Previous events - Page 13

Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt)

Join us for a CIMS seminar with Sardar Aziz, on superpower engagement and relations with Kurdistan. 

The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be led by Dr. Hanna Guttorm, senior researcher at the University of Helsinki, who focuses on Indigenous studies and is a member of Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Sciences.

Lecturer Dr. Barbara Siller, University College Cork, will give a talk on “Kafka Tales of the Twenty-First Century – Doors, Walls, and Fences in The Gurugu Pledge (2017) by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel and Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) by Daniel Trilling”.

Filippo Battistoni (Pisa) - Discussant: Ed Bispham (Oxford)

EU-tilpasning eller autokrati og etno-nasjonalistisk samfunnsmodell?

Jannis Androutsopoulos (Research Professor, MultiLing) outlines a new three-year project within linguistic landscape (LL) studies that explores traces and discourses of inequality in the semiotic landscape of educational spaces (‘schoolscape’).

Professor Adam Martin, from Leeds Conservatoire, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

With a proportion of 43 percent of women in its national legislature since 2020, Taiwan has arguably become Asia's leader in women's political representation. Dr. Chang-Ling Huang offers some perspectives on how and why that is.

Talk by Barbara Siller, lecturer in the Department of German and the Programme Director of the MA Applied Linguistics within the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork. 

Claire Prendergast, postdoc at IFIKK (DEVCOM) presents 

"Preliminary Empirical Data from a Sequential Study on Young Children’s Pragmatic Development"

Master Anna Young at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Unaccountable Violence: The Murderous Child in the British and American Novel, 1954-2003 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Join us for the book launch of Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution. Tine Gade (NUPI) discusses her study of the political history of Tripoli, and how it reflects upon wider national and regional dynamics of Lebanon and the Middle East, in conversation with Brynjar Lia.

Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg)

This lecture aims to introduce and discuss the important and fruitful connection between social epistemology and critical theory to understand forms of injustice.

Oliwia Szymańska (Postdoctoral Fellow, MultiLing) will present and discuss the results of metaphor training carried out with psychiatrists during an intensive Norwegian course.

Diane Cuny (Université de Tours, France)

Democratisation is arguably Taiwan’s most significant achievement since 1945. This lecture addresses the impact of cultural democratisation by using Taiwan cinema as a case study.

Saeedeh Salimifar talks about presupposition projection:

Join us for a CIMS seminar with Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen from the University of Copenhagen, reflecting upon the cultural and historical trajectories of the Prophet. The conversation will be led by Ragnhild J. Zorgati.

Welcome to HEI's heritage day 2023!

Master Truls Strand Offerdal at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his dissertation The pandemic rhetorical situation: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

In this lecture, the German philosopher Christian Grüny will reflect upon the concept of Performance Art, exploring its possible relevance within contemporary art and music practices.

The religious landscape of Taiwan is made of a large variety of denominations. Buddhism, Daoism, Yiguandao, and also Christianity, Islam, aboriginal religions: These are just some of the faces of Taiwanese religion. These beliefs and practices also appear in society in different forms and on several platforms.