News

20-12-2025
Cistas researcher recieves grant from Carlsbergfondet
 

Lars Bo Kaspersen has recieved Carlsbergsfondet's "Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowships", to write a new monograph.
10-07-2026
Cistas presents at 26th World Congress of Political Science 2021: New Nationalisms in an Open World - Virtual
 


08-07-2026
Cistas presents at the 37th EGOS Colloquium
 


17-05-2026
Cistas presents at ECPR Joint Sessions Virtual Event 2021
 


15-05-2026
Cistas presents at ECPR Joint Sessions Virtual Event 2021
 


04-01-2026
New Publication: The Politics of Translation in International Relations
 


20-11-2025
Book Launch: Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds
 


13-11-2025
Cistas presents at 1st Organization Theory Winter Workshop
 


29-10-2025
Cistas researcher in web-article, CBS-Wire
 


05-10-2026
Cistas researcher in chronicle at Solidaritet
 


23-09-2026
Cistas researcher presents online at Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi
 


02-07-2026
Cistas presents at 36th EGOS Colloquium 2020
 


02-06-2026
Cistas presents at 36th EGOS Colloquium
 


05-12-2025
Cistas researcher in web-article, CBS-WIRE
 


02-12-2025
Cistas at Neoliberalism in the Nordics – Developing an Absent Theme 2019
 


02-12-2025
Cistas at Neoliberalism in the Nordics – Developing an absent theme
 


02-12-2025
Cistas presents at Lumen Symposium
 


15-10-2026
How Transformative Innovation Movements Contribute to Transitions - New publication by Lara Monticelli
 

Lara Monticelli has contributed with a piece to the book: Atlas of Social Innovation 2nd Volume: A World of New Practices
04-10-2026
Cistas presents at Danish European Community Studies Annual Conference
 


11-09-2026
Cistas presents at 13th European International Studies Association (EISA) PanEuropean Conference
 


20-08-2026
Cistas presents at 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association. ESA 2019
 


09-08-2026
Cistas presents at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2019
 


27-06-2026
Cistas presents at the SASE conference 2019
 


25-06-2026
Currently 21 CISTAS publications are now available and 15 more will be available within a year
 


25-06-2026
CISTAS invites you to a workshop with Elisabeth Clemens
 

Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago is currently visiting CISTAS. On June 26 a workshop on process-relational sociology and comparative research have been arranged.
24-06-2026
Conference season at CISTAS
 

Currently CISTAS are participating various conferences all around the world.
24-06-2026
Nine more publications from CISTAS - Have a look
 

Publications are currently being uploaded to Publications
01-06-2026
Cistas presents at 11th International Process Symposium Organizing in the Digital Age. PROS 2019
 


30-05-2026
Cistas presents at the Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting
 


28-05-2026
Cistas presents at Movements and Morality Conference
 


28-05-2026
Cistas presents at Movements and Morality Conference
 


29-03-2026
SPECULATING ON CHAOS IN THE ERA OF FINANCIALISED POPULISM
 

A talk and workshop with Prof. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou on April 12 at CBS. Registration required
20-03-2026
Three interesting papers by Andreas Mulvad are now accessible at the new publications page
 

A new publications page has been added to the webpage with three papers by Andreas Mulvad and more to follow
06-03-2026
Cistas at The 3rd Nordic Challenges Conference
 


01-02-2026
New Deadlines for Movements and Morality Conference
 

If you wish to participate in the conference Movements & Morality new deadlines have been made!
09-01-2026
Lars Bo joins panel on civil society
 

Lars Bo has agreed to sit on the panel for the Civil Society Knowledge Center made by the Danish independent online paper Altinget.
06-12-2025
Cistas at Neoliberalism in the Nordics – Developing an Absent Theme
 


04-12-2025
Book Launch: From Financial Crisis to Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
 

In this edited volume, CISTAS researcher Andreas Møller Mulvad has contributed with a chapter
04-12-2025
New publication by Anders Sevelsted
 

CISTAS researcher Anders Sevelsted has just published a new article "Protestant Ethics-In-Action: The Emergence of Voluntary Social Work in Copenhagen 1865-1915" in European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie
04-12-2025
Book Launch: From Financial Crisis to Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
 

In this edited volume, CISTAS researcher Andreas Møller Mulvad has contributed with a chapter
09-10-2026
Call for papers to conference on movements and morality
 

The CISTAS group invites submission of abstracts and general registration for a two‐day conference on social movement and morality 28‐29th of May 2019.
04-09-2026
Another exciting summer for the CISTAS project!
 

Researchers from the CISTAS project have participated with papers on several conferences including ISA, LSA, CSSI, PROS, EGOS & SASA during the summer.
22-08-2026
Cistas project receives a Marie Skodlowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship September 2018.
 


10-08-2026
Cistas presents at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018
 


01-08-2026
PhD scholarships in young people's self-organised networks and communities, democratic governance and social media.
 

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a three-year position as PhD scholarships in the CISTAS project at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy (MPP). Application deadline 1.10.18
25-07-2026
Cistas presents at FLACSO-ISA Conference, Quito
 


15-07-2026
Cistas at XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018
 


07-06-2026
Cistas presents at Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting
 


02-06-2026
Cistas presents at Harvard Law School’s 3rd Biennial Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Conference
 


07-05-2026
Civil Society Research at EGOs
 

Together with leading scholars in the field, CISTAS project places civil society research on the agenda at EGOs through a SWG
07-05-2026
Workshops at MatchPoints Aarhus 2018
 

CISTAS participates at the MatchPoints seminar with two workshops
04-04-2026
Cistas presents at International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention
 


07-02-2026
CISTAS researcher Anders Sevelsted has been rewarded a 2-year Post-doc
 

On the project: The Moral Elites. Who shaped the Danish Welfare State (1890-1933)?
29-11-2025
Successful PhD Defense
 

Congratulations to CISTAS researcher Anders Sevelsted!
03-11-2025
Cistas presents at Social Science History Association (SSHA) Annual Convention
 


02-11-2025
Cistas at 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
 


21-10-2026
Cistas presents at Millennium Conference on ‘The Politics of Time in International Relations’
 


12-09-2026
Cistas presents at European International Studies Association (EISA) Young Researchers’ Workshop (YRW)
 


01-09-2026
Cistas at Marx Nu! 2017
 


23-08-2026
Seminar at Australian National University (ANU)
 

CISTAS researcher, Maj Grasten, is invited to give a seminar at the ANU on her work on global civil society and international law
23-08-2026
SSHA annual conference 2017:
 

The CISTAS project will be presenting two panels at this years 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association in Quebec, Canada.
23-08-2026
Call for contributions to Voluntas special issue:
 

Civil Society Organizations: the Site of Legitimizing the Common Good.
23-08-2026
34th Egos Colloquium in Tallinn:
 

Call for papers to sub-theme on Civil Society.
23-08-2026
33rd Egos Collequium 2017
 

Sub-theme on Civil Society Organization
22-08-2026
Global Civil Society - and the Coloniality of Global Constitutionalism
 

CISTAS researcher, Maj Grasten, invited to give talk at Melbourne Law School's Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
17-08-2026
CISTAS in Sydney
 

CISTAS researcher Maj Grasten talks at the International Law Cluster, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on the politics of law and global civil society
10-08-2026
CISTAS researcher, Maj Grasten, gives talk at the University of Melbourne
 

Maj Grasten, CISTAS researcher and currently visiting fellow at Melbourne Law School, will give a talk at the University of Melbourne on the role of non-state actors in post-conflict rule of law reforms.
13-07-2026
Cistas presents at 8th International Conference of the European Research Network on Philanthropy. ERNOP 2017
 


13-07-2026
ERNOP conference july 13-14 CBS
 

CISTAS will be participating in the 8th ERNOP conference with the theme “The changing face of philanthropy? Philanthropy in an era of hybridity and alternative forms of organizing.”
06-07-2026
Cistas presents at The 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017
 


06-07-2026
33rd Egos Collequium
 

Cistas will be participating in the annual Egos colloquium with a sub-theme on Civil Society Organizations: The Site of Legitimizing the Common Good, July 6-8 at Copenhagen Business School.
29-06-2026
CISTAS present at the 2017 LSA convention in Mexico City
 

CISTAS participated in the Law and Society Association's (LSA) annual convention, which took place in Mexico City on June 20-23.
20-06-2026
Cistas presents at Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting
 


27-03-2026
Conference the 23rd-24th of May 2017
 

Cistas organizes the conference Civilizing State and Society in the 21st Century.
25-03-2026
Workshop the 17th of Januar 2017
 

Kan, skal og må civilsamfundet være politisk?
25-03-2026
41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association.
 

Cistas is participating with the panel: Civil society on the edge - past, present and future avenues of civil society
18-03-2026
Cistas researcher contributes with blog article at CBS
 


18-03-2026
Cistas at Should Civil Society be Political? The Political Role of Civil Society in Light of the Refugee Crisis
 


17-11-2025
Cistas at 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
 


17-11-2025
Cistas presents at 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
 


17-11-2025
Cistas presents at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
 


28-08-2026
Cistas presents at Dansk Historikermøde 2016
 


26-08-2026
Cistas presents at Dansk Historikermøde 2016
 


18-07-2026
Cistas presents at ISCH Conference 2016
 


07-07-2026
Cistas presents at The 32nd EGOS Colloquium 2016
 


18-03-2026
Cistas gives lecture at Kulturviden og fremmedhed : Et seminar til Michael Harbsmeier
 


15-11-2025
40th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association - panel on Civil Society in the Shadow of the State: The Case of Scandinavia
 

From the 12th-15th November 2015 the 40th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association will take place in Baltimore, MD. The theme of this year's conference is Pluralism and Community: Social Science History Perspectives. At the conference the researchers from the CISTAS-team will have a panel on the topic of Civil Society in the Shadow of the State: The Case of Scandinavia.
12-11-2025
Cistas presents at 40th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
 


12-11-2025
Cistas presents at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
 


07-09-2026
Cistas presents at ISCH Conference 2015
 


14-07-2026
Join the opening conference of the project ‘The Civil Society in the Shadow of the State’
 

The conference will take place the 24th August from 9 am to 12.15 pm at Råvarebygningen, Copenhagen Business School.
02-07-2026
Cistas presents at The 31st EGOS Colloquium 2015