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Open lectures on the CRISPR-Cas genome editing revolution: the power of microbiology

Learn how some of the European university alliances are working to develop opportunities for students and staff. Perhaps you will be inspired to contribute with offers to our own alliance, Circle U.?

Open lectures by this year's Abel Prize winner Luis Caffarelli and three other specially invited matematicians.

The University of Oslo invites Circle U. colleagues to a Staff Training Week focusing on educational cooperation, 22nd to 25th May 2023.

How can Circle U. students, academics, and leaders collaborate on interdisciplinary education and find ways to prepare students for coping with wicked problems?

"European values in times of upheaval – our political, institutional and economic order under pressure."

How are universities enabling student participation in innovation? What impact may increased student participation have for students, universities, and society? How should universities support student innovation? 

Open lectures by Catherine (Katie) Peichel and Dag Undlien. The topic covers reconciling Mendelian genetics and Darwinian evolution, and how genetics is used in modern medicine.

Professor and former Minister of Research and Higher Education in Ethiopia Hirut Woldemariam Teketel (University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is appointed honorary doctor by the Rectorate of the University of Oslo, and will give a lecture on that occasion.

Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore reflects on the global governance reforms needed in light of a new confluence of global insecurities stemming from pandemics, the growing challenges of the global commons and a more polarised world.

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected at least 500 million people and killed more than six million. How can we learn from these events and develop a complete pandemic preparedness and response system? What role can universities and university alliances play?

How can active student engagement in research improve the quality of education? Learn from colleagues at King’s College London and the University of Oslo.

Open lectures by C. Jessica E. Metcalf and John-Arne Røttingen. The topics are the ecology and evolution of hosts and pathogens, and translating science to policy – the case of pandemic preparedness and response.

Easter will be different for everyone this year, also for our students. As an encouragement we are wishing the students Happy Easter with an online concert. With us we have Kristian Kristensen, better known as “the guy with the voice”.

The two speakers at the Kristine Bonnevie lectures for 2019 will be the German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize-winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and the Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel Prize-winner May-Britt Moser. Moser's lecture will be a multimedia concert lecture together with the Trondheim Soloists. This event is part of the University of Oslo's Annual Festivities 2019.

We welcome you to two open lectures! Spencer C. H. Barrett on "Plant sex and the foundations of evolutionary biology", and Anja C. Andersen on "The importance of scientific integrity". This event is part of the University’s annual celebration. 

We welcome you to two open lectures! Meave Leakey on "Milestones in the story of us – why and when did we come to be?", and Alan Alda on "Getting beyond a blind date with science". This event is part of the University’s annual celebration.

Open for all! Speakers: Corina E. Tarnita from Princeton University and Jan M. Nordbotten from Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen. This event is part of the University’s annual celebration.

Georgina Mace: "How should we value nature in a human-dominated world?". James Wilsdon: "The science and art of scientific advice"

The author, philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci will give a lecture on: "The relationship between science and philosophy". Hopi Hoekstra from Harvard University will tell us about: "Digging for genes that affect behavior". The Kristine Bonnevie lectures on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.

This year at the annual Kristine Bonnevie lectures, the geneticist and popular science author Steve Jones from University College London will tell you "What sex really means". Eugenie C. Scott from The National Center for Science Education will draw on her long experience in defending science education in the U.S., and explain why communicating science is so important in her lecture "Defending evolution - and some other sciences". The Kristine Bonnevie lecture on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.

Speakers: Cori Bargmann and Carl Zimmer. The Kristine Bonnevie lecture on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.

Speakers: Elizabeth Hadly, Richard Dawkins and Jim Al-Khalili

Speakers: Frans de Waal and Christel Fricke