Past events

9 Dec. 2025, 13:00-14:00

Connected at the margins of imperialism? Vladivostok, London and the network of global shipping

Talk by Professor Madeleine Herren. The third keynote talk of the conference "Spatial Imaginations of Europe: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law" and covers a longue durée perspective of the conference themes.

8 Dec. 2025, 15:30-16:30

Russia's Europe 1870-2025: Hated, Loved, Hated, and so it goes

Talk by Professor Iver B. Neumann. The second keynote talk of the conference "Spatial Imaginations of Europe: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law" and covers longue durée perspective of the conference themes.

8 Dec. 2025, 9:15-10:15

From Britons to Britishers: Mapping a Global Imaginary

Talk by Professor Stuart Ward. The first keynote talk of the conference "Spatial Imaginations of Europe: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law" and covers a longue durée perspective of the conference themes. 

8 Dec. - 9 Dec. 2025

Spatial Imaginations of Europe, 1870s-2020s: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law

Conference organized by CEMES, INNER_LEAGUE and CHIOS.

1 Dec. - 2 Dec. 2025

The Global History of the Establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1919 to 1922

This seminar will discuss the draft book chapters of a new monograph on the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).  

24 Nov. 2025, 16:00

EU AI-policy: Between Geo-economic Pragmatism and Ambitions of Sovereignty

CEMES ANNUAL KEYNOTE with professor Daniel Mügge, University of Amsterdam.

17 Sept. 2025, 13:15-15:00

Memory Activism and Child Victimhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

GPS seminar and CEMES lecture with Professor Jasna Dragovic-Soso.

18 June 2025, 13:00-18:00

Europe in Turmoil

The event is open for all and does not require registration. CEMES Student: Spring seminar to bring current and future members of CEMES Student together. 

28 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

Mapping the Europeanisation of the Universities: The Transformation of Knowledge Institutions, c. 1980–1995

In this seminar, the Europeanisation of the universities will be discussed in a comparative setting.

22 May 2025, 14:00-16:00

Museums and Engaged Humanities Facing the Russian War Against Ukraine: A View from Poland

CEMES Lecture with Elżbieta Kwiecińska (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences) and Małgorzata Ławrowska von Thadden (ODMIN Foundation).

6 May 2025, 14:00

On the Minefields of Memory: Rethinking past and present in the shadow of war against Ukraine

Lecture.

28 Apr. - 2 May 2025

Architecture and Aging in modern Europe

Network seminar Care and Aging: An Urban Ethnographic Exploration of People, Places, and Practices. Examples of age friendly architecture and discussions with the network.

22 Apr. 2025, 10:00-12:00

Comparison Controversies and the Dynamics of Holocaust Memory

Lecture by Michael Rothberg (UCLA).

15 Apr. 2025, 13:00-15:00

The Legacy of the Cold War in Today’s World

The fourth in a series of lectures with Professor Mark Kramer (Harvard University) at the University of Copenhagen, Malmö University, and Lund University,

15 Apr. 2025, 13:00-15:00

International Relations Theory and the Metaphor of a New Cold War

The fifth in a series of lectures with Professor Mark Kramer (Harvard University) at the University of Copenhagen, Malmö University, and Lund University,

14 Apr. 2025, 13:00-15:00

The End of the Cold War: Events and Historiography

The third in a series of lectures with Professor Mark Kramer (Harvard University) at the University of Copenhagen, Malmö University, and Lund University,

11 Apr. 2025, 13:00-15:00

Challenges and Threats to Global Order during the Cold War

The second in a series of lectures with Professor Mark Kramer (Harvard University) at the University of Copenhagen, Malmö University, and Lund University,

10 Apr. 2025, 13:00-15:00

Recent Trends in the Study of the Cold War

The first in a series of lectures with Professor Mark Kramer (Harvard University) at the University of Copenhagen, Malmö University, and Lund University,

31 Mar. 2025, 9:00-16:30

Kalaallit Inuit Performance

Isumasioqatigiinneq eqqaasitsisoq - A re-membering seminar.

31 Mar. - 1 Apr. 2025

Precarisation Across Literatures

In this workshop, scholars will present and discuss their contributions to the forthcoming edited collection Precarisation Across Literatures.