Previous events

• 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.

• 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.

• 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, 8:30-16:45

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

  Conference.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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,

• 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.

• 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.

• 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2023

  Nordic seminar 2023

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