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Conference organised by Screen Cultures, Department of Media and Communication, and NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies)

Kian Salimkhani and Niels Linnemann are both guest researchers at CPS and work with philosophy of physics, on which they will present for the Lunch Forum.

In this talk, Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand presents data from the underdescribed Austronesian language Patani.

Join us for a CIMS seminar and panel discussion on Rebel Governance and Kinship Groups in the Middle East and Africa

Science communication is important, but not always easy. What happens in the case of science miscommunication? Joey Pollock and Kim Pedersen Phillips will give a presentation. 

All are welcome!

Five students in their first year of the MA in Multilingualism will present on how auditory processing aptitude is important when it comes to imitating an unfamiliar L2, but that L2 proficiency is more important in relation to a familiar L2.

The Oslo Poetry Research Group (University of Oslo), in collaboration with The International Network for the Study of Lyric (INSL), and UiO:Norden, welcome scholars, poets, critics, teachers, and translators to the 4th INSL conference «Poetry. Experience. Attention».

Luca Zanetti, guest researcher at CPS, will give a talk entitled "Models and Values".

Contemporary Russian society does not visibly oppose the invasion of Ukraine. There are no barricades or protesters in the streets, and even the military mobilisation has not triggered an open clash between the public and the authorities. But does this silence mean consent and support for the war?

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion, a great divergence appeared between the medical opinions of the East and West on the long-term consequences on public health. In this keynote lecture, Kate Brown, Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives us insight on what these conflicting stories can tell us about how Western and Soviet scientists understood humans and the ecologies in which they lived.

Master Francesca Secco at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend her dissertation Agency beyond Intentions. On the intimate connections that relate agents to their actions for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

The Conference Trauma, Memory, and Counter-Culture. Borders and Border Transgressions in (Post-)Communist Europe explores borders and border transgressions in the context of trauma, memory, and counter-culture and aims to highlight the specific relevance of Border Studies for better understanding literature, arts, and everyday culture in repressive, transformative and post-war societies.

The conference explores borders and border transgressions in the context of trauma, memory, and counter-culture and aims to highlight the specific relevance of Border Studies for better understanding literature, arts, and everyday culture in repressive, transformative and (post-)war societies.

Welcome to an open talk with PhD candidate Tamta Gelashvili on Georgian and Ukrainian far-right movements.

In this presentation, Frances Kvietok Duenas (Postdoc, MultiLing), Pia Lane (Professor, MultiLing), and Carola Kleemann (Associate Professor, UiT) will share comparative insights about the language reclamation trajectories of new speakers of Sámi, Quechua and Aimara.

This lecture has unfortunately been cancelled. 

What would it mean to tell the stories of trees? How can we represent them in ways that do not rely on problematic forms of ventriloquism, which reinscribe inequalities, and which do not rely on various forms of empathy or sympathy? This talk by Dalia Nassar, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, aims to outline a theory of representation that aims to respond to these questions in relation to trees.

Stefano Coretta (Edinburgh) will give a guest lecture about why the IPA vowel chart doesn't work

Research project Bodies in Translation at IKOS is delighted to invite you to a special afternoon of performance and presentations.

The Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMS) at UiO is inviting researchers and students of all levels to a Master Class with Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology from the University of Illinois. 

Welcome to a debate on the strategy of protection, digitization, rescue research and popularization of artefacts and archaeological sites with experts and hobby archaeologists from Ukraine, Poland and Norway.

Philosophical Seminar with Kristin Gjesdal

Join us for a CIMS lecture with Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology from the University of Illinois.

How does ADHD affect the learning of multiple languages? Do people with and without ADHD process figurative language differently? These are just some of the questions that will be discussed at AttCom's Kick-Off Workshop.

Henrik Johnsson (University of Tromsø) will present his ongoing research on Ibsen's plays and the degeneration discourse.