Program:
15:00 Opening remarks by Linda Hildegard Bergersen
15:05-15:50 Key note speaker: Cass R. Sunstein, Founder and Director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at the Harvard Law School, Harvard University
“FEAST: introducing a new framework for promoting good choices, drawing on behavioral economics”
15:50 -16:00: Q&A
16:00-16:30 Lene Juel Rasmussen, Director of the Center of Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen “Why we succeed”
16:30-17:00 Aasta Marie Bjorvand Bjørkøy, Head of Research at Department for Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
“Ageing and dignity”
17:00-17:30 Knut Røed, Frisch Centre, University of Oslo
“Working day and night”
17:30-17:45: Coffee
17:45-18:15 Tove Pettersen, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo
“Old Age – Simone de Beauvoir’s Interdisciplinary Analysis”
18:15-18:45 Olav Gjelsvik, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo
”You shall get all you need, but you should not need much”
18:45-19:15 Jon Storm-Mathisen, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo “How to celebrate 80 years of science. Glutamate and beyond”
19:15 Closing remarks by Tove Pettersen and Linda Hildegard Bergersen (group photo)
In this event, we are featuring the award-winning Prof. Cass R. Sunstein from the Harvard University and celebrating the life-long achievements of the 80-year young UiO Prof. Jon Storm-Mathisen.
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President’s Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board. Prof. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health.
The event is supported by UiO:Life Science