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Welcome to Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU - a research group at the University of Southern Denmark

#empiressdu
Så er det i dag, Rasmus Glenthøj holder sin tiltrædelsesforelæsning. Det bliver uden tvivl interessant 👇
#1800-tallet #nationalisme #historie #internationalpolitik #forelæsning #historiesdu #politiskhistoriesdu #empiressdu #sdu #sdudk @empiressdu.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A warm congratulations to Professor Jesper Majbom Madsen, who has been awarded Queen Margrethe’s Roman Prize 2025 for his remarkable ability to “connect the study of ancient Rome with contemporary issues.” 

The prize was presented by Queen Margrethe herself at the Danish Institute in Rome.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
📢 Online seminar with Sarah Limb (King’s College London):

“Temporary Migrants? Students from Colonised and Commonwealth Countries at King’s College London, 1918–70”

🗓 5 November 2025 13:00 CET
👉 Join here: syddanskuni.zoom.us/j/8976474870...

Chair: Christian D. Pedersen (SDU)
September 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚀CfA: PhD and postdoc for research project Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)
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👉PhD fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
📅4 Sep 2025
July 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Programdelen består bl.a. af:
🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke
🔸 Session om militært beredskab og civilforsvar
🔹 Session om kulturelt og åndeligt beredskab
🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider
June 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📣 Meld dig straks til Selskabet for Samtidshistorisk Forsknings næste årsmøde om

“Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien”

📅 Fredag d. 30. januar 2026 på KU (Søndre Campus)

👉 Tilmelding sker ved henvendelse til chrthorup@adm.ku.dk

👉 Læs mere: sshf.saxo.ku.dk
June 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Come and join us and Professor Greg Woolf (NYU) for a seminar on “The Distant Tyrant: Emperor, Empire, Innocence”.

All are welcome!

Date: 28 May 2025
Time: 2-4 PM
Venue: Room U160, SDU Odense
#empiressdu
May 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Come and join us and Professor Arnaldo Marcone for a seminar on “Vespasian and His Times”!

27 May 2025, 10-12 AM, Gennemsigten, SDU Odense

This seminar is kindly sponsored by the Embassy of Italy in Denmark.

Arnaldo Marcone is Professor of Roman History at Roma Tre University. #empiressdu
May 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Postdoc in Roman History and Climate Change!

Come work with us Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU and SDU Climate Cluster and Jesper Majbom Madsen and Sebastian H. Mernild

The deadline is fast approaching (15 May)

See link for more …

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May 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Tilmelding til Jesper Jørgensens ph.d.-forsvar er åben. Selve forsvaret finder sted d. 26. maj kl. 13 i lokale U69.

Jesper Jørgensen er arkivar ved Arbejdermuseet og ph.d.-studerende ved Center for Koldkrigsstudier på SDU.
May 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Congratulations to Rasmus Glenthøj on securing funding from the Independent Research Fund Danmark (DFF) for “The Crimean War and Scandinavia” (CRIMESCAN), which will explore how the Crimean War (1853–1856) shaped nationalism, politics, and security thinking in Scandinavia.
#empiressdu
May 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
📣 Seminar on post-imperial languages:

“Building Nations, Making Worlds, Creating Subjects: European Languages in Postcolonial Africa” 🌍

Christoph Kalter, University of Agder

🗓️ Monday, 7 April 2025, 2-4 pm
📍 CML Seminar Room ø20-405a-1, SDU Odense

All are welcome. Save the date!
March 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🔸We are pleased to welcome Katja Højgaard Petersen
🔹She will deliver a project presentation titled “Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz in West Berlin and its Surveillance of the Far-Right” 🇩🇪
🔸Wednesday 5 March 2025 2PM-4PM
#empiressdu #verfassungsschutz #sdu #sdu #historiesdu #politiskhistoriesdu
March 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Congratulations to Professor Aglae Pizzone and Associate Professor Christian Damm Pedersen for receiving major grants from the Carlsberg Foundation

Many thanks to the Carlsberg Foundation for their generous support!
@carlsbergfondet.dk @empiressdu.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 11:59 AM
📢 Join us for a fascinating presentation by Dr. Jon Davis

🎓 Title: “How (Not) to Sell an Empire: Rhetoric and Colonial Discourse in Josephus’ Jewish War”

📅 10 December 2024
🕒 1 PM - 3PM
📍 CML Meetingroom (Ø20-405a-1)
#empiressdu
December 6, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Congratulations to Professor Jesper Majbom Madsen for receiving a major grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to pursue research on “Here Comes the Invincible Sun: Towards a Climate History of Roman Conquest”
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November 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
🌍 Join us in welcoming Associate Professor Jessica Ortner (SDU) for a presentation on her DFF-funded research project:

"Revival of Traumatic Pasts – Colonization, Nazism and Fascism and Contemporary Fiction and Memory Activism"

🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏰ 2 PM – 4 PM
📍 Gennemsigten (ø16-321-1)
November 19, 2024 at 10:37 AM
🔸We are pleased to welcome Emma Lindgaard Smed!

🔹Smed will deliver a project presentation titled “FAMA and Public Opinion in the Church Struggle (1245-1302)”

🔸13 Nov 2024, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, CML Seminar Room ø20-405a-1, SDU
November 7, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Congratulations to Professor Lars Boje Mortensen for securing a major ERC Synergy Grant for “CODICUM: The Medieval Book and Networks in Northern Europe c. 1000-1500: Texts, Crafts, Fragments”

www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
November 5, 2024 at 3:29 PM
We are pleased to welcome Peter Sebastian Hatlebakk today.

Hatlebakk (PhD candidate, Bergen, Norway) will deliver a paper (in Norwegian) titled:

“Tacitus og republikanisme i den politiske historieskrivning i Danmark-Norge, 1760-1830”

31 Oct, 2024, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, CML ø20-405a-1, SDU
October 31, 2024 at 11:58 AM
🏆Dr. Elisabetta Barili wins the Faculty of Humanities Best Dissertation Prize for “Building Rhetorical (Self-)Awareness through Hermogenes”!

🎉Dr. Barili was supervised by Prof. Aglae Pizzone and Prof. Lars Boje Mortensen.

🍾Congratulazioni, Elisabetta!
September 17, 2024 at 7:53 AM
🎉Join us for Aglae Pizzone’s inaugural professorial lecture: “Epistemic shock, the Greek Way: How to unsettle knowledge and promote change”

🙏All are welcome, but booking is required

✍️The deadline for signing up is Friday, 13 September, 2024: event.sdu.dk/pizzone
September 12, 2024 at 8:03 AM
💥Congrats to Christian Damm Pedersen! He has received a Carlsberg Foundation grant for a visiting scholar position at Centre for Imperial and Global History, Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter ✨
📲https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-have-funded/cf24-0704/
September 10, 2024 at 9:47 AM
👏We are thrilled to welcome Katja Lau Petersen to our team!
🎉Over the next three years, Katja Lau Petersen will investigate the role of intelligence services in countering far-right extremism in West Berlin (1951-1990)
🎊Her PhD project is generously funded by the Carlsberg Foundation
August 12, 2024 at 7:01 AM
🌻Two new books on 19th-century Scandinavianism 👏
🌻 “Scandinavia after Napoleon” and “Scandinavia and Bismarck” are now available from Palgrave 📚
☀️ Congratulations to Rasmus Glenthøj and Morten N. Ottosen 👏

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
June 27, 2024 at 9:17 AM