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International conference, October 4-5 2012: What can we learn about social transformations from popular culture? In what ways does popular culture offer insight into the sites and mechanisms of social change? What is the relationship between pop cultural expressions and social structure, and what methodological considerations should we be particularly aware of? Go to the conference website.

Conference, Oslo, September 12-14 2012: Is academia becoming interdisciplinary? Or do disciplines still condition our research and teaching in profound ways? Is disciplinarity perhaps even an inherent operative mode of modern academia? If so, how and to what extent should our institutions provide for interdisciplinarity? Read the call for papers. Deadline: March 15.

PhD course (31.08.11 & 31.10-4.11.11): Invitation to an interdisciplinary PhD course at the University of Oslo with, among others, Quentin Skinner, Carolyn Miller, Barbara Czarniawska and Narve Fulsås: Texts in various forms and genres, documents, written sources, reports, archive materials, whatever we choose to call them, play a major role not only in research on past events, but also in research on contemporary issues. Texts are crucial objects to social scientists as well as to researchers in the humanities.

Call for papers (13-15.10.11): Kultrans contributes to organising the interdisciplinary conference and research training course Empires: Comparing the Semantics behind Concept, Metaphor and Ideology at the Central European University, Budapest. Deadline for paper proposals: June 1st.

Call for papers, conference, Oslo, September 13-16 2011: This conference aims to study the emergence of the world in discourse, and its confrontation with different empirical and historical realities, both diachronically, across the centuries, and synchronically, across different cultures, languages and discourses. Read the call for paper.

Researcher Grand Prix (18.06.11): Kultrans research fellow Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay will present his project on the science fiction literature produced in the late colonial period in Bengal and Britain on Saturday June 18. Tickets are free and can be obtained at Chateau Neuf (opening hours 17:30 - 20:30). 

Book launch (01.06.11): Cecilia Bailliet and Katja Franko Aas are the editors of Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents (Routledge) which came out this spring. The editors will present the book during a lunch seminar. Commentary by Christoffer Eriksen and Ivar Alvik. Petits fours will be served.

Intercultural glossary workshop (27.-28.05.11): Kultrans and the European Wergeland Centre have started to work on an intercultural glossary project in the field of education for democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural understanding.

Kultrans internal PhD seminar (25.11.10): The Kultrans PhD group meets to discuss two texts:Stanley Fish: "Being Interdisciplinary Is So Very Hard To Do" (1989) and an article by and interview with the anthropologist Marilyn Strathern.

Museological lunch (12.11.10): Unfortunately, the lecture has been cancelled due to illness.