Past events

• 19 Nov. - 20 Nov. 2019

  Go Your Gait!

  A Workshop on Sound & Senses.

• 7 Nov. 2019, 14:00-16:00

  Welcome to Zhang Xihua and Paul Gilroy

  Each of the two newly promoted honorary doctors at the Faculty of Humanities; Zhang Xihua (ToRS) and Paul Gilroy (IKK), will lecture for approximately 35-40 minutes, followed by 5-10 mn Q & A.

• 30 Oct. 2019, 15:00-17:00

  The "Smart" Mandate: Infrastructure, Responsive Environments, and "Resilient Hope"

  Workshop with Dr. Orit Halpern.

• 30 Oct. 2019, 10:15-17:30

  Politics: Orientations and Possibilities of the Present

  IKK Conference.

• 29 Oct. 2019, 10:00-17:00

  Colonial (Dis)Appearances in the Art Museum

  This seminar invites curators and researchers that currently work with colonial history and/or work from post/decolonial perspectives in art museums.

• 2 Oct. 2019, 9:00-13:00

  Operative Encounters between Lógos and Matter - A Media Archaeological Approach to Technology

  Guest lecture by Professor Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt Universität, Berlin.

• 20 Sept. 2019, 13:15-17:00

  Studies in Art and Culture: Challenges and Transformations

  To celebrate the appointment of Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Anne Ring Petersen to professors, the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies invites to a seminar about the current changes of the ways in which we study art, aesthetics and culture.

• 12 Sept. 2019, 15:00-17:00

  Who is the Subject? Wilhelm Marstrand's Portrait of Justine Antoine and Other Images

  Lecture by Dr. Temi Odumosu (Malmö University).

• 9 Sept. 2019, 10:30-16:00

  Predicting Security and the Insecurity of Prediction

  The Uncertain Archives research group is delighted to host a seminar with David Murakami Wood, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

• 16 Aug. 2019, 13:00

  The Resonant Museum: Sound, Art and the Politics of Curating

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Rasmus Holmboe.

• 14 Aug. - 16 Aug. 2019

  Money and Literature: Wealth, Finance, Aesthetics

  The 2019 conference of Norlit will explore the complex relations between literature, culture and economics in both a contemporary and a historical perspective.

• 1 Aug. 2019

  Call for papers: Predicting Security and the Insecurity of Prediction

  Call for papers for a seminar September with David Murakami Wood, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

• 14 June 2019, 13:00-15:00

  Max Hirsh: Airport Urbanism

  Seminar with Max Hirsch, Research assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong.

• 7 June 2019, 14:15

  The Sound of Place

  Inauguration talk by Professor Daniel M. Grimley (Oxford University) who has been appointed affiliated professor at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

• 20 May 2019, 15:30

  Thinking with Performance: Research-Based Aesthetics in Times of Conflict and Crisis

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Sofie Volquartz Lebech.

• 14 May 2019, 13:15-16:00

  Symposium - Archival Encounters: Colonial Archives, Care and Social Justice With Françoise Vergès, Kaiama L. Glover and Tami Navarro

  Conference about the ways in which we encounter colonial archives and how we might engage archives from feminist, antiracist and decolonial perspectives.

• 13 May 2019, 14:15-16:00

  Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Carceral Capitalism in Palestine

  Lecture by Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University)

• 9 May 2019, 15:00-17:00

  Beyond White Innocence

  Guest lecture by Gloria Wekker, Professor Emerita of Gender Studies at Utrecht University.

• 2 May 2019, 10:00-17:15

  1925-1950: Nordic Avant-Garde in its European Context

  This conference offers highlights from the second volume of the series of Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries (4 volumes published by Brill).

• 25 Apr. 2019, 15:00-17:00

  Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair

  Guest lecture by Sarah Schulman, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian, journalist, and active participant citizen.

• 28 Mar. 2019, 14:15-16:00

  Crisis & Critique

  Lecture by Didier Fassin (IAS and EHESS).

• 13 Mar. - 14 Mar. 2019

  Site, Material, and Medium in Socially Engaged Art

  International research network that looks at current global trends for collaboration and community building in contemporary art.

• 8 Mar. 2019

  She is no gentle lamb in the cave of the werewolf: Women artists in Scandinavia, 1900-1960

  International conference co-hosted by the Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen and the National Gallery of Denmark, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

• 1 Mar. 2019, 13:00-15:00

  Moeder Maman Mom

  An essay written aloud by Carol Mavor.

• 22 Feb. 2019, 13:00

  Punk Art: An Exploration

  Public Defence of PhD thesis by Marie Arleth Skov.

• 21 Feb. 2019, 13:15

  Independence? Lawrence Alloway as critic and curator 1955-1985

  Lecture by Courtney J. Martin (Chief Curator, DIA Arts Foundation, New York).