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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

Swedish entrepreneur and best-selling author Fredrik Härén is coming to shake our notions of the “developing world”. (Photo: FBN Asia)
Time and place: May 14, 2013 01:00 PM - 04:30 PM, Sophus Lies auditorium

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.

Joseph Stiglitz (Press photo)
Time and place: May 29, 2013 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM, University Aula, Karl Johans gate 47

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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Time and place: Nov 7, 2012 04:15 PM - 05:30 PM, Lobby at Vilhelm Bjerknes hus

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

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Time and place: Oct 31, 2012 04:15 PM - 05:30 PM, Lobby at Vilhelm Bjerknes hus

Is democratic participation something that can be learned and therefore taught?

Speaker: Janicke Heldal Stray

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Time and place: Oct 24, 2012 04:15 PM - 05:30 PM, Lobby at Vilhelm Bjerknes hus

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

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Time and place: Oct 10, 2012 04:15 PM - 05:30 PM, Lobby at Vilhelm Bjerknes hus

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

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Time and place: Sep 26, 2012 04:15 PM - 05:30 PM, Lobby at Vilhelm Bjerknes hus

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

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Time and place: Sep 19, 2012 09:15 AM - 10:30 AM, Lobby at Vilhelm Bjerknes hus

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

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Time and place: Sep 10, 2012 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM, Gamle festsal, Domus Academica

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

Photo: Ulf Sirborn
Time and place: Aug 22, 2012 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM, Sophus Lie auditorium

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.

Time and place: Aug 17, 2012 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM, Lobby at Vilhelm Bjerknes hus

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology at UiO talks about the implications of social connectedness in the world today.

Time and place: Aug 17, 2012 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM, Vestibylen i Vilhelm Bjerknes hus

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"