TRANSITION
Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives
TRANSITION
Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives
TRANSITION
Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives
TRANSITION
Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives
TRANSITION
Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives
TRANSITION
Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives
TRANSITION
Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives
TRANSITION
Centre for Changing Urban and Rural Lives
Understanding the human experience of transition
Transitions shape human history. Whether through urbanization, migration, or social transformation, societies are in a constant state of change. At TRANSITION, we investigate the profound impact of rural-urban transitions on individuals and communities.
The centre brings together historians, sociolinguists, and literary scholars to explore how people experience change and how these experiences shape everyday lives, languages and identities that influence contemporary perceptions of and tensions between rural and urban life.
Events
18 Aug. 2026,
10:00-11:30
Reading of “En Jøde” by Meïr Aron Goldschmidt
14 Sept. 2026,
10:30-12:00
Memory Studies
2 Nov. 2026,
14:00-16:00
The Tingbjerg Experiment
16 Nov. 2026,
10:00-11:30
Reading of ”En Tjenestepiges Erindringer” by Rosa Berg
12 Jan. - 15 Jan. 2027
TRANSITION Winter School 2027: Urban–Rural Space: Culture, Language, History
Funding
TRANSITION is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation through a Center of Excellence Grant (Grant Number DNRF 194).
Director of centre: Pia Quist
Other activities
Talk
TRANSITION’s director Pia Quist will give a talk at this year’s Gisselfeld Kultursaloner on Friday 14 August 2026.
Session at Dansk Historikermøde
We are organising the session Land og by i forandring i det lange 20. århundrede (Rural and Urban Change in the Long Twentieth Century), 25 August 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Session at the 17th conference of the European Association for Urban History
We are organising the session Experiencing Transition in Modern Urbanization. The session explores transition as a perspective for studying urban–rural change in the twentieth century and beyond
Barcelona, Spain, 4 September 2026
Past activities
Panel at the 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE)
We are organising the panel The Mobile Dialect Speaker: Rethinking an Old Problem in Sociolinguistics at ICLAVE.
Lausanne, Switzerland, 30 June 2026. Read about the panel.
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Contact us
For inquiries, reach out at transition@hum.ku.dk