Previous events - Page 6
On the sidelines of Solya’s midterm evaluation: a half-day workshop on mood in Slavic (and Romance and Germanic).
Special guest: Marco Biasio (Univ. Verona), Solya’s evaluator.
Julie Hansen will discuss Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus as examples of translingual literature.
How do we read novels translingually? What strategies and literary techniques characterise multilingual literary texts? How does multilingual literature (re-)shape the canon? What metaphors do bilingual authors use to conceptualise multilingualism?
At this workshop, we will discuss multilingual writing from Eastern Europe from different theoretical and historical perspectives.
In this lecture, Alexandre de Vitry (Sorbonne) will discuss the concept of brotherhood in literary history
Master Dana Swarbrick at the Department of Musicology will defend her dissertation Being in Concert: Audience Emotion, Motion, and Social Connectedness for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Professor Kurt Villads Jensen from Stockholm University will be giving a lecture on the concept of the Crusades as pilgrimage.
Fatima Reda (PhD Fellow, University of Oslo) will give a talk on how teachers and newly arrived Arabic-speaking students utilize digital tools during oral communication tasks in the classroom.
Chiara Gazzini (IFIKK)
Book presentation with Alessandro Rippa.
In this CIMs lecture, Dr. Eirik Hovden will give an overview over how to understand changes in Islamic law in institutions, genres and rules, ca. 1200-1800 CE.
Master Dongho Kwak at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Music for cells? Rhythmic mechanical stimulations of cell cultures for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
This is a conference to celebrate the life and achievements of Prof. Eyólfur Kjalar Emilsson on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Nina Teigland (PhD Fellow, University of Bergen) will discuss language policy in Norway from a public policy perspective.
Senior lecturer Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "Conceptual Issues Surrounding Plant Behavior".
Nina Hagen Kaldhol is a PhD Candidate in Linguistics at the University of California San Diego. In collaboration with native speakers of Tira, Rere and Somali, she works on language documentation while also aiming to advance our theoretical understanding of tone and morphological complexity.
The Centre for Ibsen Studies invites to a short lecture performance and Q&A with Julian Blaue on his work with Vinge/Müller and their controversial 9-hours version of The Master Builder.
Dr. Tymoteusz Król (Institute of Slavic Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences, The Centre for Regional Studies of University of Ostrava) will discuss the endangered Wymysorys language (Poland) and the significance of multilingualism for Vilamovian identity in the face of 'safe' Polish monolingualism.
Judith Hendriksma (IFIKK)
Professor Alexandra Assis Rosa (University of Lisbon) will give an open lecture on the phenomenon of indirect translation.
Universal quantification over sum entities
Wona Lee (IFIKK)
Lecture by Sera Yeong Seo Park, associate lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
Professor Svend Davanger (IMB) will give a talk entitled "Aristotle on memory, time, and the brain".
By Valentina Alfarano and Åshild Næss.
In this Environmental Humanities Lecture, anthropologists Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, and Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, present their research on human-animal relationships, climate change, and religious ecology in India. What form might the environmental humanities take if considered from the place of the Indian Himalaya?