Past events

10 Dec. 2024, 15:00-16:30

The Wasteocene is Still Here (But We Are Trying to Sabotage It)

Lecture by Professor Marco Armiero (Institut d'Història de la Ciència (IHC) Universitat Autonoma de…

27 Nov. 2024, 14:00-17:00

Japanese shakuhachi concert and talk on music, farming and nature

Concert and talk on music, farming and nature with Katsuya Nonaka.

28 Oct. 2024, 16:30

Remaking money for a sustainable future

Talk by Ester Barinaga, professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Lund University and a professor in…

24 June 2024, 15:30-17:00

Serious Play in the City of Cyclists

Talk by international guest and cultural anthropologist Rebecca Journey (UChicago).

6 June 2024, 14:00-15:30

Humanistiske perspektiver på atomkraft: Safe, Natural, Cheap, and Necessary? – Nuclear Power at Display in Visitor Centers

Third event in the series "Humanistiske perspektiver på atomkraft". Talk on nuclear power at displa…

24 May 2024, 15:00-17:00

The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World

Book talk by Ajay Singh Chaudhary.

16 May 2024, 15:30-17:30

Mikkel Krause Franzen's Endgame Emotions

Book launch and reception.

23 Apr. 2024, 14:00-16:00

CApE Talks: The Colour of Energy: A solarpunk story of wild green electricity

Talk by Laura Watts, Visiting Professor, Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE).

22 Apr. 2024, 17:00-19:00

Ecological Reparation – aesthetics, politics and articulations

Talk and screening.

8 Apr. 2024, 14:00-16:00

CApE Talks: Care, ecological crisis and the dead ends of modernization

Talk by Manuela Zechner (postdoc).

15 Mar. 2024, 10:00-17:00

Things ceasing to be: Cormac McCarthy’s environmental vision

One-day symposium.

14 Mar. 2024, 16:00-17:30

Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action

The internationally renowned sociologist Prof. Dana Fisher from American University is visiting CAp…

13 Mar. 2024, 15:00-17:30

Seminar on literature and the environment

Seminar with Professor Jay Watson (University of Mississippi) and Professor Harilaos Stecopoulos…

11 Dec. - 12 Dec. 2023

With and Against the Current: Exploring Hydrofeminism(s)

This symposium brings together transdisciplinary researchers, artists and writers who have inquired…

7 Dec. - 8 Dec. 2023

Rethinking the rural North through environmental literature, film, and TV

This conference seeks to investigate the multi-layered ways in which “the rural North” is…

5 Dec. 2023, 11:15-12:45

Is degrowth the way forward in the climate crisis?

Comprehensive societal efforts are required to tackle climate change and other environmental crises…

27 Nov. 2023, 10:00-19:00

Workshop: Nordic Business and the Challenge of Environmentalism since the 1970’s

A workshop facilitated by Niklas Olsen.

4 Nov. 2023, 9:30

Birdwatching

There are quite a few birding hides and several interesting species. Maybe we'll get lucky and see…

3 Nov. 2023, 14:00-18:00

Master Class in Neoliberalism

Master Class with Troy Vettese and Niklas Olsen.

1 Nov. 2023, 10:00-19:00

The Designed Planet

This workshop is facilitated by Troy Vettese and Niklas Olsen.

11 Oct. 2023, 15:00-17:00

CApE Lecture: Julia Nordblad and Niklas Olsen

For this CApE Lecture event, Julia Nordblad and Niklas Olsen will each deliver a lecture, followed…

5 Oct. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Salvaging the Anthropocene

Lecture by Troy Vettese, environmental historian and post-doctoral researcher associated with ECOIN…

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

Strangelove Ecology: How we learned to stop worrying and love climate change

Talk by Pierre Charbonnier.

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

CApE Talks: Degrowing concrete - on the history and future of the world’s most used and most destructive material

A talk by Matthias Schmelzer.

29 Aug. 2023, 16:00-18:00

Adventures in the Vegetality of Time: Sexual Difference, Diachrony, and Other Plant Matters

A lecture by Professor Michael Marder.

10 June 2023, 10:00-13:00

Workshop with T.J. Demos: Radical Futurisms and Chronopolitics

Workshop with T.J. Demos.

31 May 2023, 10:00-17:00

Living with Plants: Mini forest as Communal Reforestation

Can we create Minimetsä in other European or Nordic cities – such as Copenhagen?

4 May 2023, 16:00-18:00

Climate Sorrow, lecture by Judith Butler

We are happy to invite you to an open lecture with Judith Butler as a part of the CApE Festival:…

28 Apr. 2023, 10:00-12:00

Planetary Outsides

Talk by Martin Savransky.

26 Apr. 2023, 14:00-16:00

Loving the planet - Lecture by Emanuele Coccia

Lecture by Emanuele Coccia, an Italian philosopher who has been studying the metaphysics of plants…

21 Apr. 2023, 16:00-18:00

CANCELLED: Apocalypse No, lecture by Timothy Morton

Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled.

24 Mar. 2023, 10:00-16:00

Ecotone Existences – How to Live and Build with the Wet In-between

This pilot workshop is the first in a planned series of four Blue Humanities events.

21 Mar. 2023, 13:00-16:30

Environmental virtue ethics: Environmental virtue ethics and education

Workshop directed by Karen Elizabeth Jordan, University of Iceland.

20 Mar. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics III, Environmental Virtues and Education

Reading group directed by Leo Catana

6 Mar. 2023, 16:00-18:30

Rethinking Ecology and Sustainability

Two prominent thinkers, Kate Soper and Allan Stoekl, are addressing the need for rethinking our…

2 Mar. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics II, Environmental Virtues

Second meeting in the reading group: Environmental Virtue Ethics.

16 Feb. 2023, 15:00-17:00

Reading Group: Environmental Virtue Ethics I, Land Ethics

First meeting in the reading group: Environmental Virtue Ethics.

7 Feb. 2023, 12:00-14:00

CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC III

We continue this group from last semester as we find it important to mark the occasion of the…

27 Jan. 2023, 14:00-16:00

CApE TALKS #1: The Great Fall: Loss, Mourning, and Utopia in a World of Waste

A talk about the shit that piles up everywhere, what it does to us and what we can do about it by…

19 Jan. 2023, 14:00-20:00

Sustainable Drug Discovery Network Cross-UCPH Dialogue Meeting

Workshop - by invitation only

15 Dec. 2022, 13:00-15:30

Sensing the Vibratory Planet Workshop: Reimagining Pollinator Relationships

This workshop is dedicated to multiplying the ways in which humans conceive of knowing and living…

8 Dec. 2022, 12:00-14:00

CANCELLED: CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC III

CANCELLED.

7 Dec. 2022, 9:30-12:00

Tribal Ecologies in Modern India

This workshop explores tribal critiques of climate change and environment-disruptive extractive…

21 Nov. 2022, 17:00-18:45

Ecological Actions

Talk with Jane Bennett and conversation with Emma Holten, Lars Tønder and Melissa Van Drie.

17 Nov. 2022, 12:00-13:45

CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC II

CApE invites researchers and students at UCPH humanities and other interested parties to join our…

11 Nov. 2022, 14:00-16:00

CApE Reading Group: Jane Bennett s vibrant work II

On the occasion of Jane Bennett’s visit to Copenhagen on 21 November 2022, the Center for Applied…

2 Nov. 2022, 14:00-18:00

The Taste of Change

Research seminar by Center for Applied Ecological Thinking.

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

CApE Reading Group: Jane Bennett’s vibrant work

On the occasion of Jane Bennett’s visit to Copenhagen on 21 November 2022, the Center for Applied…

27 Oct. 2022, 12:00-13:45

CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC I

CApE invites researchers and students at UCPH humanities and other interested parties to join our…

24 Oct. 2022, 15:00-17:00

Denialism is dying - what comes next?

Talk by Adrienne Buller.

11 Oct. 2022, 11:15-17:30

Book launch: Breathing Aesthetics and Asbestos: The Last Modernist Object

Lectures by Arthur Rose (University of Exeter), Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York University), Stefanie…

6 Oct. 2022, 12:00-13:45

CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC

CApE invites researchers and students at UCPH humanities and other interested parties to join our…

17 Sept. 2022, 17:00-18:30

Arctic Reflections - Climate Change and the Role of Arts and Culture in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)

Presentation with the Greenlandic artist Jessie Kleemann, postdoc Ania Mauruschat and associate…

17 Aug. 2022, 12:00-14:00

Recent and Coming Cycles of Climate Unrest

Lecture with Andreas Malm.

1 June 2022, 15:15-17:00

CApE-talk: Clive Hamilton

Join us for a talk on the anthropocene and climate change.