Troubled Life Stories | Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen
Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network Lecture
Friday 9 May 2025, 10am - 12pm GMT
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG
Troubled Life Stories. Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen
Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network | Lecture 4
Friday 9 May 2025, 10am - 12pm GMT
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities
All welcome
The Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network is hosting a lecture series on “Emerging Perspectives on Scandinavian Studies” featuring researchers from all over Europe to share their research and reflect on the future of Scandinavian Studies.
Ulrik Langen is a Professor of Danish and European cultural history 1650-1850 at the University of Copenhagen. His talk at the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network is titled ”Troubled Life Stories. Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen” and comes out of his current research project ‘Copenhagen Complains’ funded by Augustinusfonden and Louis-Hansen Fonden (2022-2026)