Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen

ossn 2025 lecture

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)

More details available here.