2023

25 Apr. - 26 Apr. 2024

Call for papers: WASTE & VALUE conference

Registration is now open. Limited spaces available. Hosted by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and the research project WASTE: Consumption and Buddhism in the age of garbage.

5 Dec. 2023, 14:00-15:30

Revolutions aesthetic: A cultural history of Ba'thist Syria

Guest Lecture by Max Weiss.

4 Dec. 2023, 10:00-15:00

‘Afterlife’ workshop

Considering the afterlife of constellations of places, people and things can reveal much about politics, aspirations, and well-being in this life.

28 Nov. 2023, 10:15-12:00

Migration & diaspora in Asia

Talks by Kimiko Suda (TU Berlin), Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield) and Markus Bell (La Trobe University, Melbourne).

17 Nov. 2023, 13:00-15:00

Waste temporalities and practices in India and Japan

Panel discussion.

13 Nov. - 15 Nov. 2023

Transmission, Translocation, and Transcreation

Conference.

7 Nov. 2023, 10:00-12:00

Follow-up meeting - UCPH Green Solutions Centre India delegation

Join us for an “India visit follow-up meeting” to hear the reflections from the UCPH Green Solutions Centre India delegation on November 7th from 10.00 – 12.00 at Mærsktårnet

4 Nov. 2023, 14:00-18:00

Transcultural Japan

Public lecture.

2 Nov. 2023, 14:00-16:00

An invented queer tradition: Tongzhi literature in Taiwan

Presentation.

2 Nov. 2023, 10:00-12:00

Sacred Canopies: LGBT+, Buddhism and Economics in Vietnam

Six speakers and a roundtable discussion exploring the question: how to theorize new spiritual and sexual formations in post-Socialist Vietnam? 

1 Nov. 2023, 15:15-17:00

Conceptualizations of HONOUR in Indian and Pakistani Englishes

Talk by Ansa Mahmood og Kim Ebensgaard Jensen.

26 Oct. 2023, 15:00-16:00

Archaeology of early Islam in Eastern Arabia and the Arab-Persian Gulf

The School of Archaeology invites you to a guest lecture by Dr Agnieszka Lic.

26 Oct. 2023, 10:00-15:00

The Ethics of Practice-Based Research

This workshop is designed as a platform for open-ended inquiry and collaborative problem-solving,

23 Oct. 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artist talk: Abbas Akhavan

This artist talk presents Canadian artist Abbas Akhavan (b. 1977 in Tehran), who is currently doing a major solo exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, titled “Curtain Call”.

13 Oct. 2023, 13:00-15:00

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

In this public talk acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh will discuss his recent book The Nutmeg’s Curse with debater, lecturer and author Carsten Jensen.

9 Oct. 2023, 14:00-16:00

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

Public Talk: Author Quinn Slobodian (Professor of History at Wellesley College) with Rune Lykkeberg (Dagbladet Information).

25 Sept. - 26 Sept. 2023

ADI Symposium: Being Digital in China

This symposium involves leading scholars in the field and critically reflects on the current discussion on being digital and digitalization in China.

11 Sept. - 15 Sept. 2023

Asia Week 2023

Between 11 and 15 September, the Asian Dynamics Initiative invites you to dive into a realm of intellectual exploration and cultural enlightenment bridging the Global North and South during Asia Week.

6 Sept. 2023, 10:00-11:30

Atmospheric Politics in the Indian Ocean

Public lecture with Debjani Bhattacharya. 

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.

15 June - 16 June 2023

Postmemory work and the digital in Southeast Asia

This workshop sets out to develop a comparative perspective on postmemory work and the digital, with a focus on Southeast Asia.

7 June 2023, 15:15-16:00

Material culture. A shared heritage: The origin and use of textile patterns in Himalaya and on the Tibetan Plateau

Presentation by Ellen Bangsbo.

2 June 2023, 8:30-12:00

World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees and Societies

The Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan Jørgensen, and the UCPH migration research platform at University of Copenhagen invites you to attend a discussion about the World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees and Societies (WDR23).

1 June 2023, 14:00-15:30

Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Preconflict Aleppo

Guest lecture with Paul Anderson, University of Cambridge

10 May - 11 May 2023

Myanmar Borderlands

A hybrid workshop at the University of Copenhagen

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, 10:30

North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture: Comedy, Communism & Crash Landing on You

This talk by Associate Professor Stephen Epstein examines how South Korean images of North Korea have evolved in recent years

28 Apr. 2023, 10:00-12:00

India's First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism

Open lecture by Professor Vineet Thakur, Leiden University.

27 Apr. 2023, 10:30

Documentary Film Screening: Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World

Associate Professor Stephen Epstein presents the documentary film "Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World".

25 Apr. 2023, 15:00

Book launch: Danish perspectives on China

Centre for Military Studies invites you to book launch.