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.

• 19 Aug. 2026, 14:00-15:30

  Cultural Safety, Family Influence and the Problem of Patriarchy

  Talk with Dr. Kathleen Rice.

• 20 Aug. 2026, 14:00-17:00

  Dads, devices, and the presence of care: an ethnographic study of fathers to children with type 1 diabetes in Greece & Denmark

  PhD defence by Maria Athena Campbell

• 21 Aug. 2026, 12:30

  Modern day oracles or bullshit machines: how to thrive in a ChatGPT world

  Talk by Carl Bergstrom. This is a talk inspired by this course: thebullshitmachines.com

• 21 Aug. 2026, 13:00-16:00

  Nye naturer. Forvaltning og samskabelse af natur i Danmark

  PhD defence by Kathrine Dalsgaard

• 2 Sept. 2026, 13:00-16:00

  Meandering Through Labour Economics Mental Well-being, Misperceptions, and Milieu in the Labour Market

  PhD defence by Asker Nygaard Christensen

• 3 Sept. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Crime Trends in Borderlands: Similarities and Differences Across Nordic Border Regions

  Talk by Professor Peter Lindström, Linnaeus University.

• 8 Sept. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  Private Museums and the Cultural Legitimation of Wealth

  Seminar with Kristina Kolbe, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

• 10 Sept. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Adrian Lerche, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

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

• 17 Sept. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Youth between punishment and welfare

  Talk by PhD fellow Lea Brinkgaard, University of Copenhagen.

• 17 Sept. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Sara Abrahamsson, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

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

• 18 Sept. 2026, 9:30-15:30

  Aesthetic Atmospheres

  Seminar.

• 22 Sept. 2026, 15:00-17:30

  Department Day at Sociology

  Department of Sociology invites to department day.

• 24 Sept. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Sydney Constantini, Bocconi University & UBC

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

• 24 Sept. 2026, 17:30-19:30

  Exhibition opening: SOLID × A Name, Not a Number

  You are invited to the opening of The Social Life of Dead Bodies × A Name, Not a Number, a collaborative exhibition bringing together research on migration, forensic identification, death, and disappearance.

• 24 Sept. - 25 Sept. 2026

  The 6th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop

  Workshop taking place in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on 24-25 September, 2026.

• 1 Oct. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Norwegian Nurses in the Service of the Third Reich: A Criminological Study of Atrocity Perpetration and Claims to Victimhood

  Talk with Lilli Wolland Blomberg, PhD Law, University of Edinburgh.

• 1 Oct. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Anders Jensen, Harvard University

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

• 7 Oct. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Paula Calvo, Arizona State University

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

• 8 Oct. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  From the container to the contained: Carceral Geographies and Migrant Identity in Refugee Graphic Novels

  Talk by Associate Professor Bidisha Banerjee, University of Hong Kong.

• 9 Oct. 2026, 14:00-15:30

  Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces

  Talk with Bidisha Banerjee.

• 12 Oct. - 16 Oct. 2026

  Models of Consciousness 2026

  Five day conference.

• 20 Oct. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  Social Media Ecologies of Crime: Algorithmic Convergence Spaces and Criminogenic Opportunity Structures Online

  Seminar with Kristoffer Magnus Bjerre Aagesen, PhD student at Department of Sociology.

• 22 Oct. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Meta-analysis of psychological interventions aimed at reducing corruption tolerance

  Talk by PhD student Ardian R. Afandi, University of Copenhagen.

• 22 Oct. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Sarah Necker, Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics

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

• 27 Oct. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  Labour migration, divergent business strategies and change in national models

  Seminar with Jens Arnholtz, Associate Professor, FAOS.

• 29 Oct. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Gisle Natvik, Norwegian Business School

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

• 3 Nov. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  Welcomed or Walled Out? Right-Wing Attitudes and Refugee Policies in Sweden, Germany, and Poland

  Seminar with Pieter Bevelander, professor at Malmö University, Sweden.

• 17 Nov. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  From Ressentiment to Radicalisation: Towards an Integrative Framework.

  Seminar with Mikko Salmela, Senior Researcher in Political Science and Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki.

• 19 Nov. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Peter Haan, Frei Universität Berlin & DIW

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

• 26 Nov. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  On the origins of Nordic penal exceptionalism

  Lunch seminar with Professor Peter Scharff Smith.

• 26 Nov. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim

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

• 3 Dec. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Andreas Fuster, Swiss Finance Institute

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

• 8 Dec. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  Why third-generation assimilation may stall: The role of second-generation union patterns

  Seminar with Jesper Fels Birkelund, Assistant Professor Tenure Track at the Department of Sociology.

• 10 Dec. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Anne Gielen, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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

• 15 Dec. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  The ethical foundation of the social: Unpacking the phenomenology of the interaction order’s moral constraints

  Seminar with Jonas Toubøl, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology.

• 17 Dec. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Sevgi Yuksel, New York University

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

• 22 Apr. 2027, 14:15-15:30

  Kathrine B. Coffman, Harvard Business School

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

• 27 May 2027, 14:15-15:30

  Molly Schnell, Northwestern University

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