Past talks in Copenhagen

Kan en mæslingevaccine beskytte dig mod lungebetændelser? Kan en tuberkulosevaccine beskytte dig mod blodforgiftning? Var koppevaccinen det bedste middel mod AIDS, som menneskeheden endnu har haft? Og er effekterne forskellige for mænd og kvinder? Chritine Stabell Benn vil argumentere for, at svaret på alle disse spørgsmål er ja. Hendes gruppes forskning i vacciner i verdens fattigste lande har givet indsigt i vaccinernes mangesidede virkninger.

Biologien søger at finde de endnu ukendte naturlove for, hvad der bestemmer fordelingen af liv på Jorden. Med anvendelse af enorme databaser over arters udbredelser og de nyeste DNA-teknikker kommer forskerne stadig tættere på svaret. Evolutionære processer og variation i historisk klima spiller en større rolle end antaget, hvor fokus primært har været på det nutidige klima. Forskningen er nødvendig for håndtering af den globale biodiversitetskrise, herunder klimaforandringer.

Den menneskelige krop består af ca. 37 billioner celler, der kommunikerer med hinanden via udskillelse af signalstoffer fra én celle, som opfanges af signalmodtagere på andre celler. Denne kommunikation er essentiel for mange biologiske processer, og fejl i kommunikationen giver ophav til en lang række sygdomme. Det er dermed ikke overraskende, at mange lægemidler virker ved at genoprette fejlkommunikationen. Signalstofferne binder til signalmodtagerne på celleoverfladen og igangsætter dermed signalering inde i cellerne. Denne interaktion er meget specifik og sammenlignes ofte med en nøgle, der skal passe i en lås. Nye metoder gør det muligt at forstå disse interaktioner helt ned på atomart niveau, som kan udnyttes til at identificere nye signalstoffer og udvikle nye potentielle lægemiddelstoffer.

Det er et udbredt synspunkt, at indvandring udgør en trussel mod den sociale sammenhængskraft. Tanken er, at social sammenhængskraft forudsætter en fælles identitet, og at indvandringen udfordrer denne identitet. Vi er med andre ord mere tilbøjelige til at have tillid til dem, der ligner os selv, og solidaritet forudsætter ligeledes et værdifællesskab. I foredraget vil jeg undersøge dette synspunkt nærmere. Er det rigtigt, at det at være fælles om en identitet er befordrende for den sociale sammenhængskraft? Og hvad er det i givet fald for en identitet, vi skal være fælles om? Det har nationalister, liberale og multikulturalister forskellige bud på. Hvad er op og ned i debatten, og hvilke argumenter er der for de forskellige synspunkter?

Ludvig Holberg er en hovedskikkelse i 1700-tallets dansk-norske litteratur. I dag er han mest kendt for sine komedier – og af de mere end 30 komedier, han skrev, er det kun en håndfuld, der jævnlig opføres og stadig læses. Men Holberg skrev meget andet – moralfilosofiske essays, historiske værker, en underfundig selvbiografi, den samfundssatiriske roman om Niels Klims underjordiske rejse og mere til. Overalt fremstår han som en munter samfundskritiker med et skarpt blik for hykleri og opblæsthed. Hele dette mangfoldige forfatterskab bliver nu tilgængeligt i en ny udgave på internettet. Foredraget vil demonstrere de muligheder, den digitale udgave giver for at gå på opdagelse i Holbergs tekster – og for dermed at stifte bekendtskab med centrale temaer i den europæiske oplysningstid.

In this presentation, Shelley I. Salamensky discusses what she terms "Jewface" minstrelsy performance and "Jewfaçade" display in three contemporary contexts with highly divergent historical backgrounds: East-Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Jewish Autonomous Republic, a colony established by Stalin in far eastern Russia near China and still extant today. Jewface encompasses music, dance, theater, and extra-theatrical modes of performance, in which non-Jews dress up and act like "Jews," as historically imagined; Jewfaçade encompasses museum-type installations, as well as architectural and decorative constructions, depicting imagined "Jewish" life. These "Diaspora Disneys" vary from the education- and tolerance-oriented to the crassly exploitative and commercial to the bizarrely confused. None have much to do with actual Jews, but all convey a tremendous amount regarding dominant "host" cultures" anxieties over not only their roles in past persecution and genocide but also their own present cultures, politics, and positions in the wider world today. Further, they present a wide array of models of memoriological projection and desire, in what Salamensky explicates as spectra of "plethoric" to "voidic" memoriological scenarios and "negotiatory" to "constitutory" memoriological strategies.

Efter Japans åbning i 1853 kom der snart en strøm af japansk kunst og kunsthåndværk til Vesten. Snart påvirkede det danske kunstnere med nye motiver. Den danske japanisme gennemløb forskellige, til dels kronologiske, faser. I den første fra 1885 til ca. 1900 er det især de mange japanske naturmotiver såsom vilde planter og dyr, havet og vejret, der inspirerer danske kunstnere til at finde paralleller i Danmarks natur. I perioden frem til 1940, men fortsættende op til vor tid, er det stoffet, glasuren, strukturen, der er i fokus; man søger ægtheden i stedet for det illuderende. En ny fase træder til efterhånden som danske kunstnere og designere rejser til Japan og på værksteder lærer de traditionelle processer at kende. Teknik, fremstillingsproces og ofte materialer inkorporeres i det danske formsprog. I dag har fascinationen af det japanske bredt sig til nye områder som havekultur, manga og ikke mindst moden med forskellige facetter.

The lecture will to provide an introduction to monetary policy implementation and the challenges posed by the financial crisis. Monetary policy implementation is normally about setting a short term interest rate. This apparently simple task is complicated by additional objectives, e.g. in relation to the structure of the money market, as well as the necessity to decide on a number of parameters, such as collateral, timing, counterparties and quantitative restrictions on the supply of liquidity. The apparent attempt to both control quantities and prices (rates) is one of the more mind bugling aspects of monetary policy implementation. The financial crisis has demanded great flexibility in relation to the setting of parameters, and one of the consequences has been that the distinction between monetary policy lending and the lender of last resort role of central banks in the spirit of Bagehot has become blurred. Central banks have also moved beyond setting a short term rate as financial markets became disconnected.

Postdoctoral Researcher Minna Valjakka has done extensive research on urban art in East Asia, and in this lecture, she will explore the great variety in innovative approaches to reshaping the city in Hong Kong.

Assistant Professor Lena Maria Scheen has explored the cultural, social and mental impact of urbanization in China, focusing on cultural production in Shanghai. For this lecture, she will discuss artistic responses in critique of urban renewal.

Many international companies are still struggling to gain a foothold on the Chinese market. "Public affairs" and "government relations" are often referred to as a means to overcome challenges in relation to a fast changing regulatory environment, market access, public bidding etc. however knowledge about how PA and GR processes play out are scarce. On 17 August, Peter Yan will provide a rare and personal insight into his experiences with PA/GR and qualify them in the context of "doing business in China". Yan will link PA/GR to the business context and discuss PA/GR practices and give examples of advocacy in practice.

The Industrial Internet is the Internet of BIG Things: windmills, oil-rigs, medical equipment, jet engines. These machines are starting to "talk". As designers, it's our job to help others understand what they're saying. If we do our job right, we have an unprecedented, global opportunity to improve healthcare, increase transportation and energy efficiency, and eliminate waste across every major industry. At GE, this opportunity is too complex for any one person or group to address. That's why they are taking a very hands-on and collaborative approach to designing the Industrial Internet. Co-creation is a big part of how GE works. In this talk, Katrine will explore the challenges inherent in designing for the Industrial Internet, and ways that GE use co-creation processes to pioneer design in this new frontier.

Let G be a graph and let P be a set of node pairs. The Pairwise Spanner question asks: what is the sparsest subgraph of G that approximately preserves all pairwise distances in P? The special case P = V x V is simply called the Spanner question, and it is a very well known problem in graph theory. When distances are to be preserved up to an additive error function, our understanding of what is possible in either of these problems seems to be quite poor. Meanwhile, the Pairwise Distance Preserver problem makes the restriction k=0; i.e. pairwise distances must be preserved exactly. Our understanding of this problem is much better. We will discuss some new upper bounds, and explain some plausible conjectures about what the true bounds might be. We will then discuss a new line of work that improves our understanding of spanners by reducing them to distance preservers. In particular, we will overview a reduction from distance preserver upper bounds to spanner upper bounds, and a separate reduction from distance preserver lower bounds to spanner lower bounds. Finally, we will mention some promising open problems whose resolution would imply further ties between these fields.

Fluorescence spectroscopy, and in particular voltage-clamp fluorometry, i.e. the simultaneous measurement of structural rearrangements via fluorescence and function via electrophysiology, has proven very powerful to probe the molecular mechanisms underlying ion channel functioning. Using Lanthanide-based resonance energy transfer (LRET), we determined distances in the closed state of Kv channels that allowed us to suggest a closed state model for voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels. However, these results are restricted to static structures. We used voltage-clamp fluorometry (VCF) to study the dynamics of conformational changes in Kv channels. While these were previously restricted to sites externally accessible, our introduction of fluorescent unnatural amino acids (fUAAs) to VCF, allows to probe any position in the protein even cytosolic or buried ones. We also used single-molecule voltage-clamp fluorescence imaging to study the oligomerization of single KcsA channels while simultaneously measuring channel activity. Finally, we developed an automated algorithm to analyze single subunit counting data obtained from photobleaching tagged proteins expressed in mammalian cells.

China has long adhered to a principle of "non-interference" in other states' affairs. However, as more of its companies have been investing in projects overseas, and millions of its nationals are travelling abroad, Beijing is finding itself progressively involved in other countries – through the need to protect these interests and citizens. During the turmoil of the Arab Spring in 2011, China was compelled to evacuate more than 35,000 Chinese workers and expatriates from Libya, and later it led the hunt for the killers of 13 Chinese sailors in the Golden Triangle region of the Mekong River. In 2015, Beijing sent a combat battalion to join the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where it has huge oil ventures. Its plans to construct a New Silk Road will generate new commercial interests in Pakistan that require protection. The shift in Chinese foreign policy towards a more interventionist approach abroad has not been the result of grand strategy, but an adjustment to unfolding events. The risk appetite of state-owned Chinese business is inexorably drawing the Chinese state into security hotspots, while citizens of the rising power demand that their government protects compatriots caught in crises overseas, including via military means.

In this talk, I will describe our recent efforts in developing supervised learning techniques for video summarization. Concretely, I will discuss how to formulate video summarization as a subset selection problem and to describe the subset selection with a probabilistic model known as determinantal point processes (DPPs). I will demonstrate the empirical success of this approach and its superiority over many other competing methods.

We live in a world where we expect the applications and services we use every day to not only help us do what we want to do, but encourage us to help reach our goals in ways that will make us healthier, wealthier, and happier. In this talk, David Sherwin will explore a growing trend in the interactive space, where product designers are using techniques drawn from the social sciences to support and shape the choices their users make. With the tools provided in this talk, you can create your first draft of a product intended for positive behavior change, as well as understand the challenges of testing your design solutions in a responsible manner.

We consider the problem of devising an approach for handling inequality constraints in evolution strategies that allows converging linearly to optimal solutions on sphere functions with a single linear constraint. An analysis of the single-step behaviour of the (1+1)-ES shows that the task of balancing improvements in the objective with those in the constraint function is quite delicate, and that adaptive approaches need to be carefully designed in order to avoid failure. Based on the understanding gained, we propose a simple augmented Lagrangian approach and experimentally demonstrate good performance on a broad range of sphere functions as well as on moderately ill-conditioned ellipsoids with a single linear constraint.

Numerical algorithms for image generation have myriad applications, be it for entertainment, such as for Hollywood movies and computer games, for augmented and virtual reality, or for austere ends, such as in computer aided design and architecture. In this talk, I will present our recent work allowing, for the first time, the generation of images with a minimal number of samples while facilitating bounds on the error in the computed image. I will also discuss why the development of such an optimal technique requires a thorough understanding of the physics and mathematics of image formation and its manifestation in an image. Some other applications of my research combining insights from mathematics, physics and computer science for questions in computer graphics and beyond will also be presented.

The role of new media in communication exchange and the culture of diasporas cannot be underestimated, from themultifarious daily contacts between people across the world, to large scale transfer of remittance. The meeting will discuss the perspectives of involving new media and diasporas in development processes in the global South focusing on knowledge-transfer and build up of expertise and practices based on new media for development ­what the UN has framed ICT4D.

The applied philosophy literature is full of insights about practical problems, but in a new survey of the literature there are essentially no accounts of how a philosopher is supposed to ensure that these insights have an impact. It's a bias rooted in the discipline: one has exhausted one's intellectual task and professional obligation when one deposits a peer-reviewed publication in a reservoir of knowledge. Absent is any reflection about how to actually get involved with the stakeholders in particular policy processes, how to effectively interject insights into conversations, or how to track the impacts of one's efforts. In this seminar, Professor Frodeman will present the major findings of his research in the subject and discuss their implications for the philosophy discipline.

In this talk and demo, Todd will explore an alternative workflow for designing and prototyping mobile apps. Why are static tools like Sketch or Photoshop (even with artboards) used to design, layout, and think through interactive animated experiences? Does this not create a waterfall between visual design tools and interaction design tools where the static assets are ported? Avoiding context switching and stop disrupting your prototyping flow. Try designing and sketching interaction flows and animation using prototype level assets – all within the same tool context. Todd will demo a live prototype in 30ish minutes linking initial paper sketches into flows, adding scrolling and transitions, then progressively enhacing with high enough fidelity assets along with refined interactive animation – all within Proto.io.

Danish & international speakers talk about the most exciting trends in public communication of science.

Based on research in sociolinguistics and language psychology, a particular strand of computational stylometry called author profiling has become prominent in computational linguistics and social media research. The aim of author profiling is to determine demographic (age, gender, region, education level) and psychological (personality, mental health) properties of the authors of a text, especially authors of user-generated content in social media. I will describe research in this area at CLiPS and go into some bottlenecks and potential solutions. Some problems I will discuss are (i) the fact that the same predictive features are involved in different profile dimensions, for example, gender and personality prediction interact, which influences predictability negatively, and (ii) trained classifiers often turn out not to be robust for authors deliberately trying to hide their identity. When reliable, author profiling may be a useful technique in commercial applications (for example demographic marketing), but also in societally relevant applications such as the security of young people in social media. I will describe how we apply author profiling in the AMiCA project, a four year multi-partner project focusing on automatic detection of cyberbullying, sexually transgressive behaviour, and suicide announcements by children and adolescents in social media.

Special Projects is a design and invention studio based in London, founded by Clara and Adrian Westaway – who formerly ran Vitamins. In this talk, Clara and Adrian will talk about how the studio tackled three projects which completely transformed ordinary objects: a user manual, a blood pressure monitor and a calendar. They will describe the briefs given to them, and the explain design process they used to research and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary by fusing the physical and digital worlds.

Do the humanities and the natural sciences understand each other? How can the "two cultures" thesis be destabilized? And how can we promote a new culture of mutual "call-out-and-in"? According to the "two cultures" thesis, the natural sciences and the humanities have, in the course of the 20th century, grown apart into fields of knowledge that do not understand each other anymore. In this lecture, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger destabilizes the contours of this black-and-white thinking and presents the history of disciplines as dramatically ever-changing formations.

Motivated by the problem of stateless web tracking (fingerprinting), I will review analysis techniques for detecting illicit flow of information in web applications. I will then present a novel approach to hybrid information flow monitoring that mixes static and dynamic analysis. The approach is based on a generic hybrid monitor parametrised by a static analysis. Several hybrid monitors including those based on well-known hybrid techniques for information flow control can be formalised as instances of this generic hybrid monitor. I will then briefly discuss techniques for enforcing information flow policies based on browser randomization.

Diderot is a domain-specific language (DSL) for programming advanced 3D image visualization and analysis algorithms. These algorithms, such as volume rendering, fiber tractography, and particle systems, are naturally defined as computations over continuous tensor fields that are reconstructed from the discrete image data. Diderot combines a high-level mathematical programming notation based on tensor calculus with an abstract bulk-synchronous parallelism model. Diderot is designed to both enable rapid prototyping of new image analysis algorithms and high performance on a range of parallel platforms. In this talk, I will give an overview of the design of Diderot and examples of its use. I will then describe aspects of its implementation.

Blockchain technologies (Bitcoin in particular) hold the promise of becoming the de facto cash of the Internet introducing a so far unprecedented degree of financial openness. Michael Gronager and Stephan Tual explore the market analytics to be gained from augmenting the blockchain data with the real world, and argue that this offers a good tradeoff between privacy and financial openness, making Bitcoin a near ideal platform for not only online financial transactions but also an enabling technology for the Internet of Things.

Although we are all familiar with the damage anger can do in both personal and public life, people tend to think that it is necessary for the pursuit of justice. People who don't get angry when they are wronged seem weird to many people, lacking spine and self-respect. And isn't it servile not to react with anger to great injustice, whether toward oneself or toward others? On the other hand, recent years have seen three noble and successful freedom movements conducted in a spirit of non-anger: those of Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela—surely people who stood up for their self-respect and that of others, and who did not acquiesce in injustice. My lecture argues that a close philosophical analysis of the emotion of anger can help us to see why it is fatally flawed from a normative viewpoint—sometimes incoherent and sometimes based on bad values. In either case it is of dubious value in both life and the law. I'll present my general view, and then show its relevance to thinking well about about transitional justice.

Når man taler om "håndtering af kulturarv" er det langt fra tydeligt, hvad der er restaurering, bevaring og genbrug. Restaurering og bevaring har traditionelt haft blikket rettet bagud, mens genbrug ser fremad. Men så simpelt er det ikke. Når vi forholder os til, hvad der skal med ind i fremtiden og på hvilken måde, arbejder vi med forholdet mellem fortid, nutid og fremtid. Oplægget stiller skarpt på, hvordan nutiden spiller sammen med værdier tillagt fortidens efterladenskaber og vores forhåbninger til fremtiden og giver desuden eksempler på, hvordan disse tidskoncepter kommer til udtryk i de konkrete tiltag, i designet.

Man kan opmærke (eller annotere) tekster og andre samlinger af data. Det betyder, at man tilføjer oplysninger, som er relevante til et bestemt formål. Denne workshop drejer sig om manuel eller kvalitativ opmærkning, hvor brugeren selv indsætter deres oplysninger. Der findes en række forskellige værktøjer til dette formål, og man kan selvfølgelig også helt undlade at bruge værktøjer. Formålet med workshoppen er at udveksle erfaringer med hensyn til brug af forskellige metoder til opmærkning af tekster og andet. Formålet er også at se om der er mulighed for samarbejde.

In this talk, Natalie Nixon builds on her work on creativity and service design from a jazz improvisational lens, to sharing her ideas on building out a heuristic from dance choreography to inform organizational design and leadership.

Renowned for his coverage of China's elite politics and leadership transitions, veteran Sinologist Willy Lam has produced the first book-length study in English of the rise of Xi Jinping - General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since November 2012. With rare insight, Lam describes Xi's personal history and his fascination with quasi-Maoist values, the factional politics through which he ascended, the configuration of power of the Fifth-Generation leadership, and the country's likely future directions under the charismatic "princeling".

Ulrik Hogrebe, Creative Director for BBC News talks about how his team designs for 130 million weekly users in 28 languages – and why he secretly thinks everything will be OK.

China and the U.S. have entered into a new structure with regards to leadership in the region. The rising power (China) plays a leadership role in the economic and financial dimensions (which can be seen in the most recent development of the China-led AIIB), while the existing hegemon (U.S.) plays a leadership role in the military, security, and political dimensions. China has not moved into a position where it can challenge US leadership. Rather, China is merely starting to become more influential in the economic dimension. While this trend may eventually enhance Beijing"s power in the military and political dimensions, the transition from economic to political influence will occur over a long period of time and is difficult to measure. This dual-leadership has proven positive so far, with benefits for both the US and China. However, it remains to be seen whether the two powers can coordinate well with other powers in the region, such as Japan. Looking forward, there are at least two important questions which relate to the reactions of key players to the dual leadership structure. Will the US accept a dual leadership structure in East Asia? And how will other key players - Japan, Russia, and the two Koreas - react?

In her talk, Pernille Bjorn will introduce future directions for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). First she will unpack the interdisciplinary nature of CSCW research and introduce a new move towards Sociomaterial-Design. Sociomaterial-Design is an approach bringing together a dedicated interest in the socialmaterial matters of artefacts within collaborative work and the ways in which to include sociomaterial considerations in the design of digital artefacts. Throughout her talk, she will include results from collaborative healthcare practices as well as put forward some of her newest ongoing work exploring the political considerations in global software development and in tech start-up companies located in the conflicted region Israel/Palestine. Finally, she will introduce a new emergent area for CSCW research; namely collaborative innovation within Makerspaces, and explain why understanding Maker communities is an important topic for the future directions for CSCW research.

Drawing on ethnographic research in Delhi and Kolka ta on educational campaigns concerning blood donation and transfusion, this paper explores how voluntary blood donor organisations seek to educate schoolchildren and others about the quantities of blood that can be safely donated. The key point they seek to convey is that the body produces more blood than it needs, and that this portion of excess blood can thus be given without the body losing anything. This is an insight at odds with conventional understan dings of blood donation in the region as involving non-recuperable loss, an understanding that informs perceptions of blood donation as a sacrificial gesture. Drawing on Bataille's notion of "excess" energy in The Accursed Share (1991), the paper shows how for such campaigners the body comes to be perceived as made for giving – the body contains a philanthropic share of blood. The paper also examines attempts to foster "rational usage" of blood by doctors; i.e. to deter over-prescription of donated blood. "Ration al usage" itself attains a kind of philanthropic status because it conserves this previous substance for others who need it. Doctors in India are frequently accused of over-prescribing blood as if it were a kind of tonic in abundant supply. Challenging any easy distinction between the technical sphere and the emotional sphere, what campaigners seek is cautious usage of the substance as a tribute to the sentiments that gave rise to the gift. As one campaigner puts it: "People are not donating a commodity but their love so we must respect this and use it properly".

I explore the social, cultural, and political connotations held by "defective" infant bodies in contemporary Vietnam. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research on the use of ultrasound scanning for prenatal screening, I investigate the personal and familial crises that arise when a child is born anomalous, discussing why most couples opt immediately for an abortion if an ultrasound scan detects a fetal anomaly. Infant "defectiveness", I show, compromises personhood in significant ways. Selective reproduction - in this case the use of prenatal screening in combination with induced abortion – is therefore seen by both population policy–makers and prospective parents as a necessary element in parents' struggles for personhood; their own and their children's. This approach to prenatal screening must, I argue, be seen in a particular historical context, namely in light of U.S. spraying of the highly toxic herbicide dioxin "Agent Orange" over Vietnam during the Second Indochina War.

We present an approach for compiling a rich subset of APL into dataparallel programs that can be executed on GPUs. The compiler is based on the APLTAIL compiler, which compiles APL programs into a typed array intermediate language, called TAIL. We translate TAIL programs into Haskell source code, employing Accelerate, a Haskell-library for general purpose GPU-programming. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach by presenting some encouraging results for a number of smaller benchmarks. We also outline some problems that we need to overcome in order for the approach to result in competitive code for larger benchmarks.

In the past decade or so, sperm banking has come to be a fully routinized component of China's extensive and restrictive reproductive complex. The largest sperm banks screen some 3,000 potential donors every year, not least because of a state-mandated restriction of five offspring per donor. In this paper, I use the the process of sperm donation in China as a way to think about reproductive bodies in China today. By examining how potential donors are recruited on university campuses and then screened at the sperm bank, I will argue that sperm banks have emerged as sanctuaries of vitality as Chinese male bodies are seen to be under threat from an onslaught of pollution, occupational hazards, modern lifestyles and electronic radiation. By assuring the quality of the sperm they provide infertile couples, Chinese sperm banks also contribute to national goals of improving population quality. The very vitality of the nation is at stake in the ongoing scaling up of reproductive technologies in urban China.

Daguerreotypi, røntgenfoto, polaroid, digitale smart phone photos: giver det overhovedet mening at anvende samlebetegnelsen fotografi? Bryllupsfotos, familiealbum, reportagebilleder, selfies, snapshots, avantgardekunst: kan man forske i og studere så forskelligartede billeder på én gang?

Since 2011, the research group "Body and Person" has investigated how bodies, body parts and tissue are exchanged, perceived and governed in Denmark. Based on ethnographic studies of the policy landscape and the practices of blood donation, anatomical dissection, organ transplantation, and sperm donation, and based on a recent collaborative public survey on organ donation attitudes in Denmark, the research ers will present their results and discuss the wondrous relationship between body and person in contemporary Danish biomedicine. Among others, the lecture will address notions of dignity and usability, the professional challenges and ethical dilemmas in handling bodily exchanges, donor and recipient experiences, the negotiations of public legitimacy, and the social meaning of bodies and body parts.

Mille Bureau er uddannet guitarist i solistklassen ved det Kongelige Danske musikkonservatorium med debut koncert i 2004 og er aktiv solist og kammermusiker. Mille har boet 15 år i Spanien og har specialiseret sig i den spanske musik og kultur, blandt andet ved universitet i Granada. Resultatet af disse studier kommer nu til udtryk gennem en serie "koncert-fordrag" omkring indflydelsen fra populære elementer og flamenco i den spanske klassiske national musik. Foredraget med powerpoint er meget visuelt. Det omhandler oprindelsen af flamenco, sigøjnerkulturen, Al Andalus, de romantiske rejsende i Andalusien, samt hver nationalkomponists "flirten" med flamenco kulturen i Deres liv og kompositioner. Derefter kan publikum sætte billeder til musikken.

Seriemedicin er en subgenre af dokumentariske og selvbiografiske tegneserier, der især beskæftiger sig med personlige erfaringer inden for sundhedsvæsenet. Erfaringer man får som enten sundhedsfaglig, patient eller pårørende. I den angelsaksiske verden er denne form for "graphic medicine" på vej frem, men Norden er begyndt at gå med på bølgen. Hør den nordiske version præsenteret af tegneserietegner og kurator Allan Haverholm, og få sat fænomenet i kontekst af ph.d. Rikke Cortsen.

"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence." This much cited axiom from Wittgenstein's Tractatus is "radically ambiguous", writes W.J.T. Mitchell in Cloning Terror, where he distinguishes between the inability to speak and the refusal to speak in outlining what he describes as "a double prohibition." In this lecture Øyvind Vågnes will argue that the figures of the unspeakable and the unimaginable holds a significant place in non-fiction comics, and particularly so in the narrativization of trauma.

Bigger Picture lærer organisationer at bruge simple streger til at skabe mening, håndtere kompleksitet og igangsætte vigtige dialoger. Dette oplæg viser konkrete eksempler og inviterer til fælles refleksion og illustration. Få svar på, hvorfor det kan være værd at tegne som voksen, hvad det er ved tegneprocessen, som bringer værdi, hvad blyant, papir og nysgerrighed har med ledelse at gøre, og ikke mindst; hvilken rolle kunne tegneserietegnere også have i organisationer?

Yoshimotos Kôjis manga Santetsu skildrer historien om en lokale jernbane i det nordøstlige Japan, der blev ødelagt under jordskælvet og tsunamien i marts 2011. Den er dokumentarisk på flere planer: både i fortællingen om mangakunstnerens egen rejse til og rundt i det katastroferamte område, og i de øjenvidneberetninger fra andre, som han gengiver i sin manga. Hør om forskellen på fotografi og tegning i formidling af katastrofesituationer, når Gunhild Borggren undersøger den affekt tegning som performance og index kan frembringe.

Halfdan Pisket er uddannet på Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi og har skrevet og tegnet en række undergrundstegneserier og samtalebilledbogen Vinter, men mest kendt er han for første og anden del af den triologi, der handler om Piskets fars liv som flygtning og dansk indvandrer, hhv. Desertør og Kakerlak. Hør hvordan Pisket arbejder med autencitet og repræsentation i sine tegneserier—et arbejde der har gjort ham til en af de første tegneserieskabere, som har modtaget Statens Kunstfonds treårige arbejdslegat.

The rise of China is perhaps the most compelling story in 21st century world politics. Much has been written on the subject, some of it reasoned and sensible and some of it speculation and hyperbole. China's rise is likely to continue but is not assured. What kind of power—hard and soft—does China have and how effectively is China employing its power around the globe?

Part of a lecture pair, "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on We-Intentionality".

Part of a lecture pair, "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on We-Intentionality".

One of the key achievements of Science and Technology Studies in the past two decades has been its ability to embed issues of standardisation and measurement in social sciences' debates and problematic. Nowhere is this more so than in the social studies of medicine, where a growing body of research attends to the question of how knowledge making, measurement and standardisation shape health care practices and institutions. In this lecture, I outline how different theoretical approaches contributed to the emergence of a focus that emphasises contingency, difference, multiplicity, and fluidity in understanding the role of standards and measurements in health care. Drawing on the case of self-rated health, a widely used measure of health in clinical, audit and research settings, I argue that attention to those generative processes enables the exploration of the complex sociotechnical dynamic of standards. I chart the trajectory of self-rated health from its inception within 1950s medical sociology, to its establishment as a "technology of patient experience" at the turn of the 1990s, to contemporary controversies around its power as a predictor of mortality. I suggest that the way in which we tell the story of measurements such as self-rated health matters to the politics of standards and to how we might further deploy STS in contemporary health care.

As microelectronics technology nears the end of exponential growth over time, known as Moore’s law, there is a renewed interest in new computing paradigms. I will discuss recent research at UCSB on superconducting quantum bits, as well as our recent start at Google to build a useful quantum computer to solve machine learning problems. Two qubit experiments will be highlighted, one to simulate a chemical reaction that finds a cross section, and a second to extend the lifetime of a qubit state using quantum error correction.

Vaavud's mission is to provide high-resolution, personalised weather information. The company was formed in the beginning of 2013 and has launched two different smartphone connected wind meters on Kickstarter. This lecture will cover the journey Vaavud has been on so far, and talk about some of the challenges they have faced along the way.

All eyes are turned towards genomic data and models as the source of knowledge about whether human races exist or not. Will genomic science make the final determination about how our species is carved into races, or not so carved? Will genetics permit us to trace the lines of ancestry of particular individuals, and does membership in one or more races or ethnicities predict which kinds of psychological properties (e.g., IQ) or physiological diseases or ailments (e.g., cancer) individuals will develop over the course of their lifetime? Genomic data show that our species is somewhere in between two conceptual opposites: a completely randomly intermixed species, and a species sub-divided into distinct varieties or even sub-species.

KADK and CODE invites all who are interested in how design and especially codesign processes can contribute to social innovation. In the seminar researchers from Portugal, Belgium and Denmark will tell about both different codesign approaches and outcomes from projects engaging people suffering from dementia. The three presentations will be followed by a plenary discussion. The aim is together with the audience to share experiences, reflect upon challenges and point to future directions in designing with people living with various cognitive and/or sensory impairments.

Helene Castenbrandt studies morbidity by looking at sickness claims from two Swedish sickness funds during the period 1892-1954. She focuses on individual sickness experiences during working life. Material from the sickness funds include membership data and information about the sickness benefits applied for by each member. All together data from approximately 3.000 male and female members have been collected. In this presentation Helene Castenbrandt will present some general information on the material and preliminary findings on sickness claims looking at age and gender differences as well as changes over time.

The United States is in the midst of payment reforms perhaps best exemplified by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). We will discuss two central aspects of the ACA: 1) expansion of health insurance coverage; 2) payment innovations that attempt to induce care delivery structural changes, e.g., Accountable Care Organizations.

Estimating set similarity is central to many internet search applications, for example to determine whether two web documents are fully or partly identical. We present a hashing-based search technique using odd sketches. Odd sketches are a simple and efficient estimator of the so-called Jaccard similarity between two sets. The Jaccard similarity is the ratio between the number of elements in the intersection vs. the union of the two sets. The talk presents a theoretical analysis of the quality of the odd sketch estimation.

Filosofi og videnskab begyndte med den græske tænker Thales. D. 28 maj er det præcis 2600 år siden, at en solformørkelse indtraf, som satte processen igang. Det siges, at Thales forudsagde denne solformørkelse, og derfra begyndte indbyggerne i det gamle Grækenland at lytte til hans revolutionerende nye tanker baseret på fornuft og observationer fremfor mytologi. Hør de inspirerende og tankevækkende fortællinger om den spændende og sjove karaktér, Thales fra Milet. Grubleren der faldt i en brønd, da han gik, og kiggede stjerner, og hvis tanker lagde grundlaget for den moderne civilisation.

This role of the Product Designer (also often called "UX designer") is increasingly crucial to the success or failure of software products. In the past few years there has been a rise of design-driven startups such as Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox, as well of a renewed focus on design at large companies like Google and Intuit. So, what does it mean to be a product designer at a software company? What is specific to designing a digital product, rather than a website, and working in-house, rather than at an agency? During this talk, Wouter Walmink and Jenny Shirey will answer these questions based on first-hand experiences working as designers at a range of companies, from small startups to large global corporations. They will talk about the practical details such as tasks, processes, and environments at these companies. They will also share personal stories about the positives, the negatives, and the biggest misconceptions about in-house product design.

The torsion of thin metal wires is one of the few paradigmatic examples of the small-scale plasticity behaviour involving the "smaller being stronger" size effect, as firstly shown by the experimental results of Fleck, Muller, Ashby, and Hutchinson (1994), who observed, with diminishing specimen size, both an increase in strain hardening and a conspicuous strengthening. We model this problem (Bardella and Panteghini, 2015) by the phenomenological gradient plasticity (GP) theory of Gurtin (2004), which accounts for the dissipation due to the plastic spin and its energetic counterpart included in the defect energy, a function of Nye's dislocation density tensor α. To distinguish this phenomenological GP theory from the more common strain gradient plasticity (SGP) theories, overlooking the contribution of the plastic spin, we call the former distortion gradient plasticity (DGP). We consider both energetic and dissipative higher-order stresses, with related "energetic" and "dissipative" material length scales.

Futhark is a data-parallel programming language under development at HIPERFIT. It supports nested dara-parallelism and has an optimising compiler under development, which places particular emphasis on providing a rich internal representation permitting the expression of important optimisations in memory management, loop distribution, fusion, etc. This presentation will give a status report of the current Futhark implementation, with emphasis on memory management, OpenCL code generation, and other technical issues.

Interactions characterise our lives. From the moment we wake up we interact with the objects around us and increasingly so, with the digital world. Only some of those interactions feel meaningful and resemble the human dimension we often long for. We are often delighted by those interactions that elicit an emotional reaction and communicate with us in a human way. How do we design the physical and digital entities around us speak in a more human way?

By 2030, over a billion people will live in China's cities, requiring construction on a scale never before seen. This gives China a unique opportunity to create and develop its cities in a way that supports economic growth, preserves the environment, delivers the highest possible quality of life for its citizens, and results in a stream of valuable new technologies. These developments will not just affect China but will also have profound implications for the rest of the 21st century world. The question is not only how big, but how tall can China's cities get. China's urbanization is already well-advanced with over 600 million people living in 800 cities spread across the country in a relatively dispersed pattern. Looking forward, a tidal wave of urban migration on the order of 15 to 20 million long-term residents a year will continue to surge into Chinese cities as a result of increasing perceptions of urban opportunity, as well as the slow and steady move towards larger-scale, more capital-intensive farming. At this rate, China will continue to build out its cities over the next 20 years and the country as a whole will achieve a 70% urbanization rate by 2030. China could continue to add an annual 1,500-plus buildings that are more than 30 floors tall, equivalent to a new Chicago every year, resulting in more than 950 cities by 2030.

Every year foodborne diseases cause millions of people around the world to fall ill from the food they eat. At the same time, the global food trade – where goods cross borders and continents faster than ever before – has made it harder to find the source of foodborne disease outbreaks. Until recently, conventional culture methods have been the most widely used microbiological method to trace the source of an outbreak. The problems with method are that it is both expensive and time consuming, and the analytical work can only be carried out in a laboratory. To address these issues the National Food Institute has been working for the last couple of years to develop a portable laboratory that brings together all the functions of an analytical laboratory in a chip. This chip can perform all the processes from sample preparation and detection of bacteria to the reporting of the results to a central database. Turnaround time for analysis will be short (1-2 hours), but the decisive breakthrough will be that the system will remove the need to transport samples to a central laboratory.

Enlargement has often been viewed in a negative fashion by those inside the EC/EU, seen as a time consuming and energy sapping process, liable to disrupt existing bargains and introduce unwelcome new challenges. The after-effects of enlargement have also been blamed for slowing down and complicating the operation of the Community/Union. But are such complaints really fair? And should it also be recognised that enlargement has actually been a source of dynamism, both in terms of what the newcomers have brought but also because of the effects that the prospect of enlargement has frequently had on internal discussions and debate?

Mød de erfarne vandreeksperter Merete Irgens og Steen Frimodt, forfattere til Turen går til Norge, og få gode input til at få det bedste ud af vandreture i Norges fænomenale natur. Vi skal bl.a. tale om "vandreklassikere", mærkede stier, betjente og ubetjente hytter på de norske fjelde samt natur og dyreliv.

Danish Design is today a national brand that is renowned for its rather high standards of craftsmanship especially seen in Danish furniture and kitchenware design. But also in design of products (Bang & Olufsen, Lego etc.) and in the design of e.g. public transportation, public spaces, architecture etc. it can it be recognized. This highly illustrated lecture will look into the social, economic and natural aspects and reasons that have led to the rise of Danish design, and the benefits and challenges it has applied to the Danish society and people.

40'erne og 50'ernes murede boligbebyggelser står i dag som synlige vidnesbyrd på opkomsten af den moderne danske forstad. Selv om perioden byder på ikoniske værker af Kay Fisker, Arne Jacobsen m.fl., er her ofte tale om bebyggelser, der ikke nødvendigvis er kendte eller tegnet af tidens kendte arkitekter. Fælles for dem er tydelige tidstypiske værdier, der gør byggerierne til noget særligt og gør dem sårbare over for mere tilfældig renovering og modernisering. Kom og få en gennemgang af publikationen HELHEDSRENOVERING AF 40'ERNE OG 50'ERNES MUREDE BOLIGBEBYGGELSER i forbindelse med kampagnen initieret af Realdania, Landsbyggefonden og Grundejernes Investeringsfond i tæt samarbejde med Kulturstyrelsen.

I sin levetid nåede Ingeborg Stuckenberg (1866-1904) at udgive et enkelt værk i eget navn: novellen Badegæster, der blev trykt som føljeton i Kjøbenhavns Børstidende i 1889-90. Hendes udkast til romanen Fagre Ord blev i 1895 udgivet under hendes mand, forfatteren Viggo Stuckenbergs, navn. I 1986 udkom posthumt Korte Breve fra en lang Rejse, der var nedskrevet omkring 1903. Ingeborg Stuckenberg var del af kredsen omkring Johannes Jørgensens tidsskrift Taarnet, men hun brød med mand og land og drog på en lang rejse til New Zealand, hvor hun fortvivlet endte sit eget liv.

Jeff Walls fotografiske værker er som nøje tilrettelagte scener, der rummer både dramatiske fortællinger om død, begær og undergang, underfundige referencer til maleri og litteratur og et væld af detaljer, som gør, at vi kan fortabe os, blive forført og forledt til at tro, at alt dette faktisk har fundet sted. Hans fotografier skelner ikke mellem teater og virkelighed, mellem det iscenesatte og det naturlige. Via dem ser vi verden som scene, livet som spil og kunsten som kunst—ligesom i barokken.

At the lecture Hans Iblings will discuss recent developments of the western cities in the neo-liberal economy through examples springing from Toronto with rise and sprawl of condominium towers, to Copenhagen and the instrumentalisation of public space.

Light Lectures is a series of four annual lectures, where experts within the field of light are invited to speak about their intentions and work experiences.

There is a general lack of language planning in African countries, where national language policies tend to involve the further consolidation of various mediums of instruction which were established by colonial administrations. Minimal resources tend to be invested in language in education, language empowerment and language documentation and description, even in the case of widely-spoken African languages such as Swahili, Zulu, Xhosa or Amharic. Most political leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa have preferred to maintain a status quo with colonial/metropolitan languages, with some exceptions such as Nigeria and Ethiopia which adopted a regional/state language model similar to that of India. As a result of a general lack of investment in multilingualism on the continent, vernacular and minority languages risk being subsumed by dominant African languages, such as Swahili in eastern Africa, which in turn are often overridden by metropolitan languages such as English. The threat of language "death", as a result, is constantly present.

How I finally learned how to understand what I learned in design school. What I've learned so far about the design industry and some thoughts on what it means to choose design as a career.

Ryan Reynolds was a lecturer in Performance Studies and part of an experimental theatre collective when a series of earthquakes struck his home town of Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010/2011. Around 15,000 homes were demolished, along with almost 70% of the central city's building stock; vast parts of the city were off-limits to the public for two years. Ryan joined forces with a visual artist & architect, & under the name Gap Filler they began to recreate and reimagine the social infrastructure of the city, creating temporary urban interventions on sites where buildings have been demolished. Four years on, the official top-down government rebuild is underway. Ryan will give an overview of his organisation's work, with a focus on the recent relationship between the unplanned community activities he's part of and the formal city plans.

Over the last four decades, information technology has begun to transform the electoral process. Computers are gradually replacing manual parts of the democratic process by, for example, tallying results in Excel spreadsheets, predicting exit polls, or by computing seat assignments to parties in parliament (since 1962 in Denmark). With every such transformation, the overall process becomes more efficient, informative, and economical. However, there is a risk of the process becoming less trustworthy. The deployed technology tends to be complex and therefore prone to programming error and vulnerable to malicious attacks. These problems have an adverse effect on the very foundations of democracy. Voters are less likely to trust the electoral process, which inevitably leads to lower voter participation and cynicism. Issues of cyber security and data privacy will be discussed by Alex Halderman, who has hacked the electronic voting system planned for Washington, and Carsten Schürmann, leader of the DemTech project.

This talk traces the speaker's body of work focused on information systems to foster collective creativity, defined as adhoc collectives with little past and future interaction possibilities being able to incorporate diverse perspectives to collaboratively and iteratively co-generate novel solutions to complex equivocal problems. The speaker's early work was on the design of a decision support system to foster involvement of diverse perspectives in a corporation's move toward flexible automation, then moved to the design of virtual teams and virtual team technology to foster innovative problem-solving. The widespread introduction of wikis allowed for inclusion of employees enterprise-wide to participate in collective creativity. Online communities and crowdsourcing allowed for inclusion of people from outside the organization to participate in collective creativity. A series of insights from these bodies of research are shared. Most disappointing though is that collective creativity is rarely accomplished for the many reasons - from not-invented-here to the extent to which collective creativity represents a threat to management hierarchy.

Tim Rudbøg vil præsentere og diskutere de farverige grupper, personer og idéer, der siden antikken har været relateret til det, der i dag omtales som "Vestens esoteriske traditioner" (såsom hermeticisme, okkultisme, magi, gnosis, mystik, teosofi, Kabbalah, hemmelige selskaber, m.m.) og vil dernæst gennemgå de væsentlige teoridannelser, der knytter sig til forskningsområdet. Eller sagt med andre ord: diskutere spørgsmålet om, hvordan man kan forstå alle disse strømninger og idéer, der fortsat er med til at forme europæisk kultur og tænkning.

Hedge fund activism is a topic of increasing importance among scholars and policy-makers. In the post-financial crisis time period, hedge fund activist interventions at target companies have generated extensive discussion and policy debate, but activism in this time period has not yet been studied in a systematic way. This paper examines recent hedge fund activism using a hand-collected data set regarding 1,262 interventions by hedge fund activists from 2008 through 2014. We find that hedge fund activism continues to generate positive announcement–period abnormal stock returns, and that these returns vary significantly based on which hedge funds are involved. In particular, we find that hedge fund activists involved in the largest interventions in terms of aggregate market capitalization generate the largest abnormal returns, whereas hedge fund activists involved in more frequent, but smaller, interventions generate smaller returns. We create a new measure of hedge fund reputation based on these findings.

Det er rødt, hvidt, slimet og kan lugte. Menstruationsblod, brystmælk og sekreter har gennem århundreder været omgærdet af mystik og været genstand for forskellige fortolkninger i kulturen og lægevidenskaben. Væskerne er derfor ikke kun et fysiologisk fænomen, men et symbol, der bliver brugt i aktivistiske, politiske og kommercielle sammenhænge. Mandag d. 18. maj inviterer KVINFO til et gå-hjem-møde, hvor folk fra forskellige fagområder vil sætte fokus på de tabubelagte og omdiskuterede kropsvæsker. For hvorfor er den menstruerende kvinde blevet sygeliggjort? Hvad vil det sige at "free-bleede"? Hvorfor er der steder, man ikke må amme? Hvordan udfordrer den nuværende norske ammepolitik forestillingen om det ligestillede forældreskab? Og hvorfor er kvindelig ejakulation så provokerende, at Storbritannien har forbudt alt porno, hvor kvinder ejakulerer?

Kom til debat om faglig kamp og ligestilling i Informations kantine i anledning af bogudgivelsen Tjenestepigerne. Med udgangspunkt i tjenestepigernes kamp for bedre vilkår, diskuterer vi barsel, ligestilling og uddannelse.

For thousands of years ancient contemplative traditions have examined the nature of happiness. More recently, the fields of neuroscience and positive psychology have attempted to do the same. While these efforts have produced many theories of happiness, there are two apparently divergent approaches to how to achieve it. One that has emerged from psychology focuses on a "happiness of pursuit" by searching for pleasurable and meaningful experiences. Another, which comes from ancient contemplative traditions, views happiness as being quite separate from the search for pleasure. Instead, it sees it as a skill that can be trained through meditation. Morten Kringelbach will argue that a new understanding of how the brain generates pleasure could lead to better treatment of addiction and depression—and perhaps even to a new science of happiness.

Part of the seminar "Information and the Internet".

Part of a 2-lecture pair, "French Identity and Politics".

Written by one of the leading scholars of global politics, Globalization Revisited is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains the challenges to liberalism and the global order as result of globalizing forces - from financial interconnectedness to the growth of religious fundamentalisms. The text: provides a detailed analysis of the economic and financial aspects of globalization; examines the changes to global power and governance created by globalization including its effect on the sovereignty of the nation state; discusses recent trends such as the increased use of networks and social media; assesses the rise of globalizing fundamentalism; analyzes the challenges to globalization posed by contemporary events such as the global financial crisis. This book will be essential reading for all students of globalization, and will be of great interest to students of global politics and global governance.

Part of the seminar "Information and the Internet".

Part of a 2-lecture pair, "French Identity and Politics".

Part of the seminar "Information and the Internet".

Just over 50 years ago, the first radio surveys of the sky led to the identification of baffling new celestial sources with characteristics unlike those of any other known astronomical objects. One class of these objects came to be known as "quasi-stellar radio sources", or "quasars". The most straightforward interpretation of the observations indicated that quasars are among the most distant and intrinsically brightest objects in the universe. At the same time, however, they must also be surprisingly small and dense. This led inevitably to the apparent paradox that the most luminous objects in the universe are powered by spectacularly massive "black holes", objects so dense that not even light can escape from them, and whose existence had yet to be proven. This is the story of how quasars and supermassive black holes and their role in the cosmos have come to be understood.

Marie Koch is searching for new valuation and thinking that will increase knowledge within the field of artistic and design research seen from the perspective of the learner. Research is entering unexplored territories within craftsmanship as well as exploring the interface of doing art, craft and design and doing textile graffiti. The overall purpose is meant to lead to a mirroring of learning and identity in formal learning spaces and in informal spaces. This lecture will take you through learning processes based on activists doing graffiti and a cross-disciplinary discussions between an artist, a mathematician and a didactic approach to creation.

Part of a lecture pair, "Social Ontology and Social Consciousness".

Light Lectures is a series of four annual lectures, where experts within the field of light are invited to speak about their intentions and work experiences.

As wealth inequality reaches historic highs worldwide, policy-makers and scholars are scrambling for ways to address the growing crisis. In this talk, Darrell West, Vice President of the Brookings Institution and founding director of its Center for Technology Innovation, will discuss billionaire political activism, income inequality, and recent elections with an eye towards examining the implications for democracy and the political process. Drawing from his new book, Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, West will discuss contemporary developments in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Part of a lecture pair, "Social Ontology and Social Consciousness".

We are building a future of things that observe us and the environment, things that learn and that are trained to take decisions for us. Things that we do not only interact with, but actually live with. In this lecture we will tap into the weird, awkward, and potentially ironic relationships that emerge with objects of near futures in our homes. Using a mix of speculative design and storytelling Simone will talk about some sweet objects with very sour aftertaste.

Group testing is a long studied problem in combinatorics: A small set of 'r' ill people must be identified out of the whole population of 'n' people, by using only queries (tests) of the form "Does set X contain an ill member?". I will discuss the current state of the art, and show several surprising applications for group testing techniques.

Computer models are widely used for decision support in energy system capital planning. A key feature of most capital planning decisions is that they must be taken under uncertainty regarding the future background against which the system is planned, as well as the statistical fluctuations of outturn in system operation. This talk will discuss the different origins of uncertainty encountered when using computer models as decision support tools, using generation planning as an exemplar (in which case generation adequacy assessment models are very simple and transparent). It will then introduce the idea of using a statistical emulator of the full model to encode uncertainty about the model's output for inputs where it has not been evaluated, which is important for more computationally expensive models where the number of possible evaluations may be very limited. The use of emulators will be illustrated using examples from network capital planning and from economic projection of generation investment and market prices.

(Retirement lecture.) I met Euclidian geometry in the plane when I was 12, and I was happy to learn to make small sketches which described facts about geometrical figures and then give exact proofs based on such drawings. Since then concrete mathematical problems and abstract mathematical ideas has taken up a good part of my time, but I have been distracted by love, wife, children, housekeeping, teaching, administration and so on. I will tell a little about some of the experiences I have had.

How old is the so-called "crisis" of the Humanities? Is this crisis a condition for their survival? Or would we be better of just declaring the Humanities dead? The proverbial "crisis" of the Humanities has not only been existing since their first emergence, discussions triggered by it soon also became a way for them to survive. For a change, the question should be asked, in the present situation and without any duplicity, whether, as an institution with a historical beginning, it is not preferable to declare the Humanities dead and look for a fresh start. In other words: can "presence" occupy the place of "meaning" in an intellectual environment that finds itself both in discontinuity and in continuity with the Humanities?

Global warming does not simply warm up our planet's surface—rather it has some interesting and complex effects on the circulation of its atmosphere and oceans, which will be explored in this lecture. The disproportionate warming of the Arctic has been linked in recent research to changes in the activity of planetary waves and the jet stream in the atmosphere. In the ocean, observations point to an ongoing slow-down of the Gulf Stream System. Both types of circulation change may have profound impacts on us humans.

Part of the 2-lecture series "Art and Movement".

For the "Humanities", i.e. the cluster of academic disciplines traditionally trusted with thinking about thinking, the electronic age implies the provocation [or is it a humiliation?] of a new type of thinking emerging from outside their field of competence. At the same time, this different type of thinking is beginning to have a transformative impact on the classical forms of "human" thinking and their arrays. Therefore, a central challenge for the "Humanities" today lies in an attempt to describe and perhaps even to understand this transformative impact. But is it possible to live up to this task if the other thinking, the thinking processed by machines, remains out of reach?

Part of the 2-lecture series "Art and Movement".

Many are drawn to Design Thinking for its ability to unlock innovation, but what areas of the brain are really being used when using the process? In this talk, Ryan will explore the process of Design Thinking while pointing out the regions of the brain that are used during each step of the process.

On the base of criticism on traditional communication for development, there has been emerging communication activism scholarship featured by commitment to social justice, and combination of theory and practice (actions) since 2000. This talk tries to discuss on the Concept, Focal Questions, Strategies and challenges of the Action-oriented Communication Research in Chinese context.

Part of the two-lecture series, "Post-Holocaust theology, philosophy, and literature: Two lectures on occasion of the 70th anniversary of Denmark's liberation in 1945".

"Helle er på vej til EU." "Pape, Olsen Dyhr og Østergaard har det svært som nye partiformænd." "Valget kommer til at handle om økonomi." Politiske kommentatorers udsagn om det politiske liv er blevet hverdag. De medieskabte ekspertstemmer har fået en privilegeret taleposition og et stort publikum. Med beretninger, referater, beskrivelser, forklaringer og spådomme, fortæller de, hvordan landet ligger—men ligger landet egentlig, som de siger, og argumenterer de for deres udlægninger? På basis af nærlæsninger, receptionsstudier og ekspertinterviews diskuterer Mette Bengtsson problematiske aspekter af genren og kommer med et bud på, hvad politiske kommentatorer kan gøre, hvis de i højere grad vil henvende sig til deres publikum som kritisk reflekterede medborgere.

Part of the two-lecture series, "Post-Holocaust theology, philosophy, and literature: Two lectures on occasion of the 70th anniversary of Denmark's liberation in 1945".

This episode of Science & Cocktails sets out to challenge the tendency, both academic and popular, to assign empathy the status of a virtue. The widespread inclination to associate empathy with the morally and socially "good"—with compassion, understanding, cultural bonding, and non-violent sociality—ignores what Bubandt and Willerslev propose to call the "dark side of empathy": that is, the multiple ways in which empathy is routinely deployed to manipulate, seduce, deceive, and dehumanize others by means of vicariousness.

In his lecture, Paul Kottman will propose that Shakespeare accepts the loss of any "given"—nature, or God, or "fate"—that might explain human societies, relationships and values. At the same time, Shakespeare stages the loss of traditional social bonds on which we depend for the meaning and worth of our lives together. Nevertheless, Shakespeare does not leave us with a desperate nihilism—but with tools for constructing a public culture based on something other than a national or religious tradition, or mass culture.

Mens vi forfærdet følger med i redningsaktionerne i Nepal, er den langsigtede genopbygning af de katastroferamte områder allerede ved at blive diskuteret. I dette seminar præsenter Danmarks førende Nepalforskere landets politiske, sociale og økonomiske situation og peger på nogle vigtige områder, der skal tænkes med i en fremtidig genopbygningsindsats.

Architectural Lighting Lab is hosting a Book Launch for a series of 4 books. The Book Launch marks the finalization of the research project Interdisciplinary LED Light.

What does the disciplinary structure of knowledge look like? How do the different disciplines collaborate? And how can we describe interdisciplinarity? In this seminar, interdisciplinarity will be discussed through borderology as a mapping of the disciplinary structure of knowledge and different styles of inquiry. As an illustration, a comparative study of friendship as a human universal, a cultural construct, a biosocial behaviour pattern, a form of love, a value bestowal, a power relation, an identity constituent, "another self", a family resemblance concept, a reification, etc., will be introduced.

Kan mennesker, der udsættes for alvorlige hændelser, gennemleve traumet og komme styrket ud af oplevelsen? Kan modstandsdygtighed (resiliens) læres? I forelæsningen besvares disse spørgsmål ud fra en undersøgelse af danske kampsoldaters reaktioner under udstationering. Inden udsendelse til Afghanistan bliver danske soldater opfordret til at skrive et afskedsbrev til deres familie, hvori de specifikt skal angive deres særlige ønsker i forbindelse med deres eventuelle begravelse, hvis de bliver dræbt i krigen. Soldaters bevidsthed om potentiel dødsfare under udsendelse (forventet traume) er en stresskilde, som de håndterer på forskellige måder. Forelæsningen vil bl.a. give eksempler på soldaters forskellige handlestrategier og håndteringsfærdigheder.

The present talk begins with requirements for numerically testing Hopkinson's heterogeneous bars. A foundational requirement is a robust wave capturing algorithm. The talk then concentrates on the development of new wave capturing algorithms that can trace waves propagating with different speeds. Numerical performance of the new algorithms is evaluated for 1D, 2D and 3D wave propagation problems. The talk concludes with an assessment of how close we are toward accepting virtual materials characterization in new materials development process.

Den algeriske forfatter Yasmina Khadra, pseudonym for Mohammed Moulessehoul (1955 - ), skrev i slutningen af 1990'erne to romaner om den algeriske borgerkrig (1992 – 1998). Den første, Les Agneaux du Seigneur (1998), fortæller historien om islamismens indtog i en søvnig landsby i den algeriske provins, hvor der vendes op og ned på traditioner, venskaber og sociale hierarkier. Den anden, À quoi rêvent les loups (1999), undersøger en ung mands forvandling fra rastløst, berømmelseshungrende individ til kynisk dræber for islamistgruppen GIA.

As a catalyst and producer of several media experiences, Mads has always been interested in the role of the user (formally known as the audience) and their interactions with stories. He believes that if content is king, then context is queen, and thus the medium that channels the story in some ways actually is the story. Through various cases, like the virtual reality piece "The Doghouse" and the location-aware sound-sharing app "Recho", he will explore some of the building blocks that are available for storytellers and experience designers in this new paradigm.

Øjvind Kyrø fortæller om DR Congos historie og om den blanding af minedrift, etniske konflikter og postkoloniale splittelser, der ligger til grund for den stadige borgerkrig i det vidtstrakte land. Lecture i forbindelse med visning af kunstneren Richard Mosses (f. 1980 i Irland) værk The Enclave, der kombinerer dokumentariske og kunstneriske strategier i et rystende vidnesbyrd fra den glemte afrikanske tragedie.

Human trafficking is an international crime that occurs when an individual is forced or coerced into sex or labor exploitation for commercial gain, which amounts to a gross violation of human rights. Trafficking behaviors are now more visible across digital networked environments providing an unprecedented opportunity to observe potential signals and indicators of hitherto hidden social practices. The highest levels of government, policy, and law enforcement are supporting initiatives that leverage technology to monitor and identify human trafficking victims and perpetrators. In addition, private sector data and internet companies are involved in similar efforts. However, a number of challenges, tensions, and anxieties have emerged around surveillance, privacy, data sharing, risk, and biases in data sets. Addressing these issues are crucial as data-driven techniques become the basis for decision making and intervention at the policy and operational levels. This presentation will use the specific case of human trafficking to discuss the social, ethical, political, and methodological concerns that arise when big data analytics are applied to general human rights domains.

Inger Kappel Schmidts opgave er at undersøge økosystemers respons på forandringer i klima og miljø. Målet er at opnå en større forståelse af processer i terrestriske økosystemer - og organismers og økosystemers sårbarhed overfor stress. Viden om kontrolmekanismer og tålegrænser er vigtig for at kunne forudsige konsekvenser af ændringer i miljøet og vurdere økosystemernes muligheder for at modvirke disse.

Streaming NESL, under development in the HIPERFIT Center, is a refinement of the nested data-parallel functional language NESL. It extends NESL's flattening-based implementation strategy and language-integrated cost model for time (in the form of work and step measures) to also achieve predictable (and optimistic) bounds for space usage. This is done by avoiding complete materialization of intermediate vector-typed values that do not actually require random access. Instead, such values are transparently materialized and processed in "chunks", of size proportional to the available parallel computing resources—from SIMD instructions on single-core CPUs to large GPGPUs. We give an overview of the status of the project, including a summary of the source language and cost model, a sketch of the implementation strategy in terms of a chunked-dataflow abstract machine (which may also be relevant to other language-technology projects within HIPERFIT), and an outline of some current challenges, both theoretical and practical.

The relatively mature embedded language Accelerate brings the power of hardware-accelerated, shape-polymorphic programming with regular arrays to Haskell. Extending Accelerate with streaming functionality, along the lines of our current research, will hypothetically improve its usability and performance for many important use-cases. This talk presents an extension to Accelerate that enables streaming by lifting a non-trivial subset of the language from working on arrays to working on sequences of arrays. The programmer obtains a sequence by slicing an array into a sequence of sub-arrays, and may return to ordinary Accelerate through reduction. Sequence expressions are evaluated efficiently in fixed-size chunks by reusing memory and compiled kernels, allowing sequences to scale in length without requiring additional computing resources except computation time.

The 1916 wartime correspondence between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig is an embryonic exemplification of what they would call "speech-thinking", or the dialogical exchange between individuals in which, as Rosenzweig noted, the other not only has ears to hear what I say, but a mouth that utters a response. In their often brutally frank exchange about Judaism and Christianity, they forged an inter-religious friendship grounded in a recognition and ultimately an affectionate affirmation of theological difference.

China struggles to manage its rise without fuelling animosities or outright fear and anger especially among Southeast Asian countries. It does not have many friends or allies and is more dependent on the outside world than the outside world is on China. The long indefensible land border, the coastline inviting foreign intrusion, and the dependence on markets and resources creates insecurity. All foreign and security policies are an extension of domestic policies, but few outside the Politburo's Standing Committee know the impact of domestic policies on China's foreign and security policy. The main keys seem to be that China is both a continental and a maritime power (only the US falls in the same category) and that China like all great powers pursues its own interests. There is a good deal of criticism especially in the US, but also in Asia, of China's policies, but an analysis discloses that China does not do anything other rising powers did not do. The only difference is that now it is China doing it.

Få perioder i historien er præget af så megen debat som 1700-tallets Oplysning. Få ideer har skabt så meget uenighed i eftertiden og været genstand for så mange anklager som Oplysningens ideer om frihed, autonomi, tolerance, ytringsfrihed, universalisme, lykke og verdslighed. Derfor er det forbundet med store vanskeligheder at skulle definere, hvad Oplysning egentlig er. I mit foredrag Oplysning—En kampzone vil jeg imidlertid prøve at give et bud, idet jeg samtidig vil insistere på, at der er tale om et åbent, mangesidigt og uafsluttet projekt. Samtidig vil jeg reflektere over, hvorfor Oplysningens ideer har udløst så meget diskussion i eftertiden ikke bare mellem mennesker, men også mellem nationer og verdensdele.

Hvordan arbejder man som kunsthistoriker og konservator med 60'er og 70'ernes flygtige kunstformer? Mød museumsinspektør Birgitte Anderberg og konservator Louise Cone til et foredrag om avantgarde og feminisme i 1960'erne og 1970'erne. Udstillingen What's Happening? beskæftiger sig med de eksperimenterende og flygtige værkformer, der for alvor dukker op i 1960'ernes og 1970ernes kunst. Foredraget vil fra to vinkler – kunsthistorikerens og konservatorens – handle om de forskningsspørgsmål man i museumssammenhænge beskæftiger sig med over for flygtige kunstformer som happenings, environments, installationer og kunst i pap.

What (rather than who) can be blamed for the financial crisis? How come mathematical models weren't able to anticipate it? How can financial regulation have negative effects and can that be avoided? Can we, should we, eliminate speculation? Are we still following economic cycles and, if so, when is the upturn coming? Douady's effort will be to explain the dynamics of finance and its procession of paradoxical effects, what traditional models were missing and which mathematics need to be used for a better understanding of the relation between finance and the economy.

The three concepts in the title of Hoyos's talk summarize his thinking about the fruitful, tense relationship between Latin Americanism and World Literature. A proposal for mutual development, this short exposé shows how heterochronic, non-teleological cultural flows upend center-periphery dynamics. The talk explores the partly coincidental institutional and intellectual dimensions of this problem. Drawing literary examples from Roberto Bolaño and others, Hoyos presents a model of critical hospitality where the hosts and guests of world literature change places. Beyond regarding the latter critical movement as an epiphenomenon of globalization, this approach seeks to intervene in the very fabric of literary experience at a global level.

Insider threats are a major threat against organisations and IT systems. In most cases, insiders have better knowledge about an organisatons assets, policies, and workflows, and have authorized access to many of these. Therefore, actions by a malicious insider are usually hard to detect. Social engineering is often used by attackers to get insiders to perform actions, which they should not perform but are authorized to do. In this talk I will give examples for insider threats and social engineering, discuss different definitions of insiders, and present some models of how to deal with insider threats.

What are the experiences of using social media to inform about, impact and discuss elections and important referendums in European countries? And in that context: what role do and should social media play in a democratic society? Speakers include Stewart Kirkpatrick, digital manager of the "Yes Scotland" campaign, and Jaquou Utopie, a critical political voice in the Greek Twitter sphere. The talks will be followed by an open panel debate with the invited speakers and social media researchers Jakob Linaa Jensen (DMJX) and Lisbeth Klastrup (ITU).

Hvad bliver videnskabens rolle i samfundet? Har videnskaben samfundsansvar? Hvordan bliver videnskab brugt politisk i fremtiden? Kom og vær med i et fremtids-videnskabeligt tankeeksperiment, hvor forskere belyser vores forestillinger om fremtiden.

De dage, hvor indbegrebet af finansielle markeder var såkaldte open outcry pits, hvor råbende og skubbende børsmæglere i et ofte hektisk miljø forsøgte at få de bedste ordrer i hus, er for længst ovre. I dag eksekveres en betydelig del af handlerne på finansielle markeder af computeralgoritmer uden direkte menneskelig involvering. Transformationen af de finansielle markeder er genstand for stigende interesse, både akademisk og i den brede offentlighed, og med god grund: Selv om der også i tidligere former for markedsaktivitet kunne ske fejl og systematisk udnyttelse af markedsbetingelserne, hævder flere iagttagere, at overgangen til algoritmisk-baserede markeder gør disse særligt sårbare over for utilsigtede konsekvenser. For eksempel oplevede man under det såkaldte Flash Crash i 2010, at computeralgoritmers handler på blot nogle få minutter førte til et dramatisk markedsfald.

Vi læser krimier og biografier som aldrig før. Men hvad er det, der er så interessant ved Jussi Adler Olsens bøger, og hvorfor vil vi gerne vide noget om Astrid Lindgrens mørke sider? Foredraget handler om de bestsellere som vi læser og har læst, men også om os selv. Bestsellerne fortæller noget om, hvad vi tænker og drømmer om, hvad vi fascineres af og frygter for. Bestsellerne er et spejl, som vi kan se os selv og vores historie i.

De seneste 150 år har madkulturen ændret sig hurtigere end nogensinde før. Mangel er blevet til overflod, og mad er blevet til "ernæring". Forbrugerne står nu i større udstrækning overfor bevidste til- og fravalg. Lektor og madhistoriker på Ernærings- og sundhedsuddannelsen Svend Skafte Overgaard dykker i foredraget ned i de historiske sammenhænge for den radikale ændring af madkulturen med fokus på moderne madkultur som en ernæringskultur.

Hvorfor fylder sundhed og ernæring så meget i medierne, og kan vi stole på den viden vi får? Hvilken rolle spiller medierne i forhold til forbrugernes opfattelse af ernæring og sundhed i dagligdagen? Underviser på Ernærings- og sundhedsuddannelsen Preben Vestergaard Hansen, som jævnligt bliver anvendt som ekspert i medierne, fortæller, hvordan historier om ernæring ofte bliver til sensationer, når journalisterne kommer indover.

Mød museumsinspektør Hanne Kolind Poulsen og konservator Niels Borring til et foredag om forskningen bag Magt og Ære - Albrecht Dürer i kejserens tjeneste. Udstillingen er baseret på et forskningsprojekt, der undersøgte SMK's to eksemplarer af renæssancekunstneren Albrecht Dürers store træsnit Kejser Maximilian 1.s æresport (dateret 1515).

Antallet af motionister er stigende i Danmark og med den nye politiske strategi "25-50-75" – 75 procent af befolkningen skal være idrætsaktive i 2025 – så er der naturligt også et øget fokus på sammenhængen mellem kost og motion. Men hvad betyder kosten for den fysiske præstationsevne? Lektor Lasse Kristian Suhr, medredaktør og medforfatter til bogen Sportsernæring fortæller om kost, motion og fedtforbrænding.

D-vitamin har gennem en årrække fyldt meget i medierne. Den ene dag får vi at vide, at vi får alt for lidt, og den næste dag, at d-vitamin kan være dødeligt. Hvad er fup og fakta, og hvor meget d-vitamin har vi behov for? Lektor på Ernærings- og sundhedsuddannelsen, Rikke Larsen, fortæller om vitaminets funktion, danskernes d-vitaminstatus og hvordan vi kan få dækket vores behov for d-vitamin – også når solen ikke skinner.

Stefan Aust is journalist and writer. 1994-2008 editor in chief at the magazine Der Spiegel, since 2014 member of the chief editorial staff at German national daily newspaper Die Welt. On the agenda is the heated current discussion about terrorism, based on some of the publications of Aust, especially Heimatschutz. Der Staat und die Mordserie des NSU (2014) and Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex (1997)—the latter adapted for the screen in 2008 by director Uli Edel.

On 21 May 1965 the New York Times announced on its front page the discovery of the cosmic background radiation, generally seen as a turning point in the development of modern cosmology comparable to the discovery about 1930 of the expansion of the universe. The history of the primordial microwaves is no less remarkable than the later consequences and understandable only within the larger framework of the history of cosmology since the 1930s. It is a story of missed opportunities and rival views of the universe. The lecture will present and discuss some of the historical, philosophical and sociological problems related to the discovery.

Phd-studerende Camilla Roed Otte præsenterer en oversigt over det, vi allerede ved om sammenhængen mellem udeskole og læring, samt en introduktion til ph.d.-projektets foreløbige resultater omkring læring og motivation i udeskole.

In collaboration with The Danish Industry Foundation and Danish companies, CBS is researching on how servitization can be a strategy to enhance the competitiveness of manufacturing firms. Servitization, or adding services to the manufactured product, has become a strategy for increasing financial margins, getting closer to the customer and prolonging product lives. This is especially applicable to Western hemisphere companies in their efforts to compete with companies from low cost countries and emerging economies.

Efter stærke forbedringer i indkøbs- og produktionsfunktioner, bl.a. gennem outsourcing og lean, flytter vækstagendaens fokus nu på virksomheders kommercialisering. Dette indlæg forklarer kommercialiseringens indhold og elementer, viser dens effekt og diskuterer danske virksomheders indsats for at udnytte denne vækstmulighed.

Curzio Malapartes roman KAPUT udkom i Italien i 1943/44 som den første skildring af krigen på Østfronten. Malaparte kunne som aristokrat og barndomsven af flere ledende italienske fascister færdes frit over hele Europa og følge fronten fra Rumænien til Murmansk. Ingen, der har læst romanen, kan nogensinde glemme dyrene: fuglene i Ukraine, hundene med granatchok og de frosne heste i Ladogasøen. Skildringen af dem er den kulisse, hvor mordene er det dagligdags, afbrudt af samtaler om krigen med Prins Eugen på Waldemarsudde, Axel Munthe på Capri, generalguvernør Franck i Krakow og den italienske konsul i Rumænien. Kaput er et værk, der næppe nogensinde vil blive gjort efter.

I anledning af 100 året for kvindernes valgret kaster Erik Skyum-Nielsen i selskab med litterater og forfattere et blik på en række oversete kvindelige forfattere. Helga Johansen (1852-1912) udsendte i sin levetid den romanlignende bog 'Hinsides' med undertitlen 'En psykologisk Redegjørelse'. Den blev udgivet under pseudonymet Hanne Joël i år 1900. Romanen er skrevet på baggrund af og med afstand til Helga Johansens ophold på Sct. Hans Hospital i Roskilde i 1883. Udover sin stærke patientroman udgav den læreruddannede Johansen 'Rids' (1896) og 'Brev til Menneskene' (1903).

Virksomheder og deres forretningsmodeller bliver gradvist mere digitaliserede, hvilket bl.a. medfører, at den konkurrencemæssige fordel forskydes fra at have de bedste produkter til at tilbyde de bedste digitale tjenester på de mest populære digitale platforme. I dette foredrag fokuseres særligt på den digitale transformation af finanssektoren. Som eksempel beskrives digitaliseringen af betalingstjenester.

Companies accumulate a surfeit of workforce data over the years: employee demographics, employee engagement surveys, customer satisfaction data and other business KPI such as productivity, performance, sales, etc. Yet, only few HR practitioners make extensive use of company data to drive human capital management decisions. Why so? Drawing upon experiences from working with large Danish and European companies, we discuss the top three reasons for why managers make their decisions still relying on own gut feeling instead of the evidence.

I grew up in Oxford wanting to be a scientist, loving gadgets and processes like melting lead pipes or electrolyzing salt solutions to make poisonous and explosive gases. Luckily, I had excellent teachers who channeled these enthusiasms into a deeper and more formal understanding of chemistry and biology (physics, alas, was beyond my grasp) so that it was possible to study at Cambridge University and carry on there with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, on the business of the control of haemoglobin synthesis. ... The path was marked by unexpected discoveries all along the way, almost always stemming from sensible experiments designed to test something different!

New York based artist Kabir Carter will present Space and Body, an exploration of connections between New York City's 1970s underground dance music scene, and contemporaneous work with sound in the visual arts. Carter's presentation will include details regarding the architectural acoustics and sound systems of early dance clubs, the development of durational sound materials for alternative listening modes, and the emergence of now familiar and codified formal systems for presenting sound in space for social dancing and art exhibiting. The presentation will launch the Working Group for Sound in the Expanded Field, a discursive project that uses workshops and other sound focused activities to examine sound's role in daily life.

Through the years, the use of antibiotics in livestock has been the subject of an endless debate about the appropriateness of using these important medicines in animals. This is a highly controversial topic involving ethical issues on animal welfare and human health, as well as economic interests by the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry and various professional categories, including farmers, veterinarians, pharmacists and researchers. As a consequence of all these factors, the debate has been often vigorous but not always scientifically unbiased. Luca Guardabassi will present his view based on 20 years of research in the field, explaining why in his opinion this historical debate should be redirected to a different set of questions regarding the cost of livestock products and agriculture sustainability.

Ōtomo Katsuhiro's anime film Akira is often identified as the work that ignited the anime boom in the U.S. This characterization is motivated in part by the graphic image of an explosion that opens the film, an image that seemed to herald a destruction of old paradigms and the arrival of new media when it first flashed on U.S. movie screens in 1988. But paradoxically this work that marks an origin or turning point for anime has also been strongly identified with a postmodern aesthetic that seems to erase the very notions of origin and history. In contrast Ōtomo's Akira manga (upon whichthe film is a based) is a 2,000-page epic that foregrounds origins of all kinds—historical, political, and graphic. This talk will compare these two versions of Akira to ask what strengths and limitations manga and anime each have as media, when it comes to locating ourselves in history, in political culture, or in space.

Using a novel ex vivo stimulation method, our group has shown that insulin resistance is a common and profound feature in brains of AD cases even in the absence of diabetes. We have now discovered that insulin resistance is also advanced in brains of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) cases, which often progress to AD dementia, and that this abnormality can be substantially reduced in brains of both MCI and AD dementia cases with one or more of the antidiabetics known as incretin receptor agonists, including liraglutide and a dual incretin receptor agonist. Such drugs are already known to markedly reduce a broad spectrum of pathologies and cognitive deficits in animal models of AD. The speaker will discuss these discoveries and their potential to produce the first effective treatment of AD.

Reflections on results from Kinneret Regional Project's 2010-2013 excavations in the Byzantine synagogue at Horvat Kur (Galilee) with a discussion on the character of an "archaeology of the New Testament".

As the core technology of the third industrial revolution, the Energy Internet (EI) aims at facilitating the large-scale utilization and sharing of renewable energy by integrating renewable energy and internet technologies. The development of EI could enhance the merging of electricity, transportation and natural gas networks, change the way of energy utilization, and finally achieve the goal of promoting sustainable economy and social development. Given this background, an overview of EI is first provided, and a basic research framework developed. The basic architecture and main components of EI are next presented. Then, several major research challenges of EI, such as wide-area coordination and control of distributed devices, integration of the power system with the transportation system and natural gas network concerned, as well as the cyber physical modelling and security, are discussed.

This paper identifies the design challenges for creating collaborative technologies supporting the practices of organizing elections. We ethnographically investigate the distributed nature of knowledge as enacted between heterogeneous groups over the course of three elections in Denmark. We 1) identify fundamental characteristics of elections, 2) provide a comprehensive account of the distributed nature of knowledge in organizing and executing elections, and 3) point to new challenging areas for human-computer interaction (HCI) design supporting distributed collaborative knowledge practices. We found that organizational pattern of elections complicates the embodiment of nomadic knowledge, which is crucial for managing the effective organization of an election. Thus, one of the relevant design challenges is finding out how to support the timely distribution of large amounts of information, while still ensuring it is appropriately divided and delivered to various groups participating in planning and executing elections.

In urban studies and urban planning, the last decades have witnessed something of a "narrative turn": an increasing interest in the potential of narratives. In the case of Helsinki's ongoing and large-scale urban projects, city narratives have been explicitly foregrounded by the City Planning Department. The developments at Jätkäsaari and Kalasatama, two waterfront sites in central Helsinki, provide particularly complex case studies. The most conspicuous use of cultural narratives is the recent move of the Helsinki City to hire 8 artists to help the Planning Department to develop the city, the mediatized use of landscape art to help create spatial identities, and the commissioning of a literary novel in Jätkäsaari. It is possible to also identify several examples of less obvious, but at least as pervasive narratives, from official websites with historical information, to the fostering of narrative treads in social community websites, and the mini-narratives provided by street names and 3D-projections of how this neighborhood will look like in the future.

Emnet bliver en hyldest til 'The Raven', der er fyldt 170 år i januar. Torben vil også citere fra Poes essay 'Kompositionens filosofi' - digtet vil blive læst op og aftenen slutter med foredraget om 'Poe - i en malstrøm af kærlighed'.

In this lecture, Jacobsen focuses on Danish politicians' politicization of Jews and Judaism during 1903-45, and Muslims and Islam during 1967-2005 respectively in the Parliamentary records and in the shaping of the relations between Jews and Danes and Muslims and Danes in the Parliamentary records. That is to say how politicians have attempted to construct Danishness and the other(s) in specific ways. What the study reveals are the sociological processes in play in the construction of otherness when two religious minorities are the objects of public political debate.

Thanks to neutrons and X-rays combined to the optical and theoretical work, knowledge of the phase behaviour of luminescent polymers has been expanded tremendously in recent years. In this talk, we take archetypical polyfluorenes, start from the molecular level and extend up to the larger length scale structures, and highlight the factors which we understand control structure property relationships including virtually all important materials parameters such as solvent quality, side chain branching, side chain length, molecular weight, thermal history and myriad functionalizations. This framework allows generalizations and provides a guideline for material scientists, synthetic chemists and device engineers as well. Furthermore, we provide a recent example of these materials in extreme pressures and show how careful experimental work allows reliable data collection and analysis even at 30 GPa, where the pressure transmitting fluids become solid.

How can Guerilla Science help influence people's judgement? How can we close the gap between pro-social intentions and actions? And how can we innovate within research? The iNudgeyou-project is a research innovation experiment in Guerrilla Research, which works at the intersection of applied behavioural science, public institutions, NGOs and private stakeholders, with the aim of developing and scientifically validate behaviour change strategies for closing the gap between pro-social intentions and actions. Pelle Guldborg Hansen will through this seminar explain how guerilla science is conducted, and how it can help influence people's judgment, choice or behavior in a predictable way made possible because of cognitive biases in individual and social decision-making.

En prinsesse kom til verden på Amalienborg en uge efter Tysklands besættelse af Danmark i april 1940. Den lille pige, som var det daværende danske kronprinspars førstefødte, blev kaldt for et lys i en mørk tid. Prinsesse Margrethes liv blev fulgt med stor interesse i offentligheden allerede fra den tidligste barndom. Ingen kunne dog dengang vide, at prinsessen en dag skulle blive Danmarks regerende dronning - og en af landets hidtil længst siddende monarker. I anledning af H.M. Dronningens runde fødselsdag ser forelæsningen tilbage på det danske monarki gennem de seneste 75 år, fra besættelsestidens stærke bindinger mellem kongehus, regering og rigsdag over grundlovsændringen 1953 og den tilhørende ændring af tronfølgeloven til vore dage. Med en række eksempler vises, at et konstitutionelt monarki har særlige muligheder, men også særlige problemer, som ikke i samme grad gælder for parlamentariske republikker. Forelæsningen finder sted i palæet på Amalienborg, hvor Christian 10., der blev et nationalt samlingspunkt i besættelsesårene, residerede. Deltagerbeviset medbringes og giver adgang til Amalienborgmuseet på forelæsningsdagen i åbningstiden kl. 11-16.

At the scale of the cities, climate could play a major role in the design of the morphology of the city and in the choice of its materiality. Two recent projects of our office are challenging the climate as the major factor for urban design. The first one is a study for the city of Copenhagen. The second is a new park under construction for the city in Taichung in Taiwan. Copenhagen in Denmark is situated in a cold and dry latitude while Taichung is in a humid and warm climate. For these two projects, we try to give a good quality of life for the public space. But we think that the quality of the public space is not only about the conviviality of the program and the size of the space, but it concern also notion of comfort in fully senses, that means, thermal comfort, heath comfort, silence comfort, etc. By starting to design the public space from the climate will give sensorial qualities to the city in the same time that it will answers to the new target of energy saving and sustainability. In Copenhagen, we propose to define a new urban network that is no more based on car and visual representation, but on sound quality, reduction of air pollutants and natural increase of heat in the outdoor space. In Taiwan, we propose a urban park which urban composition is based on a real site analyse of the repartition of the temperatures, of the humidity levels and the pollution rates.

For the first time in the history, society is able to self-observe itself with a breadth and depth that was simply unimaginable before. The traces left by our devices and the contents intentionally or unintentionally shared by internet users, are now widely used by scholars from different disciplines to formulate and answer a multitude of original research questions. But with great power comes great responsibilities (and also new challenges). Drawing on multiple experiences on the API from most popular platforms as well as from the results of the most recent literature, the lecture will address the possibility, challenges and limits of studies based on online data.

Lars Vesterdal skal være med til at forbedre det videnskabelige grundlag for kvantificering af kulstofpuljer i jordbunden og de processer, der kontrollerer kulstofpuljen. Målet er at kunne belyse jordbundens bidrag til økosystemers drivhusgasbudget ved ændret skovdrift, såsom ændret træartsvalg og dræning, og ved ændret arealanvendelse, fx skovrejsning på tidligere landbrugsjorde. En viden der er vigtig i forhold til at belyse skoves og andre semi-naturlige økosystemers potentiale for at mindske drivhuseffekten.

Den canadiske kunstner Jeff Wall (f. 1946) er en af tidens betydeligste billedmagere og en af fotografiets mestre. Således er værker fra hans hånd allerede i hans egen levetid markører for og illustration af de årtier, han har virket inden for. Når han fra marts gæster Louisiana, er det for anden gang. Sidste gang var i 1992 med værker fra 1970'erne og frem—nu suppleres perspektivet med tiden fra 1996 og frem til hans nyeste værker. Foredraget er en generel introduktion til Jeff Walls kunst og sætter desuden særligt fokus på museets nyerhvervelse, værket Monologue fra 2013.

Ethnographic inquiry is increasingly sought after beyond the walls of academia, in settings such as industry research labs, consultancies, and design research firms. In this talk, I will discuss my experiences in corporate ethnography while working in Intel Labs User Experience Research Group. My talk will consist of two parts. Part one will focus around my ethnographic research, a multi-sited organizational ethnography of the situated practices involved in creating "small" data that goes on to populate "big data" sets on quality and performance of healthcare organizations. Second, I describe my own experiences of doing corporate ethnography.

Despite his longstanding influence, it is only relatively recently that sociologists of class and stratification have begun to draw systematically on Pierre Bourdieu's ideas about social class. Scholars associated with cultural class analysis have drawn on Bourdieu's idea of forms of capital, and to a lesser extent that of social space, as a means to rethink the nature of class stratification in late modernity. The widely promoted New Model of social class presented by Mike Savage and colleagues is doubtlessly the most well-known case, whereas the work of Will Atkinson is probably the most clean-cut one. However, by redefining class strictly in terms of the possession of forms of capital, the cultural class analysts rely on a concept of class which fails to grasp the relations of domination and inequality that are constitutive of class society. Whereas both Marxian and Weberian approaches to class emphasized the social relations and processes that generate class divisions, the "Bourdieustic" approaches tend to focus somewhat statically on distribution as forms of capital as the baseline of class. This produces an unfortunate rupture, as evidenced not least by the more theoretical controversies surrounding The Great British Class Survey. But it also raises the question of whether, and in what ways, these different approaches to class might be, or be made, compatible.

This lecture takes point of departure in the famous books by Victor Olgyay: Architecture and Climate et al. In regard of architectural meaning and culture it questions what is at issue with some modern and contemporary projects, and readable images as well as performative operations of building facades are unfolded.

When estimated volatilities are not in perfect agreement with reality, delta hedged option portfolios will incur a non-zero profit-and-loss over time. There is, however, a surprisingly simple formula for the resulting hedge error, which has been known since the late 90s. We call this The Fundamental Theorem of Derivative Trading. This paper is a survey with twists of that result. We prove a more general version of it and discuss various extensions (including jumps) and applications (including deriving the Dupire-Gyöngy-Derman/Kani formula). We also consider its practical consequences both in simulation experiments and on empirical data thus demonstrating the benefits of hedging with implied volatility.

This lecture addresses why we need to measure performance in building and how. The aim is to to present the current state in research and practice within the field and to provide a critical discussion of the latest in building simulation and current misconceptions.

Driftstruktur og flersidig arealanvendelse.

Hvad er hvem? Har Marx ret i, at religionen er konsekvens af social elendighed? Og er det forklaringen på, at alle verdens ledere, som er økonomer, siger, at enhver terroraktion intet har med religion at gøre? Hvis alle vore ledere er marxistiske koran-eksegeter, hvad vil de så sige om os i vores forsøg på at forklare verden? Er der ideologier, som intet har med økonomi at gøre? Har den finansielle krise en begrebslig forudsætning? Har skyld og gæld noget med religion og kristen- dom at gøre? Hvilken rolle spiller Jesus i vor økonomiske tænkning? Gik han konkurs?

En kvinde iført en hvid kjole løber hen ad en strand, mens hendes hår vajer let i vinden. Hun føler sig fri og lettet, for hun har et stykke bomuld tilsat klor mellem sine ben—så ingen kan se, lugte eller opdage, at hun har menstruation. Reklamer for menstruationsartikler har stor retorisk magt til at definere, hvordan vi opfatter menstruation og den menstruerende kvinde. På den baggrund har Maja Nyvang Christensen og Sine Cecilie Laub i deres fælles speciale Med bind for øjnene (2014) sat fokus på reklamer for menstruationsartikler fra 1920 frem til i dag. Med afsæt i retorik- og kønsstudier undersøger de to, hvordan man reklamerer for noget, som ingen vil tale om: menstruation!—der har været et kulturelt tabu i flere tusinde år og været forbundet med forbandelse, urenhed og skam.

Det er ikke sikkert, at Goethes sidste ord, inden han døde den 22. marts 1832, var "Mere lys!" Men det er sikkert, at han livet igennem beskæftigede sig med lyset—det naturlige lys, fra solens stråler og månens genskin til de farver, som for ham at se opstod ved lysets møde med mørket, og som han udviklede en omfattende farveteori om. I tyve år arbejdede Goethe på sin Farvelære, og den er hans mest omfangsrige værk. Goethes iagttagelser er præcise, men hans farvelære er blevet afvist af videnskaben—og til gengæld højt skattet og brugt af mange kunstnere. Den moderne videnskab rubricerer Goethes lære som en lære om oplevelsen af farver, mens Goethe selv ville have den opfattet som en lære om farverne, som de virkelig var. Goethe ville ikke adskille oplevelse og erkendelse, derfor indgår hans beskæftigelse med lyset også i hans poesi. Hans protest mod Newton gjaldt ikke konkrete resultater, men uenighed om, hvordan mennesket skulle opfatte sig selv i forhold til naturen.

In her new book Mireille Hildebrandt argues that we are on the verge of entering an online world saturated with artificial agency. Though such agency is mindless in most senses of the term it will have a profound impact on human agency and challenge many assumptions of modernity. Hildebrandt will focus on the risks of depending on data-driven agency and the need to develop ways and mean to anticipate how it will increasingly anticipate and preempt us.

Contemporary game studies have multiple roots and the educational and research landscape in this field remains diverse, even while game studies has also had some success in establishing itself in the structures and agendas of academic institutions. In his talk, professor Frans Mäyrä provides some highlights from an international survey that mapped the disciplinary background and identifications of games scholars. He will also discuss how the trajectory of research and education in the University of Tampere Game Research Lab that he directs can be used as an example of the centrifugal and centripetal impulses that inform and shape the realities of games related research and education in today's universities.

The establishment process of independent games studies or research within academic institutions has many dimensions, such as academic publishing (journals), departmentalization and collaborative work under certain conditions, e.g. in GameLabs, annual meetings. The IT University of Copenhagen is one of the distinctive examples of this process and this study will present some of the conclusions (interdisciplinarity issue, researchers profile, games research and education on different levels and funding issues) from a qualitative study done especially through the ITU case.

Age-related diseases are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in Western society. Recently, inhibition of the mTOR (mechanistic Target Of Rapamycin) signaling pathway by the FDA-approved drug rapamycin has been shown to promote lifespan and delay age-related diseases in model organisms including mice. Unfortunately, rapamycin has serious side effects in humans, including immunosuppression and glucose intolerance, which likely preclude the long-term prophylactic use of rapamycin as a therapy for age-related diseases. Our work suggests that while the beneficial effects of rapamycin are largely mediated by inhibition of mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1), many of the negative side effects are mediated by "off-target" inhibition of a second mTOR-containing complex, mTORC2. We will discuss our recent work on strategies to more specifically inhibit mTORC1.

If the 1970s were defined by Postmodernism and the 1980s by Deconstruction, how do we characterize the architecture of the 1990s to the present? Some built forms transmit affects of curvilinearity, others of crystallinity; some transmit multiplicity, others unity; some transmit cellularity, others openness; some transmit dematerialization, others weight. Does this immense diversity reflect a lack of common purpose? Farshid Moussavi argues that this diversity should not be mistaken for an eclecticism that is driven by external forces. The Function of Style presents the architectural landscape as an intricate web in which individual buildings are the product of ideas which have been appropriated from other buildings designed for the different activities of everyday life, ideas which are varied to produce singular buildings that are related to one another but also different. This network of connections is illustrated on the photo. Moussavi argues that, by embracing everyday life as a raw material, architects can change the conventions of how buildings are assembled, to ground style, and the aesthetic experience of buildings, in the micro-politics of the everyday.

Mød de tre kunstnere til artist talk 9. april kl. 16:30 i Bibliotekssalen, og hør hvad der har inspireret dem til at skabe en udstilling om naturens elementer. Kunstnerne Laura Bergsøe, Josephine Bergsøe og Jakob Dall byder inden for til artist talk om deres første fælles udstilling Natural State of Mind, som kan opleves indtil 12. april.

Er Danmark en krigsbyttenation som fx Sverige var det under 30-årskrigen og krigene i Øst- og Nordeuropa i det 17. århundredes anden halvdel? Ja, det er vi faktisk - men de færreste ved det! På baggrund af en kort oversigt over krigsbyttereguleringen i folkeretten fra det 17. århundrede til det 20. århundrede fortælles om både Sveriges plyndringer under Svenskekrigene i det 17. århundrede og Danmarks revanche i samlinger.

Københavns Kommunes Center for Byudvikling præsenterer den nye Kommuneplanstrategi 2014 – Den sammenhængende by. Målet er at skabe plads til 100.000 nye københavnere inden 2025 ved at sørge for tilstrækkelige byggemuligheder, bl.a. gennem fortætning i den eksisterende by. I oplægget lægges der vægt på, hvad det vil sige at udvikle København som en grøn by med høj livskvalitet, og hvordan man skaber sammenhæng mellem gamle og nye bydele.

I forbindelse med udstillingen "HEAVY – Hans Henrik Lerfeldt" afholder Gl Holtegaard en række samtaler mellem Maria Kjær Themsen og fagfolk indenfor områderne billedkunst, kønsidentitet, seksualitet og mode. Samtalerne vil placere og diskutere Lerfeldts værker i samtiden. Fjerde og sidste samtale er med Erik Steffensen, billedkunstner og tidligere professor på Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi, om udviklingen indenfor det erotiske motiv i billedkunsten.

The Military Science Society invites you to an event giving unique insight into China's national security and military strategy, and that strategy's role in China's international position and ambitions. Major General Chen Zhou from the Academy of Military Science (AMS) in Beijing will present China's most recent defense white paper, published in April 2015. AMS is China's primary military strategy research institute, advising the Central Military Commission, and Major General Chen Zhou is the lead writer of China's defense white papers.

Gert Jan Hofstede will argue that the function of culture is co-ordinating social life. This is why dimensions of culture are about the central issues in social life, and he'll give a bird's eye overview. Second he'll turn to the ontogeny of culture: how do we acquire it? The third question is the evolution of culture. How did we get to today's cultural world map? This has to do with historical modes of subsistence. How might we progress from here? This will depend on the evolutionary pressures we create. Hofstede will explain some of his groundbreaking work on modelling of social behaviour, including culture, in virtual (computer) characters.

The talk will cover three aspects related to the maritime technology in Croatia: Croatian historical role, LABUST missions, and R&D. Introduction will shortly present the Croatian role in underwater systems in the past. The talk will also present LABUST missions (UXO mission in port of Dubrovnik and Dam inspection in Hydro-power plant in Peruća). European, NATO and ONRG projects performed by LABUST will be described. This talk is focused toward dissemination of information what Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technology (LABUST) is doing.

The beginning of the current crisis raised widespread indignation against accelerating economic inequality. But any egalitarian culture and politics have not been re-established. Instead, inequality is rising again. Why? In this talk, Prof. Therborn gives some tentative answer to this complex question. He will highlight missing moral, theoretical, and practical aspects in the superficial and ineffectual indignation against inequality.

Simon Penny presents this lecture from the perspective of an artist/practitioner active in the field since the mid 1980s. His own engagement with the field began with desires to utilize electronics and sensors to endow installations and kinetic sculptures with awareness and responsiveness. These desires brought him into contact with the rapidly changing landscape of computing and robotics, on both a technological and theoretical level.

Urban topography or the city writing the voids. Atlas of the Copenhagens. Breath catalogue.

Research has shown that gender theory has flowed far more easily from the North to the South or from the West to the East (particularly from the United States to other parts of the world), whereas flows in other directions are practically non-existent. However, there are many more invisible discursive trajectories that link the development of gender theories and movements in the world that have so far been ignored. In this talk, I will take transnational feminism's travel into China since the late twentieth century as an example in order to explore issues such as who the translators have been and what translations do during this journey. The aim is to develop an alternative way of thinking, which is a crucial task for confronting the predominant modes of knowledge production about globalization and achieving global justice. My approach to translation and traveling theory is to develop alternative traveling theory as an interdisciplinary methodology that will contribute, I hope, innovative approaches to knowledge production.

At this talk, Professor Jong Kun Choi, currently taking a sabbatical year at NIAS from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, will raise critical issues of how to approach the most totalitarian state in Asia. He will argue why engaging North Korea with a stance of diffused reciprocity (a.k.a., Sunshine Policy) will work better than the current policy of strict reciprocity. His argument will be drawn from theories of International relations, empirical data and his advisory experiences to the Six Party Talks and the inter-Korean cooperation for the last 7 years.

This talk presents some recent central philosophical views of shared intentions and discusses arguments for and against them. The views focused on contain collective elements that are non-reductive with respect to individualistic attitudes and other properties of the individuals that share the intention in question. The presentation concentrates on the accounts of Margaret Gilbert, John Searle, and Raimo Tuomela.

David Cooper, former librarian at Corpus Christi College Oxford and head of the pioneering large-scale digitisation project Early Manuscripts at Oxford, is part of a team of scholars who are preparing a new electronic catalogue of the Mt. Sinai collection. This coming Wednesday David will give an informal presentation of the project and the challenges faced by the team. St. Catherine's Monastery at Mt. Sinai in Egypt, built between 548 and 565, houses the oldest and most important Christian monastic library collection in the world. Of its 3,300 manuscripts, two-thirds are in Greek; the rest are principally in Arabic, Syriac, Georgian and Old Church Slavonic, with a smaller number in Hebrew, Ethiopian, Armenian, Latin and Persian.

I will present new unique prime factorization results for tensor product von Neumann algebras where each tensor component belongs to a large class of nonamenable factors that includes all free Araki-Woods factors. I will moreover present new results regarding the structure of bicentralizer algebras and show that Connes's bicentralizer problem has a positive solution for all solid type III_1 factors. This is joint work with Yusuke Isono.

Rikke Hartmeyer fortæller om refleksioner over didaktiske valg og uderumsledelse i udeskole gennem konkrete eksempler vist på filmklip. Introduktion til projekt Udvikling af Udeskole.

Getting Ready for 2020 surveys emergent professional/personal "must-have" traits as they migrate from the fringe to the center of our personal, business and social lives: Creating Transnational Ethea, Slime Mold Careers, Becoming Caring Cyborgs.

I anledning af visningen af kunstneren Richard Mosses The Enclave, hvor dokumentariske og kunstneriske strategier blandes i et rystende vidnesbyrd om tragedien i det borgerkrigsramte DR Congo, vil skuespiller Jens Albinus læse op af Joseph Conrads "Mørkets hjerte". Romanen, udgivet 1902, er bl.a. af Conrads egne oplevelser i Congo, hvor han arbejdede som kaptajn på en damper på Congofloden.

This talk will presents a compiler pipeline for the NetKAT programming language that is orders of magnitude faster than previous compilers for high-level network languages. The compiler is based on new algorithms that use a generalization of binary decision diagrams as an intermediate representation and symbolic automata to generate optimized forwarding state. It also handles programs that use network-wide features such as regular paths and virtual topologies. I will describe the design and implementation of three essential compiler stages: from local programs (which specify single-switch behavior) to forwarding tables, from global programs (which specify network-wide behavior) to local programs, and from virtual programs (which specify behavior in terms of virtual topologies) to global programs. I will also discuss our implementation and present results from experiments on real-world benchmarks that quantify performance in terms of compilation time and forwarding table size.

A product's success in technology isn't always about technological innovation. When Arduino was developed, several comparable microcontroller boards were already available in the electronics market. What set it apart was its focus on user experience, education and its community. This talk will walk you through the evolution of the Arduino UX strategy—its DIY beginnings, its current features, and what is coming next. It will explore how an open-source, educational approach can transform a product's development and design, eventually leading it to become an industry standard.

I forbindelse med udstillingen "HEAVY – Hans Henrik Lerfeldt" afholder Gl Holtegaard en række samtaler mellem Maria Kjær Themsen og fagfolk indenfor områderne billedkunst, kønsidentitet, seksualitet og mode. Samtalerne vil placere og diskutere Lerfeldts værker i samtiden. Tredje samtale er med Henrik Marstal, musiker og feminist, om hvordan et billedunivers som Hans Henrik Lerfeldts påvirker vores opfattelse af kvindelige og mandlige stereotyper.

Der er ikke mange mennesker i Per Bak Jensens billeder. Vi møder marken, havet, landskabet. Og alligevel. "Landskaber indeholder en oprindelig del af os selv", siger Jensen. "Når vi vandrer igennem dem, giver de os noget af det tilbage, vi har glemt." Det er dette skjulte, Jensen undersøger med sit kamera. Vores blik på verden definerer, hvem vi er. I landskabets tomhed møder vi os selv. Kunstens billeder forløser vores erindring.

The Rosetta Mission is the third cornerstone mission of the ESA programme Horizon 2000. The aim of the mission is to map the comet 67-P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by remote sensing, to examine its environment in situ and its evolution in the inner solar system. The lander Philae is the first device to land on a comet and perform in-situ science on the surface. Launched in March 2004 and after a number of gravity assists and various asteroid fly –bys, the spacecraft entered deep space hibernation in June 2011. Nearly 10 years after launch on 20th January 2014 at 10:00 UTC the spacecraft woke up from hibernation, and subsequently successfully entered into orbit around the comet and deployed Philae to the surface. Philae had only a few hours of activity on the comet before it ran out of juice. However, it was enough time to collect soil and take several measurements of the comet's atmosphere. In this episode of Science & Cocktails, Matt Taylor, project scientist on the Rosetta mission, will give the low down of the mission so far.

Empirical research originating in social psychology suggests that lay persons' argumentation with respect to issues of both facts and values significantly deviates from what experts in epistemology or practical philosophy recognize as current best standards, broadly conceived. This goes some way towards explaining why our public discourse is as (poor) it is; those seeking to improve the status quo, however, also need to recognize that factors of a more political nature are at play. This talk briefly outlines basic insights into folk-epistemology, provides application examples also in the domain of values, and stresses that ameliorating the status quo must also be understood as an ultimately political action.

The G8 and other donors have recently up-scaled formalization ostensibly to protect farmers from land grabbing and to reduce conflict. At the same in cooperation with agro-industrial multinationals they are sponsoring and encouraging large scale foreign investment in agriculture in Africa. Some African governments state that plenty of land is unoccupied and ripe for foreign investment yet formalization entails mapping out village land boundaries so as to identify and carve out land for large scale investors. Using examples from Tanzania and elsewhere the talk will map out the terrain of contestation, conflict and dispossession at the core of the political economy of property right formalization in Africa.

En kraftigt fokuseret laserstråle, en optisk pincet, er et nyt og fantastisk værktøj, der kan manipulere enkelte molekyler og direkte måle et molekyles mekaniske og elastiske egenskaber. Fundamentale processer i den menneskelige organisme klares af enkelte molekyle motorer, som bevæger sig langs DNA og RNA. De griber, strækker og bøjer DNA og RNA, mens de afkoder information og danner proteiner, kroppens arbejdsheste. Optiske pincetter kan monitorere molekylære motorer og afdække, hvordan disse små maskiner, som er langt mere energi-effektive end nogen menneskeskabt maskine, fungerer. I foredraget vil der også blive lagt vægt på forskningsprocessen, om vigtigheden af at stole på sine resultater, også selvom man observerer andre fundamentale egenskaber end beskrevet i litteraturen.

Round table meeting on human rights in China and on the results which one NGO, Dui Hua, has achieved through interaction and negotiations with Chinese authorities over a period of 25 years. In his presentation, Executive Director John Kamm, Founder of Dui Hua Foundation, looks back and sums up 25 years of active promotion of human rights issues in China. John Kamm's presentation is followed by a Q & A session.

This presentation analyses "the global factory"—the dispersed, networked multinational firm in the context of globalisation. Globalisation is examined as the interaction of markets and institutions, and their conflicts, in the world economy. The strategies of the focal firm in the global factory are explained, together with their impact on host and source countries. Methods of growing global factories in an emerging country are examined.

What is Liveability in today's context and how to achieve this in ever more dense urban spaces? What functions and qualities do they need to fulfill the social needs of our society and on top can we practice resource protection, filter, clean and regulate water supply, practice climate mitigation, balance temperature, produce clean air and increase bio-habitat as well? Natural structures work with resilient principles. They are living systems. Our cities, on the other hand, are often inflexible and therefore cannot adapt quick enough to changing conditions. We cannot afford this dilemma in the future and seamless solutions between buildings and open space need to be developed. It seems that we have all the necessary technology and knowledge available today but still there is a lack of implementation. Therefore engagement of people, good governance, political empowerment and stakeholder capital investment is crucial. Priorities of values and arguments have to be found to force us to better integrate blue, green and social infrastructures. In this way cities can become more sustainable, resilient and much more liveable and vibrant.

What is the state of the humanities worldwide? How can we assess it? And is it true that humanities scholars sit in ivory towers far removed from the world? Recently, Poul Holm has worked on the Humanities World Report. It is the first of its kind, and the Report gives an overview of the humanities worldwide. Published as an Open Access title and based on an extensive literature review and enlightening interviews conducted with 90 humanities scholars across 40 countries, the book offers a first step in attempting to assess the state of the humanities globally. Through this seminar, Poul Holm will, based on the report, correct the stereotypical view of humanists as scholars locked away in their ivory towers, and instead show the emerging picture of humanists as deeply committed to the social value of their work and appreciative of the long-term importance it has for addressing global challenges.

Vær med når Innosite og Foreningen Hovedstadens Forskønnelse inviterer til debat og præmieoverrækkelse. ON OUR WAY konkurrencen sætter fokus på hvordan man kan gentænke byggepladsen i byrummet. Fra et passiv i byen—et støjende område, man nødigt vil være i nærheden af, en barriere og en ulempe—til et levende og indtagende, midlertidigt byrum, som giver naboer og forbipasserende en by, der er skøn at bo i, mens den forandres.

What will Copenhagen look like in 5, 10 and 15 years' time? What is the future of the city as a residential city according to the projects that architectural firms are designing right now? And what role does housing play in a city and a welfare society that are undergoing change? KADK The School of Architecture opens a new big exhibition about tomorrow's housing in the metropolis of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Building Research Institute, AAU.

A computer-less introduction to Computer Science aiming at making you curious enough about machines that you'll want to talk to. "From 0 to C" is a framework of objects, methods, stories and games to teach the basics of computer science and programming. It is the outcome of several years spent teaching code and basic electronics to design students and curious makers, pushed by a curiosity that has been accompanying Ubi since he was a child. This framework does not aim at making one an awesome programmer, as that more often comes with experience and time, but it may ease the process of pushing through the entrance barrier via means of physical interaction with tangible objects. It leverages on the "learn by discovery" principle, in which collaboration between participants (both students and tutors) may favour the learning process by slowly discovering how to create a fictional computer.

Lyt med, når Per Aage Brandt og Henrik Boëtius diskuterer en ikke-materilistisk videnskabelig praksis og tænkning i et miniseminar på SMK og bliv klogere på tanker, der i dag optager mange kunstnere, filosoffer og naturvidenskabelige forskere. Miniseminaret tager udgangspunkt i bogen I sansningens enhed—en bog om Goethes farvelære, der præsenterer de fænomenologiske indsigter, som findes i Goethes farvelære, hvor vores sanseorganer adskiller det indre fra det ydre. En adskillelse Goethe kun ser som en tilsyneladende virkelighed, da han tænker og ser, at det indre og det ydre indgår i en gensidig afhængighed—de er hinandens forudsætninger i én og samme enhed, som man netop kunne kalde sansningens enhed. En tanke, der i dag optager mange kunstnere, filosoffer og naturvidenskabelige forskere.

I anledning af 100 året for kvindernes valgret kaster Erik Skyum-Nielsen i selskab med litterater og forfattere et blik på en række oversete kvindelige forfattere. Tove Meyer (1913-1972) havde sin debut med digtsamlingen 'Guds Palet' i 1935. Senere udkom 'Skygger paa Jorden' (1943) og 'Drømte dage' (1952). Med 'Havoffer' (1961) og den sidste samling, 'Brudlinier' (1967), placerede Tove Meyer sig med stor vægt i efterkrigstidens modernisme.

Året var 1960, da Magna mødte op i Valby Remise for at begynde sin tjeneste ved Sporvejene. Det var en typisk mandearbejdsplads, og man kunne måske forvente skepsis overfor "kvindelig indtrængen", sådan som man ofte har hørt om. Men modtagelsen viste sig at være ualmindelig hjertelig både fra kollegerne og passagererne: "Det er da dejligt at møde en dame. Og på tide". Desuden var der ligeløn efter tjenestemandstakst. Men hierarki var der på et andet plan: De fine funktionærer og det menige personale holdt sig hver for sig, i arbejdstiden og i pauserne. Vognene var i starten todelte, der var motorvognen og bivognen—og livet i bivognen var det festligste, mindes Magna. Her samledes f.eks. bryggeriarbejderne fra Carlsberg. Alle kendte hinanden, og der var liv og glade dage. Sporvognsperioden varede til 1968, hvor Magna satte sig bag rattet i sin første bus.

Litterær salon. "Mia, Alice, Julika, Stella, Kay & Isadora. Kvindelige hovedpersoner i tysk litteratur fra de sidste 25 år" ved cand. mag. i tysk og freelancegermanist Hanne Roswall Laursen. Siden murens fald 1 1989 har tysk litteratur oplevet et boom af debutanter, der med stor fortælleglæde og på et højt kunstnerisk niveau har indtaget og ændret den litterære scene. Hanne Roswall Laursen fortæller om markante kvindefigurer i tysk litteratur de sidste 25 år.

There is a high correlation between terrorism, instability and corruption. Countries like Afghanistan, Ukraine and Nigeria are clear examples of this. The widespread corruption in the Iraqi arm has given room for IS. Boko Haram's success in Nigeria can be partly attributed to an army that is riddled with corruption. Transparency International Denmark marks our 20th anniversary and annual general assembly by inviting you to an afternoon where two experienced speakers will lead us in to a very timely discussion about corruption, instability and terrorism. We have invited researcher and director Mark Pyman, who leads TI's global work on security and defence, who will give us his insights from ten years of experience in relation to terrorism, instability and corruption. We have also invited Colonel Flemming Agerskov, the former chief of ISAF's anti-corruption organisation in Afghanistan, and now head of Denmark's Southern Command, who will talk about his experience of the connection between corruption and security.

This talk explores a rare green-glazed celadon ceramic decorated with gold in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and questions what it tells us about the production, manufacture and appreciation of Korean art—past and present.

Fotosyntetiske organismer er i stand til ved hjælp af solenergi at omdanne luftens kuldioxid til organiske forbindelser der muliggør planters vækst og udvikling og sætter dem i stand til at producere forsvarsstoffer der forhindrer angreb fra mikroorganismer og dyr. Nogle af disse forsvarsstoffer bruger vi som fødevareingredienser (sødemidler eller farvestoffer) eller som medicinske stoffer (morfin, taxol) til behandling af smerter og alvorlige sygdomme. Typisk producerer planterne ikke ret meget af disse værdifulde stoffer. Ved hjælp af syntesebiologi kan vi nu koble dannelsen af sådanne ønksværdige stoffer direkte til de fotosyntetiske processer og dermed optimere produktionen. Rigtig brugt viser syntesebiologien vejen til udvikling af fremtidens bæredygtige produktionssystemer.

What is the Universe made of? How did the Universe begin? The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe, from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars, constitute only 5% of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The remaining 95% is made up of a recipe of 25% dark matter and 70% dark energy, both nonluminous components whose nature remains a mystery. Katherine Freese will recount stories from her book The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter, from the discoveries of visionary scientists like Fritz Zwicky, the Swiss astronomer who coined the term "dark matter" in 1933, to the deluge of data today from underground laboratories, satellites in space, and the Large Hadron Collider.

Some communities look backward for their collective identity, while others look ahead. Furuset, one of many suburbs built in eastern Oslo from the 1960s to the 1980s, belongs to the latter category. Its inhabitants have backgrounds from many countries; some have lived in Oslo all their lives, while others arrived last month. The mobility and flux of the community is a continuous feature both in the long and the short term, and creating a sense of belonging and local identification is hard work.

Det internationale Melodi Grand Prix har i mange år været et yndet forskningsobjekt. Det er kult og kitch, men også en politisk, teknologihistorisk og musikhistorisk vigtig begivenhed, som har fundet sted siden 1956. Konkurrencen blev født i direkte sammenhæng med fjernsynets gennembrud og var i mange år en vigtig årlig begivenhed, hvor man hørte musik på andre sprog end ens eget. De bedst placerede sange dukkede efterfølgende op på de andre sprog. I det 21. århundrede har konkurrencen fået ny aktualitet med Internettets og især de sociale mediers gennembrud. Alt dette vil Henrik Smith-Sivertsen, som i en årrække har forsket i Melodi Grand Prix-relaterede emner, fortælle om i sin forelæsning. Der vil blive spillet masser af video- og musikklip.

During most of his career, Manet complained that he was misunderstood. When, in 1881–82, already gravely ill, he painted Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère, not only did he produce his last ambitious Salon painting, he also conceived it as his pictorial testament. He used strict one-point perspective to plant clues, which he hoped would didactically explain the radically new mode of address to the viewer that had been his great contribution to modern painting. But, as unwilling to compromise as ever, he made the viewer's task even more difficult than in his previous works. With its apparently misplaced reflection in the mirror, Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère is Manet's most enigmatic canvas. Yet the clues are there, waiting to be deciphered...

Around 1800 there was an explosion of economic productivity, conjoined with the Industrial Revolution. The ensuing era can suitably be described as capitalism. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence? Drawing on a theoretical approach called legal institutionalism, which emphasises the constitutive role of law and the state, professor Hodgson identifies the key institutional developments that coincided with its rise, including in particular the role of financial institutions.

This lecture addresses topics form Alberto Perez-Gomez's forthcoming book, now in production. It foregrounds the importance of poetic and narrative language for an architecture concerned with atmosphere (recently evoked by Peter Zumthor and Juhani Pallasmaa among others), in the tradition of phenomenology, seeking attuned places for human action. In view of the current obsessions with mathematical languages in the generation of form, it argues that the use of natural, poetic language is a central strategy to overcome empty, decontextualized formalism.

Robotterne er på vej ind i vores hverdag. Der er selvkørende robotbiler, støvsugerrobotter, humanoide robotter, droner mv. I dennee forelæsning vil baggrunden for denne robotteknologiske udvikling blive dækket og vi vil kigge på de typer af kunstig intelligens, som bliver brugt i robotterne i dag. Vi vil også kigge på nogle af de nyeste forskningsresultater inden for robotteknologi og hvad de siger om, hvad vi kan forvente os i den nærmeste fremtid af denne spændende teknologi.

En af de seneste årtiers væsentligste tekstvidenskabelige fornyelser er materialfilologien, der dukkede op inden for middelalderfilologien og blev introduceret i 1990 som The New Philology, men siden videreført som Material Philology. Den materialfilologiske tilgang forholder sig hermeneutisk til teksters fysiske fremtrædelsesform og hævder at tekster ikke kan udforskes løsrevet fra deres tekstbærere. Derfor studeres det enkelte tekstbærende artefakt i sin helhed, og denne helhed anskues som et produkt der både afspejler tilblivelsen og den efterfølgende brug. Materialfilologien repræsenterer dermed et tekstsyn der bryder med en traditionel tekstkritik der hviler på ideen om den bedste eller mest oprindelige tekst. I foredraget vil jeg dels give en kort præsentation af den nye filologis tekstteoretiske grundlag, dels vise eksempler på den håndskriftfilologiske tilgang, som også har fået betegnelsen Artefactual Philology.

The Function of Invisibility in Architectural Meaning. When the Screen is a Tongue. On Snowflakes and Other Assemblages.

The maker-movement is a new phenomenon where people share and collaborate on designing both software and hardware. Morten's interpretation of the difference between a do-it-yourselfer and a maker is the additional layer digital fabrication and software. For a long time people have been collaborating on open-source software projects, but what happens when physical products is more and more defined by software, with the "internet of things" and 3d printers which gives information physical form. This will be a talk about the relationship between software and hardware through his own work with designing CNC-machines.

Experience one of contemporary art's absolute masters, Jeff Wall, in conversation with the internationally renowned art historian Thierry De Duve. The conversation marks the exhibition opening of JEFF WALL—Tableaux Pictures Photographs.

The appearance of objects depends on the interaction of light and matter. So, the physics of light scattering is vital to understanding the connection between an object and the appearance of its image. I focus on the light backscattered from a tiny point of light hitting a flat object. How does physics constrain the amount of information that can be obtained, in principle? I concentrate on measuring the size (distribution) of spherical objects, like emulsions, but also discuss non-spherical objects and the use of polarized light.

In old Egyptian civilisation deliberate mummification became a sign of wealth and social status, and constituted a step towards living well in the afterlife. Deliberate mummification is also found in ancient cultures in South America and Asia. The process of mummification is not always deliberate, in fact, in many cases it occurs naturally, especially in dry climates or at freezing temperatures. Naturally mummified bodies have been found in Africa as well as in Greenland and bog bodies (mummies naturally deposited in sphagnum bogs) have been found in many locations, including Europe. Mummies and Bog bodies are unique finds from our Prehistory. Silently, they carry information about our past which can be extracted using forensic anthropology techniques. They are silent witnesses of lives lived thousands of years ago, and by applying modern natural and medical scientific methods to bear, we can elucidate much about they way of life, their health, and indeed, their death.

Internettet er siden sin fødsel for omtrent 25 år siden konstant vokset, båret frem af de optiske teknologier: laseren og den optiske fiber. Der er i dag optiske fibre på tværs af oceaner, kontinenter, mellem metropoler, og flere og flere helt ud til slutbrugerne i deres egne hjem, og der genereres og sendes i dag ligeså meget data hver eneste dag, som der blev skabt fra tidernes morgen og indtil år 2000. Det har vist sig, at man ved at kontrollere lyssignaler med andre lyspulser får mulighed for at kontrollere optiske data signaler med enorm båndbredde og med ultra-hurtig respons og præcision. Ved at udforske sådanne optiske metoder, er der mulighed for at man kan reducere energiforbruget af internettet dramatisk og stadig understøtte det voksende behov for båndbredde.

Computing the Euler genus of a graph is a fundamental problem in graph theory and topology. It has been shown to be NP-hard by [Thomassen '89] and a linear-time fixed-parameter algorithm has been obtained by [Mohar '99]. Despite extensive study, the approximability of the Euler genus remains wide open. While the existence of O(1)-approximation is not ruled out, the currently best-known upper bound is a trivial O(n/g)-approximation that follows from bounds on the Euler characteristic. In this paper, we give the first non-trivial approximation algorithm for this problem. Specifically, we give an O(n^{1-c}) approximation algorithm for some constant c.

I Afdeling for Navneforsknings seminarrække holdes foredraget denne gang af cand.phil. Thomas W. Lassen, middelalderarkæolog og tidligere mangeårig museumschef ved Lolland-Falsters Stiftsmuseum og Frilandsmuseet i Maribo. Emnet er både stednavne og gadenavne. Foruden en emnemæssig præsentation af Resen og hans værk Atlas Danicus vil foredraget også komme ind på hans indsamlingsmetode og bearbejdning af navnestoffet, samt et kildekritisk synspunkt på materialet.

In this talk, I will offer an introduction to how Indigenous boarding schools were used in Canada and the United States in an attempt to destroy Indigenous groups. However, I will also demonstrate why this history is a necessary starting point for understanding contemporary welfare practices in Winnipeg, which has the largest Indigenous population of any large Canadian city. Although the Canadian government has apologized and paid compensation to residential school survivors, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is currently reckoning with this dark chapter in Canadian history, Canadians still live in a world where Indigenous people are grossly overrepresented in prisons, dependent on social services, and have more of their children removed by government than was the case at the height of the residential schooling era. The genocidal past has mutated into the settler colonial present, meaning the current plight of inner city Indigenous social service agencies takes place in the shadows of the residential schools.

Peder Dam har for nyligt udgivet "Bebyggelser og stednavnetyper", og han vil præsentere bogen og de resultater som den gør tilgængelige. Godt 14.000 danske bebyggelsesnavne er registreret, kortlagt og klassificeret med oplysninger om fx stednavnetype, historisk bebyggelsesstørrelse, relation til arkæologisk fund og omfanget af kirker i bebyggelserne. Bogens tværfaglige analyser trækker på nogle af de største kulturhistoriske databaser i landet for at give svar på hvornår og hvordan mønsteret i de danske bebyggelsesnavne opstod.

According to the well-known notion of the "Kafkaesque", the fictional world in Kafka's literary works is a world determined by fate-like bureaucracies, and hence an immutable world devoid of the political. In this talk, however, I will argue that political action in concert plays a vital role in Kafka. Kafka is not "Kafkaesque", and in order to show why not, I have to suggest a rethinking of the relationship between literature and politics, shifting the theoretical focus from the political events depicted on the content-level of the literary work towards the political events triggered by the literary form.

Hvordan kommer kærlighed og relationer til at se ud i fremtiden? Går vi imod mere eller mindre fri seksualitet? Er der sammenhæng mellem seksualitet, reproducering og kærlighed? Kom og deltag i det tredje af syv inspirerende, videnskabelige møder, hvor forskere fra forskellige fagdiscipliner belyser vores forestillinger om fremtiden.

"Det beruser alle mine sanser." Sådan skrev den unge maler Paula Becker i sin dagbog om læsningen af den danske forfatter J.P. Jacobsen. "Jeg læser ham fysisk!" Hun læste flere af J.P. Jacobsens værker og havde mange samtaler om forfatteren med den østrigske digter Rainer Maria Rilke, som også havde slået sig ned i kunstnerkolonien i Worpswede og var blevet en nær ven. De delte fascinationen af den danske forfatter.

Varsling af oversvømmelser og effektiv udnyttelse af vandressourcen.

How do we frame our studies of/on the city? The lecture will explore how we "encounter" urban sites through the lenses crafted by particular knowledge arenas, professional areas of expertise and disciplinary training.

Most societies have come to understand science as a key to their competitiveness and growth. Science Communication is therefore no longer simply a question of making science accessible to non-scientists. Understanding its role in modern knowledge societies warrants serious theoretical efforts. Such efforts will involve the synthesis of empirical studies and an exploration of Science Communication's importance for identity-formation as well as for the legitimacy and efficiency of scientific knowledge. To achieve this, we must not only study large-scale public engagement and dissemination activities, but also mundane interactions between popular fiction, media stories, press releases, scientists' own accounts and day-to-day organizational storytelling. In this lecture, Maja Horst will argue the necessity of studying Science Communication in a manner which draws upon several theoretical and interdisciplinary strands within the humanities and social sciences. The objective is to understand individual and collective sense-making about what science and scientific organizations both are and ought to be.

Mai-britt Guldin præsenterer den nyeste viden inden for såkaldt sorg-intervention. Sorg er en naturlig reaktion, når livet gør ondt! Men i visse mere komplicerede tilfælde kan behandling være en fordel. Behandling af sorg har ændret sig radikalt fra at tale om tanker og følelser til i dag snarere at lære at "holde fri fra tankerne",—og fra at slippe båndene til den mistede til at evne at fastholde dem.

It is usually assumed that the inter- and post-war period saw an intensification of colonial violence, as imperial powers sought to maintain control in the face of increasing opposition from anti-colonial nationalism and other global forces. The late colonial state, however, only appears to have assumed more repressive forms, with increasing recourse to indiscriminate violence, if one assumes a perspective restricted to the twentieth century. This paper seeks to recast the Amritsar Massacre, and the violence of decolonization more generally, within the longer history of colonial spectacles of exemplary punishment.

I kølvandet på Anden Verdenskrig trådte den mandlige kok ind på den danske mediescene. "Gourmanden" blev en tilbagevendende karakter i de danske kogebøger, mænd begyndte at lave mad i fjernsynet, og i en række debatindlæg diskuterede en række mandlige kunstnere retningen af fremtidens danske madkultur. Herigennem formidledes en ny forståelse af køkkenet, der i kontrast til tidligere blev fremstillet som et kreativt og rekreativt rum. Med udgangspunkt i de mandlige medie-madlavere fra perioden 1950-73 fortæller Caroline Nyvang om den historiske baggrund, der kan danne udgangspunkt for en diskussion af, hvorfor mænd og kvinder også i dag repræsenterer to forskellige former for madlavning.

Mikkel Bo Schneller fortæller om fysisk aktivitet og sundhedsfremme med baggrund i hans igangværende phd-projekt, hvor han laver bevægelsesmålinger på udeskoleklasser og sammenligningsklasser.

25 years ago, on 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment. Three years after his release, Mandela and then South African President F.W. de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in overcoming apartheid and preparing South Africa for a democratic future. In 1994 Mandela was elected as president in the 'new' South Africa after the country's first free election. But where is South Africa today, a year after Nelson Mandela's death? What is the social, economic and political outlook for South Africa? What is its role and reputation, both regionally and internationally? What was Mandela's role in the national reconciliation process, and how did Mandela became a global icon?

With a strong sense of history, but no intention in simply recreating it, Grilli Type designs typefaces with an attitude. Co-founder Thierry Blancpain will talk about the Swiss design heritage and how current Swiss designers, including Grilli Type, relate to it—as well as how Grilli's typefaces find their place in the world.

Spise med Price er et af de mest succesfulde madprogrammer i dansk tv's historie. I hvert program følger vi de to brødre lave mad sammen i et isoleret sommerhus. I et kønsperspektiv er det bemærkelsesværdigt, at de modsat mange andre madprogrammer ikke forsøger at integrere madlavning ind i en "cool", urban livsstil, men derimod bruger maden til at søge væk og dyrke fortid og familie—især deres faderen og hans hedonistiske ma(d)skuline tradition. I dette foredrag vil Jonatan Leer analysere det særlige homosociale køkkenrum, som Spise med Price fremstiller. Derudover vil han argumentere for, at programmet er nostalgisk på en særlig refleksiv måde, hvilket vil blive gjort tydeligt gennem en parallel til et andet og ret anderledes eksempel på ma(d)skulinitet og nostalgi, nemlig Jamie's Ministry of Food.

The Creative Economy increasingly provides the main engine of progress in the developed world. For example, eleven percent of the GNP in Denmark is now attributed to The Creative Economy and the government is investing heavily in infrastructures supporting design driven startups. New evidence-based methods, processes and tools are facilitating a better fit between founders' capabilities and market opportunities. How can startups best build and leverage their own design capabilities? This presentation shares the latest research findings from Silicon Valley and San Gabriel Valley in Design Driven Startups. The research has established the hunting ground, as well as, the sweet spot for various types of entrepreneurial endeavors, ranging from incremental change to breakthrough market and technology innovations. Based on the collected data, a linear regression model has been devised that together with a market-technology-execution principle, predicts a startup's success at the end of the seed capital phase.

Peter Øvig Knudsen har skrevet bøger om nogle af de mest dramatiske og smertefulde begivenheder i nyere tids danmarkshistorie. På den ene side har han høstet priser og anerkendelse fra den brede offentlighed. På den anden side har bøgerne givet anledning til voldsom debat og kritik fra nogle af de involverede personer. I Nakkeskuddet (2014)—og på denne aften i Retorikforeningen—genopsøger Øvig Knudsen nogle af de alvorligste konflikter, han har haft med de levende kilder. Han vil fortælle om kompromiser, han har måttet indgå i sit arbejde med at skrive sig op imod historien, og give et indblik i de overvejelser og udfordringer, der er forbundet med at fortælle virkeligheden.

Pecha Kucha er japansk for "sniksnak" og går ud på, at et antal kreative deltagere præsenterer deres arbejde, idéer og visioner i 20 elementer, der vises i præcis 20 sekunder—i alt en præsentationstid på 6 minutter og 40 sekunder. Et element kan være et billede, et lydklip, et digt, en performance og lignende. Deltagerne er kunstnere, designere, musikere, arkitekter, iværksættere, opfindere og andre med inspirerende projekter og idéer. Alt er tilladt, så længe det ikke overskrider grænsen på 20 sekunder. Den stramme form holder præsentationerne skarpe og gør samtidig, at interessen holdes oppe hos tilhørerne.

In this guest talk, Rodney Benson from NYU will talk about his book Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison (Cambridge, 2013). Using immigration news as a case study, Benson shows how and why the quality of journalistically mediated public communication differs across nation-states. Stressing three levels of structural analysis (field position, logic, and structure), Benson clarifies the social-cultural factors that shape the production of journalistic discourse as a central component of political communication in democratic societies. Drawing on a range of original indicators, he demonstrates how divergent forms of news—personalized narrative vs. debate ensemble—help account for cross-national and cross-outlet differences in immigration news, such as the predominance of particular frames and speakers, overall ideological and institutional diversity, and criticism of powerful actors.

During fast urbanization, large numbers of internal migrants to cities will influence consumptive behavior and carbon emission. With a city residents' survey conducted in Shanghai in 2013, the authors will compare direct and indirect carbon emissions between local people, new migrants and temporary migrants living in the cities. The authors will conclude how Consumptive Carbon Emission (CCE) is influenced by migration process, and with further analysis on factors associated with CCE, the authors will also discuss the migration-CCE relations, and suggest the policy implications to decouple migration/urbanization and increasing consumptive carbon emissions.

There occurred in the twentieth century the most remarkable episode in the history of human thought. A number of thinkers denied the existence of something we know with certainty to exist: consciousness, conscious experience: the subjective qualitative or phenomenological character or being of experiences: the experiential "what-it's-likeness" of experiences: experience, as I'll call it. Others held back from the Denial, as I'll call it, but claimed that it might be true—a claim no less remarkable than the Denial. I want to document some aspects of this episode, with particular reference to the rise of philosophical behaviourism, and the transformation of materialism from a consciousness affirming-view into a consciousness-denying view.

In "My Struggle", Knausgaard claims to remember nothing from his early life while producing volumes of detailed memory. This paper aims to establish philosophical co-ordinates for this paradox, in the relationship between memory and imagination, the dynamic of remembering and forgetting, and the externalization of memory. It draws on the work of Bernard Stiegler and his elaboration of retentional finitude in Time and Technics. The argument focuses on the motif of the face in Knausgaard, as an object of recollection, and as a mode of enquiry into the nature of memory.

Fotosyntetiske organismer er i stand til ved hjælp af solenergi at omdanne luftens kuldioxid til organiske forbindelser, der muliggør planters vækst og udvikling og sætter dem i stand til at producere forsvarsstoffer, der forhindrer angreb fra mikroorganismer og dyr. Nogle af disse forsvarsstoffer bruger vi som fødevareingredienser (sødemidler eller farvestoffer) eller som medicinske stoffer (morfin, taxol) til behandling af smerter og alvorlige sygdomme. Typisk producerer planterne ikke ret meget af disse værdifulde stoffer. Ved hjælp af syntesebiologi kan vi nu koble dannelsen af sådanne ønksværdige stoffer direkte til de fotosyntetiske processer og dermed optimere produktionen. Rigtig brugt viser syntesebiologien vejen til udvikling af fremtidens bæredygtige produktionssystemer.

Inaugural seminar and launch for the Centre for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies.

Mehdi Mozaffari, Professor emeritus at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, will share with the audience some of his experiences related to the methodology, data collection and finally editing and publication of his book: Islamisme: en orientalsk totalitarisme (2013-2014). He will present his interdisciplinary approach to this problematic as well as how he overcame some of the obstacles encountered in the process.

Ambassador Kaspars Ozolins, Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Denmark, will talk about Latvia's EU presidency and the challenges facing the EU in 2015. These include both the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the possibility of a Greek renegotiation of its bailout terms. The Ambassador will also talk about Latvia's adoption of the Euro last year, less than five years after the country had to be bailed out early in the financial crisis. What lessons can be learned from Latvia's reform process and rapid turnaround in the current context?

A lecture and performance by Christopher Innes, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, KU, & Brigitte Bogar, opera singer and former student at the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, now of York University, Toronto. George Bernard Shaw was not only one of the most celebrated of all modern playwrights; he was also a very distinguished writer on music. He had furthermore some rather controversial views about English spelling and, in Pygmalion (turned musical in My Fair Lady), made fun of the prestige of "correct pronunciation". This event draws together the musical and phonetic strands in Shaw's plays and relates them to his writings on music and musical theatre, with plenty of vocal illustrations and exemplifications. In particular we shall hear, and hear about, a number of of little-known songs, six by Shaw and six by his mother: these songs have never previously been recorded—and very seldom heard.

I forbindelse med udstillingen "HEAVY – Hans Henrik Lerfeldt" afholder Gl Holtegaard en række samtaler mellem Maria Kjær Themsen og fagfolk indenfor områderne billedkunst, kønsidentitet, seksualitet og mode. Samtalerne vil placere og diskutere Lerfeldts værker i samtiden. Samtalen vil tage udgangspunkt i hvordan kulturelle forandringer har påvirket vores seksualitet fra 80'erne til i dag. Maria Marcus er mag.art i litteraturvidenskab og tidligere kunstmedarbejder på dagblade og TV, i dag psykoterapeut og sexolog. Hun er forfatter til en lang række bøger, deriblandt "Den frygtelige sandhed, en brugsbog om kvinder og masokisme" (1974).

How do we decide to value the place where we live? How do we connect the small amount of space that our physical body occupies to the shared space that occupies our bodies? These fundamental questions are addressed through an investigation of place through sonic research. Sound as a medium acts as a political, physical, and psychological signifier, which once displaced from its site of origin, can be replayed as a convincing reality. Distant locations come into intimate proximity. Spaces become potential sites for activation and intervention. In this talk, Alyssa will share her practice and understanding of the interweaving of sound, place, subjectivity, memory, and absence.

Udstillingsleder Marie Laurberg fortæller om Richard Mosses krigsskildringer i et kunsthistorisk perspektiv. Richard Mosses krigsskildringer vækker genklang hos andre kunstnere, der har arbejdet med kunsten som historisk vidnesbyrd; fra Goyas Krigens Rædsler over Picassos Guernica til yngre kunstnere, der arbejder i krydsfeltet mellem kunst og dokumentarisme.

One of the central promises of parliamentary democracy as a model of governance is that it can deal with any problem that concerns a political community. In a way, it is possible to think of parliament buildings as material manifestations of this promise. They can be thought of as complex political technologies that in Europe and North America gained a more-or-less standardised form by the end of the nineteenth century. The Hungarian parliament building is no exception. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research conducted in Budapest between 2008 and 2010, the first part of this presentation will provide a material-semiotic analysis of parliaments as problem-solving machines, the smooth operation of which relies upon predefined and preformatted problems. But where do problems come from? The second part of the presentation aims to address this question by shifting focus from parliaments as problem-solving machines to different modes of problematisation. Using the regulation of drug use in Hungary as a specific example, it will outline how a European statistics office, policy networks and civil activist groups collectively constitute the outsides of parliamentary democracy, engaging in politics on the level of problem-formation.

Med vinen i glasset diskuteres fremstillingsmetoden af fire forskellige vine. Vin er et kulturelt fænomen, som alle har en mening om. Kun få har en dybere indsigt i selve processen, og det prøver denne smagning at råde bod på. En gang om året står vinbonden med en råvare, som altid er forskellig fra alle de andre år. Der er et virvar af beslutninger, som skal tages på kort tid, alle sammen med en overordnet idé om, hvordan den færdige vin skal smage. Jo mere vin man laver, jo bedre bliver man til det, men man kan aldrig være helt sikker på, hvilke tiltag der gav det endelige resultat. Det er denne skabelsesproces, forelæsningen dykker ned i. Vi skal også se på tilsætningsstoffer, propper, emballage og alle de andre ting, der har betydning for vinens liv.

Denne mand har fundet lykken. Ikke bare sin egen, men også din og min. Og modsat os andre ved Christian Bjørnskov, lykkeforsker ved Aarhus Universitet, hvad vi taler om, når vi taler om lykken. Der er den korte, som når AGF sikrer sig en sjælden sejr, og den meget vigtigere lange. Den vi mærker med vores eneste ene, og når virkeligheden overstiger vores forventninger - indtil vi hæver overliggeren for vores liv på ny. Den lykke kan endda være gods eller guld, bare vi bruger det med andre mennesker. Hør om lykkeregnskab og om vi er verdens lykkeligste folk.

In this presentation we will take a deep dive into game analytics, covering the background for the current situation in the industry and review the practice of game analytics, covering the fundamental approaches towards problem-solving and the knowledge discovery process inherent in business intelligence work in games. We will talk about the crucial aspect of deciding which behavioral features to focus on and the stakeholders involved in these considerations, and why this is crucial in games. The methods and analyses used - from simple descriptive statistics to machine learning and spatio-temporal behavioral analysis - will be discussed and the kinds of problems the industry is working with on a daily basis outlined.

Mød Heidi Durhuus fra foreningen Permakultur Danmark. Arrangement i Planteklubben. Heid Durhuus holder oplæg om "Permakultur" og "skovhaver".

Christianshavns Bibliotek præsenterer Peter Madsen, som byder på et kuriøst og oplysende foredrag om superhelte. Peter har sat sig for at give sit bud på milepæle i superheltens filmiske univers. Denne udviklingshistoriske tilgang er hovedemnet i oplægget, men der ses også på et uforløst potentiale for superhelte, der tidligere har været filmatiseret. Vi kommer også rundt om superheltene på tv, mest den moderne udgave, og til sidst afsluttes der med en lille teori om superheltene på film.

Following the recent evolution of fast growing digital technology, wearable technology becomes a larger opportunity for growth in stimulating a public desire to get closer to natural human-computer interactions. However, existing wearable technologies on the market often suffer from such criticisms that it is only technology not a design. This talk discusses what will be beyond the current wearable field by looking at speculative design practices that explore future scenarios of the potentials of human body when it adopts emerging technologies.

Nordic Larp Talks is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects and ideas from the Nordic tradition of live action roleplaying games.

How has the design culture and the active practice of citizenship developed in Brazil and Denmark? How have the notions of engagement, participation, collaboration and community brought the worlds of citizenship and design together? In these two distant geographical contexts, how was design discipline formed, and in what ways has design been facilitating and/or dynamizing the processes of citizen participation? These are some of the questions we intend to discuss during this meeting; which brings together design researchers from Denmark and Brazil to explore the possibilities of applying the processes and procedures of collaborative design in service of the increase of citizenship in democratic contexts through news forms of participation.

In the course of the summer 2013 the European Union adopted and enforced trade measures against the Faroe Islands: This decision was prompted by a disagreement on the management of the shared fish stock Atlanto-Scandian herring. The measures were of significant scope and targeted the equivalent of 15% of the Gross Domestic Production of the Faroe Islands. The Faroe Islands reacted first by instituting arbitral tribunal proceedings under Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea after which separate proceedings under the WTO dispute settlement understanding were also instigated. The proceedings were fascinating from a legal perspective—not only because it related to unchartered territory as the material elements at dispute but also because of the nature of the parallel proceedings which were susceptible to question autonomous legal systems in international law in addition to also potentially raising a broad range of questions with regard to the interrelations of EU law in relation to all these fields. The factual and legal matrix was sensitive and was subject to significant attention in academia.

Igennem historien er lyset blevet brugt som symbol på det gode, åbenbaring og sandhed, hvor mørket har modsatte betydning. I menneskers hverdag spiller mørket, skygger og det dunkle dog en vigtig rolle i skabelsen af identitet, samvær, og stemning, eksempelvis til "hygge" i Danmark. Det seneste århundrede har neonrør og glødepærens lys formet verden visuelt, men nye energisparepære udfordrer den måde, forbrugerne oplever, forstår og bruger lys. Foredraget handler om forskning i "lyskulturer" og menneskers mangeartede brug og forståelse af mørke og lys rundt omkring på kloden. Centralt i foredraget står, at udover at være et naturvidenskabeligt fænomen, så udfolder lys og mørke sig også mellem mennesker som del af social praksis, og få steder i verden er "hyggelys" et mål.

Thomas Manns gennembrudsbog Buddenbrooks. En families forfald (1901), for hvilken han i 1929 modtog nobelprisen, er litteraturhistoriografisk set blevet kategoriseret og kanoniseret som det fremmeste tysksprogede eksempel på den i det 19. århundredes europæiske litteratur fremherskende realistisk-naturalistiske samfunds- og slægtsroman, eller også er den blevet sat i sammenhæng med de europæiske dekadencestrømninger i fin de siècle.Overset har man imidlertid i begge hævdvundne læsninger en nok så væsentlig litterær og åndelig indvirkning på Manns debutroman, nemlig den, der udgår fra romantikken. I mit foredrag formidles en nylæsning af Buddenbrooks som "fantastisk litteratur", hvilket sker ud fra en tekstnær fortolkning af de af romanens eventyrlige og dæmoniske motiver, der refererer til den tyske skrækromantik og til Edgar Allan Poe, hvis gotiske fortælling om et af mørke magter hjemsøgt hus, The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), qua såvel eks- som implicit intertekst er uomgængelig for en udlægning af Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks som fantastisk-fatalistisk funderet roman. Afslutningsvis skitseres den tyske forfatters forhold til romantikken i det hele taget.

Datafication is transforming citizenship in cities around the world by introducing new relationships between citizens and governments. This paper examines how the emergence of various forms of data brokerage by companies as well as civic entities recasts notions of citizenship and institutional responsibility. In a data city, the relationship between government, individuals and corporate entities is transformed through production, exchange, and brokerage of data. Citizens can become consumer-producers of data, creating value for governments and for the companies that provide brokerage of that data. Governments become consumers of analytics that help them to rationally manage resources that are deemed scarce. These relationships are mediated by brokers—companies, organizations or other entities—who can negotiate the relationships between government and individuals, positioning them both as consumers, but of different packages of analytic data. This talk compares and contrasts different forms of commercial and "civic" data brokers, identifying how each kind of brokerage leverages analytic resources and contributes to the construction, imagination, and valuation of data in the city. It identifies brokerage as a form of heterarchical power, and clarifies the possibilities and limits of seeking to challenge the consumer framework of citizenship by changing brokerage arrangements.

Jack Copeland's research spans over a wide spectrum of different fields, and he has long been engaged in the interdisciplinary field of research. Through this seminar, he will focus on the importance of combining philosophy and engineering when exploring questions such as; what do we understand by engineering, what are the limits of engineering, what is the possibility of machines having free will and consciousness and in what sense may the human brain be a computer? Furthermore, Jack Copeland discusses how philosophy, and the questions raised by philosophy, is essential to every field of research.

Many of us remember the images of a dark and empty Manhattan with subway tunnels filled with water, thousands of homes and cars destroyed and people being evacuated. The winning projects of the competition "Rebuild by Design" want to make sure that something like this won't happen again. The exhibition Rebuild by Design at the Danish Architecture Centre shows all the participating projects from the competition. After the competition, six projects were awarded $920 million to turn their ideas into reality. The exhibition opening will feature speeches by e.g. Henk Ovink, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

The artist Richard Mosse (b. 1980, Ireland) presents a solo exhibition at Louisiana of his award-winning photographs and video works from the civil war in Congo. This evening he'll talk about his work during a number of trips to war-torn eastern Congo. Mosse infiltrated paramilitary groups fighting over the area's lucrative mining, and his artwork brings us to areas where no photojournalists have been. Using a special military surveillance film that colors the jungle's green foliage a bright pink, Mosse combined artistic and documentary strategies to develop a new imagery that makes visible the forgotten tragedy.

Jacob Aue Sobol er den første danske fotograf, der er blevet optaget i den prestigefyldte fotosammenslutning Magnum, og han vil denne aften tage os med ind i sin verden af sort-hvide dokumentarbilleder.

We will start our talk by a brief discussion of compact quantum groups. Any dimension d representation of a compact quantum group G induces an action on the Cuntz algebra Od. We study the fixed point algebra for this action and prove that under certain conditions, it is a Kirchberg algebra in the bootstrap class, hence classified by its K-theory. As a consequence, the fixed point algebra has a "stability property": it only depends on G through its representation category and its fusion rules. In particular, for actions of G := SUq(2), the fixed points are the Cuntz algebra O∞ and we therefore get a family of inclusions of O∞ inside O2. As a basis for future developments, we sketch how von Neumann algebra techniques could help us extract information from these inclusions, beyond classification techniques.

Most beginning chemistry students struggling with the complexities and underlying structure of the Periodic Table will simply accept the existence of the approximately 90 stable elements. Rarely does it occur to them that somewhere and in some way, all of the elements had to be synthesized. Such element generation or nucleosynthesis, through transmutation of one element into another, is a crucial byproduct of stellar energy generation. It has occurred since the birth of the first stars in the Galaxy, and without it life on Earth would not be possible. Although the general picture of element formation is well understood, many questions about the nuclear physics processes and particularly the astrophysical details responsible for forming the heavier elements such as platinum and gold remain to be answered. Here I focus on advances in our understanding—still very incomplete—of the origin of the heaviest and rarest elements in the Universe.

User Experience (UX) design is a key competency for startups. This talk describes how design can inform both the product and culture of companies. Design research is a powerful toolkit that can improve product-market fit and make companies more human centered, benefiting not only customers but employees.

I forbindelse med udstillingen "HEAVY – Hans Henrik Lerfeldt" afprøver Gl Holtegaard et nyt arrangementsformat i form af en række samtaler med kulturpersonligheder interviewet af Maria Kjær Themsen. Den første samtale er tirsdag d. 3. februar kl. 17 med kultur- og modejournalist Chris Pedersen fra DR K. Overskriften for samtalen er "80'er mode og betragtninger om tidsånd" og kommer til at handle om, hvordan billedkunsten blev afspejlet i 80'ernes mode og vice versa med paralleller til fortiden og i dag. Interviewer og samtalepartner er Maria Kjær Themsen, mag. art i litteraturvidenskab, kunstkritiker, kurator og redaktør.

Pernille Stensgaard, forfatter og journalist på Weekendavisen, tager udgangspunkt i sin nye bog om københavnerne. Uden dem, intet københavneri. Uden dem, ingen by. Uden dem, ingen verdensberømmelse. Hver gang man krydser grænsen mellem to bydele, toner et helt nyt territorium frem. Ingen vil ligne nabokvarteret, for dér har de aldrig forstået, hvordan man er københavner på samme præcise og detaljerige måde, som man selv er.

Et casestudie fra Indonesien.

I Brasilien vokser håbet om en plads blandt verdens retningsgivende magter. Gennem historien har magthaverne drømt om at sikre landet en "retmæssig" plads i det internationale system – som en stormagt med en position, der svarer til landets geografiske størrelse og en befolkning, der i dag tæller knap 200 mio. mennesker. Siden 2003 har en overraskende hurtig vækst betydet, at Brasilien allerede i dag taler med en stærkere stemme på den internationale scene i en række sammenhænge. Det ser vi fx i forhandlinger om international handelspolitik, i klimaforhandlinger og i G20, hvor repræsentanter fra de største økonomier diskuterer den internationale økonomi og dennes udfordringer efter finanskrisens udbrud i 2008. I disse sammenhænge har Brasilien fået stor indflydelse. Denne succes er hjemme blevet akkompagneret af en systematisk reduktion af social og økonomisk ulighed: mellem regioner, mellem klasser, mellem kønnene og mellem sorte og hvide. Millioner af mennesker er steget op i middelklassen. Og antallet af ekstremt fattige er mere end halveret – til 3,6 pct. af befolkningen.

The mapping complexity course is concerned with working through case studies to chart and visualize the heterogeneous relations and practices constituting matters of collective concern. In other words, mapping complexity implies developing competences enabling you to make the fluid and contingent multiplicity of things more broadly visible. Your visualizations should in turn not be thought of as neutral and innocent representations, but as forms of descriptive interference contributing further to the formation of the issues at hand. To exemplify these matters the lecture will chart tobacco smoking as a complex and multiple matter of world historical concern. A mapping exercise that will take us from 17th century concerns over "smoking drinking" and "dry drunkenness"; to the "golden holocaust" attributable to the modern cigarette, to expanding debates over e-cigarettes and the nature of tobacco smoking as the world's biggest drug problem.

To reduce CO2 emission from fossil energy and alleviate global warming, targets in most countries are very ambi­tious with 100% renewable energy in 2050. As the pioneer in renewable energies, wind energy is developing very fast. This means there will be important installations of wind turbines in the near future. The challenges of wind energy include both lowering costs and ensuring a high degree of social acceptance, where the noise aspect is of major importance in particular for onshore turbines. To improve the cost of energy, the size of wind turbines is constantly growing. Consequently, scientific advancements are needed for developing advanced numerical tools for designing efficient and low-noise wind turbines and wind farms. This lecture aims at giving the state of the art in the research areas of noise generation, propagation and reduction, and describing the future scientific needs for such developments.

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma, dating back to 1984, says that for any set P of n points in d-dimensional Euclidian space, there exists a map f : P -> R^m, with m = O(eps^{-2} lg n), such that all pairwise distances between points in P are preserved to within a factor of (1+eps) when mapped to m-dimensional Euclidian space using f, i.e. for all p,q in P, it holds that (|p-q|_2)/(1+eps) < |f(p)-f(q)|_2 < (|p-q|_2)(1+eps). Observe that m does not depend on d, and hence the transformation works even for very high dimensional points (d >> n). Furthermore, all known proofs of the JL-lemma even provides a mapping f which is linear (the mapping f can be represented by an m x d matrix A, and a point p is mapped by computing f(p) = Ap). Given the widespread use of dimensionality reduction across several domains, it is a natural and often asked question whether the JL-lemma is tight: Does there exist some set of n points P in R^d such that any map f : P->R^m providing the JL-guarantee must have m = Omega(eps^{-2} lg n). 30 years after Johnson and Lindenstrauss' seminal paper, we prove a tight lower bound of m = Omega(eps^{-2}lg n).

This presentation draws on field research in the UK, the US and Afghanistan to argue that Private Military and Security contractors may understand professional practice as linked closely to security profile. Here, I consider the approaches taken to armed Close Protection by British and US contractors to show how in the case of the former, low profile approaches are seen as the most competent whereas in contrast, the US 'all guns blazing' approach is seen by the British participants to signal a lack of understanding of the security climate and their role in shaping it. In sum, the presentation interrogates questions of masculine identity, nationality and how security is perceived and enacted.

Some say that the best sounds are not heard, but experienced At SpilBar 23 we want to go sonic. We want to dive into the fantastic universe of sound and music design for both games and our surroundings, and experience how sound is a powerful tool—both in real-life and in video games.

In Europe and the US, the social sciences have had very clear relations to the surrounding society, e.g. by providing knowledge and manpower to the growing welfare state in the postwar period. But what about the humanities? How do humanities researchers position themselves vis-à-vis the state, the economic sector, etc.? In this presentation we answer these questions using data from a survey conducted among humanities researchers in Denmark in the fall 2013.

Proxemics theory explains peoples' use of interpersonal distances to mediate their social interactions with others. Within Ubicomp, proxemic interaction researchers argue that people have a similar social understanding of their spatial relations with nearby digital devices, which can be exploited to better facilitate seamless and natural interactions. To do so, both people and devices are tracked to determine their spatial relationships. While interest in proxemic interactions has increased over the last few years, it also has a dark side: knowledge of proxemics may (and likely will) be easily exploited to the detriment of the user. In this paper, we offer a critical perspective on proxemic interactions in the form of dark patterns: ways proxemic interactions can be misused. In this talk, I will discuss a series of these patterns and describe how they apply to these types of interactions. In addition, we identify several root problems that underlie these patterns and discuss potential solutions that could lower their harmfulness.

To forslag er gået videre i A.P. Møllers Fondens arkitektkonkurrence for udformningen af det ydre universitetstorv på Søndre Campus. Den 28. januar fakultetet til åbent møde på KUA1, hvor alle interesserede har mulighed for at give input til den sidste del af processen.

Do natural environments improve cognitive function in school children with and without ADHD?

Det var en forsidehistorie, da dagbladet Information i oktober 2013 kunne meddele: "Fund kaster nyt lys over kontroversiel forfatter." Forfatteren var Thorkild Hansen, og fundet var en samling papirer, breve, udkast og manuskripter til hans samlede forfatterskab. Herunder også originalmateriale, som litteraturforskerne troede var gået op i røg. Det havde imidlertid alt sammen været nidkært arkiveret i en bankboks, indbundet og ordnet af forfatteren selv, og nu befinder materialet sig på Det Kongelige Bibliotek. Af særlig interesse i det litterære fund er 57 styk dagbøger fra årene 1944-89, hvis indhold i overvældende grad afviger fra indholdet i Thorkild Hansens tre officielle dagbogsbind, De søde piger og Et atelier i Paris 1-2. På baggrund af dagbogsfundet vil litteraturkritiker og forfatter Poul Behrendt—som i 1995 udgav Djævlepagten om Thorkild Hansens officielle dagbøger og deres konstruktion af det ungdomsliv, de handler om—fortælle om det nye fund og dets betydning.Det gør han sammen med skuespilleren Ellen Hillingsø, der læser passager op fra Det Kongelige Biblioteks nyerhvervelse, som altså ikke før har været kendt.

It is well known that adipose tissue inflammation plays an important role in the development of insulin resistance and diabetes. Exercise training has been extensively studied as a modality with which to treat and prevent inflammation. For instance, exercise training at the onset of a high fat diet prevents the development of inflammation and insulin resistance in rodents whereas training that is initiated after the onset of obesity leads to reductions in inflammation and improvements in glucose homeostasis. While these studies show a clear, beneficial effect of exercise on adipose tissue inflammation it is difficult to discern if the effects of exercise are direct or, are secondary to changes in adipose tissue mass. The purpose of this seminar will be to discuss recent work from my laboratory (both published and unpublished) and others, highlighting the protective effects of exercise against inflammatory and metabolic challenges.

Big Data is a term that is everywhere these days. Across a range of disciplines, the ability to collect and process large sets of data has had great implications. In this public lecture, three professors will discuss the phenomenon of Big Data from three different scientific perspectives.

Vi hylder talen som formidlingsform og garanterer en aften, hvor stemningen er hyggelig, øllerne er billige og talerne er inspirerende! Aftenen byder på i alt syv forskellige talere, der hver får 4–10 min. på scenen til at brænde igennem både verbalt og visuelt—med netop deres tale. Kort Sagt er for alle dem, der har fået sære ideer, skrevet geniale specialer, lavet spændende projekter eller gjort sig værdifulde erfaringer—Alle dem, som ikke synes at netop deres viden kun skal være forbeholdt dem selv. Missionen er helt enkel: At sprede viden og inspiration til så mange som muligt.

Thomas Manns novelle Den bedragne, som udkom i 1953, er fortællingen om den midaldrende enkefru Rosalie von Tümmlers voldsomme forelskelse i den 20 år yngre amerikaner Ken Keaton. Til forskel fra mange andre af Thomas Manns tekster er det i denne fortælling en kvindefigur, som er det absolutte omdrejningspunkt for fortællingen. Mange litterater har læst figuren Rosalie som (endnu) et selvbillede fra Manns hånd, en "madame Mann", men tager man teksten på ordet og læser den for, hvad den er—en skildring af en kvinde og en kvindes oplevelser–åbner der sig en anden side af fortællingen. Så kan fortællingen læses som et indlevet kvindeportræt, der kan fascinere læseren den dag i dag—og som en skildring af det menneskelige begærs anatomi; et tema, som også optræder i Døden i Venedig (1912), Trolddomsbjerget (1924) og Josef og hans brødre (1933–1943).

Når børn oplever livstruende sygdom i den nærmeste familie, eller ligefrem mister en forælder, har deres sorgreaktioner i mindst lige så høj grad rod i de ændrede livsvilkår som i selve dødsfaldet. I langt de fleste børns livsopfattelse, står far og mor særdeles centralt placeret som dem, man altid kan stole på. Hvis en af disse omsorgspersoner pludselig mister forældreevnen, på grund af livstruende sygdom—eller ligefrem dør fra barnet, stiller det barnet i en rædselsvækkende situation. Aftenens foredragsholder deler ud af sin vigtige viden om børn og sorg.

Quantum states are represented as vectors in an inner product space. Because the dimension of that state space grows exponentially with the number of its constituents, quantum information theory is in large part the asymptotic theory of finite dimensional inner product spaces, a field with its own long history. I'll highlight some examples of how abstract mathematical results from that area, such Dvoretzky's theorem, manifest themselves in quantum information theory as improvements in quantum teleportation and as the raw material for counterexamples to the field's famous additivity conjecture. More recently, this perspective has led to methods for encrypting arbitrarily long messages using constant-sized secret keys. In other circumstances, regularity in information being transmitted leads to natural connections with the asymptotic representation theory of the unitary and symmetric groups, the setting for another fruitful ongoing dialogue.

Tag med på en tur ned ad memory lane fra ca. 1900 til 1950 i et kig på kvindernes intime beklædning. Margit Ambeck fortæller om underbukserne der krøb, tunger i metermål, monogrammer, smukt broderi og viser også det gode håndværk frem. Foredraget belyser en periode, der har budt på helt utroligt store forandringer i tekstilverdenen. Det gælder materialer med ændring fra det traditionelle uld, bomuld og silke til diverse kunststoffer, modens syn på kroppens facon og silhuet, hygiejnens afhængighed af vaskemuligheder og husmoderens evne til såvel syning som fin udsmykning i form af broderi, hækling og strikning. Hun har været valbyborger i rigtig mange år og har været interesseret i tekstiler fra hun var 5 år. Som datter af en trikotagehandler blev hun meget tidligt oplært i diverse typer stof og kvaliteter. Det resulterede i, at hun fra forskellige sider i familien har arvet meget, som hun derfor kender tid og baggrund for. De sidste 20 år har ugentlige besøg på loppemarkeder suppleret hendes store samlinger. I modsætning til genstande i mange museer er de fleste af Margit Ambecks ting ikke luksusvarer men brugsgenstande fra beskedne middelklassekår. Kultur Valby har samlet en række valbyborgere med noget på hjerte. Det kan være en livsanskuelse, en passion eller spændende oplevelser, som man gerne vil dele til inspiration for andre. Det er der kommet en række uformelle foredrag ud af, hvor underholdning og interessant viden går hånd i hånd.

Politikens mangeårige kunstanmelder, har til alles overraskelse selv illustreret sin nye humoristiske og dybt fagligt funderede "Lille kunsthistorie". Han påstår den er for børn og barnlige sjæle; men folk der kender kunsthistorien og de omtalte kunstnere—fra hulemalerne over Rembrandt og van Gogh til Kirkeby og Eliasson—får i hvert fald en bonusoplevelse.

What can quantum information theory teach us about spacetime? When it comes to black hole evaporation, quantum cloning and what lies beyond the event horizon, the theory teaches us something we should have already known: that we're confused. But the information theoretic viewpoint can also provide unexpected illumination. This talk will describe two examples of how quantum information theory can reveal unexpected and beautiful structure in spacetime. The first example will address a basic question: where and when can a qubit be? While the no-cloning theorem of quantum mechanics prevents quantum information from being copied in space, the reversibility of microscopic physics actually requires that the information be copied in time. In spacetime as a whole, therefore, quantum information is widely replicated but in a restricted fashion. There is a simple and complete description of where and when a qubit can be located in spacetime, revealing a remarkable variety of possibilities. The second example comes from holography. The AdS/CFT correspondence provides a concrete realization of the holographic principle, in which the physics of a "bulk" spacetime volume is completely encoded onto its boundary surface. A dictionary relates the physics of the boundary to the physics of the bulk, but the boundary interpretation of the bulk's extra dimension has always been a bit fuzzy. I'll explain one precise interpretation of that extra dimension, showing how its geometry encodes the entanglement structure of the boundary state.

Den er blevet lagt i graven mange gange, men den har en evne til at genopstå fra de døde. Kriminalromanen er ikke til at slå ihjel eller er den? Er krimien stadig en slags pestilens i den litterære verden? Er genren en løftestang til et publikum, som ellers ikke læser. Vil genren overleve, når læserne/seerne bliver mere kritiske, og bøgerne ikke længere rives ned fra hylderne? Vil de i fremtiden måske kun udkomme i tværmediale billedformater? Spørgsmål som disse vil et panel af fagfolk og krimi-aficionadoer prøve at besvare.

With this talk I would like to attend to some of the material-semiotic overflows provoked by the "biodiversity soup", a novel molecular method for ascertaining the presence of small or elusive species in a given environment. This method is based on "DNA barcoding", that is, the identification of species by way of sequencing a small unique region of their respective genomes. Unlike DNA barcoding which commences with extracting a DNA sample from an individual, more or less whole, organism, the biodiversity soup does away with the traditional organismal unit. Instead, a soup of "homogenized" beings, mostly arthropods, becomes the elementary subject. With the biodiversity soup being promoted as an efficient means for doing biodiversity assessments—central components of environmental policies—puzzling and pressing questions emerge which I would like to discuss with you: How does the soup make nature accountable/countable? How does the soup sense? What relations of responsibility, what vulnerabilities are construed and how are they distributed? What kind of problem is biodiversity loss when biodiversity soup is seen as a response to it? If the soup is a way of accounting for biodiversity, what are the enumerated entities here? What becomes qualculable, what non-qualculable?

Innovation is widely acknowledged as a key element for prosperity and growth of societies in a global world. As a source of new knowledge and highly educated candidates, universities play a crucial role in innovation and have a century long tradition of supporting Danish industry. When it comes to new high-tech ventures, however, the idea of the university as a proactive innovation player is much newer. Only the past decade has seen the rise of investor environments in close proximity to universities, student start-up and mentor programs, innovation agents, tech-transfer activities, etc. With such an innovation ecosystem starting to take shape in Denmark, it is natural to analyze how this can be strengthened further to bring out more successful companies – for example by providing more openness to the Uni-versities and direct interaction with experienced high-tech entrepreneurs at the research level. Also it is worth investigating how innovation initiatives affect the individual researcher and best serve to help his/her long-term career and research visions. This talk will address these issues from a DTU perspective and draw upon experience from specific cases in order to present future innovation models for spin-outs.

Humans organize themselves into groups in order to adapt and enhance survival. Group formation permits organized effort to accomplish necessary tasks, safety, utilization of the expertise of others, mating opportunities, and a social identity. Group formation provides an adaptive advantage for those who are members of the group. These advantages for in-group members can also lead to conflict with members of other groups (i.e., out-groups) especially when groups are in competition for scarce resources, when members of the out-group look or behave quite differently than members of the in-group, and when there is not an equal opportunity to attain material (e.g., jobs) and social (e.g. respect in the community) resources. The intergroup relations model is a general theoretical model that can be used to understand the interactions of members of different social groups. During the lunch lecture Professor Malloy will present the "Intergroup Relations Model" and some related experimental and correlational data. He will also speak about the applied implications of the work for Asian-European interaction and communication, drawing on the turbulent examples from America with blacks and white populations.

The world today is still divided into nation states. Yet they are increasingly linked together by what has come to be called loosely an "international system". The relationship between the two ways of understanding civil society is always, at best, unstable. Russia claims the Crimea in the name of the nation. The E.U. and the U.S. respond with sanctions in the defence of an international law which recognizes the right to self-determination. International law, transnational justice, even "globalization", are all part of a broader initiative called — even more loosely — "cosmopolitanism". On the face of it cosmopolitanism and nationalism would seem to be irreconcilable. But are they? The liberal nationalism of the 18th and 19th centuries imagined a future in terms of a "cosmopolitanisms of nations". In this lecture, I will explore the evolution of the vocabularies of attachment, "Patriotism" and "nationalism" and how, as the object of attachment shifted from the person of the ruler to a constitutional order, the idea of "belonging" and the political rights and obligations which that entails, became inseparable from some kind of "cosmopolitan ideal" and — finally what that might imply for the future of Europe.

Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration. Today it is almost impossible to speak of migration without also speaking of the migration industry. Yet, acknowledging the role the migration industry plays prompts a number of questions that have so far received only limited attention among scholars and policy makers. The presentation by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen offers new concepts and theory for the study of international migration by taking these multifaceted processes and actors into account.

"The Imitation Game" tells the story of the mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) and the Nazis' Enigma code during World War 2. We invite you to a film preview at Dagmar, with an introduction from Per Hasle, director of IVA at the University of Copenhagen. After the screening, there will be a debate with Jack Copeland, visiting professor at IVA and a Turing expert from the University of Canturbury, together with Vincent Hendricks, professor of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen.

Mød Danmarks krimidronning Anna Grue til et foredrag om sit forfatterskab ledsaget af lysbilleder. Med ord og et visuelt udtryk lukker Anna Grue sit publikum helt tæt på sit forfatterskab denne aften på Valby Bibliotek. En mangeårig baggrund inden for journalistikkens verden, en fuldtidskarriere som succesrig forfatter og et talent for grafik, design og layout er aftenens ingredienser til dette foredrag med et billedrigt udtryk. Hør Anna Grue fortælle om den store historie i de mange små, og om hvordan man bedriver en spændende og medrivende krimi. Der vil være oplæsning, beretning og fortælling med udgangspunkt i hendes forfatterskab.

Information retrieval effectiveness evaluation typically takes one of two forms: batch experiments based on static test collections, or online experiments tracking users' interactions with a live system. Test collection experiments are sometimes viewed as introducing too many simplifying assumptions to accurately predict the usefulness of a system to its users. As a result, there is great interest in creating test collections that better model the variability encountered in real-life search scenarios. This includes experimenting over a variety of queries, corpora or even users and their interactions with the search results. In this talk I will discuss different ways of incorporating user behaviour in batch experimentation, how to model the variance introduced to measurements of effectiveness, and how to extend our statistical significance test arsenal to allow comparing retrieval algorithms.

We show how to extend the machinery of Goodwillie calculus to build polynomial approximations to a certain class of higher categories, rather than to functors. These approximations enjoy universal properties with respect to polynomial functors. We provide a classification of Goodwillie towers of higher categories in terms of the derivatives of the identity functor. This classification can be used to study various localizations of unstable homotopy theory, e.g. rational homotopy theory, but also "periodic" localizations.

The goal is to describe a precise sense in which Knörrer periodicity, a property of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over certain hypersurface rings, is a manifestation of Bott periodicity in topological K-theory. Along the way, I will introduce an 8-periodic version of Knörrer periodicity for real isolated hypersurface singularities, and I will also describe a map from the Grothendieck group of the triangulated category of matrix factorizations associated to a real or complex hypersurface into the topological K-theory of its Milnor fiber.

I will introduce the problem of computing the mod-$p$ cohomology of $GL_n(k)$ for $k$ the finite field of order $p^r$, then describe how to construct a new class in (lowest possible) degree $r(2p-3)$, and show it's nonzero (when $n\leq p$) by restricting to a subgroup of commuting regular unipotent matrices. I'll first explain how the number $r(2p-3)$ comes out of the invariant theory of finite fields. Lastly, I'll describe what's necessary to generalize the result to finite groups of Lie type.

On 20 July 1969, millions of people held their breath as they watched, live on television, Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. Yet Fox Television has reported that a staggering 20% of Americans have had doubts about the Apollo 11 mission. Could it have been a hoax staged by Hollywood studios here on Earth? A central building block in position-based cryptography is that of position-verification. The goal is to prove to a set of verifier that one is at a certain geographical location. Protocols typically assume that messages can not travel faster than the speed of light. By responding to a verifier in a timely manner one can guarantee that one is within a certain distance of that verifier. Quite recently it was shown that position-verification protocols only based on this relativistic principle can be broken by attackers who simulate being at a the claimed position while physically residing elsewhere in space. Because of the no-cloning property of quantum information (qubits) it was believed that with the use of quantum messages one could devise protocols that were resistant to such collaborative attacks. Several schemes were proposed that later turned out to be insecure. Finally it was shown that also in the quantum case no unconditionally secure scheme is possible. We will review the field of position-based quantum cryptography and highlight some of the research currently going on in order to develop, using reasonable assumptions on the capabilities of the attackers, protocols that are secure in practice.

Hvad er en konspirationsteori for noget? Hvorfor er konspirationsteorier så forførende? Hvad er det for en struktur der gentager sig selv i de fortællinger vi kalder konspirationsteorier? Disse og andre relaterede spørgsmål vil blive diskuteret i Copenhagen Skeptics in the Pub. Naturligvis med mange konkrete eksempler.

Hør den gribende historie om en flugt fra øst til vest. Violinisten Ludmila Spektor kom i 1978 til Danmark med sin mand og deres 3 årige datter. Forholdene for jøderne i Ukraine var så uudholdelige, at familien valgte at udvandre. Som uddannede violinister fik ægteparret Spektor hurtigt ansættelse i Københavnske orkestre. Ludmila er aktuel med en bog om sin familie og sit liv i Ukraine og Danmark – en bog som er skrevet på opfordring fra flere sider på baggrund af nogle interviews med hende i DR. Ukraine er for tiden mere aktuel end nogensinde – et uroligt område med en urolig historie for landet og indbyggerne, ikke mindst for den jødiske del af befolkningen. Foredraget ledsages af violinspil af et af tidens største unge musiktalenter Adam Koch Christensen.

Fluctuating protein structures are able to regulate and fine-tune electron transfer to obtain near-perfect charge separation and to operate efficient catalytic sites at virtually no over-potential. A prominent example is the oxygen evolving complex in green plants where water is oxidized to oxygen. All oxygen of the atmosphere was produced here, but we do not understand how. Emerging ultra-fast spectroscopies, such as 2D electronic spectroscopy, are providing a new level of details on these processes. I will explain the new features of these spectroscopies, and how and why quantum simulations are indispensible companions to the experiments.

Christina Capetillo og Torben Eskerod fortæller om deres arbejde med at skabe nye billeder af Danmarks yderområder. Hvad kræver det at få et sted eller et menneske til at åbne sig for en, så man kan tage et billede, der afspejler det særlige ved stedet? Mens Capetillo har arbejdet på tværs af Danmark og portrætteret kontrasterne mellem yderområdernes oversete byrum og de åbne kystlandskaber, har Eskerod, som den eneste i gruppen, portrætteret de mennesker, der bor i yderområderne, og fokuseret på deres landskaber og livsrum.

I will start by explaining how props parametrise various bialgebra structures and form a model category. Cofibrant resolutions of props define algebraic structures up to homotopy, which occur in a prominent way in various topics of geometry and topology. I will explain that such a definition does not depend, up to homotopy, on the choice of a resolution. A meaningful idea to understand the behavior of such structures is to study them as a moduli problem. For this, I will define the notion of simplicial moduli space of algebraic structures, and show how these moduli spaces fit in the setting of Toen-Vezzosi's derived algebraic geometry.

Neuroevolution is a powerful technique for training neural networks for tasks like reinforcement learning in which, because there are no output targets, gradient information for adapting the weights can be unreliable. This talk will introduce two methods for scaling up neuroevolution in order to move away from toy problems towards challenging high-dimensional continuous reinforcement learning problems: compressed network search that represents neural network weights indirectly as a set of frequency domain coefficients, which allow very large networks to be evolved by searching in low-dimensional coefficient space; and deep-convolutional pre-processors, that transform high-dimensional input to low-dimensional feature vectors that are sufficiently compact and can be used as an input for small recurrent neural network controller. The performance of the methods is demonstrated on controlling a race car to drive along a track using solely a high-dimensional visual input.

In this lecture professor Alain Bourdin "revisits" the concept of metapolis as point of departure for a necessary paradigm shift in our understanding of cities and urbanities. Metapolis is the name given to those urban phenomena which, going beyond the metropolitan scale, free themselves from any territorial medium to base themselves on interconnection networks composed of visible means of transport and invisible means of communication.

Part of a 2-lecture pair, "Riots in French culture".

It is my aim to compare the conceptual and historical paths that led Bohr, Einstein and Schrödinger to develop their positions with regard to the phenomenon of entanglement. For this purpose, the concept of holism and non-separability in relation to the views of Bohr and Schrödinger, and separability, in relation to the view of Einstein, will be crucial for reconstructing their standpoints. The idea will be upheld that the concept of non-separability underlies the phenomenon of entanglement. Furthermore, I shall place emphasis on the divergences between Bohr and Schrödinger in spite of their shared holistic world view. A comparison between the above-mentioned positions will be sketched in relation to some relevant historical cases, such as the theory of virtual oscillators represented by the Bohr–Kramers–Slater theory, the Solvay Conference of 1927 and the positions regarding the phenomenon of entanglement before and after the publication of the Einsten–Podolsky–Rosen paper from 1935.

Part of a 2-lecture pair, "Riots in French culture".

In April 1947, Princess Elizabeth broadcast her 21st birthday speech from South Africa on the BBC; a coming of age ritual that attracted a worldwide audience. She prefaced her message with a solemn proclamation: "As I speak to you today from Cape Town, I am six thousand miles from the country where I was born. But I am certainly not six thousand miles from home". Her words invoked Greater Britain in the nineteenth-century tradition of Dilke and Seeley, a world unbounded by geography or statehood. The image of royalty equally "at home" in each of the Monarchy's many realms was fundamental to upholding the popular legitimacy of empire in the post-WWII world. Within months of her broadcast, Elizabeth's message was put to effect in the most literal sense when the Kenyan settler community offered her a home of her own in the foothills of Mt Kenya. Sagana Lodge was undoubtedly one of the more elaborate wedding gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in November 1947. Although it is well known that the royal couple was in residence at Sagana at the time of George VI's death in February 1952, historians have shown remarkably little curiosity about the circumstances that made them homeowners in this improbable part of the world. Yet the gift reveals much, not only about the Monarchy as a symbol of the enduring purchase of Greater Britain in the post-war era, but also about the (in)security of tenure of Kenyan settlers during the early onset of decolonization. By the time the royal couple occupied the lodge in 1952, the Mau Mau uprising was on their doorstep (quite literally so, as the forests of the Mt. Kenya foothills were a major hideout for insurgents) and a return visit therefore never materialized. Yet the violation of British notions of ordered domesticity became a potent means of mobilizing empathy in Britain for the embattled settler community of Kenya. This paper examines the intersecting story of Sagana Lodge and the Monarchy as symbolic projections of home at empire's end, and as an index of the diminishing reach and resonance of Britishness in Africa.

Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner are awarded this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry for having bypassed a presumed scientific limitation stipulating that an optical microscope can never yield a resolution better than 0.2 micrometres. Using the fluorescence of molecules, scientists can now monitor the interplay between individual molecules inside cells; they can observe disease-related proteins aggregate and they can track cell division at the nanolevel. The methods developed by Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and W. E. Moerner have led to several nanoscopy techniques and are currently used all over the world. The three Laureates are still active researchers in the large and growing community of scientists spearheading innovation in the field of nanoscopy. Recently, Stefan Hell has peered inside living nerve cells in order to better understand brain synapses, and Eric Betzig has demonstrated how to track cell division inside embryos. These are just a few of many examples. In this double Niels Bohr Lecture, Eric Betzig and Stefan Hell will give give us their own account of the discovery and what is yet to be explored.

Hun har repræsenteret mennesker det er decideret svært at holde af, sågar svært ikke at være bange for. Om det udgav hun i 1998 bogen "Forsvarsadvokaten — Hverdag i retssale og fængsler". Hun blander sig i den offentlige debat om varetægts- og isolationsfængsling og vidners forhold, hun hjælper til i sin datters Conditori La Glace, som hun selv styrede i ti år, og hun har lige mistet sin mand. Nu har Merethe Stagetorn fortalt om sit liv i bogen "Jeg har ikke noget til gode hos Vorherre", som denne LIVE-aften tager udgangspunkt i.

Med fokus på urbanitetsrelevant forskning præsenterer vi fem korte nedslag i den sproglige hverdag for børn og unge på en københavnsk folkeskole. Denne skole er som så mange andre præget af etnisk, kulturel og sproglig diversitet. Vi behandler i denne sammenhæng diversitet som det, at forskellighed opfattes og opleves på samme sted og på samme tid. Faktisk ved vi meget lidt om, hvad sproglig diversitet betyder for børn. Det er ikke mindre interessant i dag, hvor globalisering og migration har ændret det sproglige billede i Danmark. Arrangementet behandler således bl.a., hvilken betydning diversitet har for de børn og unge, vi beskæftiger os med, for os forskere og for vores teoretiske begrebsapparat.

From 300 BCE onwards the number of private organizations (or associations) increases dramatically throughout the ancient world, including such remote regions as India. This phenomeno associativo is currently investigated by The Copenhagen Associations Project. In their capacity as formalized networks of a local and global character, private associations have not least an economic significance, a circumstance closely related to their being profusely attested in prominent commercial centres. The city-state of Rhodes, a leading such centre, is famed for the great number of associations it hosted: their organization and activities are primarily attested through inscriptions. This body of evidence has recently been increased with the discovery of a new inscription (from the necropolis of the city of Rhodes), which is going to be published by Professor Vincent Gabrielsen. At the seminar, Prof. Gabrielsen will present his work on this new text and set the information it provides into a wider historical context.

Begivenhederne i 1814 har på afgørende vis formet Danmark og Norge. Efter ufrivilligt at være blevet kastet ind i Napoleonskrigenes malmstrøm med Københavns Bombardement i 1807 blev de to lande efter stormagternes vilje skilt fra hinanden i 1814. Foredraget vil fortælle om hvad der ledte til nederlag i 1814 samt hvordan krigen og adskillelsen påvirkede de to lande, hvis kulturer, identiteter og eliter var fundmentalt formet af mere end 400-år i et fællesskab. Alligevel har året sjældent fået den store opmærksomhed, da det har stået i skyggen af 1864. Aftenens foredrag vil stille skarpt på hvad det betød at være dansk og norsk før og efter 1814 - og hvordan de stærke bånd på tværs af Skagerrak fortsat var med til at forme den nationale identitet i begge lande.

Når det levende arbejde bliver til-intet-gjort og erstattet af den omsættelige arbejdskraft, bliver arbejdsdueligheden en kolonisationsform for "Lebensausgabe". Naturellet der mister sit ansigt i den sociale prægning og tilmed bliver ét med karaktermasken er dermed nødvendigvis frisat til se naturellet som ren disponibilitet. Hjemløs uden tilhør med afsæt i intet eller kreaturligheden at vælge at gøre noget ved det man er blevet gjort til: Forligelsen med at handle som "personne".Ville dispositionsretten selv og iværksætte en subjektivationsproces og gøre sig til som subjekt—ihukommende at denne subjektering har subjektiveringen som forudsætning. Personligheden falder ikke sammen med individualiteten; den skabes på dens baggrund. Den metier éducationen skal lære ham er at leve; at blive sig selv ved at forvinde sig selv i dén overskridelse smagsdannelsen er som sanset oversanselighed. Det er en æstetisk proces, der kan benytte sig af selvteknologier til at disciplinere dispositionerne og give dem hensigtsmæssighed uden formål: Den inviterende appel. Det vældige forekommer appellerende. [...] Hvis der findes et dannelsesideal må det i al banalitet blive "ein gebildeter Mensch" og netop ikke "un l'homme du monde". Mere jordnært er dét det der gør livsduelige mennesker til rige personskaber.

Shared traumas can be an immensely powerful tool in establishing group identity, also on a national level. To remain effective, such traumas must be passed from generation to generation and commemorated. The celebration of the 150-year anniversary of the Battle/Defeat of Dybbøl this year, and the controversy surrounding its portrayal, affords a good example. But the phenomenon is nothing new. The lecture will discuss how certain traumatic events were used to invent historical narratives and shape an identity in ancient Egypt, some of them being commemorated over many centuries.

Ancient philosophers held many different views, but most of them seem to have agreed that the use of one's mind (nous) was an essential part of life. Aristotle was the heir of a long philosophical tradition, and in his work we find many discussions of the importance of the human mind, but they are not easily understood, and sometimes they even seem to contradict each other. It is clear, however, that it is the mind that makes human beings different from, and more than, animals, and as such it is clearly important for human happiness. It is less clear how it is important. In this paper, David Bloch will examine what kind of role the active mind plays in obtaining human happiness.

Prof. Bohr investigates mechanisms underlying DNA damage formation and repair in normal, senescent, and cancer cells. His laboratory studies how nuclear DNA damage can impact mitochondrial function and thereby alter cellular bioenergetics.

The central claim of this talk is that rich democratic states are failing to meet their moral responsibility to admit refugees, given their own formal and informal commitments. I organize the talk around four sets of questions. First, who should be considered a refugee? If a genuine refugee is someone whose situation generates a strong moral claim to admission to a state in which she is not a citizen and to which she has no deep prior connection, what gives rise to this sort of moral claim? Second, what is owed to refugees? Refugees need a place where they can be safe, but do they have a moral claim to more than that? Should they receive an opportunity to build a new life—jobs, education for their children, etc? Are they entitled to a permanent new home rather than just a temporary shelter? Third, how should responsibilities for refugees be allocated among different states? In particular, what is the nature and extent of the obligation of democratic states to admit refugees? This is the most crucial question. Finally, are there limits to our obligations to refugees and, if so, what are they? Is there some point at which a rich democratic state is morally entitled to say to refugees, "We know that you face genuine and dire threats, but we have done enough. You are not our responsibility. We leave you to your fate."?

Leonidas Donskis, Professor and Vice-President for Research at ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania, will give a talk "The Unbearable Lightness of Incessant Change." Focus will be on his book Moral Blindness (Cambridge: Polity, 2013) written conjointly with the eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman in the form of a series of dialogues. This book reveals how our present world of self-exposure, intense attention-seeking, inflation of concepts and self-commodification turns out a self-celebrating world of self-censorship, surveillance and willful forgetting. In addition, the loss of sensitivity and the resulting inability to react to human tragedies otherwise than through the lens of scandals, overreactions, and sensations will be discussed. This probing inquiry into the fate of our moral sensibilities will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the most profound changes that are silently shaping the lives of everyone in our contemporary liquid-modern world.

The talk attempts to sketch a new global history of Eurasian empires from antiquity till the dawn of European colonialism while addressing some current methodological debates within the discourse of world history. Should we produce "connected histories" of intercultural mixture instead of globalising comparisons? What is the goal of comparative history, to identify broad similarities or register minute differences.

Næsten halvdelen af jordens befolkning taler i dag et indoeuropæisk sprog. Allerede før den europæiske kolonialisme blev der talt indoeuropæiske sprog fra Island i vest til Indien i øst. Alt tyder på at de indoeuropæiske sprogs store udbredelse skyldes en sproglig ekspansion i årtusinderne forud for de første skriftlige overleveringer i det andet årtusinde f.Kr. Men hvorfra udgik denne ekspansion? Og hvornår startede differentieringen af de indoeuropæiske sprog? Eller sagt på en anden måde: Hvor og hvornår talte man ur-indoeuropæisk?

Thomas Piketty's acclaimed work Capital in the 21st Century has long since achieved bestseller status, and is already regarded as one of the most defining contributions to economic thinking in recent times. In his critical approach to the past 200 years of economic development, he traces how capitalism has slowly undermined expectations of meritocracy and democracy on which societies have been built. Piketty's book is essential for understanding the present and future of capitalism.

Europe today confronts complicated and controversial issues surrounding its Muslim population including Sharia law, terrorism, the building of mosques, female dress, and the pressures of immigration and multiculturalism. Akbar Ahmed, the world renowned Muslim anthropologist, is in the midst of a new study of Islam in Europe which will take him and his international team across the continent.

In regard to the dealing with the saints the consequences of the Reformation are complex. The lecture will show that the destruction of the Roman Catholic conception of holiness is intertwined with the attempt of a new biblical, respectively ancient Christian way of devotion. The first martyrs the Reformation saw and figures like Savonarola forced the dynamic of an alternative notion of sanctity.

People think the "Information Economy" was a reaction to the Internet in the 1990s; but economists were busy theorizing something like it from the 1930s onwards. Although computer technologies did play a supporting role, the main impetus came from the rise of the political theory of Neoliberalism. This lecture describes how that happened.

Byforsker Kristine Samson fortæller om forholdet mellem byens arkitektur og de oplevelser og sociale liv, der finder sted i det. Hør om hvordan midlertidige rum, street art, kunst og events i stigende grad bliver brugt i udviklingen af byen.

Beginning in infancy, humans connect with others in special ways: We get great pleasure out of sharing attention, emotions, attitudes, behavior, and goals with others, and at least by early childhood a deep sense of belonging to a "greater" we—social groups—is also extremely important to us. I will provide a broad overview of our research on the development of various types of sharing in infancy and early childhood, from work on joint attention and joint action in infancy to work on social-affiliative functions of imitation and groupmindedness in early childhood. I will focus in particular on our work on young children's understanding of shared experiences or common ground, and their understanding of belonging and shared identities in the context of group membership.

The Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape at KADK invites you to the launch of the research monograph Young-Old, published by Lars Müller Publishers. The publication examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations of our time: aging populations. Distinguishing between different phases of old age, this book identifies the group known as the "young-old" as a remarkable petri dish for experiments in subjectivity, collectivity, and environment. In investigating this field of latent urban and architectural novelty, Young-Old asserts both the escapist and emancipatory dimensions of these practices. Richly illustrated with drawings, maps, and photographs, this volume documents phenomena ranging from the continuous, golf-cart-accessible urban landscapes of the world's largest retirement community in Florida and the mono-national urbanizaciones of "the retirement home of Europe" on the Costa del Sol, to the Dutch-themed residential community at Huis Ten Bosch in southern Japan, and the senior RV community in the US.

As visiting researcher at the University of Copenhagen, the Spanish environmental scientist Berta Martín-López will present about current challenges for operationalizing the "ecosystem services" concept in order to design and manage landscapes.

Tobias Cadin Borup og Ali Sufi vil med udgangspunkt i deres nye bog "GADE / DANSK ORDBOG - en håndbog i ghettodansk" belyse identitetsdannelsesprocesser og handlemuligheder i arbejdet med en ny urban ungdom, som lever på kryds og tværs af etnicitet, og som identificerer sig i meget andet en håndteng og hip hop. Kom og få styr på Nørrebros gadeslang og hør forfatterne fortælle om deres tanker bag projektet. Arrangementet er en del af "24 dage med kultur."

En idiosynkratisk lystvandring med Per Arnoldi som turguide i dansk designs udtryk og aftryk. Bogen "101 designikoner" er netop udkommet, og Per Arnoldi er selvfølgelig med. Bogen viser designikoner fra alle hjørner af danskernes dagligdag lige fra 1775 og det musselmalede og op til i dag. Fra kendte møbelklassikere, porcelæn og bestik til avistypografi, tøj, sko, telefoner og varmepumper. Hvorfor bliver vi begejstret for noget og ikke for noget andet? Per Arnoldi ved godt, hvad der virker og hvorfor. Han ved også, hvad han kan lide, og hvad han slet ikke bryder sig om. En munter aften uden mellemlægspapir om det, vi omgiver os med.

Teologisk er det indlysende at fokusere på prædikenens indhold—hvad der skal siges fra prædikestolen. Men noget andet er, hvad der høres. Ofte erfarer prædikanter, at kirkegængerne refererer til noget i prædikenen, som prædikanten ikke har sagt. Kvalitative interviews med kirkegængerne viser, at tilhørerne ikke blot "overtager" prædikantens forståelse af prædikenteksten. Kirkegængerne skaber deres egen mening i det hørte i dialog med prædikantens ord og deres egen erfaringshorisont. Hvilke konsekvenser dette har for prædikantens måde at arbejde med prædikenen på, vil være indholdet af dette foredrag.

The lecture will explore the ambiguities surrounding angelic identity in Mark's Gospel. It will focus in particular on the way in which the gospel is framed by such ambiguity, with the angelos John the Baptist appearing at the opening of the gospel, and the neaniskos figure at the empty tomb coming at the conclusion of the gospel. In engaging with this theme of angelic encounters, the lecture will seek to demonstrate how attention to visual art can offer fresh perspectives on interpreting biblical texts.

In 1876 the German engineer Franz Reuleaux published his two volume book "theoretical kinematics" in which he sets out to transform the art of inventing machines into an exact science. In the paper I will not only show how he managed to set up the "equation of invention" but more importantly the important implications for the understanding of the development of science, technology and civilisations.

Two-dimensional turbulence is characterized by the inverse energy cascade, which results in self-organisation of the flow, as seen in the emergence of coherent vortex structures. These coherent flow structures may take the form of monopolar or dipolar vortices, and even a tripolar vortex has been found. The lecture will provide an overview of the basic dynamical features of two-dimensional turbulence, and in particular highlight the role of solid boundaries on the flow evolution.

The oceans are a huge reservoir of dissolved carbon, containing about 50 times more CO2 than the atmosphere. Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change is concerned largely with the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, but the overall levels that may be expected in the future will be strongly influenced by the ocean's uptake potential. Unravelling the complex interplay between physical, biological and chemical process in the sea, how this couples to the atmosphere and climate, and possible feedbacks is pivotal in our understanding of climate in an uncertain future.

Udstillerne Carsten Ingemann og Henrik Saxgren tager publikum med på en rejse til Danmarks yderområder og sætter ord på de udstillede fotografier. Mens Carsten Ingemann har søgt mørket og fraværet af lys, har Henrik Saxgren sat blitz på dagen. Begge har de villet finde og fremhæve det særlige ved yderområderne. Hør om Ingemanns rejse ind i mørket og hans søgen mod de mørkeste steder i Danmark. Hvordan ser Danmark ud, når der næsten ikke er noget lys? Og hør Henrik Saxgren fortælle om de tusindvis af kilometer, som han måtte tilbagelægge, før hækkene og grænserne mellem kultur og natur stod frem som den motivkreds, han måtte arbejde med. Og som han selv ved højlys dag måtte sætte blitz på for at få lys nok.

Computer games can be described as socio-technological assemblages whose affordances establish certain scripts which set the scene for user practices. The scripts define the degree of freedom provided by the overall gameplay, which also includes the constraints and possibilities to alter the game world or parts of it. Thus, playing produces a recursive quality revealing itself only in the processuality of play, which is subject to emergent changes but prescribed by game design. Lately, a new genre of games challenges these specifics. So-called editor games like Minecraft (2011), LittleBigPlanet (2008), and most recently Disney's Infinity (2013), which entered the market with sweeping success, are not games in the "traditional sense". Instead, these sandbox games—often labelled as "digital lego" or "co-creative open worlds"—afford the construction of a game world rather than playing within one. By closely examining these new gaming practices, the talk will try to make modding and editor-games accessible as a research object, and perform a critical evaluation of established methods within game studies.

During the last few decades, many emerging markets have lifted restrictions on cross-border financial transactions. The conventional view was that this would allow these countries to: (i) receive capital inflows from advanced countries that would finance higher investment and growth; (ii) insure against aggregate shocks and reduce consumption volatility; and (iii) accelerate the development of domestic financial markets and achieve a more efficient domestic allocation of capital and better sharing of individual risks. However, the evidence suggests that this conventional view was wrong. In this paper, we present a simple model that can account for the observed effects of financial liberalization. The model emphasizes the role of imperfect enforcement of domestic debts and the interactions between domestic and international financial transactions. In the model, financial liberalization might lead to different outcomes: (i) domestic capital flight and ambiguous effects on net capital inflows, investment, and growth; (ii) large capital inflows and higher investment and growth; or (iii) volatile capital flows and unstable domestic financial markets. The model shows how these outcomes depend on the level of development, the depth of domestic financial markets, and the quality of institutions.

The Sri Lankan lawyer Basil Fernando is one of Asia's leading human-rights activists, and has been fighting for human rights in Asia for three decades. In this talk, he will show how torture and corruption are closely linked, and will give his take on what will be necessary for states to really eradicate torture and corruption.

Greece has entered since 2010 into an economic vicious circle, which actually led to a "structural break" for domestic politics, an effect of which has been the growth of the Radical Right. The aim of this seminar is to explore the role of the dominant Orthodox Church as a factor for this social development. It is argued that the Church's public discourse has worked as the breeding ground for the social legitimization of ideas, which constitute primary elements of the party ideology. The questions to be discussed are: the contemporary social context, the growth of the Radical Right, the place of religion within the Greek public sphere, and the relationship between the Golden Dawn party and the Church.

Many Humanists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries attacked sharply two traditional types of intellectuals, i.e. the university professor and the priest. While they ridiculed the former for being ivory-tower, they mocked the latter for being prone to hypocrisy. In a more general view, the mockery of the Humanists refers to the ideal of contemplation and its corresponding life form, the vita contemplativa. However, the wise remained an ideal even in Humanist thought. Does this imply that there is such a thing as a Humanist wise? And if so, what are his or her distinctive features?

Cryptotephra studies from Denmark have, so far, largely been absent. Here are presented two studies of Lateglacial and early Holocene environmental changes and tephrostratigraphy from the Østerskov and Hallegård kettle-hole basins, on mid-Sjælland and the island of Bornholm, respectively. Correlation of the sedimentary successions, based on the Younger Dryas Vedde Ash (12, 171±114 b2k; Mortensen et al., 2005) and the Preboreal Hässeldalen Tephra (11,330±30 cal yr BP; Lind and Wastegård, 2011) to other north-European sites, reveals asynchronous changes of a mid-Younger Dryas climatically induced shift, as well as the timing of the incipient cooling of the short Preboreal Oscillation. Finally, two Allerød-aged Laacher See Tephra-like horizons, observed in the Hallegård basin, tease the existence of a mid-Allerød Laacher See Tephra precursor.

Den 10. december uddeler Svenska Akademien verdens mest prestigefyldte litteraturpris, Nobelprisen i litteratur, til franske Patrick Modiano. På Hovedbibliotekets salonscene vil tre litteratureksperter i den anledning fortælle, hvem de havde som favorit til årets litteraturpris—eller hvem de ønsker at får den til næste år. Årets Nobelpristager i litteratur skal selvfølgelig også diskuteres, ligesom selve Nobelprisen og selve formen kommer under kærlig behandling. Der bliver rig mulighed for at diskutere personlige kæpheste, yndlinger—og det modsatte.

I mere end to år har NASA haft den 6-hjulet robot "Curiosity" kørende i Gale-krateret på Mars. Robotten styres fra Jorden og de videnskabelige undersøgelser varetages af mere end 400 forskere, som verden over er med at undersøge, hvordan der engang har været på Mars. For nylig har både NASA og Indien sendt kredsløbssonder til Mars. Hvad skal de lave? Til slut noget om ESA's og NASA's planer for fremtidig udforskning af Mars. Morten Bo Madsen er lektor på Niels Bohr Instituttet og leder af Mars-gruppen. Han har været en fast del af NASAs Mars team, og skal også være en del af NASAs næste store mission til Mars—Mars 2020!

Forskningsprojektet fokuserer på de mindre danske provinsbyer og bosætninger ved vandet. Stort set alle købstæder ligger ved vandet af historiske og funktionelle årsager, og mange har fine bykerner og havneområder, som er under omdannelse. Klimatilpasningstiltag i dette byggede miljø er ikke kun et (kloak)teknisk og bygningsanliggende. Også historiske, værdimæssige, rumlige og identitetsmæssige forhold berøres, når man går igang. Projekt tog sit afsæt i en undersøgelsesrejse langs hele Elben under de massive oversvømmelser, der her fandt sted i 2006. Formålet var at prøve at forstå omfanget af oversvømmelserne. Turen viste med al tydelighed, at oversvømmelsesproblematikken ikke kan ses isoleret og derfor heller ikke kan løses med tilpasningstiltag på et enkelt sted. Der er tale om systemiske processer, der kræver systemiske løsninger på tværs af skalaforhold, administrative opdelinger og resortområder.

A 2012 survey by the National Bureau of Statistics of China showed that in 2011, the count of rural migrant workers reached 253 million. The number continues climbing as migrants continue seeking prosperity in cities, resulting in a huge urbanization movement, while their labour fuels China's emergence as a leading manufacturer in the world. How are their living and working conditions? How do Migrant Workers manage their lives after moving to the big cities? Based upon her research and practical involvement, the speaker will discuss the situation of the rural migrant workers or the "new workers" as the speaker prefers to call the Rural Migrant Workers.

Heidegger intended the Black Notebooks, which were recently published in Germany, as the culminating achievement of his 102-volume Collected Works edition. They represent, among other things, a stark reaffirmation of his philosophical commitment to National Socialism—and, as such, possibly a point of no return for Heidegger scholarship. The Black Notebooks also disturbingly reveal Heidegger's obsession with "World Jewry" in the most negative and cliché-ridden terms: as a pivotal source of cultural and social dissolution that must be eliminated in order to realize National Socialism's "inner truth and greatness"—as Heidegger himself put it in 1935. How, then, should one go about resolving the conundrum of someone who indisputably remains a great thinker, but who remained convinced that the Nazi regime, with its racism and exterminationist militarism, represented an adequate solution to the "decline of the West?"

Johan Schot will present his latest monograph Writing the Rules for Europe (authored jointly with Wolfram Kaiser) in a lecture followed by comments by Susana Borras, and Poul Fritz Kjær, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. Technologies have created crucial connections across borders requiring new forms of regulation. This book analyses how experts, cartels and international organizations have written the rules for Europe since around 1850. Based on fresh research in the archives of multiple international organizations and European countries it explores the "hidden integration" of Europe—forms of integration that were not always visible, but affected the citizens of Europe in their everyday lives. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, the book de-centers the present-day European Union in a new long-term understanding of European integration.

Light Lectures is a series of lectures where speakers from different backgrounds talk about their intentions and experiences of designing with light.

The traditional data warehouse is not going out of business no matter how many times we yell "big data." But data warehouses will probably not be built by hand in 5-10 years time from now. Come and see Rehfelds take on auto generation of data warehouse structure and ETL-code using our product Effektor. We will also get a glimpse about how to do analytics on timestamp data by configuration of process models.

Venedig er den store drøm hos Marcel Proust (1871-1922). Fortælleren i hans vældige roman På sporet efter den tabte tid længes livslangt efter at spejle sig i kanalerne og finde lykken ved lagunen. Venedig er begærets by, og Bjørn Bredal taler om dette begær. På baggrund af sin bog Begærets by folder han Venedig ud som et centralt billede hos Marcel Proust og i århundredeskiftets kultur. Han læser et hovedværk i verdenslitteraturen som en livstolkning udformet i kunst og kunstteori netop på det tidspunkt, da "det moderne" sætter igennem på alle områder. Foredraget er en introduktion til På sporet efter den tabte tid, en kærlighedserklæring til Venedig og en præsentation af Marcel Proust.

Sædvanligvis tolkes Thomas Manns slægtsroman Buddenbrooks. En families forfald (1901) enten historisk eller psykologisk; som prototype på den hævdvundne realistisk-naturalistiske roman i det 19. århundredes europæiske litteratur eller som tilhørende dekadencen og æsteticismen i fin de siècle-litteraturen. I foredraget fortolkes værket imidlertid på en ny måde, idet der gennem en tekstnær analyse argumenteres for, at Buddenbrooks også, ja, med fordel kan læses som "fantastisk litteratur", rig som romanen ved et nærmere eftersyn er på dæmonisk-skrækromantiske elementer i traditionen fra bl.a. E.T.A. Hoffmann og Edgar Allan Poe. Særligt sidstnævntes fantastiske fortælling The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) er i den forbindelse af central betydning for romanforståelsen.

During the crackdown on red shirt protestors by Thai state security forces in April-May 2010, at least 92 people were killed and over 2000 injured. Following investigations by several state and independent agencies, and marking a sharp departure from the past, in December 2013, the former prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, and the former deputy prime minister, Suthep Thaugsuban, were indicted for their role in orchestrating the crackdown. Yet in late July, the case against them was dismissed with a court decision based on a logic that departed significantly from the letter of the law. In contrast to the difficulty of holding perpetrators of the April-May 2010 killings to account, those deemed to speak, write, or otherwise act in a manner than insults the institution of the monarchy have been swiftly punished. SMS messages, off-hand comments inside the home, and bathroom graffiti have all been treated as grave crimes against the crown and state. There has been a sharp increase in prosecution of cases of alleged violation of Article 112 since the 19 September 2006 coup, and an even sharper intensification since the 22 May 2014 coup. In many cases, the identification of crimes and the reasoning deployed to justify a ruling of either guilty or innocent also departs significantly from the letter of the law. This paper takes these departures as neither accidental nor unrelated, but rather foundational and reflective of a logic informing social and political relations in the Thai polity. Through a comparison of the legal logics surrounding the proceedings related to the April-May 2010 crackdown and several Articles 112 cases, this talk offers a specific set of answers to the question of who can be killed with impunity and who cannot be impugned and considers what this means about law and who can be human in late-reign Rama IX, coup era Thailand.

Since the fall of the authoritarian Suharto regime, Indonesia has done little to address historical injustice suffered under the regime (1966–1998). The paper will focus on accountability for the 1965–66 anti-communist violence as a case study. While earning praise for its democratic achievements such as direct elections of government representatives and a free media, these are in stark contrast to Indonesia's reluctance to investigate and enforce accountability for human rights abuses. This lecture examines civil society efforts in pushing the government to act, as well as in initiating its own activities to highlight state impunity in Indonesia. Alternative history projects and truth-telling meetings are examples of these activities. In turn the lecture will examine where the roadblocks are to accounting for the past and what these obstacles indicate about the state of democracy in Indonesia today. Finally the lecture reflects on why democracy does not necessarily guarantee human rights accountability in Indonesia's case and how Indonesia compares with several Southeast Asian countries which are also dealing with the legacies of the past.

Radikale ændringer i arealudnyttelse og bebyggelsesmønster.

Det er henholdsvis 27 og 22 år siden, sangeren og maleren Lars H.U.G. satte to milepæle i dansk pophistorie, "Kysser himlen farvel" og "Blidt over dig". Indimellem har han sunget danske slagere og Nu har han under stor opmærksomhed udgivet cd"en "Ti sekunders stilhed". Lars H.U.G. er gæst i LIVE og vil fortælle om sit kunstneriske arbejde.

Numerically aided phenomenology is a set of procedures for systematically describing categories of lived experience. Across a set of experiential narratives, (1) recurrent meaning expressions are identified and paraphrased; (2) judgments about the presence or absence of these expressions are used to create matrices representing the profiles of meaning expressions in each experiential narrative; and (3) cluster analytic algorithms are used to group these experiential narratives according to the similarities in their profiles of meaning expressions. Whereas an earlier version of these procedures (Kuiken & Miall, 2001; Sikora, Kuiken, & Miall, 2011) was limited to literal assertions of sameness across experiential narratives, this presentation will describe how to facilitate more refined explication of recurrent meaning expressions. The "poetics" of such explication include, for example, metaphoric fusion (Ricoeur) and syntax conversion (Heidegger). Taken together, these procedures provide categories of similar experiential narratives (morphological essences) for which the distinctive meaning expressions are as richly articulated as possible.

SMART Cities er efterhånden et velkendt tema og koncept. Mange vil typisk forbinde konceptet med nye tekniske løsninger, der gør hverdagen i byen lidt smartere og lettere. Men SMART Cities bør og kan dog i lige så høj grad være et produkt af smart planlægning. Stor tværfaglighed i planlægningen suppleret med nye teknologiske metoder kan være med til at danne fundamentet for en smartere by i et langt bredere perspektiv.

Det europæiske forsøgscenter for partikelfysik CERN i Geneve spiller en central rolle i den forskning, som giver os viden om naturens mindste byggesten og om den måde, de vekselvirker på, så de fx kan danne atomer og molekyler. Det hele er smukt teoretisk beskrevet ved hjælp af Standard Modellen. Da man i 2012 fandt Higgs-partiklen på CERN, var det den sidste brik i modellen, som faldt på plads. Foredraget omhandler Standard Modellens grundbegreber, noget om den metode de ca. 6000 fysikere igennem 20 år i et globalt samarbejde har udviklet til at finde Higgs-partiklen og så selvfølgelig opdagelsen. Til slut lidt udsyn: Vi ved, at Standard Modellen er ukomplet, selvom den indtil nu har forklaret alle de forsøg, vi har udført for at afprøve den. Hvad vil man gerne gøre for at komme videre?

Vi præsenterer her en lille bog om København. Det er ikke en almindelig guide, ikke en historiebog, ikke en arkitekturbog, shoppingbog eller spiseguide. Men nok med lidt af det hele. Den lille bog er nemlig først og fremmest en idébog til nysgerrig inspiration og fornøjelse. Vi har fuldstændig egensindigt og subjektivt valgt en række steder som vi præsenterer for byens borgere og besøgende. Vi har ingen ambition om at sikre nogen som helst repræsentativitet—det er som at redigere en antologi: der vil altid være noget vigtigt/sjovt/interessant der ikke kom med—og sikkert også noget der ikke skulle have været med. Sådan er det. Det lægger op til læseren at supplere og beskære. Stederne er både ganske almindelige seværdigheder, hvor vi så prøver at pege på underlige detaljer, eller det kan være steder der næsten har været hemmelige. Men hemmeligheder er jo ikke sjove, hvis man ikke deler dem med nogen. Derfor vil vi vil gerne dem med læserne og pege på ting ved stederne som vi måske havde glemt. Desuden giver vi hele vejen igennem henvisninger, links og lidt praktiske oplysninger, så at bogen er en brugsbog man har med i lommen. Jamen, er der ikke rigeligt med bøger om København? Nu er der jo f.eks. lige udkommet "Secret Copenhagen" (ganske vist på engelsk). Jo, men det særlige er at vi hele tiden prøver at have litteraturen med. København er jo hovedperson, scene og symbol i megen dansk litteratur. Og det er spændende, synes vi, at få øje på i vores vandringer i byen. Gå med og bliv mindet om København som en ny slags se-værdighed!

The contemporary political landscape challenges conventional models of collective action to account for the speed, scale, and flexibility of many large-scale mobilizations. Conventional models have focused on organisation-centred leadership, resources, and collective action frames to explain collective action. However, in several instances digital media and personalised social networking now displace these organisational elements. This suggests expanding the theoretical framework to include distinct forms of connective action, and focusing attention on the workings of communication networks in which technologies become network agents. The talk discusses cases from economic justice networks to Occupy Wall Street to illustrate the conditions under which technologies enable large-scale personalised engagement and communication operates as an organisational process in producing stable and effective political action.

When quantum particles collide they can become entangled, that is, correlated so strongly their behavior defies our everyday experience. Einstein even spoke of this phenomenon as a "spooky action at a distance". Today, ever higher amounts of entanglement are produced in the race towards a quantum computer. But when are a bunch of particles entangled? Mathematically, entanglement is a simple consequence of the linearity of quantum theory. Shouldn't it therefore be easy to answer this question?

In this lecture the essential ingredients that are used in algebraic error-correction codes will be explained. Also it will be indicated how existing algebraic error-correcting codes (such as the well-known Reed-Solomon codes) can be generalized. This generalization gives rise to what became known as algebraic geometry codes (AG codes). Briefly put AG codes are constructed using algebraic curves, whereas Reed-Solomon codes can be seen as coming from the simplest possible curve: a line. Compared to Reed-Solomon codes, AG codes have the advantage that significantly more errors can be corrected without any further loss of rate. However, using the currently known algorithmic approaches, a competitive performance in the actual error-correction cannot be achieved. As will be shown, recent progress is starting to close this gap. A further algorithmic problem is that the construction of the algebraic curves needed to construct families of good AG codes, is far from trivial. However, as will be explained, also in this area recent progress has been made using a mix of explicit methods and advanced algebraic tools.

Emeritus lecture of Katarina Juselius.

Faget statistik udvikler sig i takt med sine anvendelser. Et klassisk mål med statistik er at udtrække essentiel viden fra begrænsede datamængder under hensynstagen til usikkerhed i data. Har statistik ikke udspillet sin rolle i en Big Data tid? Større data betyder ofte både mere data og flere detaljer. Forskelle, der tidligere druknede i usikkerhed, træder frem, vi opdager heterogenitet i data, og spørgsmålene vi søger svar på bliver mere ambitiøse. Data analyseres og fortolkes gennem modeller, som bliver både mere komplekse og beregningskrævende, og data presses til stadighed til grænsen for, hvad vi kan udtrække af viden. I min egen forskning fokuserer jeg på dynamiske systemer med biologisk anvendelse. I den første del af foredraget vil jeg præsentere forskellige typer data fra neurofysiologi og systembiologi. Med udgangspunkt i data vil jeg forklare væsentlige statistiske udfordringer. En særlig udfordring er at hæve sig over deskriptiv modellering og bestemme årsagssammenhænge og biologiske mekanismer med en kombination af modellering, data og biologisk viden. I den anden del af foredraget vil jeg komme ind på konkrete matematiske og beregningsmæssige problemer, der optager en stor del af min tid. Det centrale spørgsmål er, hvordan man formulerer beregningsmæssigt attraktive metoder til selektion af modeller baseret på data. Vi vil berøre ikke-glat optimering og frugtbare geometriske betragtninger af modelklasser.

It is becoming increasingly clear that ensuring social, environmental and economic sustainability requires new approaches to resource use, new business management models, deep political engagement and new technological and scientific solutions. This calls on Danish universities to provide applicable, cross-disciplinary knowledge platforms upon which to develop green growth and other sustainability initiatives. In this context, the CBS Sustainability Platform, co-directed by Professors Mette Morsing and Stefano Ponte have joined forces with the University of Copenhagen Sustainability Science Centre, led by Professor Katherine Richardson and the DTU Global Decision Support Initiative (GDSI), directed by Professor Michael Zwicky Hauschild, to meet this demand. The result of this cooperation is the Copenhagen Sustainability Initiative (COSI), which endeavors to build a regional platform for sustainability in Copenhagen by establishing joint sustainability activities on research, education and engagement with business, civil society and the political system. This is an invitation to join us at the launch of COSI, where speakers from each university involved in the partnership will present their vision on how social science, business studies, science and engineering can contribute to tackling the most pressing sustainability challenges of today. These presentations will be followed by an open discussion and by a small reception.

Book launch with lecture and recital. Suzuki Shin'ichi, the Tokyo String Quartet, Midori—How did Japanese violinists manage to revolutionize violin teaching, win international competitions, conquer Western concert stages, study at world-famous conservatoires and take up positions in leading orchestras and prestigious music faculties? What enabled the Japanese to master Western classical music within a few decades? What are the true origins of the Suzuki Method? How did Mozart and Beethoven come to be more widely heard in Japan today than Japan's own traditional music? Not by Love Alone addresses these questions presents one Japan's biggest success stories: the complete assimilation of an alien musical tradition within a few decades and Japan's rise to a musical superpower in the latter half of the twentieth century. Not by Love Alone traces the history of the violin in Japan from its beginnings to the present day. Margaret Mehl will briefly introduce her book and the music she will be performing.

Lipids have a role in virtually all biological processes, acting as structural elements, scaffolds and signaling molecules, but they are still largely under-represented in known biological networks. We have developed a liposome microarray–based assay (LiMA), a method that measures protein recruitment to membranes in a quantitative, automated, multiplexed and high-throughput manner. The lipids are present in the context of a membrane bilayer, which can be composed of a defined combination of signaling lipids and therefore mimics the complexity of biological membranes. We demonstrated the power of LiMA by revisiting the lipid-binding specificity of a large group of pleckstrin homology domains (91 in total), using liposome arrays containing 122 different types of liposomes. The dataset, consisting of results of more than 11,000 different experiments, represents one of the largest set of quantitatively measured protein-lipid interactions.

This lecture will discuss one phase of a large ethnographic project, researching comparative cultures of innovation of "high-tech" start up sectors within national formations of digital capitalism. This phase focuss on a digital media business "accelerator" in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada called the Communitech Hub. Here work is now transmogrified into play as "big ideas are turned into big companies" within the friendly confines of the Hub's metaphorical sandbox. I will explore how the imaginary of technological innovation and entrepreneurship of the Hub is organized around and through the socio-technical affordances of mobile media forms. Part and parcel of the creation and sustenance of such projective networks is an affective bearing of people in the project towards their work and its goal that is thoroughly mediated by the materialities of mobile media they work with and on. This, in turn, creates differential mobilities of power within the Communitech Hub between funders, project leaders, and designers. Thus, contrary to many contemporary analyses of affective labor in digital capitalism that emphasize its "immaterality", such labour is always-already material in fundamental ways.

The "proactionary principle" was introduced by transhumanists and it supports the observation that historically, the most useful and important technological innovations were neither obvious nor well-understood at the time of their invention. Whereas precautionaries believe that consequences of actions in complex systems are often unpredictable and irreversible and therefore should be avoided, proactionaries believe that humans stand apart from the rest of nature by our capacity for successful risk taking. Therefore, solutions lie not in turning our backs on our love affair with technology but by intensifying it. In this seminar, we will explore the proactionary position and how changing our notion of risk-taking might help us meet the challenges of tomorrow. In society today, the precautionary principle is being increasingly used as a guide to what kind of research we should be encouraging and what we should be discouraging or banning outright. The proactionary position questions whether this is the most sensible response to a changing world or if we might benefit more from taking a different approach. The proactionary principle presents a challenging vision for the future, but it might also move us forward.

This lecture is concerned with the connection between embodiment and gender. This is not meant to contrast with gender in terms of politics, power, or negotiation but rather to add to concerns about how gender is generated through body politics. I am interested in a gender archaeology that aims to reveals ways in which gender is linked to the socialization of the body, how it is em-bodied and yet part of distinct cultural understandings, and the roles material culture has in these processes. This may mean seeing gender as, on one hand, understood through cultural impositions on bodies and, on the other hand, an embodied experience. I am thus interested in the body as a focus of political and cultural discourses, and simultaneously the subject experiencing these projections. I shall draw on bodies from Bronze Age Europe as examples to think with. My aim is to discuss these examples both in terms of cultural norms/politics imposed on the body and the embodied experiences they gave rise to.

Seminar i anledning af udgivelsen af Ludovico Ariosto: Den rasende Roland Et udvalg oversat til dansk af Ida Høeg Jacobsen og John Pedersen. Med indledning, kommentarer og afsluttende essay af Lene Waage Petersen. Dr. Pezzini er medarbejder ved basen/forskningsprojektet "L'Orlando Furioso e la sua traduzione in immagini". Hendes foredrag vil være på italiensk, men selv uden at kunne sproget vil man have glæde af at se hendes eksempler på tidlige illustrationer til eposet. Det er også muligt at komme til receptionen og kun deltage i den dansksprogede del af seminaret.

In his latest book, Zielonka describes the EU in a state of crisis. However, despite the fact that the EU is currently struggling to survive in modest form—deprived of many real powers—Europe as an integrated entity is continuously gaining strength. The integration process persists due to the European states' profound economic interdependence, historic ties and the need for political pragmatism. A revitalized Europe led by major cities, regions and powerful NGOs will emerge in which a new type of continental solidarity can flourish.

I 1923 fødte Erna i al hemmelighed et barn, som hun straks efter kvalte. Det foregik i stilhed under dynen, som hun delte med sin bedstemor, der intet hørte. Erna var ikke den eneste. Fra 1900 til 1950 blev 614 kvinder dømt for at have forårsaget deres nyfødte barns død. Hvor mange, der ikke blev opdaget og dømt, kan vi kun gisne om. Med udgangspunkt i sin anmelderroste bog vil oplægsholderen fortælle om nogle af disse barnemordersker og deres samtid og ad den vej prøve at forklare, hvordan det kunne gå så galt. Og hun vil diskutere, hvorfor og på hvilken måde de gradvist forsvandt og blev til "fosterfordriversker" i stedet.

Novellesamlingen "Så længe jeg skal ind ad din dør" giver stemme til et erhverv, der ellers er overset i skønlitteraturen: sosu'erne. Novellerne er en del af Københavns læseprojekt under Marianne Jelveds Danmark Læser-kampagne. Ti danske forfattere har hen over sommeren fulgt en sosu medarbejder på arbejde en dag i den københavnske plejesektor. Det er nu blevet til ti skønlitterære noveller, der indeholder alt fra kærlighed, spænding og overnaturlige elementer til barsk realisme og sansende refleksioner. Fælles for fortællingerne er forholdet mellem borgeren og sosu'en – det levede liv, som borgeren gemmer på og som sosu'en frivilligt eller ufrivilligt bliver involveret i.

Familieretten ændrer sig til stadighed. Nye tider fører til nye normer. Det påvirker samlivsformerne, relationen mellem kønnene og mellem forældre og deres børn. I forelæsningen ses på de senere års store udfordringer i familieretten. Der har bl.a. været fokus på at sikre børns rettigheder og på at forberede en ny lov om økonomien i ægteskabet. Samtidig savnes nytænkning om regulering af ugifte samlivsforhold, hvor det samlede billede stadig er et "rodet kludetæppe" uden forudsigelighed og konsistens.

Et forfatterarrangement om krig, kærlighed og de menneskelige konsekvenser i kølvandet på det danske engagement i Afghanistan. Dy Plambeck kommer tæt på de store temaer: Krig og kærlighed i hendes nyeste roman "Mikael", der handler om den unge journalist Becky, som rejser til Afghanistan for at skrive om hverdagen ved fronten og bliver venner med soldaterne Mikael og Jan. I landskabet omkring dem er der sand og savn, lys og mørke, ildkampe og improviserede sprængladninger. Et kærlighedsforhold udvikler sig mellem Becky og Mikael, men krigen raser og får konsekvenser. Romanen er et blik ind i den menneskelige bevidsthed og en rejse gennem naturens og sindets landskaber. At bogens temaer er alment vedkommende kan bl.a. ses af den megen omtale romanen fik i de danske avisers kultursektioner i forbindelse med udgivelsen den 15. august i år.

Tab af ægtefælle er en af de mest belastende og stressende livsbegivenheder, et menneske kan komme ud for. Alligevel bagatelliseres sorgen jo ældre, vi bliver! Projektleder på Pallitativt Videnscenter (PAVI), Jorit Tellervo, gør os klogere på ny viden om sorgforståelse. PAVI har de sidste tre år haft fokus på viden hos fagpersoner om sorg hos ældre. De næste to år gennemfører PAVI et befolkningsprojekt, hvor den indhentede viden i forbindelse med ægtefælles død, skal ud til alle i samfundet. Jorit Tellervo præsenterer os for viden om sorg og ældre og forskellige muligheder for sorgstøtte.

Hvor meget af vores personlighed er bestemt af vores gener? Hvad betyder genernes sammensætning for vores forståelse af, hvem vi er? Gør det os endda mere lykkelige at forstå vores genetik? De evige spørgsmål om arv og miljø har været genstand for offentlig debat så længe, vi kan huske. Men hjerneforsker og videnskabsjournalist Lone Frank har et bedre udgangspunkt end de fleste for at diskutere spørgsmålene. Nu har nu hun begået filmen "Genetic Me", der på uhøjtidelig, folkelig og humoristisk vis tager seeren med ind der, hvor den spirende genetiske videnskab gror.

Ice cores and polar firn air provide a unique means to reconstruct polar temperature as well as atmospheric composition changes. They notably help to understand the feedbacks at work between natural climate variability and biogeochemical cycles controlling in particular the greenhouse gas concentrations. They also put in perspective the main anthropogenic perturbations started about two centuries ago. This lecture will address some of the main discoveries made in this field over the last 25 years, in a strongly collaborative and international spirit. It will also show how technological progresses in laser spectroscopy are currently revolutionizing ice core science.

Climate change is inextricably linked with the 21st century challenges of water, food and energy resources, and of health and development. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cities of the world. More than half the world's population already live in cities, who account for 80% of global greenhouse gases, and 66% of the world's energy, and a further two billion will move to urban areas in the next two decades. So what solutions are out there to match these great challenges, while also creating a thriving economy and increasing liveability and quality of urban life?

Interacting organic-metal composites are a particular type of a hard-soft system, and presently an extremely challenging system to simulate. In this talk I will present first our results modeling the electronic properties of carbon-based nanosensors with potential applications to detect biomolecules in vivo and in vitro. A Density Functional Theory simulation with all the components of such biosensor is at present prohibitive and we are therefore also interested in developing methods that can contribute to increase the accessible time and size scales of quantum simulations by several orders of magnitude. In a second stage, I will focus on a recent Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (OFDFT) implementation in GPAW that preserves the promised linear scaling of the method, has good numerical stability and opens for the first time, the possibility to calculate accurate all-electron OFDFT energies for any system.

European integration was supposed to create the most competitive economy in the world. It was supposed to make the "Stockholm consensus" prevail over the "Washington consensus", not just in the North, but also in the East and South of Europe. The common currency and the single market were the key means for achieving these ambitious economic aims. Today the common currency is in trouble and it undermines the achievements of the single market. Even the strongest European economies fail to generate growth and Europe's welfare systems are collapsing. The Euro was meant to help integrate Europe, but it achieved the opposite: it exacerbated the gaps and conflicts between the surplus and deficit countries, the importers and exporters, and the North and South. Does European economic integration have a future in this situation?

Holder Den Hirschsprungske Samlings museumsdirektør Marianne Saabye et foredrag om P.S. Krøyer. Foredraget er et apropos til Statens Museum for Kunsts udstilling "Manets Goya. Grafik". Ligesom den franske maler Manet rejste P.S. Krøyer og mange af samtidens kunstnere til Spanien for at studere barokkens store malere, men de tog også ud for at studere folkelivet og det spanske lys.

Hassan Preisler kalder sig selv præmieperker. Og i samme åndedrag skælder han gerne ud på både sig selv—og os—og på den repressive tolerance, som har finansieret ham for at være så dygtig til det med minoriteter. Nu kan du møde forfatteren i Kvarterhuset, hvor der er lagt op til et spændende forfattermøde, som har alle muligheder for også at blive en spændende diskussion om integration og inklusion. Alene Preislers omslag til sin bog, der umiskendeligt ligner omslaget til en berømt og berygtet børnebog, "Lille Sorte Sambo", her med forfatteren i Sambo-positur, synes at garantere for en interessant aften med start kl. 17.30.

Kom og drik champagne med professorerne! For syvende år i træk inviterer Statens Naturhistoriske Museum til Videnskabsgalla. Det foregår i de festlige og smukke rammer i Københavns Universitetets Festsal på Frue Plads. Traditionen tro byder vi på en festlig og underholdende aften med rød løber, fakler, champagne og en mangfoldig buket af videnskabelige opdagelser. En stribe eksperter fra museet fortæller om årets mest forbløffende og spændende fund, erkendelser og hændelser.

Forfatteren og billedmageren Niels Boel besøger LiteraturHaus sin dokumentarfilm fra Bolivia. Niels Boel er forfatter til bl.a. "Det nye Latinamerika" og "Migration i globaliseringens tidsalder". Han vil læse op fra udvalgte tekster, der kredser om rejsetemaet.

A great deal of effort has been devoted to reducing the risk of spurious scientific discoveries, from the use of sophisticated validation techniques, to deep statistical methods for controlling the false discovery rate in multiple hypothesis testing. However, there is a fundamental disconnect between the theoretical results and the practice of data analysis: the theory of statistical inference assumes a fixed collection of hypotheses to be tested, or learning algorithms to be applied, selected non-adaptively before the data are gathered, whereas in practice data is shared and reused with hypotheses and new analyses being generated on the basis of data exploration and the outcomes of previous analyses. In this work we initiate a principled study of how to guarantee the validity of statistical inference in adaptive data analysis. As an instance of this problem, we propose and investigate the question of estimating the expectations of m adaptively chosen functions on an unknown distribution given n random samples. We show that, surprisingly, there is a way to estimate an exponential in n number of expectations accurately even if the functions are chosen adaptively.

Sean Meyn provides an entertaining overview of the origins of U.S. power markets, and how federal agencies are attempting to right the wrongs. Meyn will challenge the audience with a quiz on the "value of power" and highlight exciting possibilities with better public policy for the creation of responsive and reliable resources. This will help manage a grid with significant renewable energy integration.

Hvor meget af vores personlighed er bestemt af vores gener? Hvad betyder genernes sammensætning for vores forståelse af, hvem vi er? Gør det os endda mere lykkelige at forstå vores genetik? De evige spørgsmål om arv og miljø har været genstand for offentlig debat så længe, vi kan huske. Men hjerneforsker og videnskabsjournalist Lone Frank har et bedre udgangspunkt end de fleste for at diskutere spørgsmålene. Nu har nu hun begået filmen "Genetic Me", der på uhøjtidelig, folkelig og humoristisk vis tager seeren med ind der, hvor den spirende genetiske videnskab gror.

Mindre krig, mere kærlighed og en mørk hemmelighed, der måske forklarer, hvorfor denne vitale mand, der overlevede ubegribelige rædsler og nederlag i krige som Slaget ved Dybbøl, Tre-årskrigen og krigen mellem Rusland og Tyrkiet, endte med at bukke under for sine egne, indre dæmoner. Karen Blixens far Kaptajn Dinesen træder frem i hele sin indtagende og komplicerede skikkelse i anden del af Tom Buk-Swientys biografi om eventyreren med den splittede personlighed.

Qais Fares er syrisk journalist og vil fortælle om arbejdsbetingelserne for journalister både før og under oprøret i Syrien. I perioden 2007-2012 arbejdede Qais Fares på det første internationale, engelsksprogede magasin, månedsavisen Syria Today og havde via sit arbejde kontakt til et internationalt pressemiljø. Han vil komme ind på forholdet til Informationsministeriet og især afdelingen for censur. Forelæsningen er på arabisk, men er tilrettelagt med opsummerende oversættelser på dansk. Efter det første oplæg kan tilhørerne stille spørgsmål på dansk, engelsk og arabisk.

Scient.pol.netværket har hermed fornøjelsen af at invitere til årets første store debatarrangement. Finansminister Bjarne Corydon lægger op til debat om fremtidens velfærdssamfund og udfordres af nogle af tidens markante stemmer. Opponenterne vil repræsentere et bredt udsnit af samfundslivet.

Tag på en guidet tur gennem villadanmark med arkitekturrevser og tidligere tv-vært Peter Olesen, der for nylig har udgivet bogen "Ude i Valby" og ATS-redaktør Gorm Vølver, som har skrevet parcelhussatiren "Vi med hus og mave". Gennem billeder, tegninger og masser af ord giver de sovebyen et wake up call og undrer sig blandt andet over grimme forhaver, rædselsfulde hegn og besynderlige udestuer og tilbygninger. De giver også et muntert bud på, hvilke arkenabotyper, der findes bag hækkene, og de fortæller, hvad der skal til for at blive en rigtig parcellist. Det hele er båret af et had/kærlighedsforhold til villakvartererne, som de begge henholdsvis er vokset op i og bor i.

Omkring år 1900 opdages den danske og nordiske litteratur af unge tysksprogede forfattere som Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig og Hermann Hesse, og den nordiske inspiration kommer til at præge den tyske moderne prosa fra fin de siècle og frem. Thomas Mann udtaler i 1902, at han føler sig "dybt beslægtet" med den "fjerne bror i Norden", Herman Bang. Foredraget vil handle om forholdet mellem Bang og Mann med blik på både liv og værk. Vigtige spørgsmål er: Hvordan læser Mann Bang? Er der tale om intertekstualitet? Hvilken rolle spiller Bangs liv og åbne homoseksualitet for Mann? Herman Bang var i modsætning til Thomas Mann en outsider, dandy og décadent, der ofte var i offentlighedens negative søgelys. Det var en af grundene til, at han i 1920'erne blev en vigtig figur for Klaus Mann, og foredraget vil også perspektivere til denne Bang-reception hos anden generation Mann.

Forfattersamtale med Kjersti Skomsvold og hendes danske oversætter Francois-Eric Grodin. Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold (f. 1979) bor i Oslo. "Jo hurtigere jeg går, jo mindre er jeg" er Skomsvolds debutroman, som hun modtog Tarjei Vesaas Debutantpris for i 2009, og en nominering til den norske Boghandlerprisen samme år. I 2012 blev "Jo hurtigere jeg går, jo mindre er jeg" nomineret til IMPAC-prisen i Irland. Romanen eroversat til atten sprog. Skomsvolds anden roman Monstermenneske udkommer på dansk i 2013 og er ogsåsolgt til udgivelse i USA og Storbritannien.

Robotic squirrel tails that warn squirrels about danger, and robotic lizard-less legs that perform push-up gestures to declare a lizard territory. Learn more about these and other robotic sculptures created by Los Angeles-based roboticist and artist, Ian Ingram, in his artist talk at University of Copenhagen. Ian Ingram builds mechatronic and robotic systems that borrow facets from animal morphology and behavior, from the shapes and movements of machines, and from our stories about animals. These systems are often intended to cohabitate and interact with animals in the wild. Ingram's artistic work is playful and humorous, but rooted in a serious reflection on the relationship between machines and living beings.

This methodological contribution deals with the use of experiments in cognitive studies of the moving image. First we set experiments apart from other empirical methods, such as uncontrolled observational studies and correlational methods, and discuss strengths and weaknesses. It is concluded that experiments are the royal road for theory testing and development. Then we discuss characteristic challenges set by psychological experiments using film as the stimulus. Due to the unity of film form, a major challenge is posed by threats of factor confounding. Experimental manipulation of one film content factor naturally introduces co-variation of others. Some solutions are suggested. Finally we briefly mention a recent alternative or complement to experimentation. Illustrations of relevant studies are presented throughout.

In our presentation we would like to go into detail with our evaluations of the way respondents react to TV fiction series, such as "The Heritage" (2014). In the experiment we combined brain wave measures (EEG) with qualitative interviews. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages by using EEG as a physiological measure. Towards the end of our presentation we shed light on our future plans, where our key challenge is to conduct a new experiment with a physiological measure that can provide a shorter turn-around time.

(Part of the workshop "Mechanisms in the Life Sciences.")

(Part of the workshop "Mechanisms in the Life Sciences.")

We use data for 198121 candidates and 1351 random election outcomes to estimate the effect of incumbency status on future electoral success. We find no evidence of incumbency advantage using data on randomized elections. In contrast, regression discontinuity design, using optimal bandwidths, produces a positive and significant incumbency effect. Using even narrower bandwidths aligns the results with those obtained using the randomized elections. So does the bias-correction of Calonico et al. (forthcoming). Standard validity tests are not useful in detecting the problems with the optimal bandwidths. The appropriate bandwidth seems narrower in larger elections and is thus context specific.

Da Tyskland blev (gen-)forenet i 1989/90, var der mange i Europa, som frygtede et for stort Tyskland: Storbritannien og Frankrig havde gerne forhindret eller forsinket foreningen, og også i Danmark kunne man høre bekymrede røster. Men alt i alt tog danskerne udviklingen med sindsro, nok også fordi allerede det gamle Vesttyskland var mere end stort nok - hvis det var det, man var bange for. Derfor har udviklingen siden 1990 heller ikke i sig selv betydet det store for danskernes billede af Tyskland. Den mere afslappede holdning, som længe havde været på vej, har bredt sig yderligere, og eventuelle bekymringer for udviklingen i Europa gælder i dag ikke specielt Tyskland, måske endda sidst af alt Tyskland. At forholdet mellem et temmelig lille og et ganske stort land aldrig kan være helt problemfrit, er en anden sag—eller den anden side af medaljen.

There have long been well-founded suspicions that state security agencies, notably the US National Security Agency (NSA), have secretly been conducting surveillance of internet communications, but the revelations from documents Edward Snowden leaked in June 2013 have surprised everyone in terms the global scope and fine grained detail of internet interception. This surveillance, and the related weakening of encryption standards as well as more targeted injection of spyware into thousands of computers around the world, has provoked widespread concern. This talk will provide an overview of the various forms of recently revealed mass state surveillance, highlighting the interception of communication at internet choke points and the risk this poses for domestic traffic that is routed via the US and its Five Eyes partners.

Opfostringen er en optugtelse. Individet skal eleveres via disciplinære foranstaltninger som ikke alene regulerer den naturlige spaltning men også den anden sociale fødsel, der ikke stemmer med hjælpeløshed men med magtesløshed. Det vigtige er, at mennesket ikke blot er født i hjælpeløshed men er født magtesløshed ind i produktionsforhold man afmægtigt reproducerer. Mennesket har altså principielt ikke alene en barndom men tilmed udleveret til et slægtskabsforhold – altså til forsørgelsesenheder som familien, institutionerne, arbejdsmarkedet og alle de strukturelle forsorgsforanstaltninger. [...]

As business environments become more dynamic and discontinuous, the phenomenon of digital transformation becomes more complex, non-linear, and messy. When change in the context of the phenomenon that we study becomes profound, then our research paradigms need to be re-examined. This talk explores three alternative research paradigms for studying digital transformation and digital business strategy in a dynamic messy world. I use three contextual examples which are in varying degrees of development to articulate and demonstrate these alternative research paradigms. The first instance demonstrates the use of configurational approaches for examining digital ecodynamics, and shows how configurational approaches to both theory structure and method yield different results and insights than do correlational approaches in studying how IT enhances or inhibits organizational agility. The second instance searches for the building blocks of a suitable theory structure and accompanying methods for capturing iterative sense-and-respond phenomena associated with the management of the real-time digital enterprise in a big data world. The third instance examines evolving ideas on two-domain holonomic models and how they might help to design architectures for the digital adaptive enterprise.

Recent years have seen significant adjustments in the Chinese government's approach to food security in response to the growing complexity of the challenge of feeding a fifth of global population. On the one hand, action is needed to address the problem of chronic hunger, which still affects large numbers of impoverished peasants. On the other hand, on-going efforts are needed to meet the challenge of meeting the aspirations of an increasingly affluent population that is demanding a more diversified, protein-based diet. For many years, the Chinese government's food security policy was dominated by the twin imperatives of achieving 95 percent self-sufficiency in grain and minimising imports of major foodstuffs. But recently the government has recognised that as China grows richer, it will have no choice but to turn to imports, especially to provide livestock feed to meet burgeoning demand for meat and dairy products. The new thinking also acknowledges that for many consumers the key problem is no longer the availability of food, but its quality and safety.

(Part of the workshop "Mechanisms in the Life Sciences.")

I det 21. århundrede foregår en stigende del af samfundets kulturelle, sociale og politiske liv på digitale medieplatforme. De hastigt voksende datamængder bliver derfor et stadig mere betydningsfuldt historisk kildemateriale og studieobjekt for al samtidsforskning, ligesom digitalisering af ældre materialer åbner nye muligheder for historisk orienteret forskning. Big Data er ikke blot "real-time data", men også "long data". De digitale mediers centrale rolle i samfundslivet både for aktørerne og som dokumentationsplatform indebærer både en eksponentielt voksende produktion af data, og et stadigt mere vidtspændende og forgrenet sæt af nye, softwarestøttede metoder. Big Data er ikke blot et modeord. I forelæsningen vil jeg især fokusere på de humanvidenskabelige potentialer og runde af med et par overvejelser om behovet for gentænkning og reformulering af centrale humanvidenskabelige traditioner og spørge, hvor går grænsen mellem fakulteterne og hvorfor?

(Part of the workshop "Mechanisms in the Life Sciences.")

(Part of the workshop "Mechanisms in the Life Sciences.")

I efteråret sætter DIIS i samarbejde med Udenrigsministeriet, Hovedbiblioteket, Folketinget og JWM Consult fokus på de brede tendenser der definerer arabisk politisk efter "foråret". Den Arabisk Verden står i dag overfor en række nye udfordringer for sikkerhed og demokratisering. Blandt det mest iøjefaldende er de autokratiske eliters fornyede greb om de politiske beslutningsprocesser. Den massive genopblussen af politi- og militærrepression. En forskydning i protestpolitik fra de brede folkelige bevægelser og moderate islamistiske partier til yderliggående terrorgrupper. Samt det delvise kollaps af visse arabiske staters autoritet. Disse kriser der dominerer mediedagsordenen og det internationale samfunds politiske indsatser afspejler imidlertid et mere grundlæggende og langstrakt split mellem de arabiske samfund og de arabiske autoritære regimer—netop dét forhold der kom til udtryk i den hastige politisering af de befolkningerne under det arabiske forår i 2011. Seniorforsker ved DIIS, Rasmus Alenius Boserup giver sit bud på hvor den arabiske verden står tre et halvt år efter "det arabiske forår". Arrangementet er det sidste i rækken af tre debataftener på Hovedbiblioteket, men man behøver ikke have været til de to foregående—mød op, bliv klogere og deltag i debatten om den svære komplicerede situation!

Hvad kan litteratur sige om sygdom og hvordan gestaltes sygdom i litteraturen? Forfatter Hans Otto Jørgensen taler om patientromanen ud fra Helga Johansens 'Hinsides', og post.doc Michael Høxbro Andersen vil ud fra sin forskning inden for sygdomsfigurationer i litteraturen give eksempler på hvordan sygdom i litteratur gør sociale fællesskaber synlige.

It is well established that the performance of regular physical exercise results in numerous health benefits, a reduced risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Physical exercise is also widely accepted as a clinically important modality to decrease blood glucose concentrations in patients with diabetes, due largely to an increase in the rate of glucose transport into the contracting skeletal muscles and an increase in insulin sensitivity in the period following exercise. In this presentation, I will discuss our recent data investigating the effects of exercise training on white adipose tissue. In addition, I will present data on studies aimed at investigating the effects of maternal exercise on offspring health.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork with merchants of Afghan background in various settings across the former Soviet Union and in China, this paper investigates the significance of the Chinese city of Yiwu for the global trade in low-grade commodities. The global trade in such commodities is often understood by anthropologists as a form of bottom-up globalization. While there is a great deal to merit such an approach, anchoring the study of the Afghan trading network in the backgrounds and self-understandings of the individuals who make it up, refuses a stark division between globalization from below and from on top, and brings attention to the ways in which commercial personnel involved in globalizing processes actively conceive of themselves as being a particularly unique type of international actor formed out of a multiplicity of historical trajectories.

Kom til åbning af udstillingen Mind the Earth i Dansk Arkitektur Center d. 20. november kl. 16–18. Udstillingen "Mind the Earth" viser klodens forandring gennem udvalgte fotos fra Google Earth, der bringer erkendelser af, hvor mangfoldig, modstandsdygtig, men også sårbar vores klode er.

SpilBar is a bimonthly event, where everyone in or close to the computer games industry can meet and mingle. The meetings always start with a talk and end with a drink. Ste Curran's "The Slow Death of Punk Rock" draws parallels between the development of the music industry and the videogame industry and asks what we can learn about the development and commercialisation of a creative subculture. It's also a story about an old friend and a concert, memory and time, and it's being performed here for the first time in two years. Following, we will exhibit a collection of the most important Danish digital games, which formed the Danish industry and cultural understanding of games. At this exhibition we primarily focus on older titles, so you can try classic Danish games like Piet Hein's Nimbi (1967), Kaptajn Kaper (1981), Blackout (1997), Hugo (1991), and Total Overdose (2005).

Mange forskere, journalister og borgere synes at have et had-kærlighedsforhold til debat på nettet. På den ene side udtrykker de store forventninger til, hvordan nettet i princippet kan understøtte kommunikationen mellem politikere og borgere; på den anden side begræder de, at netdebatter i praksis ikke er andet end galde fra gale mænd i underbukser. Efter at have brugt tre år på at læse tusindvis af kommentarer på danske netaviser argumenterer Rasmus Rønlev i dette foredrag for en mellemposition: Debatten på netaviserne er bedre end sit rygte; men samtidig kan borgerne blive bedre som debattører, journalisterne som ordstyrere og netaviserne som fora for fokuseret og forståelig debat.

Dansk Kvindesamfund inviterer til foredrag, hvor forskere og legetøjsproducenter vil fortælle om, hvordan kønnet legetøj påvirker børns selvopfattelse. En afdeling med drengelegetøj og en afdeling med pigelegetøj. Det er nemt at navigere efter køn, når du midt i julegaveræset skal købe gaver til børn, børnebørn, niecer eller nevøer. Men hvordan præger det den lille piges forestillinger om sine fremtidsmuligheder, når hun får en legetøjsstøvsuger i julegave, mens lillebror får en legetøjscomputer? Hvilke historier om piger og drenge fortæller vi indirekte vores børn, når vi giver dem henholdsvis dukker og biler?

It spiller en stadig større rolle i moderne organisationer. Fra at it har været en støttefunktion til den daglige drift i forretningen til, at it nu kan være forskellen mellem strategisk og forretningsmæssig succes eller fiasko. For at få forretningsmæssig værdi ud af it er det vigtigt, at de ledende medarbejdere har de rette kompetencer. Et område IT-Universitetet fokuserer på i disse år.

Stemmen er en uomtvistelig dimension ved læseoplevelsen: Når vi læser, hører vi teksten som en stemme for vores indre øre. Men hvem tilhører den stemme, vi hører for os, når vi læser? Er det forfatterens, er det læserens, eller kan man tale om, at teksten har sin egen tavse skriftstemme? Er det muligt at betragte teksten som en slags partitur for en stemme? På et helt basalt niveau kan en analyse af tekstens stemme begynde med spørgsmålet: Hvordan skal teksten læses op? Det gælder så om at kunne argumentere for sin oplæsning med teksten: Hvad er det i teksten der får mig til at læse den langsomt eller hurtigt op, højt eller stille, muntert eller trist etc.?

Stephanie har bl.a. udgivet spændingsromanen "Smerten selv", har skrevet én af sine saftige noveller i Field's og har bl.a. medvirket i en programrække om erotisk litteratur på DR2. Stephanie Caruana vil denne aften give et aktuelt bud på, hvad der rører sig lige nu i genren, læse heftige smagsprøver fra egne værker og fortælle om hvorfor femmes fatales er så evigt dragende—og gøre Ørestad Bibliotek hedt på en kold novemberaften.

Med udgangspunkt i den aktuelle udstilling om farvegrafik, ses nærmere på farvegrafikkens historie og virkemidler. Nogle af de teknikker, der er repræsenteret i de udstillede værker gennemgås, og Tine Zielinski taler om grafikkens kvaliteter, ikke blot som en særskilt kunstart, men som katalysator for et helt særligt kunstnerisk fællesskab. Alle de udstillede værker er skabt af kunstnere tilknyttet Grafisk Gruppes værksted.

Mød de fire unge aldringsforskere Kamilla Nørtoft, Rikke Hodal Meincke, Claus Desler og Jakob Agergaard, og hør dem fortælle om de nyeste og vigtigste forskningsindsigter om aldring. Mens de sætter ord på forskningen vil de to professionelle illustratorer Katrine Clante og Erik Petri live-tegne indsigterne. Cav Bøgelund er vært ved arrangementet.

Hvert år kommer stadig flere unge migranter fra ikke-EU lande til Danmark, som skal under uddannelse eller på kulturel udveksling. Men hvem defineres som uddannelsesmigrant i Danmark? Skal de have krav på at kunne blive i Danmark, når de ikke længere studerer eller når deres udvekslingsophold udløber? Skal de have lov til at arbejde, og hvor meget? Integrerer de sig bedre i landet, når de først er blevet uddannet her? Debatten tager fat på følgende: Hvordan oplever disse migranter deres deltagelse i det danske samfund? Hvordan drager de nytte af deres ophold i Danmark? Hvilken rolle spiller de mere eller mindre formelle uddannelsesordninger for disse unge menneskers fremtidsmuligheder? Antropologer fra Aarhus Universitet og Københavns Universitet har i de sidste tre år beskæftiget sig med disse spørgsmål i et forskningsprojekt, der har fokus på tre grupper af midlertidige migranter i Danmark: ukrainske landsbrugspraktikanter, filippinske au pairer og nepalesiske studerende. Fælles for de tre grupper er, at deres ophold er betinget af, at de er under en form for uddannelse. Projektet har belyst migranternes egne erfaringer med livet i Danmark, deres møde med det multikulturelle samfund, samt deres håb og forestillinger for fremtiden.

Consistently, communication leaders list internal communication as one of their biggest headaches. Employee communications in general and change communications in particular provide an opportunity to demonstrate true business value when professionals apply their skills adequately. Based on many years of hands on experience, including being Global Director of Communication for Maersk Line from 2008–2013, Klavs Valskov has co-developed a simple model for change communication. He argues that by asking just a few basic questions a communication leader can get to the strategic heart of any change programme. Rather than be relegated to the position of tactician, the communication director can assume the role of agent provocateur; challenging senior peers to think more deeply about their business and the transformation they wish to achieve.

Quantum permutation groups, introduced by Wang, are a quantum analogue of permutation groups. These quantum groups have a surprisingly rich structure, and they appear naturally in a variety of contexts, including combinatorics, operator algebras, and free probability. In this talk I will give an introduction to these quantum groups, starting with some background and basic definitions. I will then present a computation of the K-groups of the C*-algebras associated with quantum permutation groups, relying on methods from the Baum-Connes conjecture.

What forces have unleashed the largest entrepreneurial and private venture creation in history? How does is China's experience differ from Western understanding of new venture creation, and what can business people and other savants learn of entrepreneurship in China? Specifically, what should foreign entrepreneurs in China consider in new venture creation initiatives? Based upon a long international career as a professor of strategic management and entrepreneurship in the US, Switzerland, Denmark, and for the last ten years in Shanghai and Chengdu, China, the speaker examines China's economic development since 2004 and the establishment of new innovative companies, including the commercial developments in regions away from the industrial centres at China's east coast. The speaker draws upon his personal experience of creating new ventures and from setting up from scratch and managing several development initiatives in Sichuan Province in West China. The lecture will include theoretical implications, personal reflections, but will place emphasis on the hard learned practical business implications from operating as a foreigner in China.

Kom og hør chefdesigner for Fonnesbech Mette Julie Bundgaard-Nielsen i dialog med projektleder i Danish Fashion Institute Johan Arnø Kryger, om hvordan modebranchen takler udfordringer i forhold til bæredygtighed. Hvad er de primære barrierer og hvad er mulighederne? Johan arbejder med emnet i Danish Fashion Instutite og deler ud af sin erfaringer, samtidig med at han giver et helikopterperspektiv på emnet. Fonnesbech har skabt en kollektion, hvor bæredygtighed har været et vigtigt element, og Mette Julie vil fortælle om, hvordan de har grebet processen an.

En paneldebat om hvilket samfund, vi er ved at udvikle med det stadig større fokus der er på, at unge skal klare ungdomsuddannelse og videregående uddannelse. Hvad med dem som ikke kan klare det og falder fra? Og hvilken indflydelse har det på kvaliteten af uddannelserne, at unge skal hurtigt igennem?

Hør Malene Freudendal-Pedersen fra Roskilde Universitets Center og Esben Danielsen fra Orange Innovation i en double-up forelæsning om urban aktivisme og urban kreativitet. Hvem bestemmer hvad der skal ske i byens rum? Og hvordan kan du selv sætte dit præg?

Vores viden om universet og dets skabelse er vokset enormt de seneste år. To af de mest sensationelle videnskabelige gennembrud længe var, da man påviste eksistensen af Higgspartiklens i 2012 og registrerede gravitationsbølger i 2014. Et andet fænomen, der spiller en central rolle i vores forståelse af Universet, og som også optager fysikerne meget for tiden, er mørkt stof. To ledende danske fysikere vil gøre os klogere på de største opdagelser og erkendelser inden for partikel- og astrofysikken i disse år og om de gåder, man jager svaret på.

Remote sensing is one of the fundamental tools for studying climate change. A couple of these techniques have been developed using expertise from DTU Space. Here the use of satellite gravimetry and satellite altimetry will be presented as well as their use for climate monitoring. Both for monitoring changes in the global ocean but also some recent development for monitoring changes of inland water will be presented.

Recent IPCC records have load and clearly expressed the realities: The world is warming and mankind is responsible for most of this warming that has taken place within the last half century. If unmitigated, climate change will continue for centuries and even if strong mitigation measures will come in place, the world will still continue to warm. Here some of the most robust projections of future changes will be presented in the light of already observed and realized climate change.

Following the ongoing effort for miniaturization of devices and systems, on chip nanoscale photonic and plasmonic based devices and system are becoming a reality. In this talk I describe our recent progress towards the construction of on chip silicon photonics and silicon plasmonics passive and active devices. This effort include the demonstration of plasmonic enhanced silicon photo detectors for the infrared, nanoscale electro optical modulators in silicon, nanoscale confinement of electromagnetic energy and nonlinear interactions of light with hot vapor on a chip. Additionally, I will present an approach for thermal mapping with nanoscale resolution and apply this approach for the characterization of nanoscale photonic and plasmonic devices. Finally, I will share our recent results of on chip spectroscopy and nonlinear interactions using the platform of atomic clad waveguide and plasmonic assisted atomic transitions.

Accusations of social tourism have recently hailed over Europe and the theme of welfare tourism has fuelled the debate up to the European Parliament elections in spring. As the storm has now eased off a bit, it is time to reflect on what social tourism really is and to what extent the social rights of free movers are protected within the EU. Are Union citizens really a threat to the national welfare systems and what are the legal challenges facing social Europe?

Tyskstudiet har været meget omtalt i dimensioneringsdebatten, og selvom den seneste aftale mellem ministeren og universiteterne afblæser dødsdommen over fremmedsprogsstudierne, vil vi gerne sætte lys på tysk som fag, forskning og kompetence i fremtiden. Der er grund til kritisk at efterprøve påstandene i debatten om fx tyskkandidaters arbejdsløshed, at analysere behovet for tysk på arbejdsmarkedet og i det danske samfund samt ikke mindst reflektere over vores uddannelser i tysk og fremtidsperspektiverne for fremmedsprog, også som del af humaniora.

This sentence has been said so many times in so many different situations that we tend to become a little blind to the deeper dimensions of this parameter. Charlotte Larsen presents a mindset and a reciepe for a process, that enables a group of individuals to connect to the deeper meaning they share, e.g. in their professional life or as users of a specific service. The result of the process is a clear and concrete answer to the fundamental WHY, that should be at the heart of any innovation process. Over the past three years, Charlotte has been involved in developing a toolbox for leaders within the public sector. The project was sponsored by state Videncenter for Velfærdsledelse, with Copenhagen og Roskilde municipalities as project owners. Among other supporting tools, the project developed a structured method for negotiating and bringing to light a local, common understanding of the deeper/higher meaning of any work situation.

King Christian IV is the best remembered of all Danish kings. The reasons are many. He ruled longer than any other monarch, from 1588 to 1648. He loved building and left a legacy of conspicuous monuments. Thousands of personal letters document his energetic and disruptive personality. The history of Denmark in his time was shaped by great wars and fierce political struggles, and the personal life of the king—and his wives, mistresses, children and in-laws—was just as dramatic.

Ved sidste måneds svenske valg var partiet Feministisk Initiativ lige ved at komme i Riksdagen. Hvad har svenskerne gang i? Er de kammet over i selvretfærdig sekterisme og politisk korrekthed? Og er feminisme blevet et skældsord i Danmark? Hvad adskiller danskerne fra svenskerne—og hvad kan vi lære af hinanden?

Horace Engdahls bog "Arret efter drømmen" udkommer på dansk med forord ved Ursula Andkjær Olsen. I den anledning har forlaget Jensen & Dalgaard inviteret den svenske forfatter til en samtale om litteratur, scenekunst, teater, musik og europæisk dannelse.

Historically, outbreaks and epidemics of infectious diseases have had vast impact on societies. Important examples include massive epidemics of plaque such as the Black Death in 1348, the Spanish flu in 1918, and the great polio-epidemics in the 1950s. Some researchers thought that we could close the "book of infectious diseases" in the 1970s. The battle against infections was perceived as over thanks to the high living standard in industrialized countries as well as the availability of antibiotics and vaccines. Then came HIV/AIDS, which completely changed the paradigm of infectious diseases—due to the dire links between a stealth infection, sex, blood, minority groups, and death. Then followed a series of other newly emerging or reemerging infections and it was realized that the war against infections is a never-ending story. Hence, the concept of emerging infectious diseases or "postmodern pathogens" were born. Most of these infections are of zoonotic nature, i.e., transmitted directly or indirectly from animals to humans. The emergence of hemorrhagic fever due to ebola virus in West Africa represents one of the most concerning, ongoing epidemics. Although we know how to stop ebola, the prospects of bringing the epidemic under control remain uncertain at this time. Kåre Mølbak will put the current epidemic into a historical context and will provide an assessment of the current status and possible scenarios for the future.

It is widely accepted within the debates on the "urbanization of neoliberalism" that the spread of neoliberalism has contributed to the emergence of an increasingly globalized urban policy regime. In addition to the adherence to free market ideals, international competitiveness, welfare state retrenchment and a focus on inner-city regeneration through real-estate development, another core element of this policy regime consists of the growing securitization of urban space. The latter is in general associated with the export and implementation of zero-tolerance and broken windows inspired policing, lawfare and surveillance practices in cities around the globe. These developments are often portrayed as all-powerful top-down processes that unfold in an unmediated way, leading to the growing criminalization and penalization of the apparently powerless urban "undesirables." This presentation critically engages with these debates through the lens of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Mexico City. It takes the local securitization of urban space under neoliberalism as a strategic entry point for studying the local and transnational character of contemporary forms of urban policing and discusses the analytical value (and limitations) of ethnographic research for understanding the site-specific, mediated, contested, contingent and therefore inherently unstable nature of global urban neoliberalism as a securitizing policy regime. In doing so, the paper also reflects upon how to identify strategic field sites for ethnographic research as well as upon the related ethical dilemmas involved in conducting this type of field-based research.

The figure of the "European American" carries a particular cultural and political valence in U.S. multiculturalism. It represents an exemplar of national openness, progress, and equal opportunity; a self-sufficient figure, whose toil and determination were key in overcoming poverty and discrimination to realize the American Dream. These represent the now well-entrenched topoi of the Eurocentric approach to U.S. multiculturalism, a narrative of inclusion that constructs the United States as a progressive and benevolent democracy, which has dismantled racial exclusion. This lecture briefly explores the making of this European American identity, and identifies its cultural expressions and political ramifications today. It questions the construction of European Americans as a uniform category, and draws from the Greek American example to imagine European ethnicity differently. The notion of "usable pasts" and a corpus of "popular ethnographies" serve as the analytical and textual point of departure to reclaim alternative ways of expressing ethnicity in the United States.

Many discrete groups we like have finite virtual cohomological dimension. By a well-known construction due to Serre, such groups admit finite dimensional classifying spaces for proper actions. One can think of this construction as a generalisation of a classical result of Eilenberg and Ganea that a group G with finite cohomological dimension cd(G) has a finite dimensional classifying space EG of dimension equal to cd(G) provided cd(G) is not 2 in which case it is equal to 3. The difference here is that if the group G has torsion then Serre's construction produces a space of dimension at least twice as big as the vcd(G). In 1977, Ken Brown asked given a group G with finite vcd(G) whether one could always construct a model for the classifying space for proper actions of dimension equal to the vcd(G) and under which conditions on the group there exists such a cocompact model. In 2003, Leary and Nucinkis found the first examples of groups that gave a negative answer to the first part of Brown's question. Yet their construction produced groups which could not have a cocompact model for the classifying spaces for proper actions. In this talk I will discuss how one can construct families of finite extensions of right-angled Coxeter groups that have a cocompact model for the classifying space for proper actions of minimal dimension but their virtual cohomological dimension is strictly less than this dimension. In fact, for these groups the gap between the two dimensions can be arbitrarily large. This is joint work with Ian Leary.

Watson is a truly unique challenge to the current pharma business model. Watson represents a significant step into cognitive systems, a new era of computing. It uses programmatic computing, plus the combination of three additional capabilities adding up to a unique disruption of current practices: natural language processing, hypothesis generation and evaluation, dynamic learning. While none of these capabilities is unique to Watson by itself, the combination delivers the power to unlock the world of global, unstructured data. With Watson technology, we can move from a keyword-based search that provides a list of locations to an intuitive, conversational means of discovering a set of confidence-ranked responses. CBS and IBM are pleased to invite you to a learning and discovery event on how IBM's Watson is being used in healthcare, and to discuss with others from the pharmaceutical industry, what the implications of machine learning may be on: 1. provision of healthcare to patients, 2. the future of medical research, 3. clinical trial recruitment.

Opførelsen af European Spallation Source, ESS, i Lund er nu i gang og forventes afsluttet i 2019. ESS bliver verdens kraftigste neutronkilde, der skal benyttes af tusinder af forskere fra hele verden til studier af materialers biologiske, elektroniske, magnetiske og mekaniske egenskaber på atomart niveau. ESS bliver en BIG Science facilitet, som skaber helt nye muligheder for frontlinie-forskning. BIG Science kræver investeringer i milliardklassen, og skal tilgodese mange interesser både hvad angår formål, ambitionsniveau og placering. ESS vil især kunne tilføje afgørende ny viden om fundamentale biologiske processer på molekylært niveau ved at kombinere målinger Lund af strukturer og bevægelser med modelberegninger og simuleringer, der udføres i det tilhørende datacenter i København.

Behavioral economics has documented numerous settings in which behavior varies according to seemingly-arbitrary features of the choice environment such as defaults, salience, or framing effects. Optimal policy design requires accounting for the preferences of inconsistent decision-makers but traditional revealed preference analysis breaks down when individuals exhibit systematic choice reversals. We consider binary choice problems in which preference-irrelevant \frames" affect the behavior of a subset of decision-makers in monotonic directions. We show that preference identification in such settings hinges upon understanding the empirical relationship between decision-makers' preferences and their propensity to optimize. By recasting the problem in this way, we show how familiar insights from the program evaluation literature can be fruitfully employed to this unfamiliar setting. We illustrate the usefulness of these techniques by applying them to data from a range of recent empirical studies.

One of the problems in the investigation of methane emissions in the sedimentary record is the scarcity of well-defined proxies that can be used to establish the timing of such events. Benthic foraminifera are an important component of biomass in the present oceans. In addition to their interest as indicator species living in the largest habitat on Earth, their tests have been used in isotope and trace element analysis aimed at reconstructing past environments. Carbon isotope (13C) of foraminiferal tests affected by release of large volumes of isotopically light methane from the seafloor are much lower than those observed in non-seep environments. The hypothesis that benthic foraminifera could be used as proxies of local methane emissions from the seafloor has been verified by several studies. Thus, in an effort to track changes of past methane emissions from the Arctic seafloor, we are conducting an intensive investigation in the Vestnesa Ridge (west of Svalbard at ~79º N), a large sediment drift in the Fram Strait representing one of the northernmost gas hydrate provinces along the Arctic continental margins. On-going results indicate that the geologic record in the area is punctuated by several methane emission events (MEEs) occurring at the site at least during the last 23,000 years.

Two of the most original artists operating in the field between visual arts and film will highlight their work and methods. Elodie Pong is known for her subtle, analytic work, often in multidisciplinary ensembles including video, installations, interviews, performances and film. Works that explore human relationships, cultural codes and their impacts on contemporary society. Also attending is Richard Billingham, together with producer and curator Jacqui Davies. Billingham is an artist working in photography and the moving image. He rose to fame in 1996 with his groundbreaking photographic series 'Rays a Laugh', of images of family life in his childhood home.

Exosomes are small extracellular vesicles that can shuttle content from cell to cell. Dr. Ostenfeld studies exosomes in relation to molecular events of bladder cancer aggressiveness as well as their utility in diagnosis of colorectal cancer.

This presentation analyses the complex and ambivalent relationship(s) between marginalized urban communities and police forces in Latin America cities. While forms of police-mediated state-society relations taking place at the urban margins in Latin American have often been analyzed through the lenses of authoritarian legacies, police abuse, institutional abandonment, or outright state repression, this presentation aims at complicating such one-sided narratives by highlighting the multiple, and frequently highly contradictory, ways in and through which "public" security providers and marginalized communities interact in the region's "violently plural" city spaces. To this end the presentation aims at providing an overview of basic patterns that structure the interactions between urban police forces and marginalized communities throughout the region. These patterns will be identified by focusing on three topics that serve as analytical entry points for uncovering structural aspects that shape policing-mediated state-society relations in urban Latin America: 1) The "metropolization" of crime and the politicization of (in)security; 2) the urbanization of neoliberalism and the related informalization of Latin American cities, and 3) bottom-up responses to inefficient/absent public security provision.

Professor i sociologi Margareta Bertilsson holder fratrædelsesforelæsning. Teorien er død, den lever blot som myte. Sådan kunne man (groft sagt) sammenfatte det, som sker i den moderne sociologi. I min præsentation vil jeg se nærmere på forskellige definitioner af teori: Fra antikkens interesseløse iagttagelse til den moderne tids instrumentalisering af begrebet. Jeg vil også se på forskellige udviklingsfaser i forståelsen af det sociale liv med konsekvenser for teoridannelse: Fra Durkheims definition af det sociale som "eksternt og tvingende" frem til den moderne forståelse af det sociale liv som netværker, kæder og knudepunkter i bevægelse. Men hvilke konsekvenser har den skitserede (begrebs)udvikling for teoriens vedkommende? Og for sociologien i det hele taget?

With the discovery that an asteroid impact caused the demise of the dinosaurs 65 Ma ago there has been a growing awareness that astronomical information can be gained also by looking down at Earth, rather than up at the sky. For twenty years we have pursued a systematic search for meteorites (1-21 cm in diameter) that fell on the sea floor in the Ordovician period 470 million years ago. The search is pursued together with quarry workers that saw the lithified, ancient sea-floor sediments into floor plates. So far 100 meteorites have been found, representing almost all fossil meteorites known to science. The study gives the first insight into the meteorite flux to Earth at another time than the present. 470 million years ago one of the largest break-up events in the asteroid belt occurred, and this is reflected in the assemblage of fossil meteorites. Simultaneously with the asteroid breakup one of the most important events occurred in the history of life, the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, suggesting a possible relation. We have also developed an approach were relict meteoritic, very resistant spinel grains can be recovered from sedimentary rock of most ages in Earth's history. It will thus become possible to establish a detailed history of variations in the meteorite flux to Earth and to relate, with a very high resolution, geological events to astronomical events.

How has IT changed over the last 50 Years? Join ITU Provost Jørgen Staunstrup and Professor Søren Lauesen for the second round of OpenITU—this time with a historical perspective on the development of IT over the last half century. 50 years of changing IT-technologies will be described, taking us from computers filling a whole room to mobile and wearable devices. What has changed? At the surface a lot, not least with respect to the commercial impact of IT, but some challenges have remained with us e.g. handling the ever increasing complexity of software. We will illustrate with a few examples of technology and technology failures from the past 50 years. Søren and Jørgen will share some of their personal stories and illustrate what has surprised, disappointed and excited them since the infancy of computing. The event is hosted by Anders Høeg Nissen of Harddisken.

Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security researcher and independent investigative journalist. He is a core member of the TOR project, a free software network designed to provide online anonymity and he writes for various publications about surveillance, censorship, anonymity and privacy issues. Meet Appelbaum for a talk about when, and by whom, we are being watched—and how we can try to avoid it.

Most of our understanding of the improved health in Europe up until the middle of the 20th-century is based on statistics on mortality. However, little is known about morbidity rates. Therefore, in order to enhance our knowledge of morbidity this presentation will explore national statistics on sick leave from Sweden during the period 1892–1960. The talk will address issues such as gender differences, regional patterns, and changes over time. Before 1955, sickness benefit was organized through a variety of private health insurance societies (friendly societies/sickness funds). In 1891 a new law was adopted stating that the government would partially subsidize funds that agreed to be registered and ruled by official legislations. Sickness funds were thereafter required to submit annual reports, data that authority later summarized in a yearly publication. Those statistics are analyzed in this study.

Many documentaries restrict themselves to observe characters and events from a polite distance. But some filmmakers actively take part in the events in an approach where confrontation is an integrated part of the method. Meet three of the most uncompromising contemporary filmmakers when Joshua Oppenheimer ('The Look of Silence', 'The Act of Killing'), Hubert Sauper ('We Come As Friends') and Nick Broomfield ('Tales of the Grim Sleeper', 'The Leader, the Driver, and the Driver's Wife') meet in a conversation about interventionist filmmaking, and about breaking on of the grand taboos of documentary: the power balance and possible conflict between the filmmaker and the subject. This year CPH:DOX has a special focus on interventionist documentary in a number of new films and in the thematic side 'A History of Violence'.

The funding platform Kickstarter, supporting the realization of creative projects within film, music, games, art, design and technology and more, has recently been launched in Denmark. Now they are visiting CPH:DOX! The session will be a discussion between Kickstarter's Community Manager for Film George Schmalz and filmmakers Andreas Dalsgaard (Life is Sacred) and Fredrik Gertten (Bikes vs. Cars), who both used Kickstarter to finance their newest film projects. The session is a primer on how to bring a Kickstarter project to life—learn how to structure a campaign, what kind of rewards work best, how to spread the word and many other helpful tips.