Past events

• 29 May 2024, 13:00

  Between Calvary and Parnassus

  PhD Defence by Niels Krarup-Leth Nykrog.

• 28 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #30 Gigi Argyropoulou

  In this talk, Gigi Argyropoulou will discuss instituting as a critical method in curating, performing and organising that bears the potential to create “transformational infrastructures” (Berlant, 2017) and critical public.

• 25 May 2024, 13:00-17:30

  Scholar’s Day: All is Fair in Love and War

  In this event, five internationally acclaimed scholars within Japanese art history and visual culture will shed light on various aspects of the exhibition In Love & War.

• 4 May 2024, 14:00-17:00

  In Love and War: Curators’ Talk

  Talk with Asato Ikeda and Gunhild Borggren.

• 3 May 2024, 13:00

  I kritisk forening? Kunstforeningen GL STRANDs historie

  Marie Finsten Jensen forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling.

• 3 May 2024, 9:00-18:00

  Quality Control: Legacies and Practices of Gatekeeping in the Arts

  Seminar.

• 30 Apr. 2024, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #29: Jackqueline Frost

  In this talk, Jackqueline Frost will establish the socio-ecological, politico-aesthetic and strictly anti-foundationalist basis of Césaire’s notion of the human, revealing his new humanism to be predicated upon a poetic vision of the universal as species transformation.

• 29 Apr. 2024, 15:15-17:00

  Decorative Colonialism: Coconut Cups and the Crafting of the Early Modern Atlantic

  Guest lecture by Professor Benjamin Schmidt.

• 25 Apr. 2024, 15:00-16:30

  Frameworks for Studying Digital Culture

  In this Thursday Salon, members of the Digital Culture Research Cluster will discuss how digital technologies both work in continuation of and introduce new questions to cultural research.

• 23 Apr. 2024, 15:15-17:00

  The Night Shift

  A Lecture by Helen Molesworth.

• 18 Apr. 2024, 14:15-16:00

  Artist talk with Marina Abramović

  Artist talk with Marina Abramović on the occasion of her receiving the Sonning Prize 2023.

• 11 Apr. 2024, 10:00-12:00

  Making Music in the Age of Information Capitalism

  Public lecture by D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds.

• 2 Apr. 2024, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #28: Orit Halpern

  This talk traces the relationship between neo-liberal thought and neural networks through the work of economist Friedrich Hayek, psychologist Donald O. Hebb,  neural network pioneer Frank Rosenblatt, and later the architecture collective Asymptote's design of the virtual trading floor for the NYSE.  

• 21 Mar. 2024, 15:00-16:30

  Thursday Salon

  The IKK Thursday Salons are informal seminars where IKK's research clusters present new research and invite participants informally to engage in criticism and development of ideas.

• 21 Mar. 2024, 9:00-13:00

  Communities of Separatism

  This seminar marks the end of the research project Communities of Separatism. Affects in and around separatist artist collectives in the Nordic region.

• 18 Mar. 2024

  Literary Studies at KU: Projects, Practices, Provocations

  Every year Stefanie Heine, Maria Damkjær and Tina Lupton gather literature researchers from across the University of Copenhagen for a collegiate conference.

• 15 Mar. 2024, 13:00

  Reconfigurations of Human-AI Companionship

  PhD defence by Semahat Ece Elbeyi.

• 15 Mar. 2024, 10:00-17:00

  Things ceasing to be: Cormac McCarthy’s environmental vision

  One-day symposium.

• 13 Mar. 2024, 15:00-17:30

  Seminar on literature and the environment

  Seminar with Professor Jay Watson (University of Mississippi) and Professor Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa).

• 27 Feb. 2024, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #27: Luisa Lorenza Corna & Frida Sandström

  This forum Lecture follows the polyphonous model of Rivolta Femminile and consists of two joint presentations by Frida Sandström and Luisa Lorenza Corna.

• 23 Feb. 2024, 13:00

  Picture the Sky: Cosmic Code, Images, and Imaginaries

  PhD defence by Nanna Debois Buhl.

• 23 Feb. 2024, 13:00

  Art Tactics Transforming Public Spaces in Commercial Environments: A Comparative Study in China and Denmark

  PhD defence by Shuang Fei.

• 22 Feb. 2024, 15:00-17:00

  Is laughter really the best medicine?

  Talk by Lyombe Eko, author of award-winning book The Charlie Hebdo Affair and Comparative Journalistic Cultures (2019), and William S. Morris Professor.

• 2 Feb. 2024, 12:30-17:00

  Decolonising the Camera: Photography and Lens-based Art from Greenland and the Arctic

  This seminar is organized on the occasion of Inuuteq Storch being selected by the Danish Arts Foundation to exhibit at the Venice Biennale 2024.

• 31 Jan. 2024, 15:30-17:00

  Writing a transcultural history of art in the GDR

  Lecture by Kerstin Schankweiler (TU Dresden).

• 18 Jan. 2024, 13:00-14:00

  How to apply for a PhD at IKK

  How to apply for a PhD at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK).

• 5 Jan. 2024, 13:00

  Organising, Exhibiting and Curating (in) Solidarity

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Line Ellegaard

• 11 Dec. - 12 Dec. 2023

  With and Against the Current: Exploring Hydrofeminism(s)

  This symposium brings together transdisciplinary researchers, artists and writers who have inquired into and been inspired by watery histories and subjectivities.

• 8 Dec. 2023, 13:00-17:00

  Georges Perec's Translated Places

  Trilingual Conference at the University of Copenhagen.

• 29 Nov. 2023, 15:00-16:30

  Listening to Songlines, Sila & Sonic Agency

  Ania Mauruschat, MSCA fellow at the Sound Studies Lab, UCPH presents research findings on diverse sonic practices around climate change in Australia, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and Denmark.