Past events

28 Nov. 2023, 17:00-19:30

Forum Lectures #26: Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

In this lecture, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard will present how Kalaallit artists, SoMe actors, and meme-makers employ playfulness as a transformative way to engage with the ‘unfinished business of decolonization’.

24 Nov. 2023, 16:15-18:30

Commodity, Community, Urbanity

13th Annual 4Cities Conference at the University of Copenhagen.

24 Nov. 2023, 13:00

Breaking and Creating

Public defence of PhD thesis by Terne Thorsen.

17 Nov. 2023, 9:30-17:30

Decentring the museum for a postmigrant society

This conference explored how contemporary curatorial and institutional practices can renegotiate identities, communities, and histories, and foster new forms of resistance as a response to the inequalities characterising a colonialist-capitalist world order.

31 Oct. 2023, 17:00-19:30

Forum Lectures #25: Sarah Nagaty

Lecture by Sarah Nagaty on The Egyptian Collective Dream.

6 Oct. 2023, 16:30

Public Lecture on Popular Music

Join us as esteemed NPR pop music critic Ann Powers and leading pop music scholar Eric Weisbard deliver the inaugural Public Lecture of the 2023-24 UCPH Musicology Fagligt Forum.

26 Sept. 2023, 17:00-19:30

Forum Lectures #24: Nafiseh Mousavi

This lecture addresses the social imaginations of ‘camp’, as contradictory spaces of control and care associated with refugee life and forced migration, in contemporary western comics.

22 Sept. 2023, 9:00-16:30

Courtly, Cute, or Queer: New Perspectives on Gender in Japanese Visual Culture

In this seminar, six internationally acclaimed scholars within Japanese art history and visual culture will challenge stereotypes of dominant gender discourses in Japan.

15 Sept. 2023, 13:00

A we without us – Collective disoccupation in late 20th century French poetry

Public defence of PhD thesis by Morten Chemnitz Gråbøl.

14 Sept. 2023, 13:00-16:00

Seminar: Public service television as scene for experimentality

Centering on work-in-progress and anecdotal presentations by artists, researchers, and practitioners in the field of television, this seminar investigates the premises of public service television as an experimental platform for filmmaking and artistic production.

7 Sept. - 8 Sept. 2023

Defiant Terrains

International Conference at the University of Copenhagen.

29 Aug. 2023, 17:00-19:30

Forum Lectures #23: Nikos Papastergiadis

In this lecture, rather the idea of cosmopolitanism, Nikos Papastergiadis will seek to reinvigorate it by examining the ways in which visual artists have explored themes associated with the cosmos.

25 Aug. 2023, 14:15-16:00

Japanese art during the Second World War: A Global Perspective

Inaugural lecture: Novo Nordisk Foundation Visiting Professor in Art & Art History, Asato Ikeda.

21 June 2023, 9:30-11:00

Whatever happened to our cybernetic utopia?

Public talk by Fred Turner (Stanford University).

19 June 2023, 15:00-18:30

DAS MINSK, Potsdam

Stichworte: Neue Zugänge zur DDR-Kunst, Ausstellungsgeschichten, globale Kunstgeschichte, transnationaler Austausch im geteilten Europa, Kulturdiplomatie.

8 June - 9 June 2023

Imagine Earth

Imagine Earth is a two-day conference held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. It will gather internationally prominent researchers, artists and young researchers related to the field of environmental humanities.

30 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

Forum Lectures #22: Clive Chijioke Nwonka, University College London

Lecture by Clive Chijioke Nwonka, University College London.

24 May - 26 May 2023

Not this time. Temporalities of ending, editing, and enduring

This conference calls for perspectives on retrieving and renegotiating temporal aspects of artistic practices, lived lives, and knowledge production.

9 May 2023, 10:00-12:00

Data-driven ideals and the work of culture

Public talk by Professor Olga Goriunova, Royal Holloway University of London.

1 May 2023, 15:00-17:00

Performing Identities: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Transnational Context

Open lecture with Professor Jane Chin Davidson, Art History, Global Cultures, California State University, San Bernardino.

28 Apr. 2023, 9:00-16:00

DC & Guests: Showcasing Ongoing Research from the Digital Culture Research

At this seminar, members of the Digital Culture research cluster, and invited guests, will present their current research.

26 Apr. 2023, 14:00-16:00

Loving the planet

Lecture by Emanuele Coccia, an Italian philosopher who has been studying the metaphysics of plants and their role in the theory of knowledge.

25 Apr. 2023, 17:00-19:00

Forum Lectures #21: Kim West, Gustav Strandberg & Josefine Wikström

Lecture by Kim West, Gustav Strandberg and Josefine Wikström about Critique of the Freedom of Art. 

25 Apr. 2023, 14:30-16:00

CANCELLED! Artist Talk with Marina Abramović

UPDATE 24 APRIL: Unfortunately the event is cancelled due to acute illness.

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

20 Apr. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Rituals of zar and dikr in Abū al-Ġaiṭ. Ritual, music and memories of oppression

This lecture aims at exploring and analyzing the historical, social, religious and musical conditions that allowed the continuous shifting from ḏikr to zār and vice versa; addressing music and ritual performances, and cultural and religious syncretism.

30 Mar. 2023, 17:00-19:00

Forum Lectures #20: UFOlab

The lecture will re-examine the artist group UFOlab's performances and interventions.

25 Mar. 2023, 12:00-17:00

Seminar: Collective Intelligence, Crowd Identity & Infrastructural Aesthetics

Kom til seminar i forbindelse med den aktuelle udstilling, Group-Think af Stine Marie Jacobsen, med titlen: Collective Intelligence, Crowd Identity & Infrastructural Aesthetics.

8 Mar. 2023, 15:00

Exhibition as Psycho-Aesthetic Form and Backdrop as Character

Public defence of PhD thesis by Charlotte Born Sprogøe Petersen.

7 Mar. 2023, 15:00

Booktalk: Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum

Editors Malene Vest Hansen and Kristian Handberg in conversation with Sebastian Mühl, Nicola Foster, Annette Loeseke, and Tominga Hope O’Donnell. 

3 Mar. - 4 Mar. 2023

SoundEast. Sonic Inquiries Into Cultures from Central and Eastern Europe & Central Asia

The aim of this workshop is to provide a space for analysis and discussion of the sonic aspects of the still-overlooked cultural territories of the former Eastern Bloc.