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.

• 24 April 2019, 14:15-16:00

  What is really happening in Xinjiang? Historical context, current developments and source criticism

  Public talk by Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Rune Steenberg. The talk will provide an insight into the current state of affairs in Xinjiang against a historical backdrop and address the extreme difficulties faced by local people in everyday life.

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• 24 April 2019, 16:15-17:45

  Belt and Road Initiative with new tracks? China's initiative and Japan's response

  Public seminar with Prof. Werner Pascha University of Duisburg-Essen: Japan´s multilateral infrastructure initiative: (Not only) a reaction to China and Prof. Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen: China's road to a new world order - What is driving the BRI and why?

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• 25 April - 26 April 2019

  EastAsiaNet Workshop

  ADI at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School are the hosts of this year's EastAsiaNet Workshop. Presentations will focus on '"The Good Life" in East Asia' and 'Revisiting the Internationalization of Japan'

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• 25 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Women's Empowerment through Social Safety Nets

  Lunch talk with Marvi Memon on the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan.

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• 26 April 2019, 11:00-12:30

  Use of Algorithms in Public Administration - What are the Ethical Concerns?

  The speakers for the third SODAS Lecture of the spring will be Peter Sandøe, Professor & Sune Hannibal Holm, Associate Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen.

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• 29 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: War on the Cold War – Transitional Justice in Korea

  Lunch talk with Sungju Park-Kang, University of Turku, Finland, on the issue of justice for victims of state violence in Korea.

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• 29 April 2019, 13:00-16:00

  PhD defence: Marianne Thode Krogh

  Marianne Thode Krogh defends her PhD thesis at the Department of Psychology.

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• 29 April 2019, 14:15-16:00

  Between Work and Labor: Interstitial Selves in the Indian Construction Industry

  Public seminar with Adam Sargent, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, as part of the Global Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series.

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• 30 April 2019, 14:00-16:00

  Farewell reception - Dean Troels Østergaard Sørensen

  Everyone is welcome.

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• 7 May 2019, 14:30-17:00

  Knowledge for the future

  Seminar on the greatest societal challenges ahead and how social sciences can help solving them.

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• 8 May 2019, 14:00-17:00

  Agnete Aslaug Kjær defends her PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

  Agnete Aslaug Kjær defends her PhD thesis "Understanding the Challenges of Aging in a Nordic Welfare State: Micro-Level Investigations from a Life Course Perspective"

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• 9 May 2019, 11:00-15:00

  Internet and Politics in China: Taking stock and moving forward

  CFP for this interdisciplinary seminar which aims to critically reflect on the current discussion on internet and politics in Greater China. Deadline: 1 April

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• 10 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

  SODAS Data Discussion, Frederik Georg Hjorth & Snorre Ralund

  Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), is pleased to announce the fouth and final SODAS Data Discussion of this spring.

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• 13 May - 14 May 2019

  International Conference: Frontiers of Accumulation

  International conference in 2019 at UCPH. Part of the Emerging Worlds program. Organized jointly by the CGSAS, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and ADI

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• 23 May 2019, 15:00-16:30

  Meeting about the Master’s thesis process

  If you are going to write your thesis beginning 30 June 2019, we hereby invite you to a meeting about the master thesis process at the Department of Political Science.

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• 24 May 2019, 11:00-12:30

  Online Computer Games as a ”Social Science Supercollider”

  The final SODAS Lecture of the spring will be by Professor MSO Jacob Friis Sherson, Director and Founder of the ScienceAtHome project and Center for Hybrid Intelligence at the Department of Physic and Astronomy, Aarhus University.

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• 24 May 2019, 14:15-16:00

  The irony of open borders: Mobility, citizenship and ethnicity in Himalayan South Asia

  Public seminar with Sara Shneiderman, Dept. of Anthropology, University of British Colombia, as part of the Global Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series.

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• 11 June - 12 June 2019

  Conference: The Digitally Engaged Patient

  Department of Anthropology and VITAL invite you to attend the conference The Digitally Engaged Patient, which will take place on June 11-12 2019. The conference brings together perspectives from anthropological and sociological research in digital technologies and health.

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• 17 June - 19 June 2019

  ADI Conference 2019

  Join us for the 11th annual, international ADI conference. Keynote speeches by Professor Dr. Dagmar Shäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University and Dr. Kairi Jain, University of Toronto, as well as panels on a wide range of themes.

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• 19 June 2019,

  PhD workshop: The Asian City

  As part of the 11th annual ADI conference a PhD workshop exploring The Asian City will be held. Application deadline 4 March

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• 24 June - 19 July 2019

  IARU Summer Course: Borderland

  IARU summer course "Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South" in Chiang Mai, Thailand organized jointly by University of Copenhagen and UC-Berkeley.

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