Courses and events

Autumn 2026
24 – 28 August Epistemic Equity. European Summer School for Cultural Studies (ESSCS), 2026.
8 September Workshop w. Annette Krauss (organized by Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen)
23 September Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group
24 September Implications (co-convenor Fatma Bucak): Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Potential History. Unlearning Imperialism (2019)
28-30 September  Art and Science – Processes, Systems and Histories of Entangled Knowledge. (Seminar organized in collaboration w. Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and Vilnius Academy of Arts)
9 October Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group
9 October Implications (co-convenor Fatma Bucak): Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Potential History. Unlearning Imperialism (2019)
19 October Workshop w. Noor Ahmed Curator, Karachi Biennale 2027 and Saeed Husain (organized by Kylie Gilchrist)
21-23 October  Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue. (Organized in collaboration w. Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY)
27-29 October Positioning. A Symposium on Curatorial Learning in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond 2026. (Organized by PUBLICS in collaboration w. PASS, Simian and Malmö Art Museum)
5 November Implications (co-convenor Fatma Bucak): Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Potential History. Unlearning Imperialism (2019)
7 November How do we understand a mountain? Symposium on Climate Change and Connectedness (Organized by Julie Lænkholm in collaboration w. PASS and Skaftfell Art Center)
18 November Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group

Past activities

Spring 2026
5 February Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group
18 February Workshop on media handling and research communication in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen's communications department
19 February Implications: Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
21 February – 1 March Modes of Organizing. Study trip to Ghana.
19 March Implications: Eduardo Kohn,  How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
9 April Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group
7 May Implications: Matthew Fuller & Eyal Weizman, Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth
13 May Workshop with Charles Esche: What are art institutions, museums and exhibitions for?
21 May Lunch and seminar for the IKK Practice-based PhD group

Autumn 2025

22-26 September Intensive Residency PhD Training Course
9 October Implications: Fred Moten: In the Break. The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003) 
6 November Implications: Achille Mbembe: Out of the Dark Night. Essays on Decolonization (2021) 
11 December Implications: Françoise Vergès: A Programme of Absolute Disorder. Decolonizing the Museum (2023)

Spring 2025
25 February Writing Art Histories
26 February Saidiya Hartman, Lose your Mother, 2007
9 April Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, 2019
28 April Future Ancestry - Impactful Storytelling in the Visual Arts
6 May Writing Art Histories
11 June Discussion with Saidiya Hartman
18 June Writing Art Histories

Autumn 2024

9 Oct. – 10 Oct. Gestures Towards 'Commoning' the Art Institution
30 October Implications. Theories and new perspectives on art studies
18 Nov. – 19 Nov. Freedom in Practice
27 November Implications. Theories and new perspectives on art studies
2 December Writing Art Histories
18 December Implications. Theories and new perspectives on art studies

Spring 2024

6 Mar. Implications II. Theories and new perspectives on Art Studies 
19 Mar. - 20. Mar. Working with archives. Traces and documents in art studies II
8 May Implications II. Theories and new perspectives on Art Studies
28 May - 29 May Oceans of Art II
19 June  Implications II. Theories and new perspectives on Art Studies

Autumn 2023

11 Oct. Implications I. Theories and new perspectives on Art Studies
31 Oct. - 1 Nov. Working with archives. Traces and documents in art studies I
15 Nov.  Implications I. Theories and new perspectives on Art Studies
28 Nov. - 29 Nov. Oceans of Art I
13 Dec. Implications I. Theories and new perspectives on Art Studies

In addition to the research training activities, the center will host

  • Alumni network activities with stakeholders, researchers, artists, and professionals targeting common themes with societal impact and relevance for policy making
  • Workshops with hands-on approaches to practice-based methodologies and applied art historical knowledge in collaboration between researchers, artists, and professionals
  • A forum for PhD supervisors
  • A web platform offering a one-stop access to Danish practice-based art studies for national and international stakeholders
  • A publication series that connects academic, curatorial, and artistic practice-based research