Research events

Guest Speaker: Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Department of History, University of Basel

Cand.med. Håvard Bjerkeseth Solvin at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Telemedicine in Cardiology - Remote-controlled Robotic and Remote-guided Echocardiography” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham) will present her research on Orkneyinga saga in the fifth edition of the Sophus Bugge Lecture series.

Hvordan samspill mellom det biologiske miljøet og genetiske faktorer påvirker mental helse.

Master of science Laura Hegemann vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden Ph.D: 

Etiology of Neurodevelopmental Traits: Measurement, Specificity, and Within-Family Transmission

MD Siri Asheim Eikeland at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Late effects in Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors after contemporary risk-adapted treatment” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.

Iida Pöllänen (University of Tampere) will present her current postdoctoral research about the Ibsen legacy in the Harlem Renaissance.

Hvordan samspill mellom det biologiske miljøet og genetiske faktorer påvirker mental helse.

Taking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Pascale Casanova’s field-defining La République mondiale des lettres (The World Republic of Letters, 1999) as its point of departure, this conference seeks to decentralize the praxis of cultural reading and literary critique that the notion of Paris as the world capital of literature represents. Drawing inspiration from a host of decolonial projects that seek to renegotiate the terms in which we understand the world—a process that Walter Mignolo terms “epistemic delinking”—we seek to examine trans-peripheral and counter-hegemonic cultural infrastructures that flourished despite, in resistance to, and in the aftermath of colonial domination. This project is historical, but also oriented toward the present and, crucially, dedicated to rethinking the epistemic assumptions that undergird the study of literature and associated forms of cultural production in the present. 

Department seminar. Alexis Akira Toda is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego. He will present the paper: "Housing Bubbles with Phase Transitions" (written with Tomohiro Hirano).