Events at Roskilde University

The research group CARE is thrilled to invite you for a lecture by prof. Dr. Shirin M. Rai about care and depletion

Meet Associate Professor Tatiana Fogelman, who in this CSS Lunch Series talks about: Care versus Advocacy? Contestations of urban citizenship-making in Copenhagen.

Meg Holden (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) will present on Using our Words to Change the Conventions of Urban Worlds, highlighting the role of translanguaging in advancing a politics of urban transformation, and defining and demonstrating what this can entail as an urban research methodology, using examples from Indigenous languages of Canada as well as French, Danish and Finnish.

Martin Ejsing Christensen will present his recent book on Analytic Philosophy and the Critical Reception of John Dewey’s Pragmatic Philosophy (2025), which intervenes in the contested history of the relationship between analytic philosophy and John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy.

The University Leadership invites everyone – students, employees and locals – to join the collaboration to create the most sustainable campus possible. To facilitate this, we are hosting two Green Conversations in April, where we collectively will brainstorm and develop ideas on how to utilise campus to research sustainable living and societal organisation.

Lalitha Kamath (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) will present on "Collective Action, Community Building and Participatory Mapping in Mumbai", foregrounding two stories of collection action around making the Mumbai Master Plan (2014-34) more accessible and inclusive.

Lalitha Kamath (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) will present on Dushkaal Temporalities: Reframing Time, Space and Loss in Planning for the Climate Crisis, taking the perspective of Indigenous fishers from Mumbai to reframe the temporality of the climate crisis and to better apprehend the losses it causes as well as potential responses.

William Kutz (Lund University) will present on "The Revolutionary, the Geographer and the Spy: Spatial Thought and the Spectre of History". Through telling three stories that are drawn from a project about the transatlantic history of radical geography, he will reflect critically on the how we spatialise intellectual history and historicise spatial thought.

Meet Associate Professor Niklas Chimirri, who in this CSS Lunch Series talks about: Developing democracy by carefully commoning more-than-human vulnerability.

Are you considering a master's degree at Roskilde University? Visit us at our open house event and to learn more about our master's programmes.