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23rd of November, 2023, 16-17.00: Roundtable - Imagining Peace in Ukraine

The Center for War Studies and the International Relations Section 51本色 invites you to a roundtable with three leading experts providing insight into the peace to (maybe) come in Ukraine.

12th October, 2023, 15.00-16.30: Workshop: Information in Conflict - making sense and unavailability

Information is central for every conflict, not only for making sense and moral judgments, but also for accessing such perceptions. Present at both levels political actors are fighting either to push their own perceptions or thwart the accessibility to competing perceptions. To better understand these practices and the effects of information control, the Center for War Studies invites you to this workshop on the role of information in conflict. Here we invite three scholars to present ongoing work on the role of information in conflict, combining different methodological and theoretical approaches to do so.

25th May, 2023, 10am -12pm: Euromissiles: Book Launch with Dr Susan Colbourn

The topic of Dr Susan Colbourn's presentation will be her latest book, Euromissiles, which tells the story of the height of the nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the world. Dr Susan Colbourn is associate director of the Program in American Grand Strategy at Duke University. A diplomatic and international historian, she specializes in European security, the politics of nuclear weapons, and the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

11th May, 2023, 15.45: Book launch of Trine Flockhart and Zachary Paikin鈥檚 book Rebooting Global International Society 鈥� Change, Contestation and Resilience

This book asks if it is time to 鈥渞eboot鈥� the fundamental institutions of global international society. The volume revisits Hedley Bull鈥檚 seminal contribution The Anarchical Society by exploring the interconnected nature of change, contestation and resilience for maintaining order in today鈥檚 uncertain and complex environment. The volume adds to Bull鈥檚 theorizing by recognizing that order demands change, that contestation should be welcomed, and that resilience is anchored in local and agent-led forms of ordering. The contributors to Part One of the book focus on theoretical and conceptual issues related to order in the global international society, whilst the contributors to Part Two of the book focus on the primary institutions as listed by Hedley Bull with the addition of a chapter on the market adding a distinctive commentary on new and important dynamics of change, contestation and resilience of the existing institutions.

3rd May, 2023, 12-13.30: WWF and Arctic environmentalism: Book Launch with Dr Danita Catherine Burke

CWS will host the launch of Dr Danita Catherine Burke's latest monograph: WWF and Arctic environmentalism:Conservationism and the ENGO in the Circumpolar North.

25th April, 2023, 14.15-15.30: A talk by Ambassador Carsten Søndergaard

Ambassador Søndergaard will share his experience as a Danish diplomat working in multilateral organisations by reflecting on the role of Denmark in NATO and the possibilities for small states having influence in multilateral settings. These questions are of course especially important in times of change and as NATO expands its membership to include Finland and (later) Sweden.

24th April, 2023, 14.15-15.30: A talk by Former Foreign Secretary Jeppe Kofod

CWS "Insights on Security". A talk by Former Foreign Secretary Jeppe Kofod on the War in Ukraine seen from Denmark

14th April, 2023, 13:00 鈥� 14:00: 鈥淯K Defence and a Changing Arctic鈥� by Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, University of Loughborough

Caroline Kennedy-Pipe is Professor of War Studies at the University of Loughborough (UK). Listed by the Guardian as 鈥渙ne of the UK鈥檚 leading scholars of war鈥�, Caroline has published extensively on Russia, the Cold War and its legacies, but also the (re)emerging security and geopolitical tension in the Arctic and High-North. Caroline is an adviser to the UK Government鈥檚 Defence Select Committee and an affiliate fellow of the DIAS Climate Change and Conflict project.

27th March, 2023, 11-12.15: Public Event with US Ambassador to Denmark, Alan Leventhal.

A special event with the American Ambassador to Denmark Alan Leventhal. The Ambassador will speak for 10-15 minutes, after which we will have an open Q&A.

7th March, 2023, 14.15-15.30: A talk by Ambassador Michael Zilmer-Johns

Ambassador Michael Zilmer-Johns will discuss the challenges for Danish security and defence in the new security environment following Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine.

11th May 2022, 11.15-12.15: Russia鈥檚 War Against Ukraine - Implications for the World

DIAS Lecture by Dr. Agnes Callamard on Russia's war against Ukraine and its implications for the world. Dr. Agnes Callamard is Secretary General of the world鈥檚 largest non-governmental human rights organisation, Amnesty International. Amnesty is a global leader, working on issues that range from upholding human rights in the Ukraine War, to the impact of Climate Change on human rights around the world. Join us at DIAS, where Dr Callamard will discuss these important issues.

26th October 2021, 15.00-18.00: Birth of the State - The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics with Charlotte Epstein

Associate professor Charlotte Epstein will be speaking about her new book, which uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights.

12th October 2021, 10.30-12.00: Beyond James Bond - Rethinking Contemporary Intelligence with Hager Ben Jaffel

Intelligence is an inescapable dimension for people working in counter-terrorism, population surveillance, and other security fields. But what exactly is intelligence today? Is it still primarily about intelligence services, about high-risk personal intelligence gathering from good-looking agents like James Bond? This lecture will take a reflexive perspective to the study of intelligence by looking back at the contemporary transformations of intelligence in a post-Cold War context.

6th October 2021, 10.30-12.00: The Governance of Defense Industrial Policy with Moritz Weiss

How do states regulate defense industries? When can production be privatized, and when is the production of defense materiel more likely to be in state control? CWS welcomes Moritz Weiss to Odense to explore his research on these issues. Photo credit: Sami Nordlund.

23rd September 2021, 14.00-16.00: The Changing Arctic with Thomas Winkler

Thursday 23rd of September 2021, the Arctic Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark, Thomas Winkler, will discuss the changes taking place within the Arctic.

23-24 September 2021 - The War Seminars #3: War & Aesthetics

The conference 鈥淲ar and Aesthetics鈥� features a line-up of prominent researchers and artists exploring the complex linkages between war and aesthetics. It is held at the Royal Danish Library and is organized by the research project 鈥淭he Aesthetics of Late Modern War鈥� and CWS 51本色 with support from the Velux and Carlsberg Foundations.

1st June 2021, 16.00 鈥� 16.30: Insight Conversation 鈥淲hat comes after the forever wars?鈥�

Conversation between Ambassador Rolf M. Hay Pereira Holmboe and Professor Sten Rynning about the question 鈥淲hat comes after the forever wars鈥� in the context of President Biden ending US military engagement in Afghanistan. Moderated by Professor Trine Flockhart

26th May 2021, 16.00 鈥� 16.30: Insight Conversation 鈥淲hat should we expect from the upcoming NATO Summit?鈥�

Conversation between CWS President Professor Jamie Shea and Professor Mark Webber about the question 鈥淲hat should we expect from the upcoming NATO Summit?鈥� in the context of the coming NATO Summit meeting for Heads of State and Government on 14 June 2021. Moderated by Professor Trine Flockhart.