Past events

• 7 Nov. 2022, 15:15-17:00

  Potential Stories: The Transcultural Trajectories of Modernist Primitivism

  Lecture by Monica Juneja, Heidelberg University.

• 3 Nov. - 5 Nov. 2022

  Completing/Critiquing the Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-2020

  The conference marks the completion of the four volumes of The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries (Rodopi/Brill 2012-2022) that span the developments of the arts in the Nordic countries throughout the twentieth century.

• 25 Oct. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #17: Richard Grusin

  In this lecture Richard Grusin will explore the fruitful relatikons among arboreal and technical infrastructures.

• 25 Oct. - 27 Oct. 2022

  NORDIK 2022: COLLECTIONS

  The NORDIK Association for Art Historians is hereby announcing the conference under the heading “Collections”.

• 24 Oct. 2022, 16:15-18:00

  Infrastructure as Method: 5 Notes

  Lecture by Professor Joshua Clover, University of California, Davis.

• 14 Oct. 2022, 13:00

  Feeling sick of home?

  PhD defence by Anna Meera Gaonkar.

• 13 Oct. 2022, 13:00

  Convolutional Aesthetics

  PhD defence by Naja le Fevre Grundtmann.

• 11 Oct. 2022, 11:15-17:30

  Book launch Breathing Aesthetics and Asbestos: The Last Modernist Object

  Lectures by Arthur Rose (University of Exeter), Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York University), Stefanie Heine (University of Copenhagen).

• 27 Sept. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #16: Tina Campt

  This lecture engages some of the alternative practices of looking and viewing relations their work subverts the space of the gallery by populating it with black bodies in disruptive and transformative ways.

• 24 Sept. 2022, 9:30-18:00

  MAKING A SCENE - performative gestures of noise, interference, and destruction

  Presenters include scholars from across the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK), Copenhagen University, as well as invited keynote(s) and artists.

• 23 Sept. 2022, 15:00

  On Black poetics and the renunciation of categorical distinction in multimodal music video analysis

  PhD defence by Anders Aktor Liljedahl.

• 30 Aug. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #15: Julia Bryan-Wilson

  Julia Bryan-Wilson considers how patterned needlework and embellishment served as a political strategy for two artists (Philippines-born Pacita Abad and Brazilian Madalena Santos Reinbolt) whose work blurred the lines between function and décor.

• 12 Aug. - 14 Aug. 2022

  Art in the Countryside

  Three-day Symposium on Art and Regional Revitalization through Case Studies from Japan, organized by Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen) and Barbara Geilhorn (DIJ Tokyo).  

• 17 June 2022, 16:00-18:00

  Showcase: Listen up! Musicology Students’ Sound Performances 1

  You are cordially invited to Listen Up!, the first event publicly showcasing sound and voice performances of IKK Musicology students.

• 9 June 2022, 15:00-17:00

  Surrealism in the 1930s and Today

  Sami Sjöberg, Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and Adjunct Professor at the universities of Helsinki and Tampere and Anna Weile Kjær, curator and PhD student at the Dept. of Art and Cultural Studies about surrealism in the 1930s and today 

• 7 June - 8 June 2022

  Light, Space & Contemporary Art

  Symposium.

• 1 June 2022, 19:00-21:00

  Palm oil in capital’s utopia: Dreams and nightmares in the plantationocene

  Book talk by Max Haiven on his new book Palm Oil. The Grease of Empire.

• 31 May 2022, 19:00-21:00

  Forum Lectures #14: Fernando Domínguez Rubio

  The Unnatural Ecologies of Modern Art

• 31 May 2022, 9:00-18:00

  The Collective Body Dismembered

  A one-day symposium at the National Gallery of Denmark, SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst).

• 19 May 2022, 14:00-16:00

  Fallen idols: statues, history and memory

  Guest lecture with British historian Alex von Tunzelmann.

• 12 May 2022, 9:30-11:30

  Workshop with Nina Möntmann

  Following up on the seminar on 11 May: ‘Curating Global Entanglements’, this workshop provides an opportunity to discuss some of the intersecting interests identified at the seminar in greater depth.

• 11 May 2022, 15:00-17:30

  Curating Global Entanglements

  This seminar aims to explore how contemporary curatorial practices are responding to the transformative and highly contested impact of migration.

• 11 May - 12 May 2022

  Landscape, Nature, and Sacred Site

  Two-day interdisciplinary conference about exploring the dynamics between landscape, nature, and sacred sites across the medieval world.

• 10 May 2022, 16:00

  Sterne - Diminished Faculties: Virtual Book Talk

  Virtual public book talk by Jonathan Sterne on his latest book Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (DUP 2022) via Zoom

• 10 May 2022, 10:00-12:00

  In The Age of Epimodernism

  Talk by Emmanuel Bouju. The talk coins the term epimodernism to denote a kind of “post-postmodernism”.

• 29 Apr. 2022, 15:00-17:00

  Where to with History?

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• 28 Apr. 2022, 13:00-15:00

  Narrating matters: Quicksilver

  Lecture by Martina Wernli.

• 26 Apr. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #13: Mai Corlin Frederiksen

  Trojan Horses in the Chinese Countryside: The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art Rural China.

• 22 Apr. 2022, 14:15-16:00

  Art and Culture in Wartime

  Seminar and discussion.

• 21 Apr. - 22 Apr. 2022

  Carl Nielsen - European Composer

  The conference will be a platform to discuss in which ways European composers born in the 1860s–70s are modern composers and how we may understand their modernity.