Past events

• 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.

• 8 Nov. 2024, 13:15-17:00

  Nordic Trans Studies Seminar

  Nordic Trans Studies Network invites you to a conversation between Yancé-Myah Antonio Harrison, Timimie Märak and Luca Tainio about trans studies within art, activism and academia.

• 8 Nov. 2024, 13:00

  Chinese Shopfronts in European Urban Contexts: Spatial Elements and Human Experience

  Defence of PhD Thesis by Ziyu Yuan.

• 7 Nov. 2024, 14:00-16:00

  Art & Health – Research Salon

  The Art & Health Cluster invites you to a public salon. The event will feature presentations by Postdocs Anne Kølbæk Iversen and Svala Vagnsdatter Andersen.

• 4 Nov. 2024, 14:00-16:00

  Palestine and Israel

  Hum:Global semester lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé.

• 1 Nov. 2024, 16:30-18:30

  Public Lecture on Popular Music

  Join us as music scholars Kyle Devine (University of Oslo) and Tami Gadir (RMIT University, Melbourne) deliver back-to-back talks in the UCPH Musicology Division’s second annual “Public Lecture on Popular Music".

• 28 Oct. 2024, 13:00-15:00

  Modern-Day Crusaders: Religious Extremism and the Erosion of Democracy in Europe

  HUM:Global Talk! with Neil Datta, Executive Director of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

• 25 Oct. 2024, 13:00

  Deadtime. A Hypothesis of Resistance

  PhD defence by Caroline (Cally) Jayne Spooner.

• 23 Oct. - 25 Oct. 2024

  A Tide of Ghosts: Esotericism and Art beyond Fact and Fiction

  A two-day multidisciplinary conference exploring how the use of fictionings, in various entanglements of art, politics, and esotericism, bleeds into the real and how the two relate, if they ever are truly separate.

• 16 Oct. 2024, 16:30

  Katja Kullmann: The Singular Woman

  Katja Kullmann, author and journalist from Berlin, will read an excerpt from her latest book "Die Singuläre Frau".

• 15 Oct. - 17 Oct. 2024

  Tangentiality

  International conference at the University of Copenhagen.

• 10 Oct. 2024, 13:00-18:30

  Decentring the Art Institution for a Postmigrant Society

  HUM:Global Talk! seminar.

• 3 Oct. 2024, 9:00

  Sensobiographic Walking as a Qualitative Method of Inquiry

  Guest lecture by Helmi Järviluoma (University of Eastern Finland).

• 2 Oct. 2024, 9:00

  Toward a New Common Sense

  Guest lecture by David Howes (Concordia University & McGill University, Montreal).

• 24 Sept. 2024, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #31: Marquis Bey

  This lecture will provide, in a sense, the story or narrative surrounding the writing and thinking of Black Trans Feminism.