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06. Oct 2025

In the Shadow of War: Cultural Preparedness and the Role of Museums

The Nordic Humanities Center is hosting a seminar on cultural preparedness in uncertain times. In an era marked by new security threats, cultural preparedness is increasingly being discussed as a responsibility for cultural institutions. The question is whether more is now expected of museums than simply having a plan to safeguard collections. Cultural preparedness may also imply a new role for museums—as contributors to social cohesion and societal resilience.

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14. Jun 2025

Folkemøde 2025: In the Shadow of War – Denmark, the Nordic Region, and the Return of Geopolitics

The Nordic Humanities Center is hosting a debate at this year’s Folkemøde on the role of the Nordic region in a new world order, drawing on both historical and contemporary examples. The war in Ukraine has brought geopolitics back into the Nordic debate, and the region now finds itself at a crossroads, where long-standing ideals of neutrality are being challenged.

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14. Jun 2025

Folkemøde 2025: The Baltic Sea as "Sea of Peace" and geopolitical battle zone

Geopolitics is back, and the Baltic Sea is once again dominated by great power rivalry. On Bornholm, in the centre of the strategically important and dangerous Baltic Sea, we will discuss the special conditions that make the Baltic Sea a geopolitical battle zone. Where has the battle for the Baltic Sea been over the past 200 years in art and great power politics, and what can we look forward to today?

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02. May 2025

POP & SEQUINS – IN THE SHADOW OF WAR?

This afternoon seminar focuses on the song contest Eurovision, which this year takes place on May 17th in Basel, Switzerland. We will discuss Eurovision as a cultural and political phenomenon, and the pressing themes of this year's Eurovision – both the musical and aesthetic ones, as well as the political and activist issues.

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24. Apr 2025

Book Launch: Fælles liv (Common Life) about alternative ways of living together

Come to the book launch on April 24th for the book Fælles liv (Common Life) by Tue Andersen Nexø. The book is an entry point into contemporary Danish literature, which in the past fifteen years has been contributed by authors who share the common theme of offering perspectives on how life can be lived outside the conventional frameworks of the welfare state.

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01. Apr 2025

In the shadow of war II: New approaches to war photography in Denmark

On the occasion of the Press Photo of the Year exhibition at the Royal Library, the Nordic Humanities Center organizes two Tuesday conversations with Danish photographers about war and photography, d. March 25 and 1 April at 19-20.30.

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25. Mar 2025

In the shadow of war I: Danish press photography and the war in Ukraine

On the occasion of the Press Photo of the Year exhibition at the Royal Library, the Nordic Humanities Center organizes two Tuesday conversations with Danish photographers about war and photography, d. March 25 and 1 April at 19-20.30.

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13. Mar 2025

Nordic current affairs in 2025

On March 13, the roots of Nordicism and Scandinavianism are on the agenda. Some of the country's leading academic capacities will educate the audience about the history of the Nordic region, its relevance in the present day and, not least, about European peace 80 years after the liberation of Western Europe.

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08. Mar 2025

Panel debate on challenge-driven humanities

Panel debate on challenge-driven humanities: Scientific theoretical perspectives on 'grand challenges' and applied humanities by Anna Cornelia Ploug.

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31. Jan 2025 - 02. Feb 2025

Conversations and presentations from the Nordic Humanities Center for this year's Word Festival

Word Festival is an annual event in Odense, dedicated to celebrating the word through lectures, talks and debates about culture, knowledge and society. The festival attracts both international and national cultural figures. Fellows at the Nordic Humanities Center present lectures and conversations about divorce experienced as children, refugee crises in Denmark and so-called "wild growth" and sustainability.

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05. Dec 2024

Life in the welfare state: Humanistic perspectives on societal challenges

Nordic Humanities Center's free conference on the Nordic welfare model. Since the 1930s, the Nordic welfare states have attracted international attention as a special social model whose goal was to combine social security and individual freedom. But its legitimacy has also been challenged – both historically and today.

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29. Nov 2024

Book debate: The road to prosperity: Capitalism and modern Denmark

Debate event on Per Boje and Jeppe Nevers' new book "The Road to Prosperity: Capitalism and Modern Denmark" (Syddansk University Press 2024).

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27. Nov 2024

Reception of refugees in Denmark over 100 years

The Nordic Humanities Center and DaWS-history invite you to a seminar on Denmark's reception of refugees over 100 years. The seminar will analyze how the reception of refugees has been structured and organized across historical periods and in different political contexts. What role have state institutions played in the reception of refugees and how have legislation and administrative practices evolved? Which civil society organizations and other actors have contributed to shaping the reception process, and how have refugees and asylum seekers themselves had the opportunity to influence their reception conditions and integration?

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21. Nov 2024

Reading group on the 1990s

Nordic Humanities Center, Neoliberalism in the Nordics, and Norden since the End of History invite researchers and students at UCPH Humanities and other interested parties to join our reading group on the 1990s.

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18. Nov 2024

Master Class: The History of Experiences

In recent years, both in history and the social sciences, there has been growing interest in the so-called "history of lived experiences." How have fundamental societal institutions such as religion, the nation, democracy, or the welfare state been experienced at different times? Or more specifically, how have individuals in care experienced the welfare state's institutions? How was 19th-century nationalism experienced in the peasant homes of the time? How have different social groups experienced the rise of the market economy?

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14. Nov 2024

Democracy and the Nordic Model

The Nordic countries have a long tradition of priding themselves as model democracies, yet what is meant by the term has been subject to political debate at various junctures in history. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss transforming notions of democracy in the Nordic countries from the late 19th to the early 21st century. At the centre of our discussions are the relationship between democracy and the welfare state, arguments of Nordic democratic exceptionality, and the similarities and differences across the Nordic region.

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11. Nov 2024

Pollution: Legal, Historical and Literary Perspective

What significance has Danish society's structure and self-understanding as a "welfare state" had on the environmental policy pursued and on the population's different experiences of pollution? In this panel discussion, we start a dialogue between different professional areas with a view to providing different perspectives on pollution than the one that dominates in Christiansborg and in the public debate. We start from the question of how pollution is understood and addressed within literature, history and law.

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30. Oct 2024

SPEAKING TO THE TIMES: How do art and science relate to contemporary challenges?

What makes humanistic research contemporary? What is needed for literary, historical and cultural insights to be brought into play and correspond to the reality we live in, and how do we as humanists respond to society's great challenges? We investigate this for this event on challenge-driven humanistic research.

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11. Sep 2024

Panel discussion: Science and Commitment

Committed! How should researchers, politicians and the media deal with engaged science? The Nordic Humanities Center and the Danish Institute for Advanced Study invite you to a book launch and a panel discussion on science and commitment.

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03. Sep 2024

How do we listen to children and young people in the meeting with the welfare state?

The Nordic Humanities Center invites you to a panel discussion on how we listen to children and young people - on why it is difficult and how we can improve.

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14. May 2024

Author meeting with Faysa Idle: "Et ord for blod"

At this author meeting Faysa Idle talks about her book and the may afterthoughts it calls for. Will the deadly conflicts come to an end?

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09. May 2024

Workshop NHC (University of Copenhagen)

Urban Lundberg about "Forholdet mellem stat og borger i Sverige"

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22. Mar 2024

Urban Lundberg about the 'DEN SVENSKE UDVIKLINGSBISTANDS HISTORIE'

Based on his highly acclaimed book A shrinking country task: Sverige och biståndet 1945-1975 (2021, co-authored with Mattias Tydén and Annika Berg), NHC researcher Urban Lundberg will discuss ideas and reasons for the development of one of the most ambitious development aid programs in the world.

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26. Feb 2024

Welfare anger

On the 26th of February from 15.30 to 17.00 - Søndre Campus, University of Copenhagen Meet author Katrine Marie Guldager for a conversation about the anger of welfare in her novel characters.

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07. Feb 2024

Participate in the official opening of Nordic Humanities Center

Nordic Humanities Center is a new research center at University of Southern Denmark and University of Copenhagen, that brings humanists perspectives on bigger social challenges. In the centers first year, we work with the research project: Legitimitet under Pres – Den Nordiske Models Fortid og Fremtid.

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Events in NHC

Get an overview of events in the Nordic Humanities Center

In the Shadow of War: Cultural Preparedness and the Role of Museums

Folkemøde 2025: In the Shadow of War – Denmark, the Nordic Region, and the Return of Geopolitics

Folkemøde 2025: The Baltic Sea as "Sea of Peace" and geopolitical battle zone

POP & SEQUINS – IN THE SHADOW OF WAR?

Book Launch: Fælles liv (Common Life) about alternative ways of living together

In the shadow of war II: New approaches to war photography in Denmark

In the shadow of war I: Danish press photography and the war in Ukraine

Nordic current affairs in 2025

Panel debate on challenge-driven humanities

Conversations and presentations from the Nordic Humanities Center for this year's Word Festival

Life in the welfare state: Humanistic perspectives on societal challenges

Book debate: The road to prosperity: Capitalism and modern Denmark

Reception of refugees in Denmark over 100 years

Reading group on the 1990s

Master Class: The History of Experiences

Democracy and the Nordic Model

Pollution: Legal, Historical and Literary Perspective

SPEAKING TO THE TIMES: How do art and science relate to contemporary challenges?

Panel discussion: Science and Commitment

How do we listen to children and young people in the meeting with the welfare state?

Author meeting with Faysa Idle: "Et ord for blod"

Workshop NHC (University of Copenhagen)

Urban Lundberg about the 'DEN SVENSKE UDVIKLINGSBISTANDS HISTORIE'

Welfare anger

Participate in the official opening of Nordic Humanities Center

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