ToRS Calendar

• 20 Aug. - 22 Aug. 2018

  Changing Global Hierarchies of Value? Museums, artifacts, frames, and flows

  International Conference arranged by the University of Copenhagen and The National Museum of Denmark, 20 - 22 August 2018.

• 27 Aug. 2018, 15:30-17:00

  ChinaTalk and Panel Debate: AIIB – Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

  The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ThinkChina and the University of Copenhagen invite you to this AIIB event featuring AIIB's Danish treasurer, Mr. Søren Elbech, as the main speaker. 

• 27 Aug. 2018, 17:00-18:30

  Hierarchies of Misery in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines

  Public guest lecture by Nicole Curato, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra.

• 29 Aug. 2018, 15:00-16:00

  CNARC Roundtable

  Egill Þór Níelsson, Nordic coordinator of CNARC, the China-Nordic Arctic Research Centre in Shanghai, will present news and views on the China - Nordic Arctic cooperation at this roundtable at NIAS.

• 3 Sept. 2018, 12:30-13:30

  China's International Development Cooperation

  Dr Yuan Zheng will deliver this lunch talk presentation to provide an overview of the global trends in development cooperation, as well as UNDP’s approaches to facilitate effectiveness of China’s “going-out”.

• 3 Sept. - 5 Sept. 2018

  Global Citizenship Education Network

  Global Citizenship Education Network: a 3 day workshop at University of Copenhagen.

• 7 Sept. 2018, 16:00

  India Files: Four Futures - India-Denmark Relations in the 21st Century

  The first of a series of public events about the future prospects of the India-Denmark bilateral relations. The expert panel sets focus on four futures in the intertwined arenas of commerce, culture, people and politics that lie ahead.

• 12 Sept. 2018, 13:00-15:00

  The Lost World of Jewish Socialism in Europe

  Guest lecture by Professor D. J. Walkowitz, New York University.

• 13 Sept. 2018, 15:00-16:30

  Inter-Korean and Kim-Trump Summits and the Future of the Korean Divide

  NIAS invites you to join a public guest lecture by  Professor Key-Young Son, Korea University

• 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.

• 14 Sept. 2018, 14:00-17:00

  Tomas Skov Lauridsen defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

  Tomas Skov Lauridsen defends his PhD thesis "Bad Banking with Chinese Characteristics: Financialized Political Capitalism in China"

• 17 Sept. - 18 Sept. 2018

  Coastal Communities and Disaster: Perspectives from Asia

  Disaster Workshop on the JSPS project “Local Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction Research in Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Reconstruction in Tsunami Affected Areas” with international disasters specialists and scholars.

• 18 Sept. 2018, 17:00

  The forgotten secret of Japanese books

  Denmark-Japan Society, Dansk Bibliofilklub and JapanSessions, ADI invite you to a public guest lecture by Professor Peter Kornicki from the University of Cambridge.

• 19 Sept. 2018, 14:00

  Socioeconomic aspects of ancient Egyptian private tomb construction

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Rune Olsen.

• 20 Sept. 2018, 13:00-15:00

  Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat

  Guest lecture by Professor Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford.

• 21 Sept. 2018, 10:00

  Monsters in Korean Film

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

• 21 Sept. 2018, 10:00

  Monsters in Korean Film

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

• 26 Sept. 2018, 15:15-17:00

  Nagayo Sensai: The Japanese Pioneer of Primary Health Care and His Eureka Moments

  Public talk by Eimi Watanabe on "Nagayo Sensai: The Japanese Pioneer of Primary Health Care and His Eureka Moments" at the Faculty Library of Social Sciences.

• 28 Sept. 2018, 11:00-12:00

  À la Carte in the Pile Dwelling

  Lecture by Manar Kerdy, Institute for Prehistory and Archaeological Science University of Basel.

• 2 Oct. 2018, 11:00

  South Asia Lectures: Religious Nationalism, Populism, and Democracy in India

  Public talk by Dr. Uday Chandra, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar, on Religious Nationalism, Populism, and Democracy in India.

• 3 Oct. 2018, 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 and South Korea. The event is open to everyone, however registration is required.

• 3 Oct. 2018, 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 and South Korea. The event is open to everyone, but registration is required.

• 4 Oct. 2018, 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.

• 5 Oct. 2018, 9:00-17:00

  Middle-class on the Move: Chinese family, gender and culture

  At this seminar a distinguished group of scholars will reflect on the making of the Chinese middle-class in conceptual terms as well as the meanings and significances of the middle-class in contemporary China. 

• 8 Oct. 2018, 9:30-11:30

  Science diplomacy and imperiled collaborative research during 5-years of diplomatic freeze between Norway and China

  Prof. Tone Bleie addresses the challenges of science diplomacy and research cooperation between Norwegian and Tibetan institutions and scholars during the diplomatic freeze between Norway and China.

• 8 Oct. 2018, 13:30-15:30

  Emerging Worlds: The Pricing of Progress

  Public talk and discussion: "The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life" by Dr. Eli Cook, University of Haifa.

• 8 Oct. - 11 Oct. 2018

  Transnational Custodianship of Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century

  Working meeting and workshop on transnational custodianship of cultural heritage from Asia and Africa.

• 24 Oct. 2018, 10:15

  Science Fiction in Korea

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

• 24 Oct. 2018, 10:15

  Science Fiction in Korea

  Guest lecture by Dr. Dennis Wuerthner from  Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

• 26 Oct. 2018, 12:30-13:30

  Talk by M. Jae Moon, professor in Public Administration

  The Department of Political Science at UCPH will host a talk by M. Jae Moon, professor in Public Administration, Yonsei University, in cooperation with CBS.

• 29 Oct. 2018, 10:00-12:30

  Seminar on welfare state regimes in East and West

  Seminar at the Department of Sociology with presentations by  Chan-Ung Park, Professor of Sociology at Yonsei University, and scholars from UCPH.

• 29 Oct. 2018, 14:15-15:30

  The effects of parental leave on career interruption of female workers in Korea

  Public NIAS-ADI talk by Prof. Chan-Ung Park from the Department of Sociology, Yonsei University.

• 30 Oct. 2018, 13:15-15:00

  CEHA seminar: Social Network Organization of Health

  NEW VENUE - Yoosik Youm, Professor of Sociology, Yonsei University will introduce the ‘Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project’ (KSHAP) and selected research results. 

• 31 Oct. 2018, 9:00-11:30

  Workshop: How do we map social networks and how can we ’say stuff’ about the qualities and forms of relations within them?

  A joint workshop between the Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen & Department of Sociology, and Yonsei University.

• 1 Nov. 2018, 11:30-12:30

  Insights from Asian Development Bank

  Presentation by Tomoyuki Kimura, ADB’s Director General of the Strategy, Policy and Review Department

• 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.

• 2 Nov. 2018, 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).

• 2 Nov. 2018, 10:15

  The Empire of Crime: Criminalistic Fantasy of Modernity in Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea

  Seminar by Dr. Jooyeon Rhee from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 5 Nov. - 9 Nov. 2018

  11th Annual NIAS Conference and PhD Course: Asia on the Move

  The 11th annual NNC Conference and PhD Course, will take place in the High North venue UiT-The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø.

• 12 Nov. 2018, 15:00-16:30

  ChinaTalks: Europe within China's Belt and Road: Superhighway or Diverging Lanes?

  Dr Marc Lanteigne will give a public lecture on Europe's position within the Belt and Road Initiative. The lecture is moderated by Andreas Bøje Forsby.

• 14 Nov. 2018, 12:30-13:30

  Hyperstructures: Re-thinking large-scale infrastructure development in Highland Asian borderlands

  Lunch talk by Galen Murton, Assistant Professor, James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

• 15 Nov. 2018, 16:30-18:00

  Debat: Har vi brug for flere babyer?

  Debatarrangement om konsekvenserne af lavfertilitet i Danmark, Kina og verdenen. Panelister: Pernille Fenger, Sisse Marie Welling, Søren Ziebe, Ayo Wahlberg, Antropologi, Københavns Universitet. Moderator: Trine Grönlund

• 23 Nov. 2018

  A Century of International Relations: The Politics of Crisis, Uncertainty, and Disorder

  First Copenhagen-Tokyo IARU Conference in International Relations. Participation by invitation only.

• 27 Nov. 2018, 12:00-13:00

  That's Offensive!

  Frokostmøde ret og humaniora - Oplægsholder lektor Thomas Brudholm fra TORS - Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale StudierInstitut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier.

• 27 Nov. 2018, 12:30-13:30

  The Socialist Tower of Babel in 1950s China

  Lunch talk by  Lorraine Wong, Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago, New Zealand. Wong is currently a guest researcher at NIAS.

• 28 Nov. 2018, 12:30

  Peace-Building on the Korean Peninsula and the Role of EU

  Lunch talk by by Jae-Seung Lee, Professor & Jean Monnet Chair, Korea University.

• 29 Nov. 2018, 10:15-12:00

  A Robe of Meaning and Miracles

  Lecture by Professor Eloi Ficquet, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

• 30 Nov. 2018, 9:30

  Andreas Kim Taegŏn (1821-1846): The Clandestine Life and Heroic Afterlife of the First Korean Catholic Priest

  Public lecture by Dr Pierre-Emmanuel Roux, Paris Diderot University,  on Andreas Kim Taegŏn - the First Korean Catholic Priest.

• 30 Nov. 2018, 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).

• 3 Dec. 2018, 11:00-12:30

  ADI Workshop: Digital Korean Studies

  Workshop on Digital Korean studies with Junho Lee & Theodore Jun Yoo, Yonsei University, and Barbara Wall, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies UCPH.

• 4 Dec. 2018, 17:00-20:15

  Religion, Gender and Body Politics

  Seminar in LiteraturHaus.

• 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.

• 6 Dec. 2018, 9:00-16:00

  Speaking with the Past

  An International Symposium on Language and History in Mesoamerica.

• 6 Dec. 2018, 9:00-12:00

  Middle class on the move - Lifestyle, Gender, and Culture in Contemporary China

  The workshop takes place in Beijing and is the 3^rd and last in a workshop series of three.  

• 6 Dec. 2018, 9:30-15:30

  Contested Narratives in Islamic Central Asia

  Workshop to mark the 10^th anniversary of ADI and as part of the project “Between Homogenization and Fragmentation” funded by Velux Fonden.

• 7 Dec. 2018, 10:00-12:00

  Reading Group Seminar on Giovanni Arrighi: The Long Twentieth Century

  The Critical Studies of Capitalist Transformation (CSCT) network is pleased to invite you to a reading group seminar at the Centre for Global South-Asian Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies on Giovanni Arrighi: The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power and the Origins of our Times.

• 7 Dec. 2018, 13

  Heritage and Threat symposium, exhibition and magazine launch

  Final symposium on Heritage and Threat (HeAT) and opening exhibition of Conflict and Culture and launch of the magazine Conflict and Culture.

• 7 Dec. 2018, 13:00-16:00

  Heritage and Threat

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

• 12 Dec. 2018, 17:30

  Esther's Children - Between Iran and Zion

  The Middle East Association NASIM, in collaboration with The Turban Times, organizes an event with Professor Lior B. Sternfeld of Pennsylvania State University on Iranian Jews.

• 13 Dec. 2018, 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 (IslHornAfr).

• 13 Dec. 2018, 10:30-11:30

  Studying Chinese Politics with Professor David Shambaugh

  Workshop with Professor David Shambaugh: "How has the field of study of Chinese politics evolved in the West during the seventy years of the People’s Republic of China?"

• 13 Dec. 2018, 12:00-13:30

  Predicting China with Professor David Shambaugh

  Luncheon discussion with Professor Shambaugh on continuity and change in China. 
  

• 13 Dec. 2018, 17:00-19:00

  ChinaTalks: The Evolution of Chinese Leaders’ Styles: From Mao to Xi Jinping

  Professor David Shambaugh will discuss the leaders' distinctiveness and continuities over time, and how each leader has affected the Chinese Communist Party as an institution and the PRC as a nation. 

• 14 Dec. 2018, 12:30-13:30

  Facing the Challenges of Ethical Communication Across Differences in Disciplines, Cultures and Class: The Case of Bile Duct Cancer in the Mekhong Delta

  Lunch talk by Prof. Rachel Harrison, SOAS

• 11 Jan. 2019, 12:30-13:15

  Lunch talk: Getting Published - in English: Empathy and scholarship in the 21st century

  David Stuligross will trace the process of getting published in English-language journals and books, emphasizing moments where scholar-authors have the greatest ability to influence a publisher’s decisions, as well as the moments where native Japanese writers might have the greatest difficulties – and how to overcome them.

• 11 Jan. 2019, 17:00

  Necro Citizens - a collective reading with poets Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Maja Lee Langvad, and Eva Tind

  Collective reading with poets Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Maja Lee Langvad, and Eva Tind. Copies of the book will be sold at the event.

• 24 Jan. 2019, 15:30-17:00

  ChinaTalks: China as (near-) Arctic great power – drivers and perspectives

  Public talk by Camilla Tenna Nørup Sørensen from the Institute for Strategy, Royal Danish Defence College (RDDC).

• 6 Feb. 2019, 15:00-17:00

  India Files: Gandhi in Denmark

  Reflections, History, Future. In this symposium, we revisit the forgotten connections forged between India and Denmark via Gandhi at the beginning of the 20^th century and reflect how these connections might shape the bilateral relations in the 21^st century.

• 7 Feb. 2019, 13:00-14:00

  Japanese Immigration: A Brief Review & Current Issues

  Outline of the development of modern Japanese immigration policy, current immigration-related issues Japan and comparisons to immigration policy and issues in Denmark.

• 7 Feb. 2019, 15:30-17:00

  Stability on the Korean peninsula - How did we get there and will it last?

  Public lecture by Liselotte Odgaard, research fellow at the Danish Foreign Policy Society.

• 19 Feb. 2019, 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 Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 20 Feb. 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.

• 20 Feb. 2019, 10:00-12:00

  What is the 'preparation' in the preparing for death: the sanctions, post-invasion Iraq and the cancer war.

  Åben forelæsning ved Hayder Al-Mohammad, adjunkt på University of Colorado Springs, USA.

• 20 Feb. 2019, 15:30-17:00

  ChinaTalks: China’s international relations and harmonious world

  Public talk by Astrid H. M. Nordin, Director of  Lancaster University China Centre and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion.

• 25 Feb. 2019, 16:30-18:00

  ChinaTalks: Political Economy and Military Power. Transition to a new power structure: From Globalization to regionalization

  Public talk in the ChinaTalks series by Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller. The talk is organized by Think China, Centre for Military Studies, and The Danish Foreign Policy Society.

• 6 Mar. 2019, 13:15-15:00

  JapanSessions: Mikkel Felter

  JapanSessions med Mikkel Felter: "Den Onde Censors Guide til den Gode Eksamen"

• 6 Mar. 2019, 16:00-18:00

  Jokowi - to be or not to be?

  Public Southeast Asia Policy Briefing: Indonesia, the world’s third largest democracy, elects a new president and parliament.

• 8 Mar. 2019, 13:00

  Not there and (not) yet

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Valeria Guerrieri.

• 11 Mar. - 15 Mar. 2019

  Nordic Korean Studies Days

  Nordic Korean Studies Days is a 5 day intensive Korean Studies course designed to share expertise and cooperation among both teaching faculty and students of Nordic universities.

• 18 Mar. - 19 Mar. 2019

  Workshop: The People's State

  Workshop convened by Ravinder Kaur, University of Copenhagen, and Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford.

• 20 Mar. 2019, 14:15-16:00

  Respect your neighbour as yourself?: Caste in Kerala

  Public seminar with Sharika Thiranagama, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University as part of the Global Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series.

• 21 Mar. 2019, 14:15-16:00

  Seminar: Two perspectives on Japanese foreign policy in East-Asia

  Seminar with Prof. Dr. Junya Nishino and Prof. Dr. Tomoki Kamo from Keio University on Japanese foreign policy in East Asia

• 28 Mar. 2019, 15:15

  Remembering and Forgetting

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

• 28 Mar. - 29 Mar. 2019

  Workshop: Present Tense, Past Perfect? Narrative constructions of social representations in Central Eurasia

  A two-day workshop as part of the research project, “Between homogenization and fragmentation: textual practices as strategies of integration and identity maintenance among the Uyghurs of Xinjiang, China (20th‒21st centuries). By invitation only.

• 2 Apr. 2019, 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 Scandinavia as key receiving societies.

• 2 Apr. 2019, 13:15

  Youngen Koo: The Past and Present of Korean Intercountry Adoption and Scandinavia

  Guest lecture by Youngeun Koo, Tuebingen University, on South Korean intercountry adoption and Scandinavia as key receiving societies.

• 8 Apr. 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Brown Bag Talk: From barbarians to minorities to assimilation: The future of China's ethnic minorities

  Public talk by Associate Professor Magnus Fiskesjö, Cornell University, on the future of China's ethnic minorities.

• 9 Apr. 2019, 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 national d'Histoire naturelle) Paris.

• 10 Apr. - 11 Apr. 2019

  Conference: China, Sustainable Development and Economic Policy-Making

  This conference brings together experts in law, economics, environmental protection and climate change, political sciences and cultural studies to discuss China's sustainable development.

• 12 Apr. 2019, 10:00-12:00

  Special seminar: China, Sustainable Development, and Economic Policy-making

  Seminar with international experts, commenting on most recent developments regarding China, sustainable development and economic policy-making.

• 12 Apr. 2019, 12:15

  Was the Iranian Revolution of 1979 Inevitable?

  Guest lecture by Professor Touraj Atabaki, Leiden University.

• 15 Apr. 2019, 15:30

  Georgia – Homeland of Golden Fleece, Wine and Unique Alphabet

  Lecture by Associate Professor Irene Darchia, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

• 24 Apr. 2019, 14:15-16:00

  What is really happening in Xinjiang? Historical context, current developments and source criticism

  Public talk by Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Rune Steenberg. The talk will provide an insight into the current state of affairs in Xinjiang against a historical backdrop and address the extreme difficulties faced by local people in everyday life.

• 24 Apr. 2019, 16:15-17:45

  Belt and Road Initiative with new tracks?

  Prof. Pascha: Japan´s multilateral infrastructure initiative: (Not only) a reaction to China and Prof. Jørgen Delman: China's road to a new world order - What is driving the BRI and why?

• 25 Apr. 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Women's Empowerment through Social Safety Nets

  Lunch talk with Marvi Memon on the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan.

• 25 Apr. 2019, 13:00

  Methodological Approaches to the Study of Ritual Humor in Ancient Mesoamerica

  Lecture by Professor Karl A. Taube, University of California at Riverside.

• 25 Apr. - 26 Apr. 2019

  EastAsiaNet Workshop

  ADI at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School are the hosts of this year's EastAsiaNet Workshop. Presentations will focus on '"The Good Life" in East Asia' and 'Revisiting the Internationalization of Japan'

• 29 Apr. 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: War on the Cold War – Transitional Justice in Korea

  Lunch talk with Sungju Park-Kang, University of Turku, Finland, on the issue of justice for victims of state violence in Korea.

• 29 Apr. 2019, 14:15-16:00

  Between Work and Labor: Interstitial Selves in the Indian Construction Industry

  Public seminar with Adam Sargent, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, as part of the Global Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series.

• 2 May 2019, 9:00-16:30

  International Conference: A New Crossroad? Sinicization of Christianity in China

  The Fudan-European Centre is convening a conference on Christianity in China. All are welcome.

• 6 May 2019, 13:30-16:00

  Symposium: Persisk på KU fylder 100

  Persisk (tidligere Iransk Filologi) på Københavns Universitet fylder 100 år den 6. maj 2019.

• 7 May 2019, 15:15-17:00

  Laterality: A Sideways Look at Ritual

  Guest Lecture by Simon Coleman, University of Toronto.

• 7 May - 9 May 2019

  The Egyptological Conference in Copenhagen 2019

  It is a great pleasure to announce the fifth, annual Egyptological Conference in Copenhagen (ECC) at the University of Copenhagen.

• 9 May 2019, 11:00-15:00

  Internet and Politics in China: Taking stock and moving forward

  An interdisciplinary seminar which aims to critically reflect on the current discussion on internet and politics in Greater China.

• 9 May 2019

  Rethinking the Himalayas

  2nd Annual Nordic Himalaya Research Network Conference at University of Copenhagen for researchers in the Nordic region and beyond who work on aspects of research related to the Himalaya region, spanning India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet.

• 13 May - 14 May 2019

  International Conference: Frontiers of Accumulation

  International conference in 2019 at UCPH. Part of the Emerging Worlds program. Organized jointly by the CGSAS, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and ADI

• 20 May - 22 May 2019

  Indological Workshop

  The workshop investigates the interplay between two intellectual traditions of ancient and medieval India, Jyotiḥśāstra (the astral sciences) and the Purāṇas (religious texts of encyclopedic nature).

• 23 May 2019, 9:00

  Issues in Indian Iconography

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

• 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:30

  ChinaTalks: Will China 'forcefully reunify' Taiwan?

  ChinaTalk on Taiwan by Professor of Chinese politics Peter Hays Gries, Lee Kai Hung Chair and Director of the Manchester China Institute at the University of Manchester.

• 24 May 2019, 10:15-12:00

  The irony of open borders: Mobility, citizenship and ethnicity in Himalayan South Asia

  Public seminar with Sara Shneiderman, Dept. of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, as part of the Global Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series. Please note change of time

• 24 May 2019, 13:00

  The Game of Knowledge

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Jacob Schmidt-Madsen.

• 24 May 2019, 13:00-16:00

  The Game of Knowledge

  Jacob Schmidt-Madsen defends his PhD thesis.

• 28 May 2019, 14:00-17:30

  Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Post-Earthquake Reconstruction: Comparisons and Findings from Nepal's 2015 Earthquake

  This public seminar presents findings from an international research project investigating the socio-political effects of Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes in dialogue with scholars working on disasters in other areas of the world. Please register by 26 May noon.

• 11 June 2019, 13:00

  Politics of Work

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Maansi Parpiani.

• 18 June 2019, 10:00-11:15

  Dagmar Schaefer: Mobilities and histories of knowledge exchange in Eur(ope-)Asia-Africa. Or: Is China ‚Chinese'?

  Professor Dr. Dagmar Schaefer,  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, will give her keynote address "Mobilities and histories of knowledge exchange in Eur(ope-)Asia-Africa. Or: Is China ‚Chinese'?" as part of the 11th annual ADI Conference held at University of Copenhagen.

• 18 June 2019, 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 Kalmbach (University of Sussex).

• 18 June 2019, 15:45-16:45

  Kajri Jain - Gods in the Time of Democracy

  Dr. Kajri Jain, Department Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto, will give her keynote address entitled: "Gods in the Time of Democracy", as part of the 11th annual ADI Conference held at University of Copenhagen.

• 18 June - 19 June 2019

  ADI Conference 2019

  Join us for the 11th annual, international ADI conference. Keynote speeches by Professor Dr. Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University and Dr. Kajri Jain, University of Toronto, as well as panels on a wide range of themes.

• 19 June 2019, 11:15-12:15

  Eric Tagliacozzo - How the Indian Ocean Spice Trade Made the World Modern

  Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History, Cornell University, will give his keynote address "How the Indian Ocean Spice Trade Made the World Modern".

• 19 June 2019

  PhD workshop: The Asian City

  As part of the 11th annual ADI conference a PhD workshop exploring The Asian City will be held.

• 20 June 2019, 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.

• 20 June 2019, 13:00-16:00

  The Sociology of Morals. Catholic Faith and Generational Identities among Filipino Migrants in Copenhagen, Denmark

  Astrid Krabbe Trolle defends her PhD thesis.

• 24 June - 19 July 2019

  IARU Summer Course: Borderland

  IARU summer course "Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South" in Chiang Mai, Thailand organized jointly by University of Copenhagen and UC-Berkeley.

• 25 June 2019, 13:00

  Ambiguous Interplays – Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark from Kobane to Afrin

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Anne Sofie Schøtt.

• 25 June 2019, 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.

• 22 Aug. - 23 Aug. 2019

  Trading the World: Routes, Resources, Realignments

  The final, closing research workshop of the "Emerging Worlds Program".

• 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 Research/GSRL (Group Societies, Religions, Laicities)), EPHE-PSL, Paris.

• 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 Research/GSRL (Group Societies, Religions, Laicities)), EPHE-PSL, Paris.

• 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 Media Users in Europe.

• 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 kommunistiske regimer brød sammen i Østeuropa.

• 10 Sept. 2019, 10:00-11:00

  Shanghai Library presentation at NIAS

  Representatives from the Shanghai Library will give a presentation of their national collection of periodicals from the Qing and Republican periods.

• 10 Sept. 2019, 16:30-18:00

  Frauds, fakes and fentanyl - How profits and corruption have driven dangerous medicine in China and beyond its borders

  Public talk by award-winning journalist Kathleen McLaughlin organized by ThinkChina. Registration is required.

• 11 Sept. 2019, 15:00

  Preliminary results from the renewed project at Tel Tsaf

  Lecture by Professor Danny Rosenberg.

• 11 Sept. 2019, 16:00

  Wealth and Collapse

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

• 12 Sept. 2019, 15:30-17:00

  Sino-Danish collaboration on energy policies and the critical policy challenges in China’s energy transition

  Public seminar with presentations by Xia Jianjun, Tsinghua University and Jørgen Delman, China Studies, University of Copenhagen. Registration is required.

• 12 Sept. - 15 Sept. 2019

  Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways

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

• 16 Sept. 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Why understanding the RSS is important

  Seminar with Walter Andersen on his and Shridhar Damle’s co-authored book entitled Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India (2018).

• 17 Sept. 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Love, Money and Obligation: Transnational Marriage and Local Complexity

  Join us for a brown bag talk by Dr. Patcharin Lapanun from Khon Kaen University, Thailand.

• 18 Sept. 2019, 15

  Kinesiske statsformer og livsformer

  Forelæsning 1/3 i efterårets forelæsningsserie Strukturel Dialektik på Saxo Instituttet er v/ Thomas Højrup.

• 19 Sept. 2019, 9:15

  The Green Hills: Environment and Society in Pre-Industrial Korea

  Guest lecture by Dr. John Lee, East Asian History, Durham University, on the the environmental history of pre-modern Korea

• 19 Sept. 2019, 9:15

  The Green Hills: Environment and Society in Pre-Industrial Korea

  Guest lecture by Dr. John Lee (East Asian History, Durham University).

• 24 Sept. 2019, 14:15

  Project Gongan

  This year Denmark and South Korea celebrates the 60th anniversary of cultural exchange. Therefore Jazz Denmark invites two traditional Korean musicians, Bung Gill Choi (changoo), and Eunhee Choi (gayagum) to start a new musical collaboration between the two countries.

• 24 Sept. 2019, 14:15

  Project Gongan

  To celebrate the 60th anniversary of cultural exchange between Denmark and South Korea,  Jazz Denmark has invited two traditional Korean musicians to start a new musical collaboration between the two countries.

• 25 Sept. 2019, 11

  The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918-1921

  Lecture by Associate Professor Beka Kobakhidze, Ilia State University, lecturer at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).

• 25 Sept. 2019, 13:00

  In the Shadow of Illegality

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Bani Gill.

• 25 Sept. 2019, 13:00-16:00

  In the Shadow of Illegality

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Bani Gill.

• 25 Sept. 2019, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence - Xuan Li

  Xuan Li, Dept. of Political Science defends her PhD thesis "Youth Policy, Youth Civic Engagement and Youth Civic Culture across Socio-political Settings: Comparing China and Europe"

• 27 Sept. 2019, 14:15-15:25

  Hooked: Art and Attachment

  Guest lecture by professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia/University of Southern Denmark.

• 30 Sept. 2019, 13:30-15:00

  China’s Reconnection to Europe via the BRI

  Guest lecture by Professor Xiangming Chen, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut on "China’s Reconnection to Europe via the BRI: The China-Europe Freight Train and its Two-ended Urban and Regional Impacts".

• 2 Oct. 2019, 14:00

  Swords into Bank Shares: Finance, Conflict, and Political Reform in Meiji Japan

  Applied Economics Seminar with Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University arranged by the Department of Economics.

• 3 Oct. 2019, 15:15-17:00

  Cancelled - Enchanted Geography: India in the West African Popular Imagination

  Open lecture with David Kofi Amponsah, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

• 4 Oct. 2019, 9:00-12:00

  Seminar: Elderly Care on the Move - Chinese/Danish Perspectives

  ThinkChina and the Co-ordination for Gender Research are hosting a half day seminar on ageing societies and elderly care.

• 4 Oct. 2019, 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.

• 7 Oct. 2019, 12:00-13:30

  ChinaTalks: China’s propaganda campaign in Sweden, 2018–2019

  Public talk by Björn Jerdén, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, on China’s recent propaganda campaign in Sweden.

• 7 Oct. - 10 Nov. 2019

  From Kabul to Kolkata: Of Belonging, Memories and Identity

  Photo exhibition by Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz. The exhibition documents the Afghan community or the ‘Kabuliwalas’ of Kolkata and is inspired by Tagore's short story from 1892.  

• 8 Oct. 2019, 10:00-11:30

  Regulating algorithmic news recommendation in non-democracies - the case of Russia

  Lecture by Dr Mariëlle Wijermars, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University. This is the first of three lectures in the Frontier Seminar Series: "An interdisciplinary approach to digital threats”.

• 10 Oct. 2019, 15:15-16:45

  Facing the Uyghur Plight

  Interview with Uyghur consultant, translator and human rights activist Rushan Abbas.

• 14 Oct. 2019, 14:00-15:30

  Subordinates or Partners: Government-Nonprofit Relationships in Public Service Delivery in China

  Guest Lecture by Yijia Jing, Prof. in Public Management and International Relations, Fudan University, 

• 22 Oct. 2019, 15:00-16:30

  The Hong Kong crisis - from local conflict to global challenge

  This public seminar explores the political crisis in Hong Kong from multiple perspectives, including its local, regional and global implications.

• 22 Oct. 2019, 15:00-17:30

  Film screening: Strangers? (HaUlpan)

  See the award winning Israeli Documentary ‘A Hebrew Lesson’ (English subtitles) followed by a Q&A with the director Ron Rotem.

• 28 Oct. 2019, 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.

• 30 Oct. 2019, 12:30-17:30

  Bier og honning

  Tværfagligt seminar om bier og honning på Københavns Universitet

• 30 Oct. 2019, 13:00-14:30

  The Return of Chen Ching Lin: A Chinese Deserter in the British Raj, 1943-46

  India-China Conjunctures lecture by Cao Yin, Associate professor in the Department of History, Tsinghua University.

• 31 Oct. 2019, 10:00-11:30

  ChinaTalks: Wrongful Conviction and Judicial Reform in China

  Public talk by He Jiahong, lawyer, writer and professor at Renmin University on causes for wrongful convictions and judicial reform in China. 

• 1 Nov. 2019, 14:00-15:30

  Reconstructing Past Foodways in the Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic of southwest Asia

  Friday Lecture at Archaeology, by Associate Professor Tobias Richter, University of Copenhagen.

• 1 Nov. 2019, 8:30-18:30

  Seminar on Digitalization and Legal Culture: Western and Chinese Perspectives

  One-day seminar on digitalization, geopolitics, law and legal culture with keynote presentations by Prof. He Jiahong, Renmin University of China and Dr. Hanne Marie Motzfeldt, University of Copenhagen

• 6 Nov. 2019, 9:00-13:30

  Peace Process on the Korean Peninsula

  Seminar organized jointly by NIAS and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and the Republic of Korea. All are welcome - registration is required.

• 7 Nov. 2019, 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) and Paul Gilroy (IKK), will lecture for approximately 35-40 minutes, followed by 5-10 mn Q & A.

• 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.

• 12 Nov. 2019, 9:15

  Between Tradition and Modernity: Understanding Government Reforms in Late Nineteenth Century Korea

  Guest lecture by Dr. Holly Stephens, Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Edinburgh.

• 12 Nov. 2019, 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 Humanitites and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay.

• 13 Nov. 2019, 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 oprør overalt i verden, bl.a. Chile, Hong-Kong, Irak, Libanon, Catalonien og Algeriet?

• 13 Nov. 2019, 14:00-17:00

  PhD defence: Priya Dershini Parmalingam

  "Why litigate? The role of political, bureaucratic and strategic incentives on recourse to trade litigation: Comparing the experiences of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand in the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism"

• 13 Nov. 2019, 14:00-16:00

  Perfect motherhood: Middle-class mothers in urban China

  Public guest lecture by Dr. CHEN Meng,  School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University.

• 18 Nov. 2019, 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 rulers in Beijing.

• 18 Nov. 2019, 15:00-16:30

  The Significance of the Qing Period for China-India Relations

  India-China Conjunctures lecture by Matthew W. Mosca, Associate Professor, University of Washington.

• 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).

• 27 Nov. 2019, 13:00-14:30

  China's "360-degree" Digital Governance and Information Operation: An update

  Talk by Dr. Kingwa Fu, Associate Professor, Hong Kong University. This is the third and final lecture in the Frontier Seminar Series: "An interdisciplinary approach to digital threats”.
  

• 28 Nov. 2019, 13:30-14:30

  Making Islam Relevant: Changing Dynamics of Islamic Authority in the West

  Open lecture by Professor Masooda Bano, University of Oxford.

• 28 Nov. 2019, 15:00-16:30

  CANCELLED! ChinaTalks: Cold Games - The Emergence of Sino-American Strategic Competition in the Arctic

  CANCELLED! Public talk with Marc Lanteigne from Political Science, University of Tromsø: The Arctic University of Norway.

• 2 Dec. - 6 Dec. 2019

  NNC Conference: Digital Asia

  "Digital Asia - Cultural, Socio-Economic, and Political Transformations" is the 12th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference & PhD Course organized in collaboration with CESEAS, Lund University.

• 5 Dec. 2019, 15:00-16:30

  ChinaTalks: The New Superpower Rivalry between China and the US

  ChinaTalks public lecture with Prof. Øystein Tunsjø, Head of the Asia-program at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.

• 6 Dec. - 7 Dec. 2019

  Gamejam

  Guest talks by Dr. Matti Karhulahti and Dr. Jung Yeop Lee as well as presentations of the Games & Award Ceremony.

• 6 Dec. - 7 Dec. 2019

  Gamejam

  Guest talks by Dr. Matti Karhulahti and Dr. Jung Yeop Lee as well as presentations of the Games & Award Ceremony.

• 9 Dec. 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Spring of Hope or Winter of Despair? - Social Democratic movement in Thailand after the 2019 election under the rise of monopoly capital

  Lunch talk by Sustarum Thammaboosadee, PhD, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Thammasat University, Thailand.

• 11 Dec. 2019, 13:00-14:30

  Taking stock of Sino-Nordic relations

  Public seminar with a range of perspectives on relations between the Nordic countries and China, exploring different avenues for advancing existing cooperation, while also identifying potential obstacles. 

• 11 Dec. 2019, 15:15

  The Visual Resistance of the Hong Kong Protest Movement: From Post-it Notes to PR Machine

  ChinaTalks: Public lecture by Mai Corlin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 12 Dec. 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk with Mai Corlin

  Join us for a lunch talk on the Visual Resistance of the Hong Kong Protest Movement by Mai Corlin, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 12 Dec. 2019, 13:15-16:30

  Mnemonic migration

  Kick-off seminar for a project on literature and collective memory and how it migrates between cultures and people.

• 16 Jan. 2020, 13:00-14:30

  Tracking Routes: Imperial Competition in the Late 19th Century Burma–China Borderlands

  Public talk by Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.

• 27 Jan. 2020, 12:30-13:30

  A New Chapter in Cross-Strait Relations? Lessons from the Taiwan Presidential Elections

  Lunch talk by Arthur S. Ding, Emeritus Professor from the National Chengchi University in Taipei.

• 30 Jan. 2020, 13:00

  PhD defence - Mikkel Dehlholm

  The title of the dissertation is  "Global capitalism and the Rise of the Market-Leninist Developmental State – A methodological globalist analysis of China’s economic and social development since 1978."

• 4 Feb. 2020, 11:00-13:00

  Democracy and its discontents

  A public seminar/teach-in on India’s recent controversial legislation and popular dissent.

• 4 Feb. 2020, 14:00-17:00

  Policing Southeast Asia: Challenges for Field Researchers

  This event features researchers who have been studying how the police operates in Burma/Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand, and facilitates discussion about the challenges they have faced.

• 12 Feb. 2020, 13:00-15:00

  South Asian Currents: Delhi 2020 – How to Read an Indian Election

  Discussion on how to read the election results and what they reveal about the nature of contemporary Indian politics.

• 12 Feb. 2020, 14:30-17:00

  The hidden history of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

  Public talk by historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U on his book ‘The hidden history of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century’.

• 13 Feb. 2020, 16:00-17:30

  ChinaTalks: Cold Games - The Emergence of Sino-American Strategic Competition in the Arctic

  Guest lecture with Marc Lanteigne, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromsø: The Arctic University of Norway.

• 18 Feb. 2020, 15:00-17:00

  Pradip Sarkar, tabla maestro and Shubham Sarkar, violin exponent

  Join us for a music event on classical Indian music including performances by renowned artists.

• 21 Feb. 2020, 10:00-11:00

  Transformations of Tibetan Sacred Landscapes: Modernisation, Buddhist Economics, and State Secularism

  Public guest lecture by Anna Sehnalova, Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.

• 21 Feb. 2020, 12:00-13:30

  Migrants, Minorities, and Populism in Asia

  Lunch lecture by Tom Pepinsky, Professor of Government and Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University.

• 21 Feb. 2020, 13:00

  Migrating authoritarianism

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Birgitte Stampe Holst.

• 21 Feb. 2020, 13:15-14:30

  The role of the East-European writer after 1989

  Guest lecture by Adam Zagajewski.

• 22 Feb. 2020, 14:00

  Protection of endangered heritage during armed conflicts

  Lecture by Joanne Dingwall McCafferty, PhD student at Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

• 25 Feb. 2020, 9:15-10:30

  Translation, Transcoding, Code Switching?

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

• 25 Feb. 2020, 9:15-10:45

  Translation, Transcoding, Code Switching? Linguistic Interfaces in Korean Poetry of Chosǒn times

  Guest talk by Dr. Marion Eggert, Korean Studies, Ruhr University Bochum.

• 28 Feb. - 29 Feb. 2020

  Food and drink in feasting

  International two-day conference.

• 10 Mar. 2020, 10:00-16:00

  Re-launch of the Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

  The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies has returned to UCPH, where it first started. Join us for the re-launch event with presentations by scholars from UCPH, CBS and beyond.

• 12 Mar. 2020, 16:00-17:30

  CANCELLED! A Great Unrecorded History: LGBTQ+ History and Heritage across World Cultures

  This event has been cancelled!

• 12 Mar. 2020, 16:00-17:30

  CANCELLED!! The Meaning and Function of Apologies in Danish and Chinese; Intercultural Clashes and Crisis Communication

  CANCELLED! Public lecture by Xia Zhang from Copenhagen Business School. All are welcome

• 17 Mar. 2020

  CANCELLED! Keeping the ghosts alive: Everyday negotiations with and resistance to illiberal peacebuilding in Indonesia

  The event is postponed until further notice.

• 24 Mar. 2020, 15:00-16:30

  CANCELLED! Falling fertility: a cause for concern?

  CANCELLED! Sustainability lecture on falling fertility rates. Speakers: Prof Hagai Levine, Prof Rémy Slama and Prof Ayo Wahlberg.

• 25 Mar. 2020, 10:00-16:00

  CANCELLED! Ultra-Low Fertility: is reproductive sustainability possible in the 21st century?

  CANCELLED! Sustainability Science Centre and Low Fertility Research Platform present a sustainability symposium on falling fertility rates.

• 2 Apr. 2020, 10:00-11:00

  CANCELLED! The cost of dying alone: Nōkotsudō, memory and the afterlife of human remains in contemporary Japan

  CANCELLED! Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies invites you to a guest lecture by Dr. Paulina Kolata.

• 3 Apr. - 31 May 2020

  Identities Virtual Symposium: The Viral Condition

  Explore short essays, think pieces, reflections and field notes from the state of the COVID-19 lockdown that help think through the profound social-political effects of this twenty-first century viral condition.

• 23 Apr. 2020, 15:00

  Fighting for Virtue

  Online launch of the book "Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand", written by Duncan McCargo and recently published by Cornell University Press.

• 6 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

  Virtual Book Talk: Disenfranchised

  Joel Andreas, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University will present his latest book "Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China".

• 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:30

  CANCELLED! China Goes Green - Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

  CANCELLED! ChinaTalk by Judith Shapiro from the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.

• 26 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

  Chinese Peace in Africa – Peacekeeper or Peacemaker?

  Virtual book talk with Steven C.Y. Kuo, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

• 28 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

  Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

  Virtual book talk in which Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei will present their latest book Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World, published by Princeton University Press.

• 28 May - 29 May 2020

  POSTPONED - SANR 2020

  The 4th annual meeting of "South Asia across the Nordic Region" will take place at the University of Copenhagen.

• 29 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

  Combating COVID-19: The Chinese and Danish Perspectives

  This webinar will feature presentations by Prof. Dr. Zhu Chouwen, Vice President of Shanghai’s Zhongshan Hospital, and Prof. Flemming Konradsen, director of the School of Global Health, University of Copenhagen.

• 27 Aug. 2020, 16:00-17:30

  Book launch: Brand New Nation

  Register here for the virtual book launch of Ravinder Kaur’s "Brand New Nation - Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India".

• 3 Sept. 2020, 16:00-17:15

  Book launch: South Asian Sovereignty

  Online book launch of South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power (Edited by David Gilmartin, Pamela Price, Arild Engelsen Ruud).

• 23 Sept. 2020, 18:30-19:30

  Rallying for Democracy? Thailand's Latest Student Protests

  Webinar with NIAS Director Duncan McCargo, Senior Researcher (PRIO) Marte Nilsen, and foreign news journalist and former Asia correspondent for Aftenposten Kristoffer Rønneberg.

• 24 Sept. 2020, 2:00

  What Happened To The 'New Malaysia'? Politics Since The 2018 Elections

  Webinar sponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network, NYU Wagner and NIAS. NOTE: This virtual event will take place on 24 Sep at 2AM in Denmark.

• 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

• 19 Oct. - 20 Oct. 2020

  PhD workshop

  Two-day intensive NNC PhD workshop for doctoral students from various disciplines focusing on a diverse range of Asia related topics. 

• 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. 

• 22 Oct. 2020, 13:00

  Mindful Work

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Marianne Viftrup Hedegaard.

• 23 Oct. 2020, 10:15-11:30

  China’s New Minority: Africans in China, Their Identities and Well-Being

  Online seminar with presentations by Padmore Adusei Amoah, Obert Hodz and Roberto Castillo.

• 29 Oct. - 30 Oct. 2020

  Inaugural Symposium of The MSA Nordic

  This conference brings together scholars of cultural and collective memory and researchers working on memory questions within related disciplines.

• 3 Nov. 2020, 14:00-15:00

  Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts

  Pauline Stoltz, Aalborg University in conversation with Duncan McCargo, NIAS about transitional justice and memory politics.

• 9 Nov. 2020, 14:15

  Mosque or Cemevi. Questions of Tradition, Identity and Spirituality

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

• 16 Nov. 2020, 13:30

  Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party

  Online launch and discussion of Duncan McCargo and Anyarat Chattharakul's book "Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party"

• 18 Nov. 2020, 18:00

  Thailand’s New Political Generation – From Future Forward to Youth Protests

  Forum for Asian Studies webinar with Duncan McCargo, Director of NIAS and Petra Desatova, Postdoctoral Researcher at NIAS.

• 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.

• 30 Nov. 2020, 18:00

  Thailand's New Political Generation: Forward to the Future?

  Online lecture with Duncan McCargo, NIAS moderated by Andrew Nathan, Columbia University

• 2 Dec. 2020, 14:00-15:30

  East-West Reflections on Demonization

  Virtual book launch of "East-West Reflections on Demonization" edited by Geir Helgesen and Rachel Harrison.

• 4 Dec. 2020, 14:00-15:00

  Against Political Equality: the Confucian case

  Virtual book talk with Professor Tongdong Bai on his newest book ‘Against Political Equality: the Confucian case’.

• 7 Dec. 2020, 13:00

  The Meanings of the People in Turkish Politics: A Genealogy

  PhD defence by Spyros Sofos.

• 7 Dec. 2020, 16:00-18:30

  Min(d)ing the methods

  Department of Anthropology will host a 2,5 hour debate on the possibilities and possible pitfalls of decolonial methods in the social sciences.

• 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 Dec. 2020, 10:00-13:00

  Yi Ma defends his PhD thesis

  Yi Ma defends his PhD thesis "Soft law implementation in the European Union and in China".

• 17 Dec. 2020, 14:00-15:30

  Forbidden Memory and Rediscovered Images: Violence, Erasure, and the Cultural Revolution in Tibet 

  ADI-Inalco event based on Forbidden Memory by Tsering Woeser, edited and introduced by Robert Barnett. They will be joined by historians and social scientists to discuss political violence, photography and historical erasure. 

• 21 Jan. 2021, 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 conference.

• 3 Feb. 2021, 12:00-13:30

  Asian Futures

  First in a series of events on Asian futures in the twenty-first-century. Presentations by Asia scholars from the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

• 4 Feb. 2021, 15:00-16:30

  Making Sense of Myanmar’s 1.2.21 Military Coup

  Academic discussion of the unfolding crisis in Myanmar with Helene Maria Kyed, Stein Tønnesson, Myat The Thitsar, Matthew Walton, and May Sabe Phyu.

• 5 Feb. 2021, 13:00

  Where Do We Go From Here?

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Erik Sporon Fiedler.

• 8 Feb. 2021, 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.

• 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.

• 26 Feb. 2021, 16:00-17:30

  Perils and Promises of Democracies in Southeast Asia

  How has the January 6th event been understood within 5 different Southeast Asian countries with variable levels of democracy: Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

• 2 Mar. 2021, 15:00-16:30

  Nine-Tenths of the Law. Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia

  Online book launch and discussion of Christian Lund's "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia", Yale University Press 2021.

• 4 Mar. - 6 Mar. 2021

  Chronic Living

  International conference on vitality and quality of health in the 21 century. 

• 5 Mar. 2021, 16:00-17:30

  How to Get Published in an Asian Studies Journal

  How do you go about publishing an article in the field of Asian studies? This question and many more will be addressed by experienced editors: Julie Chen, Hyung-Gu Lynn, and Duncan McCargo.

• 15 Mar. - 16 Mar. 2021

  Thailand Update: Protests Revisited

  A two day conference on mass student-led rallies and political protest in Thailand.

• 16 Mar. 2021, 12:00-13:15

  Asian Futures: India's China Challenge

  Asian Futures seminar series: Join us for a virtual talk by Ananth Krishnan and a discussion of his book India's China Challenge - A Journey through China’s Rise and What It Means for India.

• 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 ...

• 15 Apr. 2021, 14:00-15:15

  Asian Futures: Making It Count - Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China

  Asian Futures series: Virtual talk by Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University) and discussion of his book Making It Count.

• 26 Apr. - 27 Apr. 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 Media Users in Europe & Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies, University of Copenhagen.

• 28 Apr. 2021, 15:30-16:30

  Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945: Cases from Six Countries

  Online book talk by Eve Zucker and Ben Kiernan.

• 5 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

  The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China

  Launch and discussion of Mai Corlin's book about the Bishan Commune established in 2011 by artist, editor and filmmaker Ou Ning.

• 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.

• 10 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

  Perceptions of Climate Change from North India

  A book launch of Aase J. Kvaneid's Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account.

• 19 May 2021, 14:30-16:00

  Unpacking Myanmar's Failed Coup?

  Online roundtable discussion with Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Myat The Thitsar, Helene Maria Kyed and Liv Stoltze Gaborit.

• 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

• 27 May 2021, 15:45-16:45

  SANR keynote: Nosheen Ali

  Nosheen Ali (NYU) will give the keynote address "Sarzameen-e-Be-Aain (My Land without the Constitution): Nature and Delusion in Gilgit-Baltistan" at SANR 2021.

• 27 May - 28 May 2021

  South Asia across the Nordic Region 2021

  The 4th annual meeting of SANR will be hosted  by the University of Copenhagen. Programme now available.

• 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

  Cut, Pleated and Draped - National Dress and Monastic Attire in Bhutan

  Join us online for a talk with Mareike Wulff from Humboldt University, on Bhutanese monastic and national dress in comparison.

• 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

  Asian Futures: The Viral Condition

  Panel debate focusing on infrastructures of inequality in relation to vaccines and public health with Dwai Banerjee, Emilija Zabiliute and Ayo Wahlberg.

• 16 June 2021, 10:00-11:30

  Asian Futures: From the Asian to the Indo-Pacific Century?

  Panel discussion with Akio Takahara (Tokyo University), Premesha Saha (ORF) and S.D. Muni (JNU).

• 21 June - 25 June 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.

• 28 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

  Global China and its Discontents: Lessons from Zambia and Hong Kong

  Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, UCLA, will give the inaugural keynote address at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition" 

• 28 June 2021, 18:00-19:00

  Emerging Economies, International Order and International Law: Continuities, Changes and Challenges

  Professor Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, School of Law, University of Arkansas will give one of the keynote addresses at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition"  

• 28 June - 30 June 2021

  Asia and Africa in Transition

  12th annual ADI conference, and 13th NNC conference organized jointly by Asian Dynamics Initiative, NIAS, School of Global Health, Sustainability Science Centre, ThinkChina, Global Development

• 29 June 2021, 11:15-12:15

  Demographic challenges and opportunities in Asia and Africa

  Reiner Klingholz, former director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development, will give a keynote address at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition" 

• 30 June 2021, 11:15-12:15

  Deciphering the meantime in an era of climate change

  Jonathan Rigg, Professor in Human Geography, University of Bristol is the final keynote speaker at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition".

• 1 July 2021, 18:00

  Structured Agencies of Paramilitaries in the Kurdish-Turkish Conflict

  Public defence of PhD Thesis by Özlem Has.

• 5 July - 9 July 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 ready.

• 19 July - 21 July 2021

  Exchange of Knowledge Between Literate Cultures

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

• 24 Aug. 2021, 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 presentations on DFF applications and answer questions.

• 3 Sept. 2021, 13:00

  Al Zubarah and Freiha

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Agnieszka Bystron.

• 9 Sept. 2021, 14:00-16:00

  Asian Futures: After the War

  Roundtable discussion with regional perspectives on Afghanistan by scholars from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

• 9 Sept. 2021, 14:00-16:00

  Asian Futures: After the War

  Roundtable discussion with regional perspectives on Afghanistan by scholars from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

• 21 Sept. 2021, 15:00

  The Best We Share. Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

   Join us for a book talk with Christoph Brumann from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

• 23 Sept. 2021, 15:15-16:30

  Taming the City: Urbanisation, Buddhism, and new Religious Topographies in Post-Soviet Buryatia

  Public lecture by Dr. Kristina Jonutytė, Vilnius University organized by the Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies.

• 23 Sept. 2021, 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. The lecture is no. 1/9 in the online lecture series on Arab media and diaspora Post-Arab Spring.

• 30 Sept. 2021, 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 lecture is no. 2/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

• 7 Oct. 2021, 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. The lecture is no. 3/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

• 13 Oct. 2021, 15:15

  JapanSessions: Kenneth Johansen

  Alumni career talk by Kenneth Johansen, ZeroNorth. 

• 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.

• 14 Oct. 2021, 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 Chicago. The lecture is no. 4/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

• 21 Oct. 2021, 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 is no. 5/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

• 26 Oct. 2021, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: Petra Desatova

  Join us for a talk on "Authoritarian Electoral Management: Lessons from the 2019 Thai election" by Petra Desatova from NIAS. 

• 28 Oct. 2021, 10:15-12:00

  When South Korea Became Super Corporate

  Join us for a talk by Dr. Mike Prentice from University of Sheffield. 

• 28 Oct. 2021, 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, Belgium. The lecture is no. 6/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

• 29 Oct. 2021, 10:00

  Resourceful and socially connected

  Public PhD defence by Peter Roy Harmsen.

• 3 Nov. 2021, 12:45-13:30

  Marie Curie fellowships and own research

  Associate professor Trine Brox will present how she strategically works with attracting young researchers to her research centre through the Marie Curie fellowship programme.

• 3 Nov. 2021, 14:15-16:00

  Turkish Friday Sermons. Diyanet and the Construction of National Identity

  Webinar with professor Elisabeth Özdalga.

• 3 Nov. 2021, 15:15-17:00

  JapanSessions: Takuya Kondo, Mitsui

  Guest lecture with Takuya Kondo from the Copenhagen branch of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. on Japanese economic and work culture.  

• 4 Nov. 2021, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: Terese Gagnon

  "From Seed Sovereignty to "Self-Reliance": Shifting Relationships Between People and Plants in Mae La Camp" by Terese Gagnon, Postdoc at NIAS. 

• 4 Nov. 2021, 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 University of Westminster, London. The lecture is no. 7/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

• 9 Nov. 2021, 12:00-13:00

  Enlightenment and the Gasping City

  Lunch talk by Dr Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko on "Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Pollution, Purification and Buddhism in Postsocialist Mongolia".

• 11 Nov. 2021, 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 Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The lecture is no. 8/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

• 12 Nov. 2021, 14:15-16:00

  The 1984 Winter Olympics and the Making of Sarajevo

  A hybrid seminar with Zlatko Jovanovic.

• 18 Nov. 2021, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: Kuan-Jen Chen

  "The Imminent Proto Cold War Standoff in the Western Pacific Rim, 1945-1949" by Kuan-Jen Chen, Postdoc at ADI and NIAS.

• 18 Nov. 2021, 17:15

  Exile: a polyvalent term

  An online lecture by ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, England. The lecture is no. 9/9 in the fall 2021 online lecture series.

• 25 Nov. 2021, 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, to a Carsten Niebuhr Lecture at the David Collection by Professor Rob Gleave, University of Exeter.

• 26 Nov. 2021, 10:00-12:00

  Sexual Violence & War in East Asia

  Hybrid conference with presentations by Yonson Ahn, Louise Edwards, Na-Young Lee, and Vera Mackie. All are welcome!

• 29 Nov. 2021, 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 the twentieth century in South-Eastern Europe.

• 29 Nov. 2021, 12:00-16:00

  Teaching Day

  After a break of more than two years, the Study Board for ToRS is once again organising “Teaching Day”.

• 30 Nov. 2021, 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 implications for women’s participation. PhD pre-defence seminar with Pernille Friis Jensen, Ph.d. fellow, ToRS.

• 1 Dec. 2021, 12:45-13:30

  Participation in COST network

  Associate professor Trine Brox will present how she strategically works with attracting young researchers to her research centre through the Marie Curie fellowship programme.

• 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.

• 2 Dec. 2021, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: Myunghee Lee

  "Authoritarian Successor Parties, Their Supporters, and Mass Mobilization: Lessons from Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia, and Indonesia" by NIAS postdoc Myunghee Lee

• 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.

• 6 Dec. 2021, 9:00-18:00

  Continentalist Ideas in Modern and Contemporary History

  International seminar on continentalism organised by the project “Continentalism and geopolitics: The idea of ‘big space’ political formations in comparative historical perspective”.

• 8 Dec. 2021, 15:15-17:00

  JapanSessions: Karen Ejersbo Iversen

  Public guest lecture "Japan needs to accelerate digital transformation - but how?" by Dr Karen Ejersbo Iversen from the Danish Digitization Agency.

• 9 Dec. 2021, 14:15-17:30

  Annual CJAS event

  The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies' Event 2021 in honour of Professor Emeritus Jørgen Delman, China Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

• 14 Dec. 2021, 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 officer and humanitarian who has seen conflicts of the Middle East in numerous contexts, and from different perspectives.

• 15 Dec. 2021, 12:45-13:30

  Applying for Velux HUMPraxis

  More information will follow.

• 18 Jan. 2022, 13:00-14:00

  Lunch talk: Erik Baark

  "China's Digital Silk Road" VIRTUAL lunch talk by Erik Baark, NIAS Associate and Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. PLEASE NOTE: TIME CHANGE

• 26 Jan. 2022, 14:15-16:00

  Spectral Polities and Brute Force: Subversive Archaism and the State in Thailand

  Public talk by Professor Emeritus Michael Herzfeld, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. This is a hybrid event.

• 21 Feb. 2022, 14:00-15:30

  [CANCELLED] Mother Language: Global, Regional, and Linguistic Perspectives

  Talk by H.E. Mr M. Allama Siddiki, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Denmark followed by a discussion to mark International Mother Language Day.

• 24 Feb. 2022, 12:00-13:00

  Revolutions and Middle East History

  Professor Abdel Razzaq Tikriti (Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History, University of Houston) will talk about his research on revolutions and revolutionary movements in modern Arab history.

• 24 Feb. 2022, 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 with BTselem for a conversation about human rights in the West Bank and Gaza.

• 19 Mar. 2022, 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 Sybilla Tuxen. Filmen introduceres af lektor Vera Skvirskaja (ToRS). Der fri entré til visningen, men husk billet.

• 24 Mar. 2022, 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, IKK, UCPH.

• 30 Mar. 2022, 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.

• 31 Mar. 2022, 7:00-9:00

  When the Eternal Meets the Imperishable: Plastics and Religion in Contemporary Asia

  Join this Zoom panel about the use of plastics in religion. All are welcome.

• 1 Apr. 2022, 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).

• 5 Apr. 2022, 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).

• 6 Apr. 2022, 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 communities.

• 7 Apr. 2022, 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 University).

• 20 Apr. 2022, 14:00

  Approaching Past and Changing Foodways Through Ground Stone

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Patrick Nørskov Pedersen.

• 20 Apr. 2022, 15:15-16:30

  Secular Geology, Mineral Rights, and Cosmologies of Land

  Guest lecture by Pamela E. Klassen, University of Toronto.

• 29 Apr. 2022, 14:15-16:00

  Early Sámi Play & Games: Sustainability & Peace

  Guest lecture by Professor John Kilbourne, Grand Valley State University, Michigan.

• 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

• 5 May 2022, 14:00-16:00

  Gender, culture and testing

  Guest lecture by Abdel Rahman M. Altakhaineh, PhD, School of Foreign Languages, The University of Jordan 

• 9 May 2022, 13:00-15:00

  South Asia Talks: Shalom India - Discovering South Asian Jewish Identities through literature

  South Asian Jewish traditions are a less commonly known. Yet they contribute actively to the diverse cultural and religious landscape of South Asia.

• 12 May - 13 May 2022

  Tibetan Materialities Workshop

  This workshop is part of a larger effort to create an international academic forum with focus on Tibetan materialities.

• 12 May 2022

  Tibetan Materialities Workshop

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

• 16 May 2022, 10:00-12:00

  Paper and Electronic Records in Indian Police Procedure and Corporate Customer Service

  An original provision of the Indian Code of Criminal Procedure, maintained since 1861, requires that oral testimony of complainants must be “reduced to writing” by an authorized official. 

• 23 May - 24 May 2022

  Unknown Futures

  A two-day seminar on Hong Kong

• 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. 

• 3 June 2022, 14:00

  Women and Gendered Mosque Organisations

  PhD defence by Pernille Friis Jensen.

• 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

• 7 June 2022

  Modest Fashion

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

• 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.

• 15 Sept. 2022, 15:00-16:30

  Al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia)

  Carsten Niebuhr Lecture at the David Collection by Professor Maribel Fierro, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean – CSIC.

• 16 Sept. 2022, 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 Studies, Mendel University, Brno).

• 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, 13:30-14:30

  Public Lecture: Baul - A religious musical tradition of Bengal

  Parvathy Baul will introduce into the many facets of the Baul tradition.

• 22 Sept. 2022, 16:00

  CCBS reading group

  Reading group open to everbody.

• 22 Sept. 2022, 16:00-18:00

  Beyond “Sorry”: Grandmothers Against Removal, Memory Activism and the Struggle for Self-determination

  Lecture by Rosanne Kennedy (Australian National University).

• 23 Sept. 2022, 15:00-17:00

  Spotlight on Protests in Iran

  ToRS is organizing a roundtable on the current protest movement in Iran.

• 29 Sept. 2022, 13:00

  CCBS reading group

  Reading group open to everbody.

• 29 Sept. 2022, 13:00-14:00

  Pakistan’s Climate Emergency

  Pakistan sees increasing amounts of floods. In order to fully comprehend the issue, we will investigate topics such as North-South Dynamics, Ecological Fragilities, Planning of Cities and Developmental Infrastructures.

• 30 Sept. 2022, 14:30-16:00

  Double book launch: Powers of Pilgrimage & Exemplary Life

  Discussion of new books and directions in the anthropological study of Christianity.

• 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).

• 6 Oct. 2022, 15:00-17:00

  Contested Memory and History Education in Bosnia-Herzegovina

  ToRS Research Seminar.

• 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).

• 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). 

• 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, 14:00-15:00

  Aesthetics, Ethics & Creativity in Contemporary Islam

  Guest lecture by Anders Ackfeldt, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (Lund University).

• 28 Oct. 2022

  8th Contemporary Buddhist Studies writing workshop

  Writing workshop on Contemporary Buddhist Studies.

• 31 Oct. 2022, 13:00

  The Shadow Sides of Positive Psychology and the Turn to Resilience

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Mille Kirstine Bygballe Keis.

• 1 Nov. 2022, 14:00-15:30

  Holy Infrastructures: Notes on Catholicism and the Elementals

  Guest lecture by Professor Valentina Napolitano (University of Toronto).

• 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.

• 9 Nov. 2022, 11:00-13:00

  India Files: Denmark - India in the 21st century

  India Files is a series of conversations on policy and politics with a special focus on India-Denmark bilateral relations.

• 9 Nov. 2022, 11:00-13:00

  India Files: Denmark - India in the 21st century.

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• 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.

• 16 Nov. 2022, 15:00-17:00

  Futures: Denmark in a Post-Global World Order

  This November 16th 15:00-17:00 ADI event will center around the role of Denmark in a post-global world order.

• 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).

• 18 Nov. 2022, 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.

• 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.

• 8 Dec. 2022, 14:00-17:00

  Ukraine: The Culture Front

  Seminar on Ukraine, December 2022.

• 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.

• 15 Dec. 2022, 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.

• 16 Dec. 2022, 13:00

  Engaged Subjects

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Maria Lindebæk Lyngsøe.

• 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, 13:00

  The role of UNESCO

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Joanne Dingwall McCafferty.

• 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, 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

• 16 Feb. 2023, 15:00-17:00

  Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics I, Land Ethics

  First meeting in the reading group: Environmental Virtue Ethics. 

• 2 Mar. 2023, 15:00-17:00

  Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics II, Environmental Virtues

  Second meeting in the reading group: Environmental Virtue Ethics.

• 3 Mar. 2023, 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.

• 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.

• 10 Mar. 2023, 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, University of Belgrade will provide an overview of the folk religious beliefs in Serbia from an anthropological standpoint.

• 10 Mar. 2023, 13:00

  German Muslims on the International Theology Programme in Turkey

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Maximilian Lasa.

• 17 Mar. 2023, 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 Russo-Ukrainian war and their historical background.

• 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.

• 27 Mar. 2023, 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 Europe and the new role of museums in this.

• 28 Mar. 2023, 14:00

  Open Lecture: Auditing Halal and Standardising Halal Expertise in Indonesia and Malaysia

  Dr Eva Nisa from the Australian National University will present her paper Auditing Halal and Standardising Halal Expertise in Indonesia and Malaysia

• 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.

• 25 Apr. 2023, 15:00

  Book launch: Danish perspectives on China

  Centre for Military Studies invites you to book launch.

• 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.

• 27 Apr. 2023, 10:30

  Documentary Film Screening: Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World

  Associate Professor Stephen Epstein presents the documentary film "Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World".

• 28 Apr. 2023, 10:00-12:00

  Planetary Outsides

  Talk by Martin Savransky.

• 28 Apr. 2023, 10:00-12:00

  India's First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism

  Open lecture by Professor Vineet Thakur, Leiden University.

• 28 Apr. 2023, 10:30

  North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture: Comedy, Communism & Crash Landing on You

  This talk by Associate Professor Stephen Epstein examines how South Korean images of North Korea have evolved in recent years

• 1 May 2023, 15:00-17:00

  Performing Identities: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Transnational Context

  Open lecture with Professor Jane Chin Davidson, Art History, Global Cultures, California State University, San Bernardino.

• 2 May - 4 May 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 acquaintances with people of the same interest, and practice and develop their presentation skills.

• 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 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. 

• 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?

• 8 May 2023, 12:00

  Unchanged Foodways

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Anne Jörgensen-Lindahl.

• 8 May 2023, 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 Eurovision and places the popcultural celebration of Europe in a historic perspective.

• 10 May - 11 May 2023

  Myanmar Borderlands

  A hybrid workshop at the University of Copenhagen

• 16 May 2023, 11:00

  Russian Exceptionalism and the War against Ukraine

  Guest lecture with Professor Marina F. Bykova.

• 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 - 26 May 2023

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

  International conference

• 26 May - 27 May 2023

  Museums and National Identity

  What does it mean to be Danish? Or European? And how do museums help foster a national identity among their visitors? This symposium will feature presentations from scholars, museum curators, and directors to answer these questions.

• 30 May 2023, 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, Canada).

• 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, 8:30-12:00

  World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees and Societies

  The Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan Jørgensen, and the UCPH migration research platform at University of Copenhagen invites you to attend a discussion about the World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees and Societies (WDR23).

• 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.

• 7 June 2023, 15:15-16:00

  Material culture. A shared heritage: The origin and use of textile patterns in Himalaya and on the Tibetan Plateau

  Presentation by Ellen Bangsbo.

• 10 June 2023, 10:00-13:00

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

  Workshop with T.J. Demos.

• 15 June - 16 June 2023

  Postmemory work and the digital in Southeast Asia

  This workshop sets out to develop a comparative perspective on postmemory work and the digital, with a focus on Southeast Asia.

• 22 June - 25 June 2023

  31st AKSE Conference

  The University of Copenhagen will host the 31st biennial AKSE Conference as an in-person event from 22 (Thursday) to 25 (Sunday) June 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

• 29 June 2023, 17:00

  Babylon: More on Myth and Reality

  Talk by Heather Baker (Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History, University of Toronto).

• 30 June 2023, 13:00

  Sheep and Goat Husbandry at the Eanna Temple in Uruk During the Long Sixth Century

  PhD Defence by Rasmus Johan Aarslev.

• 24 Aug. 2023

  Waste interventions, case work, and fieldwork workshop

  Workshop.

• 25 Aug. 2023, 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.

• 25 Aug. 2023, 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.

• 28 Aug. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  West-Östlicher Diwan

  Celebratory lecture by Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.

• 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.

• 1 Sept. 2023, 13:00

  The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856: The Call of Ṭhạkur

  Doctoral defence by Peter Birkelund Andersen.

• 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.

• 6 Sept. 2023, 10:00-11:30

  Atmospheric Politics in the Indian Ocean

  Public lecture with Debjani Bhattacharya. 

• 11 Sept. - 15 Sept. 2023

  Asia Week 2023

  Between 11 and 15 September, the Asian Dynamics Initiative invites you to dive into a realm of intellectual exploration and cultural enlightenment bridging the Global North and South during Asia Week.

• 22 Sept. 2023, 9:00-16:30

  Courtly, Cute, or Queer: New Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Visual Culture

  In this seminar, six internationally acclaimed scholars within Japanese art history and visual culture will challenge stereotypes of dominant gender discourses in Japan.

• 25 Sept. - 26 Sept. 2023

  ADI Symposium: Being Digital in China

  This symposium involves leading scholars in the field and critically reflects on the current discussion on being digital and digitalization in China.

• 27 Sept. 2023, 15:00-17:00

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

  Talk by Pierre Charbonnier.

• 28 Sept. - 29 Sept. 2023

  Optimism | Africa-Asia Seminar 2023

  Convened by the Global Development Network (University of Copenhagen) and the IARU alliance Global Transformation Network

• 28 Sept. 2023, 16:00-18:00

  Belarus Does Not Exist

  Belarus Research Network for Neighbourhood Policy is organising a conference in Copenhagen to discuss the current security situation in the Baltic Sea Region and its implications for Nordic-Baltics states. 

• 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. 

• 5 Oct. 2023, 16:00-18:00

  Perpetrator Disgust: The Moral Limits of Gut Feelings

  Book Launch.

• 9 Oct. 2023, 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.

• 9 Oct. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

  Public Talk: Author Quinn Slobodian (Professor of History at Wellesley College) with Rune Lykkeberg (Dagbladet Information).

• 9 Oct. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Crack Up Capitalism

  Public talk with historian Quinn Slobodian, bestselling author of Crack Up Capitalism. Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.

• 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.

• 12 Oct. 2023, 9:30-17:00

  AMIS 10th Anniversary Celebration

  AMIS celebrates its 10^th anniversary on 12 October 12 2023 at South Campus, UCPH, marking the first intake of students to the Master of Arts programme in 2014.

• 13 Oct. 2023, 13:00-15:00

  The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

  In this public talk acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh will discuss his recent book The Nutmeg’s Curse with debater, lecturer and author Carsten Jensen.

• 13 Oct. 2023, 13:00-15:00

  The Nutmeg’s Curse

  Public talk with acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh.

• 23 Oct. 2023, 17:00-18:00

  Artist talk: Abbas Akhavan

  This artist talk presents Canadian artist Abbas Akhavan (b. 1977 in Tehran), who is currently doing a major solo exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, titled “Curtain Call”.

• 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,

• 26 Oct. 2023, 15:00-16:00

  Archaeology of early Islam

  The School of Archaeology invites you to a guest lecture by Dr Agnieszka Lic.

• 27 Oct. 2023, 13:00

  Museums and the Securitization of Cultural Heritage

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Marie Elisabeth Berg Christensen.

• 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.

• 1 Nov. 2023, 15:15-17:00

  Conceptualizations of HONOUR in Indian and Pakistani Englishes

  Talk by Ansa Mahmood og Kim Ebensgaard Jensen.

• 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? 

• 2 Nov. 2023, 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 context of Taiwanese tongzhi literature.

• 2 Nov. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  An invented queer tradition: Tongzhi literature in Taiwan

  Presentation.

• 2 Nov. 2023, 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 languages and cultures, will hold a presentation.

• 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.

• 4 Nov. 2023, 14:00-18:00

  Transcultural Japan

  Public lecture.

• 6 Nov. 2023, 13:15-15:00

  Politics of storytelling and administrations of memory

  Lecture by Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus).

• 6 Nov. 2023, 15:15-17:00

  Memory of religious traces in contemporary culture

  Lecture by Maria Asavei (Charles University Prague).

• 7 Nov. 2023, 10:00-12:00

  Follow-up meeting - UCPH Green Solutions Centre India delegation

  Join us for an “India visit follow-up meeting” to hear the reflections from the UCPH Green Solutions Centre India delegation on November 7th from 10.00 – 12.00 at Mærsktårnet

• 7 Nov. 2023, 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).

• 8 Nov. 2023, 14:15-15:30

  Iconic Socioclasm: Destroying Cultural Heritage to Shatter Social Identities

  Guest lecture by Christoph Günther (University of Erfurt).

• 9 Nov. 2023, 13:30-16:30

  Remembering activism and the agency of the aesthetic

  Lecture by Ann Rigney (Utrecht).

• 9 Nov. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Archaeology in Downtown Mexico City: The Aztec Great Temple

  Leonardo López Luján gives an honorary doctor lecture.

• 10 Nov. 2023, 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 politics of the Middle East.

• 13 Nov. - 15 Nov. 2023

  Transmission, Translocation, and Transcreation

  Conference.

• 16 Nov. 2023, 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 reconciliation between indigenous/enslaved populations and settler states/former colonial powers.

• 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.

• 27 Nov. 2023, 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.

• 28 Nov. 2023, 10:15-12:00

  Migration & diaspora in Asia

  Talks by Kimiko Suda (TU Berlin), Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield) and Markus Bell (La Trobe University, Melbourne).

• 29 Nov. 2023, 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).

• 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2023

  Nordic seminar 2023

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

• 1 Dec. 2023, 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 war against Ukraine.

• 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.

• 4 Dec. 2023, 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 Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine and Associate Research Fellow, Henry Jackson Society, London,

• 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?

• 5 Dec. 2023, 14:00-15:30

  Revolutions aesthetic: A cultural history of Ba'thist Syria

  Guest Lecture by Max Weiss.

• 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, 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 University and Q&A session with Professor with Achcar.

• 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.

• 23 Feb. 2024, 8:30-16:45

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

  Conference.

• 23 Feb. 2024, 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-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

• 23 Feb. 2024, 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), and a panel discussion with panellists and contributors Marral Shamshiri, Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, Rasmus Elling and Sune Haubølle.

• 1 Mar. 2024, 10:15-12:00

  Karahantepe: A New Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site in Şanlıurfa-Turkey

  Public talk by Professor Necmi Karul from Istanbul University.

• 1 Mar. 2024, 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 Ukrainians Destoryed the Empire of Evil".

• 4 Mar. - 8 Mar. 2024

  Nordic Baltic Korean Studies Days 2024

  The principal motivation of the course is to enable students with an interest in Korean Studies to meet and study alongside their peers in order to develop a pan-Nordic-Baltic network and sense of community.

• 6 Mar. 2024, 14:00-15:30

  Innovation in the Global South

  Shaping a Sustainable Future Together: Join the Conversation

• 6 Mar. 2024, 16:00-17:30

  Islam and the Modern State

  The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies invites to a Carsten Niebuhr Honorary Lecture at the David Collection by Professor Nathan J. Brown from The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

• 7 Mar. - 8 Mar. 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 ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 BC).

• 11 Mar. 2024, 9:00-17:00

  Comparing Concepts of the Environment

  A workshop hosted by Uppsala University, Centre for Sustainable Futures, and Center for Applied Ecological Thinking.

• 12 Mar. 2024, 10:15-15:00

  Evidencing hate

  A workshop coordinated by Near Eastern Archaeology and Minority Studies (Birgitte Schepelern Johansen and Susanne Kerner).

• 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.

• 15 Mar. 2024, 16:00

  After-work lecture: Joseph Clemmesen

  Lecture.

• 21 Mar. 2024, 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).

• 25 Mar. 2024, 9:00-18:00

  Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity

  Conference.

• 4 Apr. 2024, 16:00-18:00

  Mexican Archaeology Today: New Perspectives on an Old History

  Lecture by Dr. José Luis Punzo Díaz, Centro INAH, Michoacan, Mexico.

• 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.

• 9 Apr. 2024, 15:15-16:30

  Teaching Sounds in India - Some Notes on Sound Pedagogy

  Presenters: Shubhasree Bhattacharyya (Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India)

• 11 Apr. 2024, 12:30-18:30

  Rumi 750 years

  Seminar.

• 15 Apr. 2024, 16:00-19:00

  The People of India

  Online roundtable of scholars across anthropology, history, and political science.

• 15 Apr. - 16 Apr. 2024

  Rethinking Transcultural Interactions in Visual Art

  This conference focuses on the transcultural turn in art history by examining its theoretical, methodological, and analytical potentials and limits.

• 17 Apr. 2024, 14:00-16:00

  Serbia and Srebrenica, Denial, Distortion and Impunity

  Guest lecture by Olga Manojlović Pintar.

• 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. 2024, 10:00-18:30

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

  Workshop.

• 25 Apr. 2024, 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 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.

• 30 Apr. 2024, 14:15-15:00

  A coup d'état according to the party constitution?

  Guest lecture by Tomas Sniegon.

• 2 May 2024, 16:00-18:00

  Development aid in the 21st century

  Panel discussion.

• 7 May 2024, 16:00

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

  Talk with Dasho Karma Ura.

• 16 May 2024, 14:00-17:00

  Ester Boserup Prize 2024

  Professor Michael J. Watts will receive the Ester Boserup Prize 2024 and give a lecture entitled 'A Tale of Two Women Economists: Ester Boserup, Polly Hill, and the study of Agrarian Systems'.

• 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.

• 30 May 2024, 9:00-13:00

  What is the next step in your career?

  Seminar for PhD students and postdocs at ToRS.

• 5 June - 8 June 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

• 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).

• 10 June 2024, 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 Ukrainian research community.

• 10 June 2024, 13:00

  Storks, Humans, and Landscape on the Konya Plain, Turkey

  Lecture by Professor Nerissa Russell, Department of Anthropology, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, Cornell 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. 2024, 9:00-20:00

  Narrating Global Conflict

  In celebration of the launch of HUM:Global in 2024, we are organizing a one-day conference.

• 12 Sept. - 14 Sept. 2024

  Perpetrator images as documentary, evidentiary, and affective

  Two-day workshop.

• 23 Sept. - 27 Sept. 2024

  Asia Week 2024

  Festival about Asia's art, culture and society. 

• 27 Sept. 2024, 14:00-15:30

  Drawing the Global South: India and Beyond

  Inaugural lecture by Professor Ravinder Kaur.

• 27 Sept. 2024, 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 University of Jerusalem.

• 2 Oct. 2024, 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 University.

• 2 Oct. 2024, 14:30-16:00

  75 years of India-Denmark Diplomatic Relations

  Talk and discussion on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 155th birth anniversary.

• 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.

• 4 Oct. 2024, 14:00-17:00

  Global Awareness and the Theosophical Society 1875-1950

  PhD defence by Bjarke Stanley Nielsen.

• 8 Oct. 2024, 16:00-18:00

  Crises and Conversions

  Book launch.

• 9 Oct. 2024, 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).

• 9 Oct. 2024, 13:15

  Mamá

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

• 9 Oct. 2024, 15:00-16:30

  Book launch seminar of “The Road To Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s”

  Asian Dynamics Initiative invites all to the book launch of “The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s” by author and earlier student of UCPH, Satnam Singh.

• 9 Oct. 2024, 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 communities today.

• 10 Oct. 2024, 11:00-17:00

  30 Years of Zapatismo. From Rebellion to Renewal

  Seminar about the legacy of the Zapatistas.

• 10 Oct. 2024, 13:00-18:30

  Decentring the Art Institution for a Postmigrant Society

  HUM:Global Talk! seminar.

• 11 Oct. 2024, 13:00-14:00

  75 years of India-Denmark Diplomatic Relations

  Hybrid talk.

• 23 Oct. 2024, 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 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.

• 25 Oct. 2024, 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 to understand cultures.

• 28 Oct. 2024, 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 and Reproductive Rights.

• 28 Oct. 2024, 13:30-15:00

  Journalism and Media in exile

  This event examines authoritarian transnational repression practices against journalists and media in exile.

• 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.

• 30 Oct. 2024, 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 writing. Tine Roesen will moderate the talk.

• 4 Nov. 2024, 14:00-16:00

  Palestine and Israel

  Hum:Global semester lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé.

• 8 Nov. 2024, 13:00

  Reclaiming Homelands

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Katrine Stevnhøj.

• 8 Nov. 2024, 15:00-17:00

  Belonging Flexibly: Non-Muslim migrants from Muslim Asia

  HUM:Global Talk! photography exhibition.

• 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).

• 22 Nov. 2024, 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 University.

• 22 Nov. 2024, 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, professor of modern drama at University College Dublin, author and playwright.

• 22 Nov. 2024, 14:00

  Crossing Practice Realities

  PhD defence by Jesper Lee Jyderup.

• 25 Nov. 2024, 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.

• 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.

• 26 Nov. 2024, 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 School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA).

• 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.

• 28 Nov. 2024, 15:15-17:00

  Bordering Power: Unpacking the Authoritarianism-Migration Nexus in Egypt

  Public lecture by Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Glasgow.

• 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.

• 3 Dec. 2024, 16:00-18:00

  Soldiers and Kings

  Talk by Professor Jason De León from UCLA as part of the School of Archaeology Lecture Series.

• 5 Dec. 2024, 14:15

  Entangled Ways of Knowing on a Damaged Planet

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

• 10 Dec. 2024, 11:00-12:00

  Memories of Forced Migrations as a Resource for Enhancing Intercultural Cohesion in Europe

  Open lecture by Eleonora Narvselius (Lunds Universitet).

• 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).

• 11 Dec. 2024, 8:45-9:45

  Transoceanic Memory

  Open lecture by Hanna Teichler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

• 11 Dec. 2024, 12:30-16:30

  Fighting Food Waste - KU Workshop

  Workshop with researchers at KU.

• 11 Dec. 2024, 13:00-14:00

  Defending Trees, Remembering Hope

  Open lecture by Ann Rigney (Universiteit Utrecht).

• 11 Dec. 2024, 14:00

  Settler Colonial Studies, Terminations of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism

  Lecture by Moshe Behar (University of Manchester).

• 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.

• 16 Jan. 2025, 9:00-18:30

  Language Myths

  Workshop on the political uses of historical languages.

• 16 Jan. 2025, 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".

• 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, 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).

• 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.

• 26 Feb. 2025, 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 Copenhagen).

• 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, 12:15-13:00

  Asia House in Action

  Four speakers will present the activities of Asia House with a special focus on career opportunities in Asia.

• 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.

• 12 Mar. 2025, 15:15-16:30

  The end of the end of history

  A conversation between Sergey Lebedev and Kathrine Tschemerinsky.

• 13 Mar. 2025, 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).

• 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).

• 19 Mar. 2025, 10:15-12:00

  The City in the Country

  Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin) in conversation with Elena Meyer-Clement (Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH).

• 19 Mar. 2025, 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 Copenhagen).

• 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, 14:00-16:00

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

  CApE Talk by Professor Oxana Timofeeva.

• 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.

• 1 Apr. 2025, 10:30-12:00

  Israeli visual politics

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

• 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).

• 9 Apr. 2025, 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).

• 11 Apr. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Performative Environmentalism and the Everyday Legitimation of Climate Coloniality

  Talk by Manisha Anantharaman, Sciences Po.

• 22 Apr. 2025, 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 Foreign Language (University of Zagreb).

• 24 Apr. 2025, 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 Foreign Language (University of Zagreb).

• 24 Apr. 2025, 10:15-15:00

  Challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability around the world

  ToRS seminar for researchers and students.

• 24 Apr. 2025, 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 Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

• 28 Apr. 2025, 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 Foreign Language (University of Zagreb).

• 28 Apr. 2025, 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).

• 30 Apr. 2025, 15:00-16:30

  Art and Society Through Feminist Degrowth

  Performative and Collaborative Conversations with Degrowth Activist Scholar Anitra Nelson.

• 30 Apr. 2025, 16:00

  Wild and Domesticated Olive in Bronze Age Crete: Data from Linear A

  Talk by Rachel Pierini, Saxo-Institute (University of Copenhagen).

• 30 Apr. 2025, 16:30-17:30

  Pivot to Asia: Denmark and Trump 2.0

  Panel discussion

• 6 May 2025, 13:15-15:15

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

  Guest lecturer Prof. Can Ertuna.

• 6 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Transformative Talk: Feminist Ecological Economics and Degrowth

  Panel Conversation with Emma Holten and Tone Smith

• 6 May - 8 May 2025

  Egyptological-Assyriological Conference in Copenhagen 2025

  This annual, student-run conference features a series of presentations from speakers in the disciplines of Egyptology, Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology who will present research and topics related to this year's theme: "Tales Untold".

• 8 May 2025, 13:15-15:00

  The essential guide media capture: Lessons from Turkey

  Guest lecturer Prof. Can Ertuna.

• 8 May 2025, 14:15-16:00

  Satanism and magic

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

• 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. 

• 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, 9:30

  Full-day conference about Georgia

  Eastern European Studies’ Student Council, The Danish Foreign Policy Society U35, and the student organization European Horizons at UCPH invite you to a one-day conference about Georgia.

• 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.

• 19 May - 21 May 2025

  Ethnographies of Energy

  Workshop.

• 19 May - 21 May 2025

  Call for Papers: Ethnographies of Energy

  Workshop at University of Copenhagen.

• 20 May 2025, 11:15-12:30

  The Afterlives of Energy: Tracing Power in the Indian Anthropocene

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

• 21 May 2025, 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.

• 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.

• 21 May 2025, 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) and Rune Rattenborg, Centre for Languages and Literature (Lund University).

• 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): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond

  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.

• 11 June 2025, 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 Copenhagen).

• 12 June - 13 June 2025

  Connections, Disruptions, and Reconnections in China Studies and Beyond

  The 17 biennial Conference of the Nordic Association of China Studies + PhD workshop.

• 22 Aug. 2025, 9:00-17:00

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

  Conference.

• 11 Oct. - 12 Oct. 2025

  Call for papers: Altered States of Consciousness in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents

  Conference.