Guest lectures and seminars
Upcoming 5 days
What happens at the intersection of women's health and international relations? In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, Dr Sophie Harman will look closer at the state of gender in global health.
Welcome to a talk by Dr. Monica Pearl (University of Manchester) on rage and generational tensions in recent cultural texts about the AIDS epidemic.
In this lecture, Marit Grøtta (University of Oslo) will discuss the ambivalent responses to portrait photographs in the writings of Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, and Virginia Woolf.
Further upcoming events
Guest Speaker: Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Department of History, University of Basel
Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham) will present her research on Orkneyinga saga in the fifth edition of the Sophus Bugge Lecture series.
Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.
Department seminar. Alexis Akira Toda is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego. He will present the paper: "Housing Bubbles with Phase Transitions" (written with Tomohiro Hirano).
Professor James Kirby from LMU Munich will present his research on perceptual similarity and acoustic variability as filters on tonal variation and change