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Staff and students are cordiallly invited to a three-paper workshop on the application of digital tools for the analysis of historical English materials. The organiser is grateful to the Anders Jahre Fond for financial support.

Department seminar. Johannes Spinnewijn is a Professor of Economics at London School of Economics. He will present the paper: "The Chronic Condition Index: Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle" (written with Kaveh Danesh, Jon Kolstad and Will Parket).

Yael Friedman is a PhD fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. Her dissertation explores the concept of medical holism and its relation to pluralism ‘in’ science and ‘with’ science.

M.Sc. Kenth-Louis Hansen Joseph at Institute for Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Exploring physical function, activity, and sustainable delivery of first-line treatment for patients with osteoarthritis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Anastasia Maravela (Universitetet i Oslo) - Már Jónsson (Háskóli Íslands)

How does online crowdfunding change the ways we seek and provide health care? In this seminar, Dr. Nora Kenworthy will discuss how crowdfunding reinforces the many problems of market-based health systems.

Cand. Med. Guy Frederick Lanyon Hindley at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Polygenicity and pleiotropy in mental disorders and related traits: insights from cross-trait genome-wide association studies” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master in sosiologi Erika Braanen Sterri vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.

Prejudice in a Multicultural Society. Young people’s Attitudes toward Sexual Minorities and Religious groups in Norway

A conference to explore the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; to invoke the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences as essential services for medicine and health care; and to reappraise the impact of biomedicine in our linguistic, cultural, and societal ecosystems. 

M.Sc. Sunniva Furre Amundsen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Transglutaminase 2 and gluten peptide complexes: Origin and involvement in celiac disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand. Med. Kathrine Thuestad Isaksen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Age-related and molecular predictive markers in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Department seminar. Giacomo Brusco is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Tübingen. He will present the paper: "Guess Who's Evading on Dinner: Experimental Evidence on the Incidence of Tax Evasion."

Seminar with Venezuelan economist Manuel Sutherland.

Master of Science in Conflict Studies Marie Sandnes at University of Oslo and the Department of Political Science will be defending her dissertation: "Understanding power dynamics between intervening and host military forces: The case of the G5 Sahel Joint Force and external actors in the Sahel".

Gender Expansive Philosophy (GEP) invites all philosophy students and staff to a seminar! 

In this lecture, Fred Moten (New York University) will discuss the question of observation in the context of violence and mourning.

MD Jelena Zugic Soares at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Vitamin D in cognitive impairment and Alzheimer´s disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Hanne Røe-Indregård  at the Department of Special Needs Education  will be defending the thesis "Features of adult-child communication across conversational partners and activities. An observation based study" for the degree of PhD.

Lecture by Cheehyung Harrison Kim. 

Department seminar. Aurélien Baillon is a Professor of economics of uncertainty at Emlyon business school. He will present the paper: "Follow the money, not the majority: Markets for predicting unverifiable events" (written with Benjamin Tereick and Tong V. Wang).

In this lecture Dr. Lu will discuss the impact and conflicts arising from the development of offshore windfarms on Taiwan's western coastline among local fishing communities.

What novel forms of health interventions and markets do impact bonds generate? And in what ways is the provision of healthcare re-imagined through this financing mechanism?

The fifth event in the seminar series "Perspectives on Thinking" will focus on objective hermeneutics. The guest speaker will be Katarina Busch (Sigmund-Freud-Institute). 

M.Sc. Ruth Elise Dybvik Matlary at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Physical activity in young people with haemophilia A in Norway – The HemFitbit study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).