Events from 2016 and earlier

4 Jan. 2018, 13:00

Renegotiating Responsibility

Jakob Skovgaard defends his PhD thesis.

28 Sept. 2017, 10:00-12:00

Vocabulary in academic speaking

Guest lecture by Dr.  Averil Coxhead, Victoria University of Wellington

13 Sept. 2017, 13:15-15:00

PhD-præforsvar ved Nils Voisin Schultz

Fransk forfaldstænkning i det tidlige 21. Århundrede.

11 Sept. 2017, 15:15-17:00

PhD-præforsvar ved Troels Hughes Hansen

’Broum!...’ De vidnende funktioner hos den sene Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

1 Sept. 2017, 9:00-17:00

KU Literary Festival

‘Forum for Litteraturforskning’ inviterer til litteraturfestival fredag den 1. september, og det ville glæde os meget hvis især Ph.d.-studerende og KA-studerende havde lyst til at være med. Litteraturfestivalen handler om at vise hvordan litteraturkritikken på KU ser ud i dag, give inspiration, og fejre litteraturens rolle på Københavns Universitet.

7 June 2017, 14:15-16:00

PhD pre-defence - Jakob Skovgaard

Renegotiating Responsibility: Anti-Apartheid Campaigns against British Companies, 1969-1992. PhD pre-defense by Jakob Skovgaard (Ph.d. fellow, ENGEROM)Discussant: Mads P. Sørensen (Aarhus University)

1 June 2017, 13:00

PhD defence - Christian Damm Pedersen

Room 23.0.49. Christian Damm Pedersen defends his PhD thesis: African decolonisation and the fate of Britishness 1959-1965

9 Dec. 2016, 10

Grammatical constructions – cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic variability

Room 27.1.49. Seminar with Sandra Lucas (ToRS), Kim Ebensgaard Jensen, Wojciech Lewandowski and Johan Pedersen (Engerom)

25 Nov. 2016, 13:15-14:45

Lecture by Paul North

Room 14.1.67. The Yield: Kafka’s Pensées of 1917-18

4 Nov. 2016, 13:15-14:45

Lecture by Julia Rosenthal

Room 14.1.67. Autograph collecting from Goethe to Stefan Zweig

27 Oct. 2016, 17

Engerom Linguistic Circle

Room 24.2.11. Engerom Linguistic Circle # 2: Intermingling languages. Engerom Linguistic Circle is a newly started student initiative for all those interested in linguistics. Two students present their findings on the neurolinguistics of bilingualism and the use of anglicisms in German.

14 Oct. 2016, 13:00

PhD defence - Kimberly Chopin

Room 21.0.54 ("Multisalen"). Kimberly Chopin defends her PhD thesis: More Danish, More English - Language Policy, Language Use, and Medium of Instruction at a Danish University

16 Sept. 2016, 13:15-14:45

Lecture by David E. Wellbery

Room 14.1.67. A Spectrum of Aesthetic Ideas: Apercu, Thick Concepts, Metaphors

7 June 2016, 10am

Engerom Seminar in American History

Room 24.2.01. Feeling the Cold War: Emotions and Foreign Policy-Making in the Kennedy Administration by Kasper Grotle Rasmussen, Assistant Professor, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark and Defeating Reagan: The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Human Rights, and Sanctions against South Africa by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, University of Southern Denmark 

20 May 2016, 14

PhD pre-defence - Astrid Rasch

Room 25.0.26. Remembering Britishness: Negotiation of Identity in End of Empire Autobiography. Pre-defense by Astrid Rasch (Ph.d. fellow, ENGEROM). Opponent Wulf Kansteiner (University of Aarhus)

12 May 2016, 10am

Lecture by Margarida Marques

Room 24.0.01. Portugal: 30 years in the EU. By Dr.ª Margarida Marques, Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs

9 May 2016, 3pm

Text and Image - PhD seminar with Barbara Bohac and François Bon

Room 15A.0.13. Barbara Bohac (Université de Lille) Charles Baudelaire and the painter of modern life : why was it Constantin Guys and not Edouard Manet ?
Francois Bon (novelist / essayist) Writing as a part of the image’s story

9 May - 11 May 2016

LUNAS 2016

The international conference Academic Language Use and Academic Literacies from a Multilingual Perspective in Nordic Educational Contexts, hosted at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, 9-11 May 2016.

20 Apr. 2016, 10am

Lecture by Richardo Reis

Room 24.2.01. The economic potential of the Portuguese language

1 Apr. 2016, 13:00

PhD defence - Joseph Ballan

Room 23.0.50. Joseph Ballan defends his PhD dissertation: In der Heimwehkolonie: On the Cosmography of Nelly Sachs.

2 Mar. 2016, 13

Foredrag af Jonas Kreienbaum

Lokale 23.2.39. From Windhoek and Pretoria to Auschwitz? Colonial and Nazi Concentration Camps

15 Jan. 2016, 13:00

PhD defence - Ezequiel Mercau

Room 22.0.11. Ezequiel Mercau defends his PhD dissertation: Empire Redux. The Falklands and the End of Greater Britain.

9 Dec. 2015, 15

Lecture by Bruce Buchan

CHANGE OF VENUE: Room 24.2.62. Hints', Howls, and Hakas: Hearing Britain's Empire in Australia and the Pacific, c. 1690-1790.

25 Nov. 2015, 11:00-12:00

Foredrag af Ekaterina Kozhevnikova

Lokale 27.0.17. Social signs in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreisler

5 Nov. 2015, 11

Translation Studies Cross-Over II

Festsalen, room 11C.0.08. With Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov (Helsinki, Kristian Hvelplund, Hanne Jansen og Henrik Gottlieb (Engerom)

4 Nov. 2015, 15

Lecture by Bruce Clunies Ross

Room 24.2.62. Bruce Clunies Ross (Copenhagen), Les Murray and the Poetry of Australia. Discussant: Martin Leer, University of Geneva

30 Oct. 2015, 9:30

Knowing Savagery - From Renaissance to Romanticism

Room 24.2.62. Workshop with Stuart Ward (Engerom) and Bruce Buchan (Griffith and Engerom)

1 Oct. 2015, 15

Indigenous Voices in Sydney

Room 27.1.74. Hidden in plain view: The Aboriginal people and places of the 19th century Sydney by Paul Irish (Sidney). Uptalk and Aboriginal English in Sydney by Anne Jespersen (Cambridge)

16 June 2015, 9am

Lecture by Diane Larsen-Freeman

Room 22.0.49. Complexity Theory as Metatheory by Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

13 May 2015, 3pm

Zoë Wicomb in Dialogue with Ann Langwadt

The Faculty Library, 1st floor. South African/Scottish novelist Zoë Wicomb

6 May 2015, 3pm

Lecture series Art and Movement

Room 24.2.07. Pygmalion with a Kodak: Sculpture and Photography c. 1900 by Professor Michael Hatt (Warwick) and Moving Sculpture in late Victorian Fiction by Associate Professor Lene Østermark-Johansen (Engerom)

18 Feb. 2015, 1pm

Lecture by Birgit Henriksen

Room 17.0.09. Teacher cognition research and teaching practices – with a focus on English Medium instruction in tertiary education.

16 Dec. 2014, 1pm

Riots in French Culture

Room 21.0.54 (Multisalen). Open Lectures by Kristin Ross (NYU) and Christopher Prendergast (Cambridge). Cultures of Topology Lecture Series

6 Nov. - 7 Nov. 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS: Comparative Studies in Migration and Memory

Room 27.0.09. At a time when transnational mobility is both noticeable and controversial it matters greatly that we better understand the human experience of migration: its subjective histories, social processes and imaginative implications. At a time when the movement of peoples is under intense scrutiny the case for comparative investigation and analysis is compelling. It is necessary to explore interaction between cultures, the processes of personal recollection in life-story and oral history, as well as public memory expressed in commemorations, museums and representations.

3 Nov. - 4 Nov. 2014

Language in the new media, norm, variation, language change

Lokale 27.0.17. PhD seminar with two public lectures. Monday 3 November at 1pm: What changed, what didn't: The real impact of electronically-mediated communication by Professor Naomi S. Baron. Tuesday 4 November at 9am: The new spaces of digital writing: Some remarks from an Italian sociolinguistic perspective by Associate Professor Elena Pistolesi.

19 Sept. 2014, 1pm

Cultural responses to environmental disaster in Australia

Room 27.1.47. Symposium organized by Distinguished Visiting Professor Anne Collett

17 Sept. 2014, 13:00-16:20

Seminar with Alister Cumming

Room 27.0.47. Seminar on writing in a foreign language with honorary doctor at UCPH, professor Alister Cumming, OISE University of Toronto.

This is an Engerom Focus Event organized by the research platform Language in higher education.

7 May 2014, 10:15-11:30

Lecture by Caroline Elkins

Room 23.0.50. Public lecture on Mau Mau on Trial: History, Law, and Memories of Empire. World History Workshop

30 Apr. 2014, 12:15

Lecture by Nancy Cook

CHANGE OF VENUE and TIME CHANGE! Room 27.0.09. Preserving Home and Revising History: Legacies of the King Ranch of Texas by Nancy Cook, Associate Professor, University of Montana

29 Apr. 2014, 14

Seminar with Matthew Klugman and Claire McLisky

Room 27.1.47. The research platform Sense and Sensibility organizes a seminar with Matthew Klugman from Victoria University and Claire McLisky, Sapere Aude Postdoc at Engerom. This is an Engerom focus event within the research platform Sense and Sensibility. Afterwards, the Department offers a glass of wine.

9 Apr. 2014, 15:15-17:00

Seminar with Bill Schwarz and Stephen Howe

Room 15A.1.13. Seminar on Left and Right of the End of Empire with Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary, UL) and Stephen Howe (Bristol). World History Workshop

31 Mar. 2014, 14

Lecture by Bridget Bennett

Room 27.0.47. Imagining the American home: Affect, crisis and belonging, by professor Bridget Bennett, University of Leeds.

24 Mar. 2014, 11:15-13:00

Seminar with John M. MacKenzie

Room 27.0.17. Seminar on The British Empire: Ramshackle or Rampaging? with John M. MacKenzie (Lancaster). World History Workshop

14 Mar. 2014, 14:00-15:15

The United Kingdom & the Future of Scotland

Room 23.0.49. In September 2014, Scotland will make a profoundly important choice about its future: whether to remain a part of the United Kingdom or leave to become an independent state. Secretary Carmichael will make the case for why it is in Scotland’s interests to remain in the UK and how the UK delivers for Scotland at an international level.

6 Mar. 2014, 13

Teacher Talk and Teacher Cognition

Room 27.1.47. Seminar with Professor Pierangela Diadori (Università per Stranieri di Siena) and Postdoc Joyce Kling Soren, CIP, who will present the results of her PhD dissertation on Teacher Cognition. This is an Engerom focus event within the research platform Language in Higher Education. Afterwards, the Department offers a glass of wine.

26 Feb. 2014, 10:15-11:00

Lecture by Andrew S.Thompson

Room 23.0.50. Public lecture on Humanitarianism on Trial: Development and Decolonization with Andrew S. Thompson (Exeter). World History Workshop

26 Feb. 2014, 14

Comparative Studies in Migration and Memory

Room 24.3.62. The Migration Research Group invites all who are interested to an open meeting. The afternoon will include presentations by members of staff on the theme of 'Comparative Studies in Migration and Memory'.

Participants are asked to prepare a short presentation (around ten minutes) on their interests and research ideas connected to this theme.

Please note that the subject area is not centred on any particular region or discipline, nor do individual projects do not have to make comparisons.

These will develop from our common interests in the personal experience and collective representation of migration.