Calendar and events

Events related to departments and centres at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The calendar is not necessary comprehensive, but we try to display all events that are directed towards an English-speaking audience.

• 7 October - 10 November 2019

  From Kabul to Kolkata: Of Belonging, Memories and Identity

  Photo exhibition by Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz. The exhibition documents the Afghan community or the ‘Kabuliwalas’ of Kolkata and is inspired by Tagaore's short story from 1892.  

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• 21 October 2019, 12:00-13:15

  Jonathan Meer, Texas AM University

  "The Minimum Wage’s Effects on the Nonprofit Sector Employment" Seminar arranged by Center for Economic behavior and Inequalty (CEBI)

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• 22 October 2019, 15:00-16:30

  The Hong Kong crisis - from local conflict to global challenge

  This public seminar explores the political crisis in Hong Kong from multiple perspectives, including its local, regional and global implications.

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• 23 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

  Viral hate: Who is exposed to hatred?

  From Survey to artificial intelligence in the study of online political debates, Tobias Bornakke, Analyse & Tal

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• 24 October 2019, 14:15-15:30

  Daphne Skandalis, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

  "Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Behavior", Seminar arranged by Center of Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

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• 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:30

  A network approach to topic models

  The theme for this fall's lecture series is Text as Data. The first lecturer is Tiago de Paula Peixoto, who is Associate Professor at Central European University, Department of Network and Data Science.

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• 28 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

  Frokostoplæg: When virtuous pedophiles gather on the internet

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• 30 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

  Lunch Seminar by Craig Berry Pensions imperilled: The political economy of pensions provision before and after the financial crisis

  Craig Berry from Manchester Metropolitan University is spending some time in Copenhagen this month and will visit the department to talk about his forthcoming book ‘Pensions imperilled’. Craig has worked extensively on industrial and economic policy in times of financialisation and crisis and was, until last year, Deputy Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Centre. His work is likely to appeal across a number of our research groups. With that in mind the department has kindly agreed to provide a sandwich lunch for those attending (a calendar invitation has been sent separately).

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• 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

  The Return of Chen Ching Lin: A Chinese Deserter in the British Raj, 1943-46

  India-China Conjunctures lecture by Cao Yin, Associate professor in the Department of History, Tsinghua University.

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• 30 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

  Discrimination and radicalization: A project with google data

  Friedolin Merhoud, a new assistant professor at the Institute of Sociologi, will present. 
  

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• 31 October 2019, 10:00-11:30

  ChinaTalks: Wrongful Conviction and Judicial Reform in China

  Public talk by He Jiahong, lawyer, writer and professor at Renmin University on causes for wrongful convictions and judicial reform in China. 

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• 31 October 2019, 14:15-15:30

  Christopher Ruhm, University of Virginia

  "Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately For the Least Advantaged?"  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

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• 1 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

  SODAS Talk w/ Clara Vandeweerdt

  PhD student, Clara Vendeweerdt, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present at a SODAS Talk on Friday the 1st of November 2019. 

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• 1 November 2019, 13:00

  Anne Toft Hansen defends her PhD thesis at the Department of Economics

  Anne Toft Hansen defends her PhD thesis:"Topics in Economics of Higher Education: Choices and Returns"

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• 1 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

  Reconstructing Past Foodways in the Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic of southwest Asia

  Friday Lecture at Archeaology, by Associate Professor Tobias Richter, University of Copenhagen.

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• 1 November 2019, 08:30-18:30

  Seminar on Digitalization and Legal Culture: Western and Chinese Perspectives

  One-day seminar on digitalization, geopolitics, law and legal culture with keynote presentations by Prof. He Jiahong, Renmin University of China and Dr. Hanne Marie Motzfeldt, University of Copenhagen

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• 6 November 2019, 09:00-13:30

  Peace Process on the Korean Peninsula

  Seminar organized jointly by NIAS and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and the Republic of Korea. All are welcome - registration is required.

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• 7 November 2019, 14:15-15:30

  Monica Costa Dias, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

  Seminar arranged by Cente for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

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• 8 November 2019, 11:00-12:30

  Mining discourse patterns of hate and counter speech in Facebook

  The speaker for the second SODAS Lecture of the fall will be post-doctoral researcher at University of Hamburg, Gregor Wiedemann.

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• 14 November 2019, 14:15-15:30

  Almudena Sevilla, University College London

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

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• 14 November 2019, 18:30-20:30

  An evening about MANIPULATION

  Torsdag 14. november kl. 18.30-20.30 står den på misinformation, halve sandheder og lodrette løgne, når Carlsbergfondet, Ny Carlsbergfondet og Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek inviterer til årets sidste Videnskab|Lidenskab.

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• 21 November 2019, 14:15-15:30

  Øivind Anti Nilsen, NHH, Norway

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

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• 22 November - 23 November 2019

  Health economic workshop

  Workshop on behavioral responses to health innovations and the consequences for socioeconomic outcomes

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• 22 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

  SODAS Data Discussion w/ Gregory Eady

  Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), is pleased to announce the third SODAS Data Discussion of this fall where Gregory Eady will present his work.

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• 27 November - 28 November 2019

  Behavioral Insights applied to Healthy Ageing

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• 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

  China's "360-degree" Digital Governance and Information Operation: An update

  Talk by Dr. Kingwa Fu, Associate Professor, Hong Kong University. This is the third and final lecture in the Frontier Seminar Series: "An interdisciplinary approach to digital threats”.
  

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• 28 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

  SODAS Pop-up Talk w/ Eleanor J. Murray

  SODAS Pop-up Talk with Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Eleanor J. Murray, ScD, Boston

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• 29 November 2019, 11:00-12:30

  Participative Epistemology in Social Data Science: combining ethnography with computational and statistical approaches

  The speaker of the third SODAS Lecture is Gian Marco Campagnolo, who is Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies and Turing Inaugural Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

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• 2 December - 6 December 2019

  NNC Conference: Digital Asia

  "Digital Asia - Cultural, Socio-Economic, and Political Transformations" is the 12th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference & PhD Course organized in collaboration with Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University.

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• 13 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

  SODAS Data Discussion w/ Aske Mottelson & Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen

  Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), is pleased to announce the final Data Discussion of this fall. Aske Mottelson and Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen will present their work.

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• 16 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

  Nicholas Papageorge, John Hopkins University

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

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• 8 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

  Daniel Schunk, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

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• 23 April - 25 April 2020

  International Conference: Chronic Living - vitality and quality of health in the 21 century

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• 25 June - 26 June 2020

  Workshop on Subjective Beliefs in Macroeconomics and Household Finance

  Expectations about the future play a central role in any model of decision-making under uncertainty, and are of particular importance in modern macroeconomics and household finance.

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