Past events

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.

28 Feb. 2023, 17:00-19:00

Forum Lectures #19: Nils Olsson & Imri Sandström

In this duo-lecture (Nils Olsson and Imri Sandström) the collaborative dimensions of artistic as well as academic practices is explored in both content and form.

24 Feb. 2023, 14:00-16:00

Digital Culture; Platformisation of culture

In this salon, the Digital Culture research group facilitates a discussion on the platformisation of culture.

19 Feb. 2023, 16:30

Expert Listening: Music and Deafness

A roundtable discussion featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie, Lotte Rømer, Dr Peter Keller (Aarhus University), and Dr Jessica Holmes (UCPH), organized by IKK’s Art & Health research cluster in partnership with DR and the Léonie Sonning Music Prize Foundation.

18 Jan. 2023, 13:00

How to apply for a PhD at IKK

A conversation with Ass. Prof. Michael Eigtved. Meeting has been postponed to 18 January. 

13 Dec. 2022, 14:15-16:00

Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond: From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis

Guest lecture with Professor Mårten Snickare.

29 Nov. 2022, 17:00-19:00

Forum Lectures #18: Louis Hartnoll

In this lecture Louis Hartnoll will focus on the two terms – ‘dialogical art’ and ‘participatory art’. This intervention proposes to metacritically reassess how the discourse on art’s social character often relies on an overtly sociological, but politically and philosophically dubious, framework. 

25 Nov. 2022, 16:00

Shopfronts in Urban Life

 4Cities conference XII.

7 Nov. 2022, 15:15-17:00

Potential Stories: The Transcultural Trajectories of Modernist Primitivism

Lecture by Monica Juneja, Heidelberg University.

3 Nov. - 5 Nov. 2022

Completing/Critiquing the Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-2020

The conference marks the completion of the four volumes of The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries (Rodopi/Brill 2012-2022) that span the developments of the arts in the Nordic countries throughout the twentieth century.

25 Oct. 2022, 17:00-19:00

Forum Lectures #17: Richard Grusin

In this lecture Richard Grusin will explore the fruitful relatikons among arboreal and technical infrastructures.

25 Oct. - 27 Oct. 2022

NORDIK 2022: COLLECTIONS

The NORDIK Association for Art Historians is hereby announcing the conference under the heading “Collections”.

24 Oct. 2022, 16:15-18:00

Infrastructure as Method: 5 Notes

Lecture by Professor Joshua Clover, University of California, Davis.

14 Oct. 2022, 13:00

Feeling sick of home?

PhD defence by Anna Meera Gaonkar.

13 Oct. 2022, 13:00

Convolutional Aesthetics

PhD defence by Naja le Fevre Grundtmann.

11 Oct. 2022, 11:15-17:30

Book launch Breathing Aesthetics and Asbestos: The Last Modernist Object

Lectures by Arthur Rose (University of Exeter), Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York University), Stefanie Heine (University of Copenhagen).

27 Sept. 2022, 17:00-19:00

Forum Lectures #16: Tina Campt

This lecture engages some of the alternative practices of looking and viewing relations their work subverts the space of the gallery by populating it with black bodies in disruptive and transformative ways.

24 Sept. 2022, 9:30-18:00

MAKING A SCENE - performative gestures of noise, interference, and destruction

Presenters include scholars from across the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK), Copenhagen University, as well as invited keynote(s) and artists.

23 Sept. 2022, 15:00

On Black poetics and the renunciation of categorical distinction in multimodal music video analysis

PhD defence by Anders Aktor Liljedahl.