Past events

25 Nov. 2019, 10:00-12:45

The European Commission 1986-2000

BOOK LAUNCH and DISCUSSION: The European Commission 1986-2000. History and memories of an institution

18 Nov. 2019, 14:15-16:00

“Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism”

A lecture by Stevphen Shukaitis

25 Oct. 2019, 12:00-14:00

Lecture and Conversation with Stacy Fahrenthold (UC Davis): Between the Ottomans and the Entente. The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925

Lecture and Conversation with Stacy Fahrenthold (UC Davis) and discussant Jacob Skovgaard-Petersen (TORS, KU).

25 Oct. 2019, 10:00-15:00

Mobility and History

Seminar & Inaugural Lecture: John Darwin (Nuffield College, University of Oxford).

24 Oct. 2019, 9:30-16:00

Culture wars in post-socialist societies: public conflicts on the arts, gender and recent history

Mini-conference

8 Oct. 2019, 14:00-16:00

The Lost History of Liberalism

Author Meets Critics Debate with Professor Helena Rosenblatt on The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century.

3 Oct. 2019, 10:00-17:00

Raised to rebellion?: Workshop on oral history

Introductory workshop to the method of oral history for students and researchers of history, ethnology and others interested in the field.

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

Empire’s political afterlives: Two new books from the Embers of Empire project

In this Author Meets Critics Debate, two recent books from the Embers of Empire project at UCPH examine the long afterlives of the British Empire in contemporary political culture and social memory from distinctive perspectives.

23 Sept. 2019, 16:15-17:30

Ephemerity: Philology and Time

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Isabella Tardin Cardoso (Universidade Estadual de Campinas).

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

Overburdened Peace: Competing Visions of World Order in 1918

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

29 Aug. - 30 Aug. 2019

Global Biographies: a writers’ workshop

International Workshop

27 Aug. 2019, 13:15-15:00

Planetary Radical Culture? Art in the New Emergencies

Lecture by associate professor Gene Ray  (HEAD-Genève/Geneva School of Art and Design).

13 June - 14 June 2019

The League of Nations and International law, 1919-1945

June 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles and the foundation of the League of Nations, which created new legal techniques and shaped the development of international law. 

27 May 2019, 14

Law and Democracy in Neoliberal Times

Lecture by David Grewal (Professor of Law at Yale Law School).

21 May 2019, 15:30-18:00

Europa parlamentsvalget 2019

Åbent seminar på Københavns Universitet. Hvad er Europas fremtid? I en tid af konstant forandring og store samfundsmæssige udfordringer er det kommende Europa-parlamentsvalg d. 26. maj vigtigere end nogensinde før.

13 May 2019, 14:00-16:00

Writing Time: The Aesthetics of Ephemerality in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Literature

Talk by Sean B. Franzel, associate professor of German at University of Missouri.

13 May 2019, 14:00-16:00

Sovereignty and Self-Determination at the Paris Peace Conference and Beyond

Author Meets Critics. CEMES panel debate with Professor Leonard V. Smith (Oberlin College, Ohio) and Dr. Volker Prott (Aston University, Birmingham).

2 May 2019, 10:00-17:15

1925-1950: Nordic Avant-Garde in its European Context

The inter-war period has, unfortunately, become increasingly relevant for cultural and European studies today, since it seems to offer parallels to the current refugee problems, nationalism and internal European conflicts.

24 Apr. 2019, 14:00-16:00

An Intellectual History of Basic Income: How a Fringe Idea Went Global

CEMES Lecture by Daniel Zamora Vargas (post-doctoral researcher in Sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium)

17 Apr. 2019, 16

Lineages of Authoritarian Liberalism

Lecture by Michael Wilkinson (Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science).