Past events

• 26 June 2026, 12:30-17:00

  Musicology Colloquium

  Join us for an afternoon of presentations of current research from scholars at the musicology…

• 18 June 2026, 17:00-18:15

  ‘Living’ Stones and Talking Trees. Agency and Worldbuilding in Palestinian Stories

  Talk by Sanabel Abdel Rahman, researcher and literary critic.

• 3 June 2026, 15:00-17:00

  Reconnecting Art and Life or How to Refuse Authoritarianism

  Public lecture by Laura Raicovich.

• 15 May 2026, 13:00

  Three Propositions for Sounding: Decentering Human Exceptionalism in a Sonic Practice

  Public PhD defence by Jenny Gräf Sheppard.

• 15 May - 16 May 2026

  Global Music History and Northern Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries

  Conference.

• 7 May - 8 May 2026

  Thinking Nonviolence with Art and Art’s Histories: Aesthetic Theories and Practices for a Peaceful Planet

  A two-day Symposium.

• 5 May 2026, 10:00-14:00

  The Drama of UCPH’s Digital Infrastructure

  In this workshop, we will explore the digital infrastructure of the University of Copenhagen by…

• 22 Apr. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Gender Lunch at HUM

  Gender Lunch at HUM presentations by Amaru Ibarra Olguin, University of Copenhagen, and Marika…

• 17 Apr. 2026, 13:00

  Bodies of Work

  PhD defence by Nina Cramer

• 15 Apr. 2026, 14:00-17:00

  Transformative feminisms: Nordic Art in the Transcultural Present

  Book launch and reception.

• 13 Apr. 2026, 14:00-18:00

  Yūkaku – Love District

  Seminar and exhibition opening.

• 26 Mar. 2026, 16:00-17:15

  Stars Across Borders: The Art of Astronomical Translation in Mughal India

  Talk with historian and philosopher of mathematics Anuj Misra.

• 24 Mar. 2026, 14:00-16:45

  Model Collapse

  Book launch and reception.

• 24 Mar. 2026, 9:30-16:30

  Sticks and Stones

  Workshop.

• 19 Mar. 2026, 16:00-17:00

  Lifework as Feminist Practice: Against Cultural Capitalism

  A talk by art historian Amelia Jones, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, U.S.

• 12 Mar. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  The Predicament of Privilege: Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture

  Book launch of The Predicament of Privilege: Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavia…

• 20 Feb. 2026, 15:00-17:00

  Ways of Thinking Culture and Technology: Aesthetics, Institutions, Lifeworlds

  Inaugural lectures by Professors Bjarki Valtýsson and Kristin Veel.

• 19 Feb. 2026, 14:00-16:00

  An Impossible Escape

  Guest lecture by Boris Buden.

• 16 Jan. 2026, 13:00

  Troubling the Lines: Trans Contemporary Art and Cultural Production and the Impasse of Representation

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Tais Beata Terletskaja.

• 16 Dec. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Reading for Enigmas: A Method for Decoding Race and Capital

  Book talk by Jap-Nanak Kaur Makkar, University of Kentucky, on her book manuscript Enigmas of…

• 28 Nov. 2025, 13:00

  Dropout Subjects

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Frida Viktoria Sandström.

• 27 Nov. 2025, 16:00-17:15

  Imagining another nature: indigenous knowledges, environmental narratives, and questions of pluralism

  Join this lecture by Phd Fellow Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen from Aarhus Universitet, as the firs…

• 27 Nov. 2025, 14:00-16:00

  Surrealism and the Reimagining of Race Studies in America, 1960-Present

  Public lecture by Abigail Susik, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at…

• 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…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 4 Nov. 2025, 12:00-17:00

  Beautiful Trouble: Planetary aesthetics, poetics and creative methodologies

  Third seminar in the Peace and Planet's methodology seminar series.

• 2 Oct. 2025

  Thinking with Many Souths

  Second seminar in the Peace and Planet's methodology seminar series.