HUM:Global – University of Copenhagen

HUM:Global

We harness and stimulate research, teaching and dissemination at the Faculty of Humanities to bring to life the greatest and most daring ideas on global approaches, processes and challenges.

HUM:Global co-establishes new global outreach project, META-UN

HUM:Global together with Flagship 2 of the 4EU+ European University Alliance at the University of Copenhagen have taken the initiative to launch a global outreach project called META-UN to collaborate with the United Nations (UN) system.

HUM:Global annual report is now available

Download HUM:Global annual report 2024/25.

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HUM:Global Seed Money Open Call

HUM:Global is now receiving applications from Humanities students and scholars for seed money to initiate activities with growth potential. Applicants may apply for between 10,000kr and 35,000kr to support activities in the academic year 2025/26.

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We understand global as an analytical approach, imbued with a broad set of refined methodologies, that allow us to break with ideological, spatial/temporal and scientific barriers and biases that stand in the way of us engaging with our subject matter with an eye for its global characteristics and significance.

Haakon A. Ikonomou, Director of HUM:Global

Events

26 Feb. 2025, 10:15-12:00

"Smart" for whom? Policy mobilities and the politics of the smart city in Japan and South Korea

Guest talk by Marco Zappa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).

6 Mar. 2025, 14:00-17:30

Restoring Global Memories & Local Ecologies: Metallophyte plants and colonial history in DR Congo mining

HUM:Global Talk! Exhibition and Talk.

13 Mar. 2025, 15:15-17:00

Africa Seminar: Missionaries, Traders, and Cultural brokers

Africans have played a crucial role in shaping trans-regional networks, political and religious institutions, and markets in South Asia from the precolonial era to the present. This seminar focusses on Africans in the western Indian city of Mumbai (known as Bombay before 1996).

20 Mar. 2025, 16:00-19:00

Screening of "Explanation for Everything" (2023)

SCREENING EUROPE Film Club Presents a pearl from the Venice Film Festival and a gripping drama about youth, identity, and the deep societal divides shaping our world, from Hungary to the U.S.

26 Mar. 2025, 15:00-17:00

Liberalism in Texas and French Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s

HUM:Global Talk! Seminar with Leonard V. Smith

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