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Challenges and opportunities Thursday 11 December, 2025 13.00-14.00 CET (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Seminar Lise Byskov Herslund will present insights from research projects focused on local collective action in both urban climate change adaptation and rural development. The presentation will explore key questions such as:How can we best engage with local communities?Who are considered local communi
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/working-local - 2026-09-03
The beautiful mess of inhabiting borders Thursday 23 October, 2025 13.00-14.00 CEST (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) The presenter of this seminar is Caroline Dahl (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences). The discipline of landscape ecology studies the spatiality of landscape elements and their ecological functions and interdependencies. Edges of those landscape elements have been found to host the
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/transpieces-and-entanglement - 2026-09-03
In the navigation menu on the left (computer) or top right (mobile), you will find previous activities in the English language. The majority of our activities are in Swedish and/or Danish, for a list of all activities, please go to the Swedish version of this page.
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/activities/previous-activities - 2026-09-03
Building future practice Thursday 26 March, 2026 13.00-14.00 CET (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Researchers Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner (University of Copenhagen) presented their project Learning from Collaboration – Building Future Practice. The research explores the forms of collaboration that shaped Denmark’s remarkable building boom from 1960 to 1975—a period of technological innovation, soc
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/learning-collaboration - 2026-09-03
Carl Olsson has a PhD in human geography. His ongoing research concerns the contemporary history of geographical thought with a focus on what people who work with geographical knowledge actually do. His dissertation discussed the consequences of natural scientific perspective in cultural geography, especially in relation to debates about non-representational knowledge (that is, knowledge that is n
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/affiliated-researchers/carl-olsson - 2026-09-03
Symposium on Ownership Societies Past and Present Tuesday 21 April, 2026 Has the rise of ownership societies fostered a prosperous middle-class – or has it fuelled growing inequality and social instability?Over the past decades, Western societies have actively promoted ownership of housing and financial assets as the main road to financial well-being. Today, households find themselves squeezed bet
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/owning-or-sharing - 2026-09-03
16.00-17.00 on Saturday 19 September Cosmina Moroșan & Anticorp Solar Welcome to a performance by the Romanian artists Cosmina Moroșan and Anticorp Solar. They will be performing in English on the themes of migration, psychology and desire, drawing on the work of the avant-garde poet Gherasim Luca. Like many others in the Romanian avant-garde movement of the 20th century, Gherasim Luca was forced
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/after-luca - 2026-09-03
19 September 2026 16:00 to 17:00 | Other Cosmina Moroșan & Anticorp Solar Welcome to a performance by the Romanian artists Cosmina Moroșan and Anticorp Solar. They will be performing in English on the themes of migration, psychology and desire, drawing on the work of the avant-garde poet Gherasim Luca. Like many others in the Romanian avant-garde movement of the 20th century, Gherasim Luca was for
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/calendar/after-luca-lover-inventor-vampire - 2026-09-03
Call for papers Thursday 19 November, 08:00 - Friday 20 November, 17:00 Join the workshop where we aim to put a regional perspective on the history of labour migration in the southern Baltic region. Meet researchers from different countries to get in contact with each other’s research and potentially form new research groups. Read more on the homepage at Malmö University.
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/activities/history-labour-migration-southern-baltic-region - 2026-09-03
13.15–15.30 Monday 21 September in LUX:C426, Helgonavägen 3 in Lund Cosmina Moroșan & Anticorp Solar This seminar with Cosmina Moroșan and Anticorp Solar uses the work of poet and writer Gherasim Luca as a fulcrum for future work about borders in poetry and literature. We will consider Luca as an inventor of a style of thinking about migration as a way of life and the challenges involved in crossi
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/thinking-borders-after-gherasim-luca - 2026-09-03
The Centre for Oresund Region Studies publishes books in collaboration with Makadam publishers. As of 2025, 45 volumes have been published in the Centre for Oresund Region Studies' book series. The books are written in Swedish, Danish and English. The books are available in regular bookshops, and a selection is available online free of charge through Lund University’s Open Books portal. For a list
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/publications/book-series - 2026-09-03
Kathrin Maurer Wednesday 4 November, 2026 13.00-14.00 CET (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome) Kathrin Maurer is Professor for Culture and Technology at the University of Southern Denmark. In her talk, Kathrin examines how Pierre Huyghe’s recent artworks challenge and destabilise borders between human and non-human life forms, as well as distinctions between the living and the non-living, the biological and
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/rethinking-borders - 2026-09-03
4 November 2026 13:00 to 14:00 | Seminar An open seminar Kathrin Maurer is Professor for Culture and Technology at the University of Southern Denmark. In her talk, Kathrin examines how Pierre Huyghe’s recent artworks challenge and destabilise borders between human and non-human life forms, as well as distinctions between the living and the non-living, the biological and the technological. Drawing
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/calendar/rethinking-borders-living-non-living-and-technology-pierre-huyghes-work - 2026-09-03
When clicking below titles, a new page will open to either the book's presentation page at Makadam publishers or to a relevant online book store. Glances and hands on public art: A kaleidoscopic view of monuments in the Öresund region and beyondJohanna Rivano Eckerdal, Rikke Lie Halberg & Hans Dam Christensen (Eds.), 2025Klogere på dansk sprog: En håndsrækning til svensktalendeLone Koldtoft, 2024(
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/publications/book-series/book-series-all-titles - 2026-09-03
with a focus on borders, regions and Oresund The Centre for Oresund Region Studies publishes an electronic journal entitled Gränsløs: with a focus on borders, regions and Oresund. The journal is mainly aimed at researchers, but also at students, opinion formers and an interested public. The articles are written in Swedish, Danish and English.The journal, published once or twice a year, is thematic
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/publications/granslos - 2026-09-03
Open seminar at Lund stadsbibliotek Thursday 8 November at 18:00-19:00 How does street art differ and overlap in the Oresund region? Is graffiti local or global? Art historian and sociologist Peter Bengtsen has been studying street art since 2006. In this talk he will discuss his research, including how he became interested in street art and how his interests have changed after moving from Copenha
The Saxo Institute at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, and the Centre for Oresund Region Studies have many common research interests, as expressed in the workshops held by CORS. The Saxo Institute includes study and research activities within the subject areas of Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin and History. The institute provides courses
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/saxo-institute - 2026-09-03
The book seriesThe Centre for Oresund Region Studies publishes books in collaboration with Makadam publishers. So far, 45 volumes have been published in the Centre for Oresund Region Studies' book series. The books are written in Swedish, Danish and English. The books are available in regular bookshops, and a selection is available online free of charge through Lund University’s book portal. Read
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/publications - 2026-09-03
The Øresund Network for Gender History Research and the Centre for Øresund Studies have overlapping research interests in several areas and collaborate on workshops and publications. The Øresund Network for Gender History Research was founded in autumn 2010 as a collaboration between historians at the universities of Copenhagen, Lund and Malmö to strengthen gender history research on both sides of
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/oresundsnatverket-konshistorisk-forskning - 2026-09-03
The Centre for Oresund Region Studies and the Center for Scandinavian Studies Copenhagen - Lund have many overlapping research areas. The Centre for Oresund Region Studies is available as a resource at the Center for Scandinavian Studies Network Page. The Centre for Scandinavian Studies Copenhagen-Lund (CSS) is an organization founded in 2010 and based on a collaboration between the Institute for
https://www.cors.lu.se/en/collaboration/centre-scandinavian-studies-copenhagen-lund - 2026-09-03
