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Time and place: –, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka Auditorium 5 (BL09113)

We are pleased to host PhD candidate Orwa Ajjoub who will speak about "How Leaders Reshape Social Identity in a Jihadi Group? The Case of the Syria Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham 2013-2017".

Time and place: –, Auditorium 4, Eilert Sundts House, Block A

Welcome to HumAIn talks #11! This time, we are joined by Olga Goriunova, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, who will present her new book Ideal Subjects: The Abstract People of AI. 

Time and place: , Scene Domus Bibliotheca, Karl Johans gate 47

The Alumni Network in Art History and Visual Studies welcomes everyone to a guest lecture by professor Ashley Thompson, Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art, SOAS University of London.

The lecture is open to all who are interested.

Time and place: –, Undervisningsrom 1, Georg Sverdrups hus

The day before her HumAIn Talks #11 on Ideal Subjects, we invite you to a workshop on Truths and AI with Olga Goriunova. The workshop is free and open to interested researchers and students, but please register by Monday November 2nd to secure your spot. 

Time and place: –, Meeting room 225, Henrik Wergelands hus, Blindern campus

Ewa Partyga (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) will present her project on Ibsen's Munich Trilogy and its Polish interpreters.

Time and place: –, 1204 at Eilert Sundts hus

Department seminar. Elias Einiö, is a Chief Researcher in Economics at the VATT Institute for Economic Research. He will present the paper: "The Impacts of College Programmes on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Top Incomes: Evidence from Admission Cutoffs".

Time and place: –, LVB Auditorium 1

NCMBM is organising a new seminar series in the Life Science Building this autumn. The series will give researchers and colleagues working in and around the building an opportunity to get to know each other’s research and the different research environments.

Speakers: Ainara Nova Flores and Ragnhild Eskeland

Time and place: –, Scene HumSam, Georg Sverdrups hus

In this lecture, professor Dmytro Iarovyi from Kyiv School of Economics looks at how the war between Russia and Ukraine is being fought not only on the front line but also in films, TV shows, memes, and social media.

Time and place: –, Zoom - digital

This seminar invites participants to a conversation about social media age bans from a (dis)connection perspective

Time and place: –, ARENA, Gaustadalléen 30

Frank Schimmelfennig will present his paper From merit to geopolitics? Eastern Europe in EU enlargement, 1980-2025 at the Tuesday Seminar on 3 November 2026.

Time and place: –, P. A. Munchs hus room 360

A writing, making and zine workshop hosted by Hattie Morrison - an artist, facilitator and writer from Carmarthenshire.

Time and place: –, Seminarrom 652, Georg Morgenstiernes hus

In this lunch seminar, associate professor in history of ideas Henning Trüper will present his brand new (German-language) book on the history of humanitarian lifeboat movements in Europe, Rettung aus Seenot (Rescue from distress at sea).

Time and place: –, Eilert Sundts hus, blokk B, Meeting room 1249

In this final seminar, Torjus Solheim Eckhoff will present the draft of his PhD thesis titled “The Promises of a Computerised State – A History of the Norwegian Public Administration.”

Time and place: –, 1204 at Eilert Sundts hus

Department seminar. Horng Chern Wong is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. He will present the paper: "Skill-Biased Technological Change for Whom? Concentrating on Firms".

Time and place: –, LVB Auditorium 3

NCMBM is organising a new seminar series in the Life Science Building this autumn. The series will give researchers and colleagues working in and around the building an opportunity to get to know each other’s research and the different research environments.

Speakers: Osman Gani and Cinzia Progida

Time and place: –, P.A. Munchs hus, Seminar room 9

A talk by Mareike Wulff, a socio-cultural anthropologist with a regional focus on Bhutan and the Himalayas.

Time and place: –, GM 452

Erlend Østrem Myklebust (University of Oslo)

Time and place: –, 1204 at Eilert Sundts hus

Department seminar. Hyungmin Park is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics at University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Pay to Quit: Robust Team Incentives with Hidden Need".

Time and place: –, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka Auditorium 5 (BL09113)

CIMS ønsker velkommen til fredagsseminar med førsteamanuensis Nora Sunniva Eggen fra Det teologiske fakultet.

Time and place: –, Auditorium 2, Eilert Sundts hus, Block A

For the tenth edition of HumAIn talks, we are joined by Dr. Andreas Hepp from the University of Bremen, Germany, who is going to talk about Silicon Valley, pioneer communities, and AI futures. Welcome!

Time and place: –, HWH: MultiLing møterom 421

In this talk, David Osgarby, Wout Sinnaeve and Michelle Waldispühl, introduce DESCRYPT and present computational case studies on deciphering Pictish symbols and detecting, transcribing, and restoring runic inscriptions. 

Time and place: –, Store Auditorium, Rikshospitalet

Marking its 75th Anniversary, Institute for Experimental Medical Research invites collaborating clinical and research departments to a symposium to showcase the central position of translational research in the hospital system through examples of such research at OUS.

Time and place: –, P. A. Munchs hus, seminarrom 6.

A talk by Sebastian Eicher, associate professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Time and place: –, LVB Auditorium 3

NCMBM is organising a new seminar series in the Life Science Building this autumn. The series will give researchers and colleagues working in and around the building an opportunity to get to know each other’s research and the different research environments.

Speakers: Håvard Haugen and Alessandro Arena

Time and place: –, ARENA, Gaustadalléen 30

James Cameron will present his paper Compressing the Window of Paralysis: How Europe Can Counter Russia’s Threat of Nuclear First Use Without the United States at the Tuesday Seminar on 20 October 2026.