Past events

6 Dec. - 7 Dec. 2018

Enlightenment and Religion: Ideas and Practices in Local and Trans-European Perspective

This conference contributes to the on-going religious turn in Enlightenment studies, offering a historical perspective on the role of religion within intellectual history, jurisprudence and cultural history.

4 Dec. 2018, 15:00-17:00

Agamben's Theology: A Critical Reading of The Kingdom and the Glory

Guest lecture by Adam Kotsko. He is the translator of many of Agamben's most theologically focused works, and will engage in a critical reading of The Kingdom and the Glory.

3 Dec. 2018, 15:00-17:00

Neoliberalism's Demons. On the political theology of late capital

AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS. CEMES and the research group Religion and Modern European Cultures is proud to announce an Author Meets Critics session with Adam Kotsko on his new book Neoliberalism's Demons. On the political theology of late capital.

29 Nov. 2018, 16:15-17:00

Paneldebat om den ortodokse kirkes fremtid

CEMES debat: Spørgsmålet om de Ukrainske ortodokses fremtid er ved at splitte de ortodokse kirker – og kan medføre, at den ortodokse kirke deler sig i to.

29 Nov. 2018, 14:00-16:00

Reforming capitalism: from its neoliberal to its liberal form

Lecture by Colin Crouch

22 Nov. - 23 Nov. 2018

Women and Radical Thought: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

This workshop takes up the question of women’s participation in and contributions to radical circles and thought.

20 Nov. - 21 Nov. 2018

Europe as a Philosophical Challenge

The question of Europe today poses itself with urgency: What is meant by ‘Europe,’ and what will be its future? With this conference we wish to ask what it would mean for philosophy to realize that its avenue for approaching Europe has perhaps been exhausted.

8 Nov. - 9 Nov. 2018

Media Populism and European Democracy

With this workshop, we wish to set the research agenda for an investigation of media populism from a multidisciplinary perspective

10 Oct. 2018, 14:00-16:00

Governing Europe in a Globalizing World: Neoliberalism and its alternatives following the 1973 Oil Crisis

CEMES: AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS DEBATE. Laurent Warlouzet presents his book followed by discussions

5 Oct. 2018, 14:00-16:00

The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination

CEMES: AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS DEBATE  Jenny Andersson, economic historian and CNRS Research Professor (Paris) will give a lecture on her new book. All are welcome. 

4 Oct. 2018, 9:30-17:30

Transformations of European Social Democracies since the 1980s

The aim of this workshop is to explore in more detail the roots, characteristics and consequences of the transformations of European Social Democracies taking place since the 1980s in a European perspective.

27 Sept. - 28 Sept. 2018

The Historiography of Philosophy, 1800-1950

International two-day  conference that explores the philosophical underpinnings of the historiography of philosophy in the Anglophone, German and French context, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

25 Sept. 2018, 15

Uses and Abuses of Religion in European Narratives of Crisis

Guest lecture by Professor Jayne Svenungsson, Lund University.

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

Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat

Guest Lecture by Professor Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford. Organized by CEMES.

14 Sept. 2018, 14:00-16:00

The Standard of Civilization

Opening lecture by Perry Anderson (Professor Emeritus, UCLA). Part of lecture series on 'Rethinking Law, Democracy and Capitalism this autumn' by CEMES and ICourts

3 Sept. 2018, 16:15-17:45

Thoughts on the literary history of philosophy. The case of Diderot

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford) discusses a chapter from his forthcoming book. Organized by CEMES

22 June - 24 June 2018

Thinking the European Republic of Letters – Activities Spring 2018

Read about this group's many activities in spring 2018 - starting 21 February: A Cosmopolitan Republican in the French Revolution. The Political Thought of Anarcharsis Cloots with Frank Ejby Poulsen.

18 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

CEMES Global Trilogy, spring 2018. Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College) presents his book followed by a discussion. An 'Author meet critics' debate.

15 June 2018, 18:30-19:00

Folkemødet 2018 – Når asylcentret bliver en del af lokalsamfundet

Den politiske debat om asylcentre afspejler ikke de ofte tætte bånd mellem centre og lokalsamfund.

15 June 2018, 17:00-18:00

Green Shadows: Goethe, Ritter and Ørsted on the Polarity of Green and Purple

Keynote speech at 'Statens Museum for Kunst' by Olaf Müller (Berlin) with an art intervention by Hubert Schmidleitner.