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Seminar by Associate Professor Johan Christensen, Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University.

Job talk. Anders Yding is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at U.C. Berkeley. He will present the paper "The Macroeconomic Effects of Defense Spending News."

Job talk. Marta Guasch-Rusiñolis is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. She will present the paper "Debt Without Investment."

Isabell Burmester presents her paper Whose legitimacy? The EU's external security role and Local Perceptions in Armenia and Moldova at the Tuesday Seminar on 13 January 2026.

Job talk. Max Marczinek is a PhD (DPhil) student in Economics at the University of Oxford. He will present the paper "Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague."

NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming David Kent, from the University of York, and Julia Skokowa, from University Hospital Tübingen.

Job talk. Carolina Kansikas is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Warwick. She will present the paper "Carbon and Coordination: Incentives and Local Institutions in Conservation Policy."

Job talk. Bence Bardóczy is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. He will present the paper "Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy."

Job talk. Morten Håvarstein is a postdoc at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. He will present the paper "Substitution and income effects of labor income taxation”.

This seminar will be based on Marc Lynch’s recent book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Hurst, 2025).

Tomasz Woźniakowski presents the paper Invisible taxes, visible defense: lessons from US fiscal-military history for financing European security at the Tuesday Seminar on 16 December 2025.

Daniela Sant'Ana is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation. 

Department seminar. Ester Bøckmann is a Researcher at Fafo. She will present the paper "Where the Penalty Hits: Decomposing Parenthood’s Impact on Earnings.”

This talk explores the acoustic features of Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) in Tashlhiyt Berber, focusing on how variations in hyper-articulation and consonant neutralization by caregivers may affect language perception and phonological development in infants, while also testing theories related to the facilitative role of IDS in phonemic acquisition. Also on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/63633923986 

Wed. Dec. 10, we invite everyone to the last HumAIn event of the year for The Human Measure(d): Discussion on N. Katherine Hayles’ Bacteria to AI – Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts where we will have a discussion of the introduction and the work of Hayles on approaches to understand AI.

Please register here to get the reading material on email up front.

Between Warsaw and Cambridge, between then and now: Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum

NCMBM is delighted to welcome Professor Luis Serrano, Director of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, as the speaker for NCMBM’s inaugural Christmas Lecture. 

He will be presenting is work on:"Combining synthetic biology and protein design to engineer a lung therapeutic bacteria".

John Erik Fossum presents a paper on EU inter-institutional relations at the Tuesday Seminar on 9 December 2025.

Department seminar. Daniel Rubenson is a Professor of political science, University of Toronto. He will present the paper "Property Rights and Prosociality."

Jason Litzenberg discusses how language teaching and learning can survive and thrive with AI.

Department seminar. Jonas Slaathaug Hansen is a Postdoc in economics at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He will present the paper "Differentiated product demand estimation with secondary markets."

Kellie Rolstad and Jeff MacSwan will share insights into language ontology in multilinguals.

Marit Moum Aune (Norwegian National Ballet) will hold a lecture on her working method when transposing Ibsen's plays to the silent world of ballet.

Department seminar. Kailin Chen is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics, Aalto University. He will present the paper "Ranking Statistical Experiments via the Linear Convex Order and the Lorenz Zonoid: Economic Applications."