Name: Gender Lunch at Lighthouse
Start: 2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-16T13:00:00+01:00
Location: Nørre Allé 49, 2200 København N, Danmark

Gender Lunch is a recurring event that brings together researchers from across the University of Copenhagen for an informal lunch with an academic twist. Every second month, a different faculty acts as host, creating a rotating setting where diverse academic traditions and perspectives on gender can meet.
The aim of Gender Lunch is to provide space for interdisciplinary conversations about gender and diversity – both as research fields and as lived experiences in academia. Over a shared meal, one or more researchers introduce a current theme, ongoing research, an article, a project, or teaching practice in the field. This serves as a starting point for discussion and exchange of perspectives.
The event is open to all faculty with an interest in gender research and related topics.
Participation is free, but registration is required ahead of each lunch, send an email to: [email protected].
Please bring your own lunch. Coffee and cake will be provided by the Coordination for Gender Research.
Gender Lunch Presentations
>>Presentation by Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner<<
Svava and Henriette will talk about Unravelling the Unknown Collaborations That Shaped Modern Denmark.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Danish landscapes and cities underwent massive change as a result of the period’s rapid urbanisation and building boom. Our research asks how people from different professions and backgrounds actually worked together to shape the new built environments. In doing so, we hope to provide inspiration for contemporary efforts towards more diverse and sustainable practices in construction and urban development. This seminar is thus an opportunity to reflect on history while looking ahead to future.
Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner, both professors at the University of Copenhagen, co-lead the interdisciplinary research project Learning from Collaboration – Building Future Practice, which is itself a collaboration between the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, the Schools of Architecture in Copenhagen and Aarhus, and Aalborg University. The project is funded by the philanthropic association Realdania.

>>Presentation by Nanna-Katrine Gram Lange<<
Nanna will about The entrepreneurial interest of teenagers - a question of dreams?
In this talk, we explore how future dreams and identity affect teenagers’ interest in entrepreneurial careers. Data from interviews and survey experiments suggest that already in early adolescence, girls and boys tend to orient themselves toward gendered future trajectories. These trajectories structure how entrepreneurship is evaluated as a possible career path. In this sense, entrepreneurial interest can be understood as emerging in relation to teenagers’ gendered identity work, rather than from general attitudes toward entrepreneurship alone.
Nanna is a PhD fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, and a researcher at the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship, where she studies the early identity processes through which gender segregation in entrepreneurship begins.
Directions to the venue
The event will be held at the KU Lighthouse facilities at KUB Nord, Nørre Allé 49, 2200 Copenhagen N. Please enter the building through the library’s main entrance and proceed to the first floor via the stairs or elevator. From there, follow the signs to KU Lighthouse. The Lighthouse facilities are located at the far end of the building.