Previous conferences

Welcome to HEI's annual International Student Conference!

This conference unites early career researchers in both formal and informal settings, providing a platform to explore the latest developments in the field of heritage studies.

Celebrating the 120th anniversary of Hannah Arendts birthday, the Centre for Gender Research (UiO) is thrilled to host a Public Lecture by Professor Peg Birmingham from DePaul University, Chicago, USA. 

The study of meter in the 20th century has generally been marked by the foregrounding of some types of verse that proved amenable to a particular theoretical approach (e.g. English iambic pentameter in generative metrics, Russian iambic tetrameter in statistical work on verse, Greek hexameter in diachronic reconstruction), to the detriment of others.

Over the past several years the Linguistics and Poetics research group at the University of Oslo has sought to circumvent this kind of bias by exploring various manifestations and uses of poetic language in ancient (Greek) and Medieval (Latin, Germanic) cultural milieus. We have dwelt on the diversity of attested literary cultures (sometimes proliferating within a single national “tradition”) and prioritized an empiricist ethos over the goal of finessing any particular methodology.

The international symposium “Comparative metrics sub specie philologiae” aims to expand our vision of comparative metrics by interrogating and juxtaposing novel, tailor-made, and empirically-driven approaches to cross-culturally diverse uses of poetic meter.

The DjembeDance Symposium explores what rhythm reveals when understood as a fundamentally multimodal phenomenon—integrating music and dance rather than sound alone.

Welcome to the Nordic Association of Romantic Studies (NARS) conference at the University of Oslo. We will explore Romantic-period discourses and the afterlives of romantic ideas, figures, objects, and discourses.

The theme for the 2026 Eco-Emotions conference is Earth. The conference will take place September 2nd–4th 2026, Oslo.

The annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction will take place from June 16th - June 19th in beautiful Oslo, Norway. This is the main European conference designed to foster interaction, learning, and camaraderie among leading scholars in symbolic interactionism and grounded theory. The conference theme is "situations, power, and persuasion," reflecting important recent trends in scholarship and public life.

University of Oslo's Department of Sociology and Human Geography will host this event, in association with the Norwegian Microsociology Network. 

RITMO/CTNC hybrid symposium June 11th 2026

The 10th Nordic Conference for Rhetorical Research invites scholars to explore how rhetorical studies can be placed in the service of democracy.

Current research on the use of computational methods and AI in music libraries and musicology.

From Atoms to Autonomy – the Sensor Value Chain Is Expanding

This years Throne Holst Symposium will be focused around the departments academic area of focus "Healthy ageing". There will also be presentations of new papers and posters by the young scientists. The paper, poster and communication awards will be announced at the end of the symposium.

The theme of the convention is Critical Voices.

The project EuroWARCHILD has studied the experiences and needs of three generations of children born of war (CBOW) in Europe. How can we learn from past experiences to improve the situation in present and future conflicts?

Join us for a discussion about methodological challenges in bibliometric analysis, aspects of reflexivity in Viking Age archaeology, and how computational methods can be leveraged to conduct meaningful meta-research.

This one-day symposium, organised by the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, brings perspectives from sound studies and musicology to bear on our understanding of sociopolitical systems, our roles in them, and how we can hold them more responsible.

Topic: 'Communication, disagreement, and social epistemology'

“Leading issues in development – A symposium on Progress, Conflict, and Distribution” organized by the Department of Economics, UiO, will take place at the  The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on the 5th of January 2026.

Conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Art History at the University of Oslo

A Seminar in Honour of Christel Fricke

We present results from the project "MULTIWRITE - Interactions Between First, Second and Third Languages" and insights from research on similar topics and contexts. 

“What if …” Anthropology invites us to ask such questions, because it rests on a scholarly certainty that everything could be different. This makes anthropology critical and irreverent, and consequently creative and innovative.

The symposium will consider the origins of modern literary theory as a body of critical thought that spans at least two centuries.  

Welcome to HEI's annual International Student Conference!

This conference unites early career researchers in both formal and informal settings, providing a platform to explore the latest developments in the field of heritage studies.