Previous events - Page 15

The political dynamics of fragmentation and polarization after the covid crisis and Russia's war in Ukraine.

New time: Feb 13 at 12:15. Simon Okholm, guest researcher at CPS, will present "In-between disease theory and normative appeals: Is aging treatable?"

In this lecture, art historian Mechtild Widrich (Chicago) will review recent debates about contemporary monuments in light of overwhelming experiences of a world in crisis.

Women in Music Technology Seminar with Kristin Norderval.

In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?  

This lecture will discuss the key issues and debates in post-Martial Law Taiwan by reviewing recent scholarship and representative works by local historians.

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)

This lecture will introduce the major trends and development of Taiwan history using the collections and exhibitions of National Museum of Taiwan History as examples.

Master Emma Helene Heggdal at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Poetic Endurance: Waiting and Poetic Time in Three Long Poems by Anne Carson for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

In this informal seminar, Eline Visser will report about her last field trip to the Indonesian Karas Islands, where she gathered data on the previously undocumented language Uruangnirin. She'll talk about language endangerment, fieldwork methods, Uruangnirin grammatical relations, some other preliminary findings and whatever else comes up.

Master Laura op de Beke at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Anthropocene Temporalities in Videogames: The Anthropocene as a Structure of Feeling in Popular Gameplay for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Khalid Ezat Azam at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his dissertation Digital parenting in the risk society: Parents’ perception and mediation of video game risk for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Francesca Canepuccia at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas defended her dissertation How to
Become a Prophetess: Strategies for Authorizing a Prophetic Mission in the Works of Francesca Romana for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Elena Varona and Margareta Berg (master students at ILN) practice their presentations for the ConSOLE conference. Elena will talk about grammatical gender selection in Spanish-Norwegian code switching and Margareta will discuss attitudes towards gender neutral pronouns in Norwegian.

Master Ketil Raknes at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his dissertation Lobbyspeak: Understanding the
rhetoric of lobbyists for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Sofie Lekve (IFIKK, UiO) presents "Who is IVF for?"

Welcome to an exciting conversation with the award-winning author and artist Tom McCarthy, hosted by Screen Cultures at the Department of Media and Communication and the University Library.

Establishing the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Physics

Prof. Sofian Audry, from University of Quebec in Montreal, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Our actions don’t just shape and transmit the rules, they create in each new generation mental processes that can grasp the rules and put them into action, claims professor Cecilia Heyes of Oxford University.

Velkommen til seminar og workshop om kunstfagene, kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid og åpen forskning. Hvilke dilemmaer oppstår når forskningsdata og resultater skal deles og gjenbrukes? Og hvilke muligheter medfører mer åpenhet og økt deling av data for fag som eksempelvis musikk, visuell kunst, film, scenekunst og design?

Matias Slavov (Tampere University, guest researcher at CPS) presents "The one-directionality of time does not entail a unique direction of time"