Upcoming events

We are pleased to host PhD candidate Orwa Ajjoub who will speak about "How Leaders Reshape Social Identity in a Jihadi Group? The Case of the Syria Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham 2013-2017".

Welcome to HumAIn talks #11! This time, we are joined by Olga Goriunova, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, who will present her new book Ideal Subjects: The Abstract People of AI. 

Cand.med. Mariam Anjum at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Atrial fibrillation and stroke: Intermediate stroke risk, risk reassessment and trends in stroke incidence. Nationwide registry-based studies from AFNOR (Atrial Fibrillation in Norway)” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Marek Feith at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Nanoparticles for breast cancer therapy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Randi Simensen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Pre-Hospital Pain Management with Non-Intravenous Analgesics - Will inhalational methoxyflurane or intranasal fentanyl do the job?” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Joanna Sulkowska at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Mechanics Behind the Pump: Pathophysiological Insights and Data-Driven Signatures of Cardiac Function” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Ingvild Kristine Melby at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend her thesis Cutting into Colonial Visual Regimes: Form, Ethics, Opacity, and the Collages of Frida Orupabo for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Department seminar. Bence Bardoczy, is an Assistant Professor in Economics at BI Norwegian Business School. He will present the paper: "The Expected Fiscal Reaction to Monetary Polic".

Cand.med. Ammar Khan at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Expanding the boundaries of transplant surgery: Techniques applied in non-transplant settings” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor)

Cand.odont. Hero Ibrahim Hassan at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Oral health in older adults receiving home care services: Exploring oral health status, dental health services utilization, and healthcare personnel's beliefs” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Maria Bengtson Argren at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Prevalence and burden of headache disorders in Norway” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Ashwini Lakshminarayanan (University of Oslo)

Master of Psychology Christian Andrés Palacios Haugestad will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Psychology:

The Discursive Life of Eco-Anxiety: Constructing and Negotiating Ecological Distress in Conversations, News Media, and Social Media

NCMBM is organising a new seminar series in the Life Science Building this autumn. The series will give researchers and colleagues working in and around the building an opportunity to get to know each other’s research and the different research environments.

Speakers: Liebert Parreiras Nogueira and Chloe Steen

Department seminar. Simran Sahajpal is a Business Analyst and Kristoffer Gulestø is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Norges Bank Investment Management. They will give a presentation on "Experiences Integrating AI into Work at the Norwegian Oil Fund". 

What’s new in Irish poetry? Three brilliant poets present their recent work in a lively and informal session of readings and conversation.

Cand.med. Tordis Böker at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “A radiological study of adults with Marfan syndrome: 10-year follow-up and evaluation of radiological investigations in a Norwegian cohort” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

We welcome everyone to yet another interdisciplinary talk on what it means to be human in the age of AI.  This time, we are joined by Matt Finch, who will be talking about death, dying, and afterlife in the age of AI. 

Thomas Duke Labik Amanquandor at Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law will be defending the thesis Transnational legal ordering and the fight against systemic corruption. Theorising the design–reality gap problem for the degree of PhD.

In this talk, David Thornton will explore whether recovering from COVID-related brain fog means the brain has truly recovered, using EEG and a working-memory task to look beneath how people say they feel.

MSN. Linn Benita Brøderud at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “No Magic Bullets - A Multimethod Evaluation from a Multilevel Perspective of Implementation of Advance Care Planning in Acute Geriatric Hospital Units” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Rang Abdullah at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Strong muscles, weak hearts: the effects of anabolic-androgenic steroids on cardiac structure and function” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Mari Nilsen Skinnes at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Work ability and work participation in rehabilitation” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

This one-day seminar will examine the controversies and fears concerning secularism and youth culture in 1960s Britain and America.