Previous events

• 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.

• 15 Dec. 2021, 12:45-13:30

  Applying for Velux HUMPraxis

  More information will follow.

• 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.

• 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”.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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”.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.