Past events – University of Copenhagen

18 Feb. 2020, 14

Viral Cultures - Activist Archives at the End of AIDS

Seminar with Marika Cifor, feminist scholar of archival studies and digital studies. She will be visiting the Uncertain Archives group, and for the seminar she will be presenting ongoing work from her upcoming book on Viral Cultures.

23 Jan. 2020, 13:00-18:30

Diffractions and the (un-)making of difference: transcultural practices in postmigrant theatre and in school

The aim of this symposium is to reflect on our analysis of transcultural practices and to discuss its relevance in current academic and socio-political discourses around migration, aesthetic formation and education.

6 Dec. 2019, 13:00

Everybody Counts: The Aesthetics of Production in Higher Artistic Education and Performance Art Collectives

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt.

3 Dec. 2019, 13:00

Flow or Stop?

Public defence of PhD thesis by Katrine Wallevik.

29 Nov. 2019, 16:00

City Food in Streets and Elsewhere

Tenth International 4Cities conference, organized by the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies / Center for Urbanity and Aesthetics.

28 Nov. 2019, 14:00-16:00

A Curatorial History from the Cold War

Lecture by Anthony Gardner (Head of School at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford).

21 Nov. 2019, 9:00-15:00

Containing, Controlling, Understanding: Methodological Explorations

Seminar on the methodological challenges researchers are confronted with in their research.

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.