ToRS Calendar

• 28 Nov. 2025, 13:00

  Body Dust: Menstrual Waste among the Newar in Sankhu, Nepal

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Sierra Josephine Louise Humbert.

• 1 Dec. 2025, 10:30-12:00

  Future heritage, nostalgia and everydayness in South Korea

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

• 1 Dec. 2025, 15:00-17:00

  On the Trail of Frankenstein’s Monster

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

• 2 Dec. 2025, 13:00-14:30

  Decolonizing Ecofeminism: Gender, Extraction, and the Politics of Green Transition

  Seminar by Dr. Sanna Karhu, University of Helsinki.

• 2 Dec. 2025, 15:00-18:00

  Stranger

  Screening of the film “Stranger” (112 min) followed by a panel discussion.

• 8 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

  The New Gulf: Power, Peace and Human Rights in a Changing Regional Order

  Panel talk with Lars Erslev Andersen (DIIS), Fannie Agerschou-Madsen (Roskilde University), Maryam al Khawaja (human rights activist and director of the FreeAlKhawaja Campaign).

• 10 Dec. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Reading War, Making Memory

  Book launch. 

• 10 Dec. 2025, 16:00-18:00

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

  Lecture by Eythan Levy, University of Zurich.

• 11 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

  Zionism is Racism from the Standpoint of its Victims

  Guest Lecture by Professor Max Weiss (Princeton University).

• 17 Dec. 2025, 15:00-16:30

  Science in Resistance: The Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice

  Book event with author Fernando Racimo.

• 22 Jan. 2026, 15:00-17:00

  Anthropocene History

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