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In this talk, Elin McCready (ICREA/UAB) presents a novel approach to the meaning of slurs in three parts: a descriptive predication, an indexical social meaning, and an invocational component, which together account for a broad range of facts about slur meanings.

Brad Jordan (IFIKK, UiO)

Lisbeth Aggestam will present her paper Alter-Casting Leadership: Europe, the United States and the Struggle to Act Autonomously at the Tuesday Seminar on 15 September 2026.

Department seminar. David Schindler is an Associate Professor in the Economics department at Tilburg University. He will present the paper "Contagious Prejudice: The Marocchinate".

Come and listen to a number of guests who will be visiting ILOS in week 38.They will give public presentations on Tuesday morning, 15 September.

A talk by Seongjin Jeong, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Economics at Gyeongsang National University.

In this lecture, Juliane Rebentisch (Hochscule für bildende Künste Hamburg / Princeton University) will discuss imaginaries of the future in a time of ecological crisis.

Department seminar. Johannes Boehm is a Professor of International Economics University of Geneva. He will present the paper "Trade and the Origins of the Territorial State".

CIMS are pleased to welcome you to this seminar talk by Dag Tuastad (University of Oslo).

Agnese D’Angelo discusses how week-long naturalistic recordings and NLP can capture the quantity, quality, and multilingual dynamics of children’s everyday communication.

Open lectures on life under water, from a oceanographic, governance and biological perspective. With Tor Eldevik, University of Bergen, Elana Wilson Rowe, Norwegian University of  Life Sciences/Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Malin Pinsky, University of California Santa Cruz.

In this lecture, Timotheus Vermeulen will outline the need for a new theory of "plastic time" in order to account for the significance of gestures in recent screen media.

Professor Janet Garton (University of East Anglia) will present her ongoing project of translation of the entire corpus of Ibsen's letters into English.

Jay Nash Krehbiel presents his paper Does Partisanship Limit International Courts' Efficacy as Democratic Guardrails? at the Tuesday Seminar on 25 August 2026.

Department seminar. Frances Sealy is a Phd candidate at Durham University. She will present the paper "Fair international environmental agreements in the γ-core."

Natalia Mitrofanova and Serge Minor will talk about how structural similarity, cue salience, and age of L2 onset shape cross-linguistic influence in the grammar of multilingual children, focusing on nominal case and verbal aspect.

Lindsay Morcom (Queens University, Canada) discusses collective grassroots language revitalization efforts in an urban Indigenous community 

A talk by Jae-Hoon Shim, professor in the Department of History at Dankook University, South Korea.

Department seminar. Edward Jee is a PhD candidate in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He will present the paper "More Traps and Transfers."

Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej and Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak (Adam Mickiewicz University) present recent research critically examining the status of minority language education in Poland 

In this seminar, Hrefna Svavarsdóttir (Harvard University) will present her work on the nature of Old Icelandic interrogative partitives (like hvat manna, lit. 'what of men') and their legacy in Modern Icelandic.

Department seminar. Espen Beer Prydz is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper "How Much Poverty Could Affluence End? The Required Rate of Redistribution and an Index of Avoidable Poverty" (written with Jo Thori Lind and Kalle Moene).

Alessandro Palumbo (UiO)

Department seminar. Miren Azkarate-Askasua is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim. She will present the paper "Home Bias and the Gender Wage Gap."