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This PhD seminar invites exploration of the ways in which aesthetic objects and experiences are produced, distributed, and consumed across various media and material conditions. With a focus on environments, broadly understood, we aim to investigate the aesthetic field as a dynamic site of interaction between form, medium, context, and reception.

Focussing on World War 2, a pivotal moment in 20th century European history, the TranslAtWar research project aims to investigate how literary translation can contribute to the understanding of History in the making and reciprocally.

“Cancel culture”, “culture wars”, “woke” and “anti-woke” have, over the past decade, become recurrent terms in the public sphere, signaling an increasing political, cultural, and social polarization.

Analysis work in the EcoLogic project. The goal is both to advance these analyses (internal work within the project group) and to discuss relevant theoretical perspectives and preliminary findings with French researchers whom we are inviting to the seminar.

The COST Action “Comparative Research on the Executive Triangle in Europe” (COREX) is inviting applications for a three-day advanced course on concepts and methods in research on executive politicians, top civil servants, and ministerial advisers.

The research group "Forms of resistance" brings together researchers from several fields, with a special orientation towards literature, aesthetics, philosophy, medicine, archive and media studies. The group will shed light on the concept of resistance both on a narrative, thematic level, and on an inner, more formal and theoretical level, aesthetically and technically as well as ethically.

This workshop brings together two EU COST Actions projects – History of Identity Documentation in European Nations: Citizenship, Nationality and Migration (HIDDEN) and Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality (VOICES) – to discuss ways to promote better opportunities for early career researchers (ECR) in academia and to develop a policies on best practices to support ECRs vis-à-vis EU and national funding schemes.

Our goal is to deepen theoretical and empirical understandings of how states and public entities—through their actions, investments, and assets—are (re)qualified, commercialized, and marketed. We will further explore how experts or professionals contribute to structuring public-private relationships.

In an attempt to govern problems that do not have an addressee, institutions, organizations, and networks have evolved that seek to address, negotiate, and find solutions to major societal challenges.

In recent years, scholars in the humanities have recognized the important role that classical cultures play in political mythmaking. Rather than simply providing “legitimatory window-dressing” (phrasing of Roche 2018: 4), classical cultures can serve as powerful tools for catalyzing cultural consensus across social strata, legitimizing political action, and mobilizing people for political causes.

Many for-profit actors increasingly offer their services as advocates for societal causes at no or low cost—pro bono—within and across national borders.

The research group Aesthetics of Friendship (AF) explores how the conditions and significance of friendship are evolving in our time. We also investigate the concept of friendship within a wider historical framework.

The workshop gathers researchers from Norway, France, Belgium, the UK, Italy and Germany to explore the interaction between political parties and social movements, focusing on the contemporary left. It aims to bridge research gaps by integrating insights from political science and sociology. 

Social science genetics -- sometimes denoted sociogenomics -- is the emerging research field that is the interface between conventional social sciences and genetics. By combining data and methods from these two fields, we obtain new insights about both how both environmental and genetic factors contribute to variation in individual outcomes and ultimately social structures.

Researchers from a wide range of disciplines are invited to a two-day workshop in Paris in May 26^th and 27^th 2025, to elaborate on the role of the state in bringing down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and how to ensure that emissions scenarios and pathways reflect this knowledge.

In this workshop, we continue to develop the concept of homology through theoretical clarification, innovations, and empirical applications. The central question is whether and how the concept of homology can advance field theory and explain practices and power relations across various empirical settings, scales, and times.

The heritage of ancient Greece is commonly acclaimed as a ‘pillar’ of common European culture and identity. The complex historical processes of cultural reception and appropriation that shaped this notion are, however, still hardly understood, partly due to institutional fragmentation of the field of early modern Hellenism.

Seminaret vil tematisere det kroppligjorte synet i analysene av kunsterfaringen og særlig billedkunst med utgangspunkt i Merleau-Pontys Øyet og ånden fra 1960.

The project group will gather in Paris in May 2025 to present and discuss a range of publications in progress together with relevant French researchers studying core executive government and ministerial careers.

As the planet increasingly heats up and global urbanisation massively intensifies spatially and proportionately, there is a dire need to rethink what the city is, what it can be and how it can be conceptualised in a way that allows humanity to survive the Anthropocene and enter a post-Anthropocene future.

The symposium will bring together researchers from France, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the former Yugoslavia to discuss Nazi occupation in the cultural sphere. Special attention will be given to the restoration of democracy through transitional justice and professional purges after World War II.