Previous events

21 Sept. 2023, 16:30-18:30

Summer Graduation Ceremony 2023

True to tradition, the half-yearly graduate reception is held at the Department of Political Science, where we will celebrate you as you have recently handed in your thesis and perhaps already have received your grade.

12 Sept. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Book launch: Polarity in International Relations: Past, Present, Future

To celebrate the publishing of the book, “Polarity in International Relations. Past, Present, Future”, Palgrave, 2022, The Department of Political Science, invites you to a seminar followed by a reception.

11 Sept. 2023, 12:00-16:00

Gender@SAMF: Research seminar on gendered representation

Women are consistently underrepresented among party members, who traditionally make up the pool of potential candidates, among candidates nominated by political parties and at every level of most elected legislatures. In this research seminar, we explore explanations for this underrepresentation.

22 June 2023, 12:30-14:30

gender@SAMF: Social data science and gender

Do you ever wonder, how social data science may be beneficial to – or even transform – your social science research on gender/with a gender perspective? If so, come around for gender@SAMF extended lunch.

7 June 2023, 8:45-10:00

Talk Series: Quantum meets society #3

What really happens when quantum technology meet society? In this talk series, quantum scientists and social scientists from the University of Copenhagen meet to explore potentials, challenges, and missing links in the intersection of quantum technologies and social sciences.

In this talk, we explore the opportunities and challenges when it comes to regulating Quantum in an international society.

6 June 2023, 14:00-17:00

Matthias Humer defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Matthias Humer defends his PhD thesis "Visual Vulnerability and the Iraq War: The Family Home and the Army Base as Gendered Sites".

21 Apr. 2023, 14:00-17:00

Tobias Heide-Jørgensen defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Tobias Heide-Jørgensen defends his PhD thesis "Pocketbook or Principles? Beyond the Value-Interest Dichotomy in Public Opinion".

30 Mar. 2023, 15:15-16:15

Inaugural Lecture by Jacob Gerner Hariri

Jacob Gerner Hariri will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled: Monopolizing Violence.

30 Mar. 2023, 14:00-17:00

Paw Havgaard Hansen defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Paw Havgaard Hansen defends his PhD thesis "Frontline work and beneficiary contact. Essays on interpersonal dynamics during welfare encounters".

23 Mar. 2023, 14:00-17:00

Simon Polichinel von der Maase defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Simon Polichinel von der Maase defends his PhD thesis "A Lens to Learn Through – Conflict Studies and the Age of Computational Methods".

17 Feb. 2023, 11:00-13:00

How should the state respond to cultural appropriation?

Political Theory Seminar session: “How should the state respond to cultural appropriation? Prohibition vs recognition”.

24 Nov. 2022, 17:15-19:00

Noah and the Anthropocene: A Lecture with Professor William E. Connolly

The Political Theory group, together with the Vital Politics research project, is pleased to host a lecture with Professor William E. Connolly on the possibilities for democratic politics in a time of climate crisis

9 Nov. 2022, 16:30-18:00

Sparse: Lecture with Jane Bennett

The Vital Politics research group is pleased to host a lecture with Professor Jane Bennett on new modes of ecological action.

17 Oct. 2022, 14:00-17:00

Larissa Versloot defends her PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Larissa Muriel Versloot defends her PhD thesis "Maintaining Trust in International Relations-Trust reproduction and protection in everyday diplomatic practice at the European Union".

14 Oct. 2022, 14:15-16:00

Critical maritime infrastructures: understanding the challenges

This round table event reflects on the strategic importance of maritime infrastructure. The speakers evaluate vulnerabilities and dependencies, and necessary responses in the light of new threats but also the needs of the green energy revolution.

14 Oct. 2022, 14:00-17:00

Christoffer Cappelen defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Christoffer Cappelen defends his PhD thesis "On the Origins of the Modern State. State Formation in Medieval and Early Modern Europe".

6 Oct. 2022, 15:30-16:45

Winter is coming: Leading the economy in a time of crisis

Hear Danmarks Nationalbank's Governor Signe Krogstrup talk to Associate Dean for Education Sara Hagemann about what financial tools are at hand when prices rise, and the economy goes into reverse gear.

3 Oct. 2022, 14:00-17:00

Marina Lambert defends her PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Marina Lambert defends her PhD thesis "Institutional practices of European identity construction in crisis".

30 Sept. 2022, 13:00-18:00

Fifty Years in Europe

This event marks the 50-year anniversary of Denmark joining the EC (today the EU).

5 Sept. 2022, 16:00-18:00

Scott F. Gilbert - We Are the World

The Vital Politics research project is hosting an event with Scott F. Gilbert - We Are the World: The Environment as Part of the Body.

2 Sept. 2022, 9:00-12:00

Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen defends his PhD thesis "Commoning in the Anthropocene. Responding to large-scale mining through practices of collective care. The case of Skouries, Halkidiki, Greece".

7 Apr. 2022, 16:00-17:30

Book launch

Cand.scient.pol. Rasmus Engelmand Olsen received The Ib Damgaard Petersen prize 2021 for an outstanding thesis.

24 Feb. 2022, 17:00-19:00

Scott F. Gilbert - Know Your Constituencies

Online event with Scott F. Gilbert - Know Your Constituencies: New Perspectives on the Politics of the Corporal Body.

3 May - 4 May 2021

European Network on Teaching Excellence (e-NOTE) International Project Meeting

The Department of Political Science is hosting a project (on-line) meeting for all international partners in the ERASMUS+ funded project European Network on Teaching Excellence (e-NOTE) 3-4 May 2021.

22 Jan. 2018, 14:00-16:00

Catalonia and Europe at a Crossroads for Democracy?

The Political Science Department will be hosting a debate with the 130^th President of the Government of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont