sept. 2024

Perpetrator images as documentary, evidentiary, and affective

Two-day workshop.

3 Oct. - 4 Oct. 2024

Biographies of Excess

This workshop seeks to explore these issues through the lens of biographical approaches to religious ideas, objects, and people.

23 Oct. - 25 Oct. 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.

28 Oct. 2024, 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.

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, 14:30-16:00

Ancestors or property? Rights to the image and the continued enslavement through archives

Talk with Tamara Lanier (joining online).

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.

27 Nov. 2024, 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, 16:30

Poesi og samtale med Amina Elmi og Elias Sadaq

Event.

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.

10 Dec. 2024, 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).

17 Dec. 2024, 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.

21 Jan. 2025, 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, 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.

26 Feb. 2025, 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.

6 Mar. 2025, 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 Mar. 2025, 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.

13 Mar. 2025, 16:00-17:30

Transformative Talk: Consumer Empowerment

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19 Mar. 2025, 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).

20 Mar. 2025, 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 Mar. 2025, 9:30-17:00

Fieldwork and Gender Studies in the Middle East

Public workshop on fieldwork and gender studies in the Middle East.

27 Mar. 2025, 14:15-17:00

From Occultism to Occulture – or when 93 became 23

Guest lecture by Kasper Opstrup, Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen.

27 Mar. 2025, 14:00-16:00

CApE Talk: Soul and Environment: Psycho-anthropology of the Nonhuman Worlds

CApE Talk by Professor Oxana Timofeeva.

1 Apr. 2025, 13:30-15:00

Israeli Visual Politics and Digital Archives in a Time of Genocide

Lecture with Rebecca L. Stein (Duke University).

1 Apr. 2025, 10:30-12:00

Israeli visual politics

Closed workshop with Rebecca L. Stein (Duke University).

11 Apr. 2025, 14:00-16:00

Performative Environmentalism and the Everyday Legitimation of Climate Coloniality

Talk by Manisha Anantharaman, Sciences Po.

30 Apr. 2025, 15:00-16:30

Art and Society Through Feminist Degrowth

Performative and Collaborative Conversations with Degrowth Activist Scholar Anitra Nelson.

6 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

Transformative Talk: Feminist Ecological Economics and Degrowth

Panel Conversation with Emma Holten and Tone Smith

6 May 2025, 13:15-15:15

War and peace: How to report on war in contemporary conflicts

Guest lecturer Prof. Can Ertuna.

8 May 2025, 13:15-15:00

The essential guide media capture: Lessons from Turkey

Guest lecturer Prof. Can Ertuna.

8 May - 9 May 2025

Marginal Subjects - Emotional Resonances: Navigating Research Collaborations and Audiences

Two-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies. 

8 May 2025, 14:15-16:00

Satanism and magic

Lecture by Per Faxneld, Professor in the Study of Religions at Södertörn University, Sweden.

14 May 2025, 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 May 2025, 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 May 2025, 14:00

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

Public defence of PhD thesis by Amos Zaki Talcott Farooqi.

16 May 2025, 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 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

Solar Violence

Film screening and panel discussion with Ala Roushan, Charles Stankievech, Oxana Timofeeva and Dehlia Hannah.

21 May 2025, 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.

23 May 2025, 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).

27 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Contesting Pluralism(s)

Book Talk by Nora Fisher-Onar.

2 June 2025, 14:00-16:00

Listening to Stone

Workshop with Paul A. Harris, Stephanie Heine, and Lukas Quist Lund.

3 June 2025, 14:00-16:00

Post-Future Essayism

Talk by Eva la Cour, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and CApE

11 June 2025, 10:00-16:00

Thoughts and lines: Ethnographic drawing, graphic novels and analytical potentials

EASA Sensory Media Network workshop.

25 June - 26 June 2025

Final Conference of TEMPTING TUNES: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative in Korean Culture

 Two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the rich intersections of sound and narrative in Korean cultural history. 

22 Aug. 2025, 9:00-17:00

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

Conference.

26 Aug. 2025, 14:00-16:00

Exploring the Life of Solar Panels

Talk with Alexander Dunlap, postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University Institute for Global (IGS), USA, and a visiting research fellow in the Global Development Studies Department, University of Helsinki, Finland. 

3 Sept. 2025, 15:30-17:30

A Good Listener Knows That Knowledge is Everywhere, And. - A Spiral Lecture in the Context of Applied Ecologies

Applied Ecological Listening #1 - Part of a workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Yuri Tuma and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening

11 Sept. 2025, 14:00-15:30

Timed Death and Q&A w/ Omar Al Farouq

Syrian Doc Days screening.

12 Sept. 2025, 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 University.

17 Sept. 2025, 15:30-17:30

Situated Sonic Climate Fiction - Sound Ecology and Postnatural Listening

Part of a workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Yuri Tuma and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening.

17 Sept. 2025, 19:00-21:00

Copenhagen Conversations

Together with the National Museum of Denmark, associate professor Andreas Bandak has launched the conversation series Copenhagen Conversations - this time with  Jane Bennett and Tim Ingold.

18 Sept. 2025, 14:00-16:30

Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations

Book presentation with the editors and authors.

24 Sept. 2025, 15:30-17:30

CANCELLED: Listening After Nature

Applied Ecological Listening #2 - Part of a workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Mark Peter Wright and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening.

1 Oct. 2025, 15:30-17:30

Esoteric Listening – Can we listen without knowing? Can we hear the hidden, the divine, and the forces of nature?

Applied Ecological Listening #3 - Part of a workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Mark Peter Wright and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening.

6 Oct. 2025, 15:00-17:00

Copenhagen Climate Sound Series #1: Conservation Justice

Talk with Joycelyn Longdon with Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen and Natalie Marie Gulsrud.

11 Oct. - 12 Oct. 2025

Altered States of Consciousness in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents

Conference.

21 Oct. 2025, 14:00-16:00

The Language of Climate Politics

Talk with Genevieve Guenther followed by a discussion with Frederik Appel Olsen.

23 Oct. 2025, 11:30-12:30

AI and Images of the Unimaginable: Islamic Eschatology on TikTok

Public lecture with Christoph Günther.

24 Oct. 2025, 8:00-17:30

Witchcraft and Ecospirituality

This seminar creates a public forum that brings together scholars of witchcraft and ecospirituality alongside practitioners with the aim of exploring contemporary nature oriented spiritualities. 

29 Oct. 2025, 16:30-18:00

Transformative Talk: Makari - an attempt to accelerate green transition through finance

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30 Oct. - 31 Oct. 2025

Rethinking Human Relationships with the More-than-Human: Spiritual, Indigenous and Relational Paradigms in Conversation

This seminar creates a public forum that brings together international scholars and artists from a plurality of backgrounds.

4 Nov. 2025, 14:00-16:00

Copenhagen Climate Sound Series #2: Sonic Agriculture

Talk with Elodie F. Briefer (University of Copenhagen, Behavioural Ecology Group) and Katy Overstreet (University of Copenhagen, Centre for Sustainable Futures). 

4 Nov. 2025, 10:30-12:00

Stone Fighting, Violence and Culture in Korea, East Asia and the World

Talk by Felix Siegmund, professor of Premodern Korean Philology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

13 Nov. 2025, 10:00-17:00

Nature – Multidisciplinary Dialogues Between Research and Art

A one-day seminar hosted by the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE), University of Copenhagen.

14 Nov. 2025, 17:00-19:00

Philosophical salon: Érotique Cosmique

Two lectures and a musical performance on Georges Bataille’s erotic and ecological vision of the cosmos.

17 Nov. 2025, 14:00-16:00

Copenhagen Climate Sound Series #3: Listening Underwater

Performance lecture by artist Jana Winderen (Norway), a livestream from aboard a Norwegian research vessel somewhere between Svalbard and Greenland from Michael Kjær (University of Copenhagen) and audio-visual artist John Grzinich and discussion with Holger Schulze (Sound Studies Lab, University of Copenhagen). 

18 Nov. 2025, 10:30-12:00

Born into Rank? Status and Social Mobility in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910)

Lecture by Jing Hu (State Library of Berlin)

19 Nov. 2025, 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 and Politics of the Hidden’, ToRS. 

26 Nov. 2025, 13:00-15:00

Climate Politics When It’s Too Late

Book presentation by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton in discussion with Liz Jensen.

1 Dec. 2025, 15:00-17:00

On the Trail of Frankenstein’s Monster

Celebrating the publication of two new books, this event explores dialogues across centuries and mountain peaks. With Filippo Andreatta, Sarah Messerschmidt and Dehlia Hannah.

1 Dec. 2025, 10:30-12:00

Future heritage, nostalgia and everydayness in South Korea

Lecture by Elmer Veldkamp, University Lecturer Korean Studies, Leiden University. 

11 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

Zionism is Racism from the Standpoint of its Victims

Guest Lecture by Professor Max Weiss (Princeton University).

17 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

Science in Resistance: The Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice

Book event with author Fernando Racimo.

20 Jan. 2026, 14:00-16:00

Interdisciplinarity – a process of negotiated imagination?

A talk on Art-Science Collaborations and Methodological Reorientations with Marianne Achiam followed by a discussion with Eva la Cour and Johanna Paschen. 

20 Jan. 2026, 13:30-16:30

Networking the War

Inaugural international workshop of the research project ‘Networking the War’: An ethnographic-analytical study of minority perspectives, mobility, and recovery in war-affected Ukraine.

22 Jan. 2026, 15:00-17:00

Anthropocene History

Lecture by Sabine Höhler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

30 Jan. 2026, 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). 

6 Feb. 2026, 14:30-16:30

Digitalization of Memory Practices – China, Serbia, and Beyond

Book talk and panel discussion.

20 Feb. 2026, 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 Japanese approaches to cultural and World Heritage.

23 Feb. 2026, 10:00-12:00

What It Means to Imagine Turkey

Guest Lecture by Sertaç Sehlikoglu (University College London).

23 Feb. 2026, 10:00-12:00

What It Means to Imagine Turkey

Guest Lecture by Sertaç Sehlikoglu (University College London).

26 Feb. 2026, 16:15-18:00

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

CCRS ALUMNI: Graduation event.

27 Feb. 2026, 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.

3 Mar. 2026, 15:00-16:00

Generative AI and Teaching at ToRS

Join the presentation by Regnar Kristensen.

10 Mar. 2026, 10:00-12:00

A Multilingual Nation

Lecture by Professor Rita Kothari, Ashoka University.

12 Mar. 2026, 15:30-17:00

What does an ecofeminist household look like?

Keynote talk with Geneviève Pruvost and introduction by Anne-Sofie Dichman.

17 Mar. 2026, 10:15-11:45

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

Workshop 1: Identifying Innovation Potential.

17 Mar. 2026, 15:00-17:00

Environmental activism, climate consciousness, and political positions in Poland and beyond

Panel conversation with Adam Fagan, Anna Krakus and Thomas Morton, moderated by Tea Sindbæk Andersen.

18 Mar. 2026, 10:00-12:00

Workshop on Resilient Cultural Heritage

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

19 Mar. 2026, 11:00-12:15

Learn how to write a strong narrative CV

Seminar with Professor Mikkel Bille and Associate Professor Nina Grønlykke Mollerup

20 Mar. 2026, 15:00-17:00

Remembering illiberal regimes in Eastern Europe and beyond

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

24 Mar. 2026, 16:00-18:00

Occult Inspiration: A Pop-up Event on Esotericism in Artistic & Cultural Practices

Presentation by Conner Habib.

26 Mar. 2026, 15:00-19:00

Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Mexico

A seminar by Professor Lorena Ojeda-Dávila, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico).

9 Apr. 2026, 11:00-12:15

Setting up institutes for the study and teaching of Islam in Western Europe: the case of the Netherlands

Guest lecture by Welmoet Boender (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

9 Apr. 2026, 14:30-16:00

Women in Pak Kyongni's Early Literature of the 1950s

Talk by Cristina Bahón Arnaiz, Ph.D., assistant professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental (Center for East Asian Studies), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

9 Apr. 2026, 14:00-17:00

Wars of Impunity?

Launch event of Special Issue of Middle East Critique: “The Impunity Politics of Contested Security in Iraq.”

9 Apr. 2026, 14:30-16:30

New Perspectives on Islamic Education in Europe

Double book launch with Maria Lyngsøe and Welmoet Boender.

10 Apr. 2026, 13:30-15:00

The cruel optimism of the welfare state and its bordering practices

Guest lecture by Synnøve Bendixsen, professor in Social Anthropology at University of Bergen.

12 Apr. 2026, 16:00-18:00

Copenhagen Conversations with Lea Ypi and Lisa Wedeen

Together with the National Museum of Denmark, associate professor Andreas Bandak has launched the conversation series Copenhagen Conversations – this time with Lea Ypi and Lisa Wedeen.

13 Apr. 2026, 14:00-18:00

Yūkaku – Love District

Seminar and exhibition opening.

14 Apr. 2026, 15:00-16:30

Fighting the Far Right in South Korea

Talk by Hannes Mosler, chair of East Asian Social Sciences with a focus on Korean politics and society, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

14 Apr. 2026, 10:00-13:00

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

Workshop 2: Stakeholder mapping and value creation.

16 Apr. 2026, 10:15-13:15

Managing informant relations in research

Workshop on research ethics.

16 Apr. - 17 Apr. 2026

Esotericism, literature and counterculture

Conference and network for the Study of Esotericism and Literature.

16 Apr. 2026, 15:30-17:30

Rewilding the Museum

CApE talk by Dehlia Hannah.

16 Apr. 2026, 16:00-18:00

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

Lecture by Eythan Levy, University of Zurich.

17 Apr. 2026, 10:15-17:00

“Civilizationalism” in Ideology, Geopolitics and Authoritarian Outreach

Workshop.

24 Apr. 2026, 11:15

Magic und Theatricality in the Story of Doctor Faustus

Gust lecture by Professor Andreas Kilcher (ETH Zurich).

27 Apr. 2026, 14:00-16:00

Green transition in the Balkans: How a lack of planning fueled waves of Serbian protests

Talk by Aleksandar Matković, followed by a conversation with Nikola Lero and Tea Sindbæk Andersen.

27 Apr. 2026, 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, UAL.

27 Apr. 2026, 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 Apr. - 28 Apr. 2026

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

Dissertation workshop.

27 Apr. 2026, 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, UAL.

28 Apr. 2026, 10:30-12:00

Reframing Korean Mass Emigration: History, Political-Economy and Sentiments

Talk by Shimpei Cole Ota, associate professor at the National Museum of Ethnology and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan.

29 Apr. 2026, 12:15-13:00

Migration and Europe: a tale of two stories

This session will explore the contrast between media narratives, statistical realities, public discourse, and lived experiences.

6 May 2026, 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.

7 May 2026, 15:30-17:30

Breath, Air, Life: Public Health Burdens and Oil Refining on St. Croix

Talk by Tami Navarro, cultural anthropologist and associate professor, Drew University

19 May 2026, 13:00-15:00

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

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

21 May - 22 May 2026

CULTURAL MEMORY, CONFLICT AND THE POST-YUGOSLAV SPACE

Seminar on education, commemoration and informal memory practices.

25 May 2026, 19:00-21:00

IMAGINE

Film screening and panel conversation at Grand Teatret.

27 May 2026, 14:00-16:00

The Fire Will Never Cease: Defiant Ecologies in South Lebanon

Talk by Munira Khayyat, New York University.

3 June 2026, 14:00-16:00

Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast

Book presentation by Karl Emil Rosenbæk Reetz in discussion with Graeme Macdonald – performance by Tora Balslev.

9 June 2026, 14:00-16:00

'The Coal in Violence': How One Swedish Working-Class Writer Predicted Global Warming in 1928

Talk by Andreas Malm, Lund University.

26 June 2026, 13:00-16:00

In Memory of the Good Colony: Contemporary Danish Literature and Its Engagement with Kalaallit Nunaat

PhD defence by Emilie Dybdal.

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.

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.

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.