Open lectures:
Global challenges require solutions that combine local and global perspectives. UiO holds open lectures related to this subject. Everyone is welcome to attend the Global Citizen lectures.
Upcoming
How can universities help find creative solutions to the global challenges of our time? Welcome to a half-day seminar on global responsibility, innovation and international cooperation.
Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Stiglitz is coming to UiO to talk about "The Fall: A Chronicle of the Financial Crisis". The lecture is open to everyone, but you need to sign up.
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Poverty and deprivation affect large numbers of people in our world today. Are we we morally obliged, as global citizens, to express solidarity with the poor in distant lands?
Speaker: Dan Banik
Is democratic participation something that can be learned and therefore taught?
Speaker: Janicke Heldal Stray
October 24 is United Nations day, to celebrate that in 1945 the United Nations was born to promote peace, friendly relations and human rights for all peoples. But the United Nations is not stronger than its member states, and recent history has shown its weakness in reaching its goals.
Speaker: Halvor Moxnes
Global environmental change poses unprecedented challenges to humanity, and we increasingly hear calls for ecological citizenship, global governance, and new ways of viewing the world.
Speaker: Karen O'Brien
Does the idea of “global citizenship” inspire the age of ecomodernity? Are cosmopolitan inhabitants of the global village joining their forces to save the planet - and humanity - from peril?
Speaker: Nina Witoszek
A renewed nation state, based on a more inclusive conception of who "we" are, may be the possible answer to challenges presented by globalization processes.
Speaker: Knut Kjelstadli
Over the course of the last twenty years the two main elements of European law – EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights – have evolved and expanded greatly in substance, scope, impact and geographical extension.
Speaker: Fredrik Sejersted
Hans Rosling can make complicated facts and stats sound like music to your ears. Now the world-renowned Swedish professor is coming to Blindern to kick off the autumn Global Citizen lecture series. His talk "Fact Based World View" is open to the general public.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology at UiO talks about the implications of social connectedness in the world today.
Som en del av internasjonaliseringåret 2012 ved UiO inviterer vi alle nye studenter til tre vitenskapsteoretiske seminarer. Siste forelesning er ved Thomas Hylland Eriksen: "Like it or not, we are all citizens of the world"