Research events
Upcoming 5 days
Public lecture by Dr Alpo Honkapohja, postdoctor at the University of Edinburgh.
How does the private sector strategically use poor quality data for its own benefit? In this talk, Linsey McGoey discusses how weak evidence-based policy can paradoxically be a powerful tool in the political economy of global health.
Writing consultants from the Academic writing centre are ready to guide you in your writing process.
Lecture by Professor Stephanie C. Werner from Section for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, UiO.
Are we preventing climate change by large-scale environmental destruction? Jon Erik Finnvold (NOVA, OsloMet) talks on the contestations of wind power investments in southern Norway.
Meet colleagues from the life sciences and get some writing done at the Life Science Writing Club! Special guest this Wednesday is Alvaro Köhn Luque, researcher at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences.
Time and again, a product is being developed, approved, and launched, only to flop in the marketplace. So how can you get your ducks in a row to prepare for a successful product, and how early should you start this process? The answer: begin with the end in mind by creating and using a Target Product Profile (TPP).
M.Sc. Bjørn Erik Juel at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Electrophysiological Markers of Consciousness: Measures of connectivity, complexity, and signal diversity in EEG for distinguishing between conscious and unconscious brain states” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
The Japanese Supreme Court may be entering an era of judicial activism.
Department seminar. Larry Karp is a Professor at University of California, Berkeley. He will present a paper entitled "Sober optimism and the formation of international environmental agreements", co-authored by Hiroaki Sakamoto.
Speaker: Pekka Marttinen, Assistant Professor, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland.
Dr. Pekka Marttinen, Assistant Professor, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University, Finland, will present the lecture "A Bayesian model of acquisition and clearance of bacterial colonization incorporating within-host variation."
Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre arranges biweekly “Shut Up & Write” sessions.
Master Kathrin Olsen at the Department of Special Needs Education defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:
Teachers’ practices of supporting the social participation for children with autism in the informal environment of kindergarten. A critical interpretive case-study with a cross-cultural perspective.
Cand.med. Eirik Aunan at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Improving surgical techniques and functional outcome in total knee arthroplasty” for the degree of Dr.Philos. (Doctor Philosophiae).
Further upcoming events
ILOS is pleased to invite you to a seminar with Ranjan Ghosh, Lene Johannessen and Sumana Roy. Open for all.
M.Phil in Economics Nicolai Ellingsen at Department of Economics will defend the thesis "Distorted Like China. Theory and evidence on how distortions affect aggregate output" for the PhD-degree.
Welcome to the book launch in connection with the publication of Nina Witoszek’s latest study, The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism.
Welcome to an interesting hour with Professor Sara de Freitas.
In 2008, the Austrian poet and dadaist Raoul Schrott published a German translation of Homer’s Iliad and effectively announced it as the first to fully convey what Homer supposedly said and meant, whereas all previous translations were dismissed as travesties of the original. Schrott’s translation was met with great interest by the general public, but triggered an uproar among Classics scholars. In this lecture, professor Silvio Friedrich Bär will analyse and discuss the diverging mechanisms of popular versus scholarly reception and offer some explanations as to why these differed so profoundly in the case of Schrott. Inter alia, it will be argued that Schrott’s translation is more firmly rooted in the classical tradition than some of his critics acknowledge and that scholarly reception often has its blind spots when it comes to understanding and acknowledging the mechanisms of popular reception. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated that Schrott’s popular success can only be understood in the context of the political debate about European integration in Germany at the time of its publication.