Previous events

• 10 May 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Coloniality and Decolonization in the 20th century international sphere

  A moderated discussion between three historians on their important new monographs: Ismay Milford (Universität Leipzig), Florian Wagner (Universität Erfurt), and Margot Tudor (University of Exeter).

• 2 Dec. 2022, 15:00-17:00

  Author meets critic: Global Biographies. Lived History as Method

  "Global biographies" unpacks the historiographical and methodological relationship between biographies and global history and presents three uniquely tailored approaches.

• 28 Oct. 2022, 16:00

  Colonial Encounters in a Time of Conflict, 1914–1918

  An internal research seminar with Daniel Steinbach, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, SAXO-institute.

• 29 Apr. 2022, 14:30

  “The Measure of their Sadness:” Slavery, Kinship, and the Marketplace in the Early Modern Black Atlantic

  A lecture by Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History at New York University.

• 18 Mar. 2022, 16:00-18:00

  Scientific knowledge and processes of decolonization

  This seminar focuses on scientific knowledge and the processes of decolonization through three presentations.

• 14 Jan. 2022, 14:30

  Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

  Professor Jennifer L. Morgan will speak about her recent book Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2021).

• 6 Dec. - 7 Dec. 2021

  Auerbach’s Method

  A two-day conference about the relevance of Auerbach’s method for humanist scholars today marking 75 years of Mimesis.

• 30 Nov. 2021, 15:15

  Europæisk litteratur 1500-1800

  CEMES-seminar om fjerde og sidste bind af værket Europæisk Litteraturhistorie 1500-1800, der udkom i sommer.

• 12 Nov. 2021, 16:30

  The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

  Professor Geraldine Heng (University of Texas Austin) will speak about her recent book The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

• 13 Oct. 2021, 16:00-18:00

  Mellem metropol og koloni

  Johan Heinsen (AAU) og Kristoffer Edelgaard Christensen (Lund) sætter fokus på sammenhænge, ligheder og forskelle mellem den sociale, kulturelle og intellektuelle organisation i metropol og koloni.

• 30 Apr. 2020, 16:15-18:00

  CANCELLED: Author Meets Critics Debate with Gurminder Bhambra on Connected Sociologies (2014)

  CANCELLED: In the Connected Sociologies, Bhambra takes up classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they can be rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies and decoloniality, two of…