Previous events

Rector Ragnhild Hennum welcomes you to a conversation about the proposed state budget for 2027 (announced on 7 October) and its implications for research, education, and UiO. 

Join us for a series of events during the Open Access Week and learn about open research, open publishing, and data sharing!

Come to the election meeting and get to know the candidates who wants to be involved in guiding the future development of the University of Oslo. The event will be streamed live.

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

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?

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

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”.

Over the last decades, international human rights law has grown in importance and in terms of norms, procedures, and institutions. Nowadays, we have nine core international human rights treaties that are widely ratified and ten so-called UN treaty bodies entrusted with monitoring compliance with the rights provided under their respective treaties.

Concerns primarily over the cost of living have prompted recent violent protests in countries such as Chile and Lebanon. When added to widespread populist mobilisations in several more - not least the Brexit saga in the UK, and the distinctive characteristics of the Trump era -  the growth in popular discontent and potential for social upheaval becomes apparent.

Investigative interviewing is a non-coercive method for questioning victims, witnesses and suspects of crimes. Traditionally, the main aim of interrogations was to obtain a confession from the suspect and secure a conviction. 60 percent of countries still use torture to obtain such confessions. The term investigative interviewing represents a shift in police interviewing away from confessions and towards general evidence gathering.

The Norwegian welfare agency (NAV) has followed Norway’s own rules rather than the rules under the European Economic Area (EEA) when it withheld benefits from recipients who had traveled to other EU and EEA countries, and secured prison sentences for some of them.

Norway has also been found in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights in recent child protection cases by the European Court of Human Rights.

Machine learning, pattern recognition and digital data practices are increasingly commonplace in Law Enforcement. This presentation gives a general orientation about the rise of digital tools in law enforcement. Based on an extensive study of predictive policing software, it also argues that these tools have their own politics.

UiO:Life Science and vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset invite all employees at UiO to breakfast meetings 27 May, 28 May, 29 May and 5 June.

UiO:Life Science and vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset invite all employees at UiO to breakfast meetings 27 May, 28 May, 29 May and 5 June.

UiO:Life Science and vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset invite all employees at UiO to breakfast meetings 27 May, 28 May, 29 May and 5 June.