Previous events

• 27 Feb. 2026, 14:00-15:30

  Diasporic State-building: Transnational Networks and the Making of Post-2003 Iraq

  HUM:Global Talk! with Dr Oula Kadhum of SOAS, University of London.

• 26 Feb. 2026, 16:15-18:00

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

  CCRS ALUMNI: Graduation event.

• 23 Feb. 2026, 10:00-12:00

  What It Means to Imagine Turkey

  Guest Lecture by Sertaç Sehlikoglu (University College London).

• 20 Feb. 2026, 9:00-13:15

  Destroyed, Forgotten, and Reappearing Heritage in Japan

  ToRS is proud to host six public lectures in two panel sessions by international experts in Japanese approaches to cultural and World Heritage.

• 6 Feb. 2026, 14:30-16:30

  Digitalization of Memory Practices – China, Serbia, and Beyond

  Book talk and panel discussion.

• 30 Jan. 2026, 11:00-12:00

  Uncanny Transcripts from a Chinese Cemetery: Multivocality and the Heritagization of Death

  Lecture with Yew-Foong Hui (anthropologist and Professor at Hong Kong Shue Yan University). 

• 20 Jan. 2026, 13:30-16:30

  Networking the War

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

• 10 Dec. 2025, 15:15-17:00

  Reading War, Making Memory

  Book launch. 

• 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).

• 2 Dec. 2025, 15:00-18:00

  Stranger

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