Events for international staff - Page 3

Time and place: –, Salen/Online

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

Time and place: –, The Life Sciences Building

Join us for an informal tour through Norway's largest and most modern university building. We especially invite those of you who will not be moving in. But the other UiO employees are also warmly welcome!

Time and place: –, UNION 371 Blindern, Frederikke building

The University of Oslo takes pleasure in inviting all international employees, researchers and Ph.D. candidates who have joined our institution recently to an orientation meeting and common breakfast.

At the end of the event, guests may take part in a guided tour of the University Library.

Time and place: –, Natural History Museum

Enjoy a free guided tour of the Botanical Garden. You will be introduced to its history and thematic gardens, and learn about selected trees, flowers and other plants.

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We call it the Stone Age because we mostly find stone from that time. But people in the Stone Age also loved beautiful things. In our new exhibition Generation Stone Age you will, among others, meet Swan, age 10. How would she make a piece of jewellery? Or practise making arrows with sharp points and guiding feathers?

Time and place: –, The Green Office, Kristian Ottosens hus

Got a hole in your favorite jumper, pants or other clothing? Come to our monthly Repair Café and get help repairing it!

Time and place: –, Natural History Museum

Enjoy a free guided tour of the Botanical Garden. You will be introduced to its history and thematic gardens, and learn about selected trees, flowers and other plants.

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In the Viking Age, board games were a way to show skill in warfare, but also to relax and have fun. In the exhibition Miðgarðr you can see dice and gaming pieces from the Viking Age, which may have been used for games such as Nine Men’s Morris or Hnefatafl. You can also make your own small board game.

Time and place: –, The University Aula

Experience Edvard Munch’s world-renowned Aula paintings in the heart of Oslo city centre!

Time and place: –, Green Office, Kristian Ottesens hus

In light of the passing of King Harald and the period of national mourning, the event has been cancelled.

Time and place: –, Litteratursalongen, Georg Sverdrups hus

Do you want to learn and practice languages while getting to know people from around the world? Come to the language café then!

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

Time and place: –, DSC Oasen (Digital Scholarship Centre)

Join us for an interactive session with Jo Fosby Jaavall on the role of artificial intelligence in higher education, innovative teaching practices, and designing AI tools that support meaningful student learning.

Time and place: –, Natural History Museum

Enjoy a free guided tour of the Botanical Garden. You will be introduced to its history and thematic gardens, and learn about selected trees, flowers and other plants.

Time: –

In the Viking Age, board games were a way to show skill in warfare, but also to relax and have fun. In the exhibition Miðgarðr you can see dice and gaming pieces from the Viking Age, which may have been used for games such as Nine Men’s Morris or Hnefatafl. You can also make your own small board game.

Time and place: –, HumSam-biblioteket, level U, Georg Sverdrups building

In light of the passing of King Harald and the period of national mourning, the event has been cancelled.

Time and place: –, Øvre Blindern

Join us for a historical walk through the architecture and landscape that surround you every day. We invite you to the next event in the series “Tourist at Your Own Workplace”, where we explore post-war modernism in flowers and concrete at Øvre Blindern.

Time and place: –, Natural History Museum

Enjoy a free guided tour of the Botanical Garden. You will be introduced to its history and thematic gardens, and learn about selected trees, flowers and other plants.

Time and place: –, Green Office, Kristian Ottesens hus

Would you like to learn more about urban biodiversity while getting to know the UiO Blindern campus?

Time and place: –, Outside Lucy Smiths Hus

Join us to ROAF waste station and get free stuff to your home!

Time and place: –, Natural History Museum

Enjoy a free guided tour of the Botanical Garden. You will be introduced to its history and thematic gardens, and learn about selected trees, flowers and other plants.

Time and place: –, Frederikkeplassen

Got a hole in your favorite pants or sweater? No problem!

Time and place: –, Thon Hotel Arendal, plenumssalen

To build the Norwegian health industry and strengthen Norwegian and European competitiveness, we must strengthen the innovation culture in academia and hospitals, both to secure that more knowledge from research from the institutions themselves is put to use, and to secure that commercial actors have access to infrastructure for testing and piloting. 

Time and place: –, Natural History Museum

Enjoy a free guided tour of the Botanical Garden. You will be introduced to its history and thematic gardens, and learn about selected trees, flowers and other plants.

Time and place: –, The University Aula

Experience Edvard Munch’s world-renowned Aula paintings in the heart of Oslo city centre!