Previous events

6 Dec. 2024, 13:00-15:00

Was prägt die deutsche Gesellschaft der Gegenwart?

Moritz Schramm und Detlef Siegfried stellen tonangebende deutsche Soziologen vor und diskutieren ihre Positionen.

6 Dec. 2024, 9:00-12:00

“Afterwar” & "Dealing with Trauma through Art"

HUM:Global Talk! film screening and panel discussion.

28 Nov. - 29 Nov. 2024

Conference on Language, Norms and Digital Lives

How do we talk on digital media? How do we talk about digital media? How do we talk with digital media?

26 Nov. 2024, 14:00-17:00

The Environmental Humanities in anglophone literature and media

Symposium.

21 Nov. 2024, 17:30

Auftreten. Literatur/Politik

Juliane Vogel, Konstanz, im Gespräch mit Christian Benne.

20 Nov. 2024, 15:00-16:30

French Ecofemism II: Véra Nikolski

Seminar with Véra Nikolski, PhD in political science

8 Nov. 2024, 15:00-17:00

Belonging Flexibly: Non-Muslim migrants from Muslim Asia

HUM:Global Talk! photography exhibition.

8 Nov. 2024, 13:00-15:00

Populäre Serialität im wissenschaftlichen Taschenbuch (BRD 1950-1968)

Vortrag von Jörg Döring, Siegen.

8 Nov. 2024, 13:00

Early Planted and Purely Reformed

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Kirsten Ogilby.

4 Nov. 2024, 14:00-16:00

Palestine and Israel

Hum:Global semester lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé.

28 Oct. 2024, 13:00-15:00

Modern-Day Crusaders: Religious Extremism and the Erosion of Democracy in Europe

HUM:Global Talk! with Neil Datta, Executive Director of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

25 Oct. 2024, 14:00

The Domestic Gothic: Minerva Fiction as Nationalist Literature, 1784-1820

Public defence of PhD Thesis by Katrine Wonge Lohmann.

23 Oct. 2024, 15:00-16:30

French Ecofeminism I: Myriam Bahaffou

Seminar with Myriam Bahaffou, researcher of feminist philosophy in the daytime and an activist at night.

11 Oct. 2024, 12:00-16:00

Digital Humanities Culture and Text

Conference.

10 Oct. 2024, 13:00-18:30

Decentring the Art Institution for a Postmigrant Society

HUM:Global Talk! seminar.

4 Oct. 2024, 15:00-16:00

Warming World, Frozen Fables: Histories of Imperialism and Imagination in the Arctic

Inaugural lecture by Professor Robert Rix, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.

30 Sept. 2024, 14:00-16:00

Looking at the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election with two former members of Congress

Talk with Betsy Markey (Democrat) and Scott Klug (Republican).

26 Sept. - 27 Sept. 2024

Festival de Literatura Copenhague

Kom til litteraturfestival for spansksprogede litteratur med deltagelse af en lang række forfattere og intellektuelle fra den spansktalende verden.

20 Sept. 2024, 13:00-15:00

Quartiere des Ankommens

Vortrag von David Templin, Osnabrück.

18 June 2024, 16:00-17:30

Early Modern Artificial Intelligence

William Egginton (Johns Hopkins) in conversation with Kevin Jon Heller and Katrine Helene Andersen.

23 May 2024, 9:45-14:30

AfterFamily – a conversation across disciplines

One-day in-person event with talks by Sophie Lewis, Maria Marti Castaner and Christina Lupton.

17 May 2024, 13:15-15:00

Alternative Dänemark. Kosmopolitismus im westdeutschen Alternativmilieu 1965-1985

Forlesung von Professor Detlef Siegfried, Universität Kopenhagen.

26 Apr. 2024, 13:15-15:00

Pragmatische Variation und Höflichkeit im Deutschen

Vorlesung von Tanja Ackermann (Bielefeld).

23 Apr. 2024, 15:00-17:00

Leah Price on “Bibliotherapy and Human Flourishing”

Reading group with Virginia Langum, Professor of English Literature at Umeå University.

22 Apr. 2024, 10:30-12:00

The Remains of Emily Shore: Illness Experience in the Archive

Lecture by Virginia Langum, Professor of English literature at Umeå University.

19 Apr. 2024, 13:30-17:00

First Lines in Paul Auster’s Narrative Prose

Online colloquium.

5 Apr. 2024, 13:15-15:00

Child Survivors: Important Historical Sources in Documenting the History of the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Lecture by Joanna Michlic (London & Lund).

4 Apr. 2024, 14:00

Touches of Nature: Explorations of Distant Touch in German and British Romanticism

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Martin Fog Arndal.

4 Apr. 2024, 12:00-15:00

Queering the archive

Seminar.

18 Mar. 2024, 13:00

Migrant Representations – Life Story, Investigation, Picture

Doctoral defense by Associate Professor Peter Leese.

18 Mar. 2024

Literary Studies at KU: Projects, Practices, Provocations

Every year Stefanie Heine, Maria Damkjær and Tina Lupton gather literature researchers from across the University of Copenhagen for a collegiate conference.

15 Mar. 2024, 10:00-17:00

Things ceasing to be: Cormac McCarthy’s environmental vision

One-day symposium.

13 Mar. 2024, 15:00-17:30

Seminar on literature and the environment

Seminar with Professor Jay Watson (University of Mississippi) and Professor Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa).

8 Mar. 2024, 13:15-15:00

Philosophie als Roman – Jena 1800. Die Republik der freien Geister

Vortrag von Dr. Peter Neumann (Berlin/Hamburg).

1 Mar. 2024, 13:15-15:00

Translationskultur und Agency der TranslatorInnen

Forlesung von Tatsiana Haiden (Universität Wien).

5 Jan. 2024, 13:00

Sproglig opmærksomhed via en flersprogethedsdidaktik

Public defence of PhD thesis by Natascha Drachmann

6 Dec. 2023, 17:00

Skarp af erkendelse og bitter af længsel: Ingeborg Bachman's intellectual legacy

Panel debate with Alexander Bareis, Sabrina Ebbersmayer, Irina Hron, Jørgen Herman Monrad and Judyta Preis (moderator: Christian Benne).

30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2023

Nordic seminar 2023

A two-day seminar on interpreting in the Nordic countries.

29 Nov. 2023, 16:00-17:30

Black Death, Social Death, and the Hunting Ritual in William Faulkner’s “The Bear”

In our second PhD work-in-progress seminar of the fall semester, Shiyu Zhang will present a section of his project on ritual in William Faulkner’s fiction.

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

Geschlecht in der deutschen Grammatik - Paarformeln, Genus, Großschreibung

Damaris Nübling (Mainz) im Gespräch mit Mirjam Schmuck. Ein Ereignis in der Reihe "Tysk fredag".

22 Nov. - 23 Nov. 2023

Occultism and Popular Culture in Europe

To launch the research program for the newly formed Dark Arts Research Group: Studies in Gothic, Horror and the Occult, 1750-Present, there will be a two-day hybrid conference between 22 November and 23 November 2023.

10 Nov. 2023, 10:15-11:45

War, Climate Change, Racism: How Memory shapes Europe today.

Professor Astrid Erll gives an honorary doctor lecture.

9 Nov. 2023, 13:30-16:30

Remembering activism and the agency of the aesthetic

Lecture by Ann Rigney (Utrecht).

9 Nov. 2023, 13:00

The polyfunctional subjunctive: A functional-cognitive approach to the Italian subjunctive

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Anders Andersen.

7 Nov. 2023, 13:30-16:30

A Momentary Ontology of Heritage: community attachments to the past in an urban World Heritage Site in Istanbul

Lecture by Chris Whitehead (Newcastle).

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

Memory of religious traces in contemporary culture

Lecture by Maria Asavei (Charles University Prague).

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

Politics of storytelling and administrations of memory

Lecture by Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus).

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

The Nutmeg’s Curse

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

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

29 Sept. 2023, 13:15-15:00

Gegenhochschulen in Westdeutschland

Susanne Schregel im Gespräch mit Detlef Siegfried. Ein Ereignis in der Reihe "Tysk fredag".

22 Sept. 2023, 13:15-15:00

Kontrafaktik der Gegenwart. Politisches Schreiben als Realitätsvariation

Michael Navratil Im Gespräch mit Anna Lena Sandberg. Ein Ereignis in der Reihe "Tysk fredag".

14 Sept. - 15 Sept. 2023

Nordic Association for Romantic Studies Workshop 2023

The Nordic Association for Romantic Studies (NARS) will host a major meeting to revitalise the forum.

28 June - 30 June 2023

From Early Childhood to Adulthood: Transitions, Continuity, and Disruptions in Plurilingual Education

10th International Conference of the Education and Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Association (EDiLiC).

19 June 2023, 10:00-17:00

The revival of colonialism? Memory politics, arts and activism

What is the relevance of doing research in colonialism today? This seminar shows that despite the temporal distance, colonialism is a surprisingly actual topic.

16 June 2023, 13:00

Acting by Writing

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Jytte Lyngvig.

15 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

Intertextual networks of the French Enlightenment: the ModERN Project

Seminar by Glenn Roe, Professor of French Literature and Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Letters at Sorbonne University on the ModERN Project - Modelling Enlightment.

14 June - 15 June 2023

Memoria delos libros que son: Spanish Manuscripts at the Arnamagnæan Collection

The Book of Books Project , the Arnamagnæan Institute and the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies invite to the workshop Memoria delos libros que son”: Spanish Manuscripts at the Arnamagnæan Collection.

9 June 2023, 14:00

In The Age of Epimodernism. The “istorical novel”

Lecture by Emmanuel Bouju, Professor of Comparative Literature (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle).

7 June - 9 June 2023

XIII Congresso degli Italianisti della Scandinavia. Panorama attuale dell’italianistica in Scandinavia

Conferenza.

2 June 2023, 8:30-17:30

Doing Things with Literary Theory

At this event we elebrate UCPH scholars working with literature, literary theory, and literary history across all areas of the university and the world. All are welcome.

1 June 2023, 13:15-16:15

Engerom’s Postdoc and Visiting Researcher Symposium

Thursday 1 June 2023, 13:15–16:15, South Campus, room 27.0.09.

12 May 2023, 14:00-16:00

Voices and Silences: from Edmond Jabès to Paul Auster/Voix et silences: d’Edmond Jabès à Paul Auster

The event is in French and English.

12 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Antiautoritärer Kommunismus in der Weimarer Republik

Rhena Stürmer (Leipzig) im Gespräch mit Detlef Siegfried (Kopenhagen).

3 May 2023, 13:15-17:30

Engeromic recognitions: Fernando Pessoa

Engerom will be hosting a major symposium on Wednesday 3 May from 13:00 to 17:00 celebrating the work of the European poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935).

1 May 2023, 15:00-18:00

Translating Shakespeare – for The Reader or The Theatre

A talk about translation and acting by the Shakespeare translator Niels Brunse and the actors Kristoffer Helmuth and Peter Høgsbro Toftegaard.

25 Apr. 2023, 13:00-15:00

THE QUEER ARCHIVE?

Lecture by Kevil Brazil, Associate Professor, University of Southampton. 

21 Apr. 2023, 13:15-14:30

Präsentation studentischer Abschlussarbeiten

Weitere Einzelheiten folgen.

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

Gloominess as Resilience. Contesting Hegemonic Affective Regimes in Pandemic-Era China

Talk by Anna Iskra, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

14 Apr. 2023, 13:15-14:30

Vom Tod der Dialekte und anderen Mythen

Hanna Fischer (Universität Rostock) im Gespräch mit Mirjam Schmuck (Kopenhagen).

24 Mar. 2023, 13:15-14:30

Mindretal som vindue til verden

Camilla Franziska Hansen (UC Syd, Center for Mindretalspædagogik) im Gespräch mit Petra Daryai-Hansen (Kopenhagen).

10 Mar. 2023, 13:15-14:30

New Wave

Philipp Theisohn (Universität Zürich) im Gespräch mit Christian Benne (Kopenhagen).

10 Mar. 2023, 13:00-18:00

Realidades Paralelas

Seminario sobre las interacciones entre el mundo material y las esferas ficcionales, oníricas y virtuales.

24 Feb. 2023, 13:15-14:30

REAL DOLLS

Susanne Regener (Universität Siegen) im Gespräch mit: Irina Hron (Kopenhagen).

24 Feb. 2023, 13:00

The populist turn: a comparative study of three decades of populism in Italy

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Simon Cecchin Birk.

1 Feb. 2023, 15:00-16:00

Culture and the Mind

Professor Ana Antic will discuss the ongoing project of establishing The Centre for Culture and the Mind at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry at Mental Health Center Ballerup.

7 Dec. 2022, 13:00

Being Muslim, Performing Mexicanness: Religious Identity Negotiations among Muslim Immigrants in Mexico

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Nik Mohammad Hasif bin Mat.

6 Dec. 2022, 11:15-13:00

Conferencia u debate: El reto de la sociedad civil en España ante la emergencia climática

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25 Nov. 2022, 13:00-15:00

Buchvorstellung “Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature” (Tysk fredag)

Jessica Ortner, University of Copenhagen.

25 Nov. 2022, 13:00-16:00

Personal Sources in Migration Studies: life stories, letters and dreams

Workshop with presentations by Tony Kushner, Sonia Cancian and Gabriel Abarca-Brown.

24 Nov. 2022, 13:00

Paradigms

Doctoral dissertation Defence by Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh.

11 Nov. 2022, 13:00-15:00

Sprachenpolitik in mehrsprachigen Ländern (Tysk fredag)

Vortrag mit Christina Späti, Fribourg und FernUni Schweiz.

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

Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Podiobooks

Talk by Matthew Rubery, Professor of Modern Literature, Queen Mary, University College London.

4 Nov. 2022, 19:30

Neuerscheinungen auf dem deutschen Buchmarkt (Tysk fredag)

Vortrag mit Rainer Moritz, Hamburg.

2 Nov. 2022, 15:15-16:30

‘That Gentleman of Yours …’

Some Speculations of Niccolò Machiavelli on Cesare Borgia. Lecture by Academic Language Consultant Sophie Swerts Knudsen, Center of Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP), University of Copenhagen.

14 Oct. 2022, 13:00-15:00

(Annulliert) REAL DOLLS: Zur Kulturgeschichte von Sexpuppen (Tysk fredag)

(Annulliert) Vortrag mit Susanne Regener, Siegen

7 Oct. 2022, 13:00-15:00

When Rock was Dangerous: The Social History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 1960s Hamburg (Tysk fredag)

Vortrag mit Julia Sneeringer, New York

5 Oct. 2022, 13:00-16:00

PhD Meet&Greet

PhD event. All are welcome.

9 Sept. 2022, 14:00-16:00

Inaugural lecture for Christian Benne and Lene Østermark-Johansen

Christian Benne: Thinking with texts. Literary studies and/as/of philosophy.
Lene Østermark-Johansen: How to do things with words and images – a speculative approach.

9 Sept. 2022, 14:00-16:00

Christian Benne, Kopenhagen: “Thinking with texts. Literary studies and/as/of philosophy" (Tysk fredag)

Christian Benne’s inaugural lecture as full professor of European Literature and Intellectual History at The University of Copenhagen argues both historically and systematically for a closer relationship between literary studies and philosophy.

9 June - 11 June 2022

The myth of the Secret Germanies

Diffusion conference sponsored by the University of Copenhagen, the laboratory Pays Germaniques of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and the European Commission.

3 June 2022, 15:00-17:00

The politics of clinic and critique in Southern Brazil

Talk by Associate Professor Dominique P. Béhague, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (USA) & Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, London (UK).

3 June 2022, 13:00

The Legacy of the Past in Brexit Britain

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Tóra Djurhuus.

1 June - 3 June 2022

Schelling and the Danes - the Danes and Schelling

Seminar.

30 May 2022, 9:00

Being Muslim, Becoming Citizen: Religious Identity negotiations among Muslim Immigrants in Mexico

Pre-defence of PhD Thesis by Nik Hasif.

23 May 2022, 13:00

Where the New World Is – Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales

Doctoral defence by Martyn Bone.

20 May 2022

The future of reading in Scandinavia

Workshop with five roundtables.

18 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

ENGEROM-forskernetværk om emner inden for humanistisk klimaforskning får besøg af professor Katherine Richardson

ENGEROM-forskernetværk om emner inden for humanistisk klimaforskning får besøg af professor Katherine Richardson.

16 May 2022, 15:15-17:00

CANCELLED: Danish accent in two different L2's

CANCELLED: Presentation by Pernille Berg Johnsson and Lars Behnke.

11 May 2022, 14:00-15:30

Becoming a multilingual health professional in vocational education – two adult migrants’ translanguaging trajectories

Lecture by Maiju Strömmer, Jyväskylä (Finland).

5 May - 6 May 2022

Conversations on Iberian Studies: Challenges and Opportunities (#CISCO)

Two-day international conference.

3 May 2022, 15:15-17:00

Mixed-methods in the study of language learning strategies of bilingual students in Denmark

Presentation by Aisara Yessenova.

27 Apr. - 29 Apr. 2022

Mnemonic Migration – Transcultural Transmissions, Translations and Circulations of Memory Across and Into Contemporary

This conference aims to explore how memory travels through the aesthetic medium of literature and are translated into new local communities of remembering.

21 Apr. 2022, 15:15-17:00

Italian Screen Studies and Videographic Criticism

Presentation by Alan O'Leary, Associate Professor (Aarhus University).

6 Apr. 2022, 15:15-17:00

Olaf Scholz der "neue Merkel". Metaphorical Uses of Personal Names and the Role of Gender

Presentation by Mirjam Schmuck.

10 Dec. 2021, CANCELLED

CANCELLED: Writing the European Self across Centuries: Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits

CANCELLED: Inaugural lecture by professor Lene Østermark-Johansen

25 Nov. 2021, 17:00-20:00

Portuguese refugees in Denmark in the 1960s and early 1970s

Book launch and seminar at the European Parliament Liaison Office/Europa-Huset.

22 Nov. 2021, 16:00-17:00

Content and language integrated learning and plurilingual education across educational levels

Talk by associate professor Petra Daryai-Hansen (University of Copenhagen) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

18 Nov. 2021, 15:00-17:00

Peripheralized Norths and Souths: Colonial Liminality, William Faulkner, and Icelandic Literature

Guest Lecture by Dr. Jenna Sciuto (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts).

18 Nov. 2021, 15:00-16:30

Nostalgia and the History of Temporalities

Lecture by Tobias Becker, Freie Universität Berlin.

10 Nov. 2021, 15:00-17:00

Linguistic Landscapes, Wearable Ideologies, and the Gender and French T-shirt project

Paper by Will Amos, University of Warwick.

8 Nov. 2021, 17:00-18:00

Merging Plurilingual and STE(A)M education to develop interculturality: Teachers’ theories and practices in context

Talk by professor Danièle Moore (Simon Fraser University) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

5 Nov. 2021, 13:15-14:30

Demokratiegeschichte, Postkolonialismus, Historikerstreit 2.0: Aktuelle Debatten zur deutschen Erinnerungskultur

Prof. Dr. Kirsten Heinsohn

29 Oct. 2021, 13:00

Echoes of English

Doctoral Defence by Associate Professor Henrik Gottlieb.

27 Oct. 2021, 12:15-13:00

Embracing Uncertainty

Author Kirsten Tranter will discuss what it means to embrace uncertainty and be the keeper of mysteries when writing. 

25 Oct. 2021, 16:00-17:00

CANCELLED: Plurilingual whole school policy revisited

The talk by professor Britta Hufeisen (Technische Universität Darmstadt) has been cancelled.

14 Oct. - 15 Oct. 2021

The European Dimension of Paul Auster’s Verbal and Visual Worlds

The Paul Auster Research Library workshop. Funded by CEMES, organized by Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt.

13 Oct. 2021, 12:15-13:15

Multiple Narrators and Age

In a public lecture as part of the Creative Writing course at ENGEROM, novelist Sarah Moss, will discuss her latest novel "Summerwater".

8 Oct. 2021, 13:15-14:30

Wegbereiter des Postfaktischen? Nietzsche und die Wahrheit

Prof. Dr. Helmut Heit

7 Oct. 2021, 15:00-16:30

Time and Distance in the Empire of Suspense: Communications technology and global messaging in the 19th century

Lecture by Professor Charles Lock, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

7 Oct. - 9 Oct. 2021

“…just as alluring as instructive…”

Conference: Henrik Steffens’ Concept of Nature in Science, Humanities and Arts around 1800.

5 Oct. 2021, 16:15-18:00

Author meets critic: Simon Glendinning and A Philosophical History

Simon Glendinning (Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy, London School of Economics) in conversation about his two vols. of Europe: A Philosophical History.

4 Oct. 2021, 16:00-17:00

Multilingual awareness in multilingual learning and teaching: A DMM perspective

Talk by professor Ulrike Jessner (Universität Innsbruck) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

30 Sept. - 2 Oct. 2021

Pop Cultures and Ecstatic States of the Body, 1950s-1980s

International conference “Pop Cultures and Ecstatic States of the Body, 1950s-1980s,” which will take place at the University of Copenhagen from September 30 until October 2, 2021.

27 Sept. 2021, 17:00-18:00

Decolonizing bilingualism: Translanguaging in education

Talk by professor emerita Ofelia García (The Graduate Center City University of New York) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

17 Sept. 2021, 13

30 Years of Migrantifa. Migrant self-defense from Rostock to Hanau

Talk by Massimo Perinelli (Berlin).

13 Sept. 2021, 17:00-18:00

The poetic function of language in intercultural education

Talk by professor emerita Claire Kramsch (UC Berkeley) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

24 Aug. - 25 Aug. 2021

Danish and German as European neighbour languages – An international conference on language contact in border zones and multilingual cities

Two-day international conference

31 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Linking L2 pragmatics and intercultural understanding in the foreign language classroom

Talk by associate professor Troy McConachy (University of Warwick) and Natalia Morollón Martí (University of Copenhagen) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

20 May - 21 May 2021

Emotions of Inclusion and Exclusion in Transnational Spaces

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together a series of papers that  examine representations of how migrants feel, manage, articulate and narrate emotions of inclusion and exclusion in the course of diverse migration experiences in the past and present across global spaces.

17 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Language textbooks and popular geopolitics: transnational and decolonial dimensions

Talk by professor emerita Karen Risager (University of Roskilde) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

10 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Developing Intercultural Competences through a UNESCO Story Circles methodology

Talk by executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators Darla K. Deardorff (Duke University) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

3 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Rethinking a third-place methodology for making sense of the intercultural

Talk by professor Adrian Holliday (Canterbury Christ Church University) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

29 Apr. 2021, 13:00-14:30

Multilingual Communication Practices in Dutch Warehouses

Presentation by Bianca Dijkstra, University of Groningen: How Polish truck drivers and Dutch logistics professionals use various communicative modes to get their job done.

28 Apr. 2021, 12:15-13:00

Light Notes: The Sources of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts

Talk by Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)

26 Apr. 2021, 12:00-13:00

Education for Intercultural and Democratic Citizenship

Talk by professor emeritus Michael Byram (Durham University) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

22 Apr. 2021, 19:00

Challenges of Nature: International Mother Earth Day – Pachamama 2021

AiiA will once again host the annual celebration of International Mother Earth Day. This year our focus will be on the many challenges that nature and the people protecting it face in 2021.

19 Apr. 2021, 16:00-17:00

Critical and reflexive languaging in the construction of interculturality as an object of research and practice

Talk by professor Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki) in the Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality.

9 Apr. 2021, 13:15-15:00

Sociolinguistics and the study of transient social configurations

Talk by Janus Mortensen (University of Copenhagen).

25 Feb. 2021, 16:00

Building art theory in the “pale of history”: American criticism and French philosophy in the end of the 20th century

Copenhagen-Paris joint PhD-Seminar 2 of 8.

25 Feb. 2021, 10:00-14:30

Revolutionary Histories – Caribbean literatures, slavery and the Gothic

This seminar seeks to address the role of Caribbean literatures, particularly the transatlantic Gothic genre, in representing and reflecting on European and Caribbean revolutionary events and slave uprisings.

11 Feb. 2021, 16:00

More-than-human gender performativity­ writing up with Les Gilets Jaunes

Copenhagen-Paris joint PhD-Seminar 1 of 8.

4 Dec. 2020, 13

Rausch und Revolution

Vorlesung von Kristoff Kerl, Kopenhagen.

3 Dec. 2020, 15

The Politics of Psychiatry: Reimagining the Human Mind in the 20th Century

Inaugural lecture by Professor (WSR) Ana Antic, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.

3 Dec. - 4 Dec. 2020

The European Dimension of Paul Auster’s Verbal and Visual Worlds

Workshop.

27 Nov. 2020, 14

Workshop 3 on digital tools in language research: Visualization

Speaker: Kim Ebensgaard Jensen (University of Copenhagen).

20 Nov. 2020, 13

CANCELLED! Lesung und Diskussion mit dem österreichischen Autor Franzobel

CANCELLED! Vorgestellt von Laura Carøe Fink, Linn Sofie Børresen und Sune Kjærsgaard Dahlgreen.

13 Nov. 2020, 13

Deutsch-Absolventen stellen ihre Masterarbeiten vor

Vorgestellt von Laura Carøe Fink, Linn Sofie Børresen und Sune Kjærsgaard Dahlgreen.

4 Nov. 2020, 13:00-17:15

L2 intercultural awareness and identity construction

Seminar.

30 Oct. 2020, 14

Language use and conceptualizations in blogs on life with depression

Lecture by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen.

29 Oct. - 30 Oct. 2020

Inaugural Symposium of The MSA Nordic

This conference brings together scholars of cultural and collective memory and researchers working on memory questions within related disciplines.

23 Oct. 2020, 9-15

Learning from Black Lives Matter

A one-day symposium with invited speakers.

8 Oct. 2020, 15:00-16:00

Walking Wounded

Lecture by Sara Dybris McQuaid, Aarhus University.

12 June 2020, 13:15

Dichterstimmen

Freitagsvorlesung von Friederike Günther (Freie Universität Berlin).

1 May 2020, 13:15

STORNIERT: Berliner Polyphonie?

STORNIERT: Freitagsvorlesung von Anne Fleig (Freie Universität Berlin).

29 Apr. 2020, 15:00-17:00

CANCELLED: Olive Moore, Queer Ecology and Anthropocene Modernism

CANCELLED: Talk by Dr David Shackleton, Lecturer at the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy University of Cardiff.

 

29 Apr. 2020, 10:00-12:00

CANCELLED: H.G. Wells and the Ghostly Effects of Time Trave

CANCELLED: Talk by Dr David Shackleton, Lecturer at the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy University of Cardiff.

17 Apr. 2020, 15:00-17:00

CANCELLED: The Math of Poetry: Historical Prosody and Digital Humanities

CANCELLED: Talks on the Digital Turn in the Humanities (4/4): Lecture by Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Digital Humanities Meredith Martin, Princeton University.

31 Mar. 2020, 10

CANCELLED: Foreign Fighters and War Volunteers: Past and Present

CANCELLED: Lecture by Nir Arielli (Leeds University).

27 Mar. 2020

CANCELLED: Die Minderheiten beiderseits der deutsch-dänischen Grenze im Kontext der europäischen Minderheitenpolitik

The event is postponed until further notice.

24 Mar. 2020

CANCELLED: Making Out in Anne Frank’s House: Teen Romance and Catastrophic History

The event is postponed until further notice.

18 Mar. 2020, 9:00-17:00

Enseigner la littérature en français à l’université en contexte non-francophone

Reporté à une date ultérieure.

18 Mar. 2020

CANCELLED! Digital Humanities and the Public Sphere

The event is postponed until further notice.

11 Mar. 2020, 15

Infinite Neighborhoods: The Savage Detectives against World Literature

Reading by Professor David Kurnick, Rutgers University.

28 Feb. 2020, 9:30-17:00

Symposium to honour Peter Harder

On the occasion of professor Peter Harder’s retirement this symposium will take up two central themes in his research, the status of grammar and grammaticalization, and the role of language in society.

25 Feb. 2020, 10:30-17:00

Authoritarian Regimes in Southern Europe

Research seminar.

14 Feb. 2020, 11

Enlisting the ‘Matter of the North’ in post-Waterloo Britain

Lecture by Diego Saglia (Università degli Studi di Parma).

7 Feb. 2020, 16:00-18:00

Feet in Ancient Time: On Being an English Writer

In this lecture, Award-winning novelist and literary scholar Professor Sarah Moss, will explore the personal, creative and national challenges around the idea of literary and poetic inheritance.

13 Dec. 2019, 15:00-17:00

W.E.B Du Bois's Neurological Modernity: I.Q., Afropessimism, Genre

Guest lecture by Dr. Michael Collins, King’s College, London.

13 Dec. 2019, 13

Die Globalisierung der Literatur: Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers und der Nobelpreis

Freitagsvorlesungen Herbst 2019 (8/8), diesmal mit Carlos Spoerhase (Bielefeld/Köln).

13 Dec. 2019, 12

Brexit, Northern Ireland, and the UK Election

Join ENGEROM students and faculty for a post UK Election discussion with Dr. Sara Dybris McQuaid moderated by Robert Rix.

13 Dec. 2019, 12

BREXIT

Sara Dybris McQuaid and Robert Rix will discuss the results of the UK election (12 December) and the political landscape in Britain and Northern Ireland.

12 Dec. 2019, 15:00-17:00

Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48: findings of an international project

Guest lecture by Robert Gildea (Worcester College, Oxford).

12 Dec. 2019, 13:15-16:30

Mnemonic migration

Kick-off seminar for a project on literature and collective memory and how it migrates between cultures and people.

6 Dec. 2019, 13

Das „Wunder von 1989“: Vom unerwarteten Ereignis zum historischen Mythos (Geschichte der Demokratie in Deutschland IV)

Freitagsvorlesungen Herbst 2019 (7/8), diesmal mit Martin Sabrow (Potsdam).

29 Nov. 2019, 13

Übersetzung, Transfer, Zensur

Freitagsvorlesungen Herbst 2019 (6/8), diesmal mit Andreas Benedikt Jager (Stavanger).

29 Nov. 2019, 10

Remembering the Postcolonial: Past Paradigms, Present Perceptions

Guest lecture by Professor John McLeod, University of Leeds.

28 Nov. 2019, 13:15-15:00

Novas estéticas dos movimentos sociais no Brasil

Guest lecture by Laura Erber (UNIRIO/UCPH).

26 Nov. 2019, 15:00-17:00

Computing Time: Measuring Time in Narrative Using Computational Methods

Talks on the Digital Turn in the Humanities (2/4): Lecture by Professor and William Dawson Scholar Andrew Piper, McGill University, Canada.

22 Nov. 2019, 13

Philosemitismus als Janusgesicht der Holocausterinnerung in Lena Goreliks Roman „Lieber Mischa … Du bist ein Jude!”

Freitagsvorlesungen Herbst 2019 (5/8), diesmal mit Jessica Ortner (Kopenhagen).

21 Nov. 2019, 13:15-15:00

Arquivos coloniais e práticas de curadoria

Guest lecture by Daniela Agostinho (UCPH).

21 Nov. 2019, 9:00-18:00

Utopizaciones en América Latina / Utopizações em América Latina

Symposium.

15 Nov. - 16 Nov. 2019

Literature and Formats

Formats are never just containers of content. Texts are not immaterial, fluid things that can move from one format to another without losing their identity – without becoming something else.

15 Nov. 2019, 10:00-15:00

Danish and German as European neighbor languages 100 years after 'Genforeningen'

With this pre-seminar we wish to shed light on the effects of these borders on the language varieties used within these border zones around 100 years after their appearance, both in a structural and a sociolinguistic perspective.

14 Nov. 2019, 13:15-15:00

A Justiça e a questão do aborto no Brasil

Guest lecture by Maya Mitre (CBS).

7 Nov. 2019, 13:15-15:00

Consumo e mulheres negras

Guest lecture by Ana Raquel Rocha (UFRJ/UCPH).

6 Nov. 2019, 13:00

The Kipling That Everybody Read: Narrative Strategies in the Early Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Inger Krarup Brøgger.

1 Nov. 2019, 13

Dermographie: Literarische Haut-Schrift bei Herta Müller

Freitagsvorlesungen Herbst 2019 (4/8), diesmal mit Irina Hron (Göteborg/Wien).

28 Oct. 2019, 13:00

Plurilingual students' English proficiency

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Rawand Samal Jalal.

25 Oct. 2019, 13:00-15:00

Mobility and History

Inaugural Lecture by John Darwin (Nuffield College, University of Oxford).

22 Oct. 2019, 13:15-15:00

Empreendedorismo e inovação no contexto português

Guest lecture by Pedro Oliveira (CBS/Nova School of Business and Economics).

22 Oct. 2019, 13:15-15:00

Mozambique between collapsed socialism and speculative capitalism

Guest lecture by Morten Nielsen (National Museum of Denmark).

11 Oct. 2019, 15:00-17:00

The Emerging UX of Modern Languages: Key Trends in Digital Modern Languages

Talks on the Digital Turn in the Humanities (1/4): Lecture by Senior Lecturer Paul Spence, King’s College London.

11 Oct. 2019, 13

Studierende präsentieren ihre Masterarbeiten

Freitagsvorlesungen Herbst 2019 (3/8), diesmal mit Studierende die ihre Masterarbeiten präsentieren.

8 Oct. 2019, 13

Self-Reflexive Literature and the Twenty-First Century Writing of Paul Auster

Masterclass w. guest speakers, A.Varvogli and F. Hugonnier.

 

3 Oct. 2019, 13:15-15:00

The Bandim Health Project in Guinea-Bissau

Guest lecture by Ane Fisker (CVIVA/SDU/Odense University Hospital).

30 Sept. 2019, 9:00-16:00

CONVOCATORIA: Llamada a contribuciones - Seminario sobre utopía

Este seminario pretende ofrecer una perspectiva amplia e interdisciplinar del impacto que la utopía ha tenido en las diferentes expresiones culturales en el contexto hispánico.

26 Sept. 2019, 13:15-15:00

O processo democrático em Angola

Guest lecture by José Eduardo Agualusa.

20 Sept. 2019, 13

1949 oder: Deutschland doppelt und geteilt (Geschichte der Demokratie in Deutschland III)

Freitagsvorlesungen Herbst 2019 (2/8), diesmal mit Norbert Frei (Jena).

19 Sept. 2019, 13:00-15:30

Overburdened Peace: Competing Visions of World Order in 1918

Lecture by Professor Dr. Jörn Leonhard (Universität Freiburg).

1 July - 6 July 2019

XXIXe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes

Troisième circulaire – Appel à communications.

27 June - 29 June 2019

Wie theoriefähig ist die Frühromantik heute?

Internationale germanistische Tagung – Kopenhagen, 27.-29. Juni 2019.

26 June 2019, 15:00

Entangled Citizens

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Kalathmika Natarajan.

24 May 2019, 13:00

Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century

Doctoral Defence by Tina Lupton.

24 May 2019, 13

Edition und Interpretation

Freitagsvorlesung (8/8) von Roland Reuß (Heidelberg).

15 May 2019, 11

Saul Bellow, American Fiction, and the Great Books Tradition

Lecture by Zachary Leader, Professor of English and Creative Writing (University of Roehampton, London).

14 May 2019, 18:00

Forgotten and Overlooked: A Conversation about Philosophy, History of Ideas and the Middle Ages in the Arab World

The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies (ENGEROM), The Moroccan Embassy, L’Institut français, Den Franske Bogcafé & Forlaget Arvids invite you to a lecture/debate with writer Fouad Laroui.

14 May 2019, 13:00

Politics of Patience

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Rose Løvgren.

10 May 2019, 13

CANCELLED: Skandinavische Literatur in den Verlagen der DDR – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung dänischer Beispiele wie Herman Bang, Peter Seeberg und Dea Trier Mørch

Freitagsvorlesung (7/8) von Benedikt Jager (Stavanger).

3 May 2019, 13

Geschichte der Demokratie in Deutschland II

Freitagsvorlesung (6/8) von Alexander Gallus (Chemnitz).

5 Apr. 2019, 13

Geschichte der Demokratie in Deutschland I

Freitagsvorlesung (5/8) von Rüdiger Hachtmann (Potsdam).

3 Apr. 2019, 15:15-16:00

Settlers as Conquerors: Free Land Policies and the Colonization of the Antebellum American West

Guest Lecture by Dr. Julius Wilm.

29 Mar. 2019, 13

Das Meer als Erinnerungsort in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur

Freitagsvorlesung (4/8) von Elisa Müller-Adams (Trier).

8 Mar. 2019, 13

Sprachkontaktzonen des Deutschen

Freitagsvorlesung (2/8) von Steffen Höder (Kiel) und Jan Patrick Zeller (Hamburg).

7 Mar. 2019, 15

Nietzsche and Spanish Theatre

Sergio Santiago Romero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) lectures (in English) about Nietzsche’s influence on Spanish Theatre.

27 Feb. 2019, 15:30

Portugal, the space of the Portuguese language and the European Union

Talk by Augusto Santos Silva, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Portugal.

17 Dec. - 18 Dec. 2018

Contrabandos literários, resistências epistêmicas

VII colóquio internacional sobre literatura brasileira contemporânea.

6 Dec. 2018, 11:15-15:45

Literaturas del yo

Coloquio internacional.

29 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2018

Exploring interconnectedness

Second meeting of the EurEd network.

16 Nov. 2018, 18:00

Nicaragua, yesterday and today

Poetry and Concert. Thematic afternoons about Latin America (4/4).

15 Nov. 2018, 17:00

Minorities in the social struggle in Latin America

Discussion with Gaby Baca (Nicaragua), Mafé Carrero (Nicaragua), Lizethe A. Echeverry Söderlind (Colombia) and Laura Ponce Gartmann (Ecuador). Thematic afternoons about Latin America (3/4).

14 Nov. 2018, 18:00

"Mirar Morir: el ejército en la noche de Iguala"

Screening of the documentary ”Mirar Morir: el ejército en la noche de Iguala” (”Watching them die. The Mexican Army and the 43 disappeared”). Talk with the producer Témoris Grecko. Thematic afternoons about Latin America (2/4).

13 Nov. 2018, 17:00

”No se mata la verdad”

Screening af the documentary ”No se mata la verdad” (“The truth shall not be killed"). Talk with the producer Témoris Grecko. Thematic afternoons about Latin America (1/4).

13 Nov. 2018, 10:15-12:00

Saúde e Desafios Ambientais no Brasil

Guest Lecture by Guilherme Mattos (CEFET/RJ).

8 Nov. 2018, 14:00-21:00

Dia de los muertos

Centre for Latin American Studies at Engerom celebrates, in cooperation with Academia Intercultural (AIIA), The Embassy of Mexico to Denmark and CkulturA ' the Mexican holiday 'Dia de los muertos' (Spanish version via link).

7 Nov. 2018, 10

Polémicas acerca de la memoria de la lucha armada en Argentina

Guest lecture (in Spanish) by Isabel Leite (Fluminense Federal University).

6 Nov. 2018, 10:15-12:00

A luta armada no Brasil: novas perspectivas

Guest Lecture by Isabel Leite (UFF).

2 Nov. 2018, 13:00

Adaptive Agency and Arab American Womanhood 1893-1967

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Martina Koegeler-Abdi.

31 Oct. 2018, 18:00-20:00

Frankenstein is 200 years old!

To mark the occasion, there will be a multitude of celebratory events throughout the world under the title of Frankenreads (https://frankenreads.org). We join the 308 events already announced with an evening of readings, short talks and discussions at LiteraturHaus in Møllegade.

30 Oct. 2018, 10:15-12:00

Estigma em narrativas sobre estudantes “cotistas” no ensino público

Guest Lecture by Allane Pedrotti (PUC-Rio).

24 Oct. 2018, 10:00

Car Wash, Crisis, and Political Cataclysm: Corruption Narratives in the Brazilian Mediascape

Public Defence of PhD thesis by Mads Bjelke Damgaard.

19 Oct. - 20 Oct. 2018

Living il Legalities – Vivendo i Legalidades

III REBRAC International Conference.

3 Oct. 2018, 13:15-15:00

História da Literatura Brasileira: uma introdução

Guest Lecture by Laura Erber (UNIRIO).

2 Oct. 2018, 10:15-12:00

"Homoaffective" marriage and sexual politics in Brazil

Guest Lecture by Angelo Brandelli Costa (PUCRS).

28 Sept. 2018, 10:15-12:00

O movimento modernista Brasileiro

Guest Lecture by Laura Erber (UNIRIO).

26 Sept. 2018, 13:15-15:00

Intertextualidades Literárias

Guest Lecture by Mariana Simoni (Institut for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin).

18 Sept. 2018, 10:00-12:00

Reading and Q&A with American novelist Gabriel Tallent

In collaboration with Politikens Forlag/Hr. Ferdinand,  will host a visit to campus by the young American novelist Gabriel Tallent, whose novel My Absolute Darling was widely acclaimed as one of the best to appear in 2017.

8 June 2018, 9:30-17:45

Constructions: Theoretical, Typological and Applied Perspectives

Workshop organized by Wojciech Lewandowski og Johan Pedersen, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.

24 May 2018, 10:00-17:00

Developing Early Foreign Language Learning and Purilingual Education

International conference on early foreign language learning, bringing together Danish, Nordic/Baltic and international researchers, teacher trainers and teachers.

16 May - 17 May 2018

Literary History and Topology

International research seminar.

9 May 2018, 15:15

Syntactic hybrids in language border zones

Lecture by Lars Behnke, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen in the lecture series "Norm, variation, language change".

8 May 2018, 12:00-14:15

Brazil, the Great Acceleration and the Future of Area Studies

Talk by Georg Fischer (Aarhus University).

2 May 2018, 15

The Ladies Stole Washington's Body!

CTAS research seminar with Dr. Kristen Brill (Lecturer in American History, University of Keele).

19 Apr. 2018, 15:15

Approximation and distancing in doctor-patient communication in Portuguese, Spanish and Galician: forms of address and other strategies

Lecture by Sandi Michele de Oliveira, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen in the lecture series "Norm, variation, language change".

13 Apr. 2018, 10:15-15:30

Ecology, Sustainability and Materiality

New Research Perspectives in Cultural and Literary studies.

20 Mar. 2018, 12:15-14:00

Agribusiness, Social Mobilisation and the State in the Conflict over GMOs in Brazil

Renata Campos Motta (University Aarhus/Freie University Berlin) gives a lecture in the Varia Lusitana Guest Lecture Series in English on Global Challenges for the Portuguese Speaking World.

13 Mar. 2018, 12:15-14:00

Violence and Insecure Sociality in Zona Sul, São Paulo

Frida Sofie Gregersen (University of Copenhagen / Anthropology) gives a lecture in the Varia Lusitana Guest Lecture Series in English on Global Challenges for the Portuguese Speaking World.

6 Mar. 2018, 14

Adaptive Agency in Early Arab American Womanhood, 1893-1960

PhD pre-defense by Martina Koegeler-Abdi.

6 Mar. 2018, 10:15-12:00

Insurgent Citizenship in Brazil

Einar Braathen (OsloMet) gives a lecture in the Varia Lusitana Guest Lecture Series in English on Global Challenges for the Portuguese Speaking World.

5 Mar. 2018, 13:00-16:00

Workshop on the Current Political Situation in Brazil

Presentations by Celina Sørbøe (PhD fellow at Oslo Metropolitan University) & Mads Bjelke Damgaard (PhD fellow at University of Copenhagen) who will discuss the current political situation in Brazil.

1 Mar. 2018, 14:00-16:00

The Language of Dissent in Paul Auster’s Poetry and Prose, 1970-2017

PhD pre-defense by Jesper Præst Nielsen.

27 Feb. 2018, 12:15-14:00

Narcotraffic in Guinea-Bissau

Lecture by Henrik Vigh (University of Copenhagen, Anthropology) in the Varia Lusitana Guest Lecture Series in English on Global Challenges for the Portuguese Speaking World.

1 Dec. 2017, 14

Ashbery Reading

Marlene Edelstein, Janus Kodal and Andrew Miller will be giving a commemorative reading of the American poet John Ashbery's poem, Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

26 Oct. - 28 Oct. 2017

IV Jornadas Pedagógicas de Português 2017

Conference Theme: Perspectives and Challenges of Portuguese Language Education in Scandinavia and the World