Past events

• 8 Apr. 2022, 13:00-16:00

  Hidden Flow: Artistic Research on the Frontlines of Extraction

  Public defence of ph.d.-thesis by Christian Danielewitz.

• 6 Apr. - 8 Apr. 2022

  Connect/Cut. Infrastructures and collective activity

  The conference Connect/Cut explores the infrastructures that mediate space, time, visibility, and access in the arts and beyond.

• 30 Mar. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Golden Age Smithson

  Guest lecture by Lytle Shaw.

• 29 Mar. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #12: Kirsten Dufour & Hellen Lassen

  1970ernes feministiske organisering i billedkunsten - En samtale med billedkunstnerne Hellen Lassen og Kirsten Dufour

• 25 Mar. 2022, 14:15-15:00

  Presenting Danish culture abroad in a time of conflict – doing Cultural Diplomacy

  Lecture with Camilla Mordhorst (Director, Danish Cultural Institute)

• 24 Mar. 2022, 17:00-18:30

  Listening to wicked problems: Sound Studies as transversal studies

  International Sound Studies Lab Lectures 2022 with Salomé Voegelin, Sound Artists, Writer and Researcher (University of the Arts London).

• 24 Mar. 2022, 15:15

  Rósa Magnúsdóttir: “Agents of Cultural Diplomacy: Ground Control and Generals of the Cultural Cold War”

  In this talk Magnúsdóttir will link the biographical turn in history to the concept of cultural diplomacy and the cultural Cold War.

• 24 Mar. - 25 Mar. 2022

  Cultural Diplomacy and Exhibitions

  Workshop organized by the research project 'Exhibiting across the Iron Curtain'.

• 21 Mar. 2022, 16:30-18:00

  Bad Daddy: George Washington in San Francisco

  A public lecture by Richard Meyer (Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University).

• 16 Mar. 2022, 13:00-15:00

  Revolting Girls: Heroism and Innocence in Young Women’s Activism from Civil Rights to the Climate Strike

  Lecture by Jill Locke (Gustavus Adolphus College).

• 10 Mar. 2022, 17:00-18:30

  Sonic Visions of the Arctic: Tracing Sound's Inherent Agency

  International Sound Studies Lab Lectures 2022 with Åsa Helena Stjerna, Sound Artist and Researcher, University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

• 22 Feb. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #11: Christina Kiaer

  The “Love Affair” between Communists and Blacks: Racial Solidarity in the Soviet film Black Skin, 1931.

• 4 Feb. 2022, 13:00

  The Museum of Discomfort

  Anna Vestergaard Jørgensen is defending her PhD thesis.

• 21 Jan. 2022, 14:00

  Enargeia – Energeia: The Heavenly Sounding Image in the Italian Renaissance

  PhD defence by Lise Hindsberg

• 16 Dec. 2021, Time: TBA

  & Utopia: Francoise Vergès

  Online public lecture series about utopian thinking and practices in a contemporary world characterised by multiple crises.

• 13 Dec. 2021, 14:30-16:00

  Digital temporalities and dead time

  CIRCLE on led by Cally Spooner (Department of Arts and Cultural Studies).

• 8 Dec. 2021, Time: TBA

  & Utopia: Kim Stanley Robinson

  Online public lecture series about utopian thinking and practices in a contemporary world characterized by multiple crises.

• 6 Dec. - 7 Dec. 2021

  Auerbach’s Method

  A two-day conference about the relevance of Auerbach’s method for humanist scholars today marking 75 years of Mimesis.

• 30 Nov. 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #10: Shannon Jackson

  Time-based Art and Ecological Time.

• 18 Nov. 2021, Time: TBA

  & Utopia: Arne De Boever

  Online public lecture series about utopian thinking and practices in a contemporary world characterized by multiple crises.

• 18 Nov. 2021, 15:00-17:00

  Finance Fiction Colloquia #4: Marx for Cats – A Radical Bestiary

  Leigh Claire La Berge presents her current book project Marx for Cats – Radical Bestiary.

• 17 Nov. - 18 Nov. 2021

  Fast Forward! Women in European Art, 1970-Present

  Two-day exchange of research, dialogue, and debate.

• 16 Nov. 2021, 11:00-12:00

  Machine Learning Political Cultures

  Public lecture by Louise Amoore, professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.

• 11 Nov. 2021, Time: TBA

  & Utopia: Sophie Lewis

  Online public lecture series about utopian thinking and practices in a contemporary world characterized by multiple crises.

• 5 Nov. 2021, 15:15-16:15

  Uncertain Archives Book Launch, Denmark edition

  Join us on Zoom to celebrate the launch of the book Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (MIT Press, 2021). The event will spotlight artistic and critical technical practices and include presentations.

• 4 Nov. 2021, 16:00-18:00

  The Collective Body in Soviet Visual Culture

  Accession lecture by Novo Nordisk Visiting Professor Christina Kiær, Department of Art and Cultural Studies.

• 1 Nov. 2021, 14:30-16:00

  Challenges of collaboration in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

  The inaugural CIRCLE is a discussion on the challenges of collaboration in light of the COVID-19 pandemic led by Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel, and with a welcoming address by Pia Quist.

• 29 Oct. 2021, 15:00-17:00

  Celebrating IKK Research

  Colleagues and students will meet in the foyer of Building 21 to celebrate IKK research that has been published during the pandemic.

• 28 Oct. 2021, Time: TBA

  & Utopia: David Bell

  Online public lecture series about utopian thinking and practices in a contemporary world characterized by multiple crises.

• 26 Oct. 2021, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #9: Daniel Irrgang

  Critical Zones Study Group – Preparing a Thought Exhibition with Bruno Latour.