Past events

• 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.

• 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.