Upcoming events

Ulrike Felt's (University of Vienna) presentation will focus on the 'twin transition' as a buzzword in European policy discourse, and draw on the research project Innovation Residues - Modes and Infrastructures of Caring for our Longue-durée Environmental Futures. 

Department seminar. Manasi Deshpande is an Associate Professor of Economics with tenure at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago.

Sverre Stausland will present his research on the origin of the word ordskifte 

Department seminar. Bradley Setzler is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University. He will present the paper: “Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry” (written with Kory Kroft, Yao Luo and Magne Mogstad). 

Department seminar. Xavier Jaravel is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Robert Aronowitz is Professor, History and Sociology of Science, and the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied linguistics at Berkeley before receiving his M.D. from Yale.  He did his internal medicine residency at Pennsylvania Hospital and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Penn.  Before starting his present position, Aronowitz was an attending physician at Cooper Hospital and taught at the RWJ medical school.  At Penn, Aronowitz was the founding director of the Health and Societies Program and co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program.  He is the author of Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear & Uncertainty (Chicago University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions (Hopkins, 2010), and has published widely on the history of medicine. 

Department seminar. Yoto Yotov is a professor at the School of Economics of the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University.

Department seminar. Dave Donaldson is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ron Darvin (University of British Columbia, Canada) discusses how applied linguistics research can address the compelling issues of language, technology and identity that confront us in the age of AI 

The invited speaker is Megha Padi, Assistant Professor in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Arizona Cancer Centre. The title of her talk is "Translating network biology into new therapies for rare cancers".

In this talk, Christopher S. Wood (NYU) seeks to locate impressionism within a wider horizon of self-taught or DIY artistic practices

Professor Robert Northcott (Birkbeck University of London) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Detailed content will be announced soon. 

The symposium features David Van Reybrouck, the 2024 Arne Næss Professor.

Marta Lourenço (Universidade de Lisboa) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Title and detailed content will be updated soon. 

Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, Laurel Trainor from McMaster University, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series

Anya Plutynski (Washington University in St. Louis) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Detailed contents will be announced soon.

Snorre Christiansen (Matematisk Institutt, UiO) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series (detailed content TBA). 

Tobias Uller (Deputy head of Department of Biology, Lund University) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Detailed content will be announced soon. 

Myles Jackson (Institute for Advance Study, Princeton) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series.