Past events

• 24 Nov. - 25 Nov. 2025

  What is a forest? Visual and artistic engagement with woodland

  Public two-day kick off seminar for research project Norwegian Wood: Extraction landscapes, art and visual culture in Denmark and Norway 1730 to 1860.

• 24 Nov. 2025, 10:00-11:30

  Soldiers' History Writing and the American War in Korea

  In this open lecture, Professor of Military History Tarak Barkawi, from Johns Hopkins University, takes the audience back to the Korean War (1950-1953).

• 21 Nov. 2025, 13:00

  The Fabric of Spectacle: Stagings of Triumph at the Court of Denmark-Norway, c. 1577-1634

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Casper Thorhauge Briggs-Mønsted.

• 18 Nov. 2025, 15:00

  Between the Hand and the Eye – Emil Hannover and 'Danish' Art Histories

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Signe Margrethe Havsteen.

• 17 Nov. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Copenhagen Climate Sound Series #3: Listening Underwater

  Performance lecture by artist Jana Winderen (Norway), a livestream from aboard a Norwegian research vessel somewhere between Svalbard and Greenland from Michael Kjær (University of Copenhagen) and audio-visual artist John Grzinich and discussion with Holger Schulze (Sound Studies Lab, University of Copenhagen). 

• 29 Sept. - 30 Sept. 2025

  Collecting and classifying: How museums of the late-nineteenth century shaped the modern world

  This conference convenes international scholars and museum practitioners who will develop their ideas about a historical period characterised by powerful industrialists, who became influential art collectors and museum founders.

• 12 Sept. 2025, 14:15-16:00

  You Say You Want a Revolution? Building a kaleidoscopic chorus against, without and beyond violence

  Inaugural Lecture by Novo Nordisk Foundation Visiting Professor in Art & Art History, Marsha Meskimmon.

• 11 Sept. 2025, 16:00

  “Grey Matters” Opening Event

  Stefanie Heine and Lilian Munk Rösing will introduce the Carlsberg Sember Ardens project “Grey Matters: Ecocritical Potentials of Lithic Aesthetics” and have a conversation with the artist Nana-Francisca Schottländer.

• 2 Sept. 2025, 13:00-14:30

  Using Arts-Based Research in Communication and Media Studies: The Film Essay AGON as Example

  Closed masterclass.

• 29 Aug. 2025, 9:30-10:45

  Nordic Writers and Nazi Cultural Politics

  Open keynote by Frederik Forrai Ørskov, PhD, UCPH.

• 28 Aug. 2025, 14:00-15:30

  WHY WAR? Debating Pacifism during the Spanish Civil War: Herbert Read, John Middleton Murry and the ‘Necessity’ of Anarchism

  Open keynote by Professor Mark Antliff, Duke University.

• 26 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

  Platform Amplification and Feminist Refusals

  Talk by Assistant Professor Rianka Singh, York University, Department of Communication and Media Studies.

• 26 May 2025

  Literature at KU

  Every year, the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies gather literature researchers from across the University of Copenhagen for a collegiate conference.

• 23 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

  Nothing Much was Lost: Theorizing Feminist Records Creation

  Talk by Assistant Professor Jessica Lapp, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information.

• 16 May 2025, 13:00

  Autism’s Configurations - Tracking the Circulation of a Metaphor

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Linus Nicolaj Carlsen.

• 15 May 2025, 13:00-18:00

  Creative Responses

  A symposium on the complex and important role of art, literature and other creative activities in dealing with a changing worldview, highlighting the interplay of the local, regional and global in environmental art.

• 12 May 2025, 13:00

  Ritual Aesthetics

  PhD defence by Mathias Hindkjær Overgaard.

• 31 Mar. 2025, 9:00-16:30

  Kalaallit Inuit Performance

  Isumasioqatigiinneq eqqaasitsisoq - A re-membering seminar.

• 3 Mar. 2025, 16:00-20:00

  Workshop #4: The Hologram and difficult feelings

  This final Hologram session will be open for anyone struggling with the problematic frameworks that diagnose and treat mental illness as an individual problem on a burning planet.

• 27 Feb. 2025, 16:00-20:00

  Workshop #3: The Hologram: On the conversation on Palestine

  Please join us in this workshop session where we are going to talk about the conversation on Palestine. Everyone is welcome!

• 11 Feb. 2025, 14:15-16:00

  The Legacies of 1989 in Exhibition Histories

  Lecture by Lucy Steeds, Senior Lecturer in Art at the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), University of Edinburgh.

• 17 Jan. - 18 Jan. 2025

  Reawakening Freud

  International conference on Die Traumdeutung.

• 15 Jan. 2025, 14:00-15:00

  How to apply for a PhD

  Info meeting on Zoom.

• 10 Jan. 2025, 13:00

  Imagining Citizenship

  PhD defence by Sarah Samira El-Taki.

• 10 Dec. 2024, 13:30-15:30

  Atlanticism in a changing world

  HUM:Global Talk! public roundtable discussion.

• 9 Dec. 2024, 9:30-16:30

  Resting with/in Academia: A Day of Immersion In and Around Rest

  Symposium.

• 6 Dec. 2024, 9:00-12:00

  “Afterwar” & "Dealing with Trauma through Art"

  HUM:Global Talk! film screening and panel discussion.

• 22 Nov. 2024, 16:30-18:30

  Please Follow Me: Revisiting the Guided Tour in Urban Studies

  The 14th international 4Cities conference at the University of Copenhagen.

• 15 Nov. 2024, 9:00-17:00

  Infrastructure Aesthetics: Concluding Seminar Art as Forum

  The New Carlsberg Foundation research centre Art as Forum concludes five years of collective research by passing on findings and recommendations to the local academic and artistic community, to students, as well as to stakeholders and colleagues at the University of Copenhagen.

• 8 Nov. 2024, 15:00-17:00

  Belonging Flexibly: Non-Muslim migrants from Muslim Asia

  HUM:Global Talk! photography exhibition.