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An interdisciplinary workshop exploring themes related to the philosophy of communication, University of Oslo

Taking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Pascale Casanova’s field-defining La République mondiale des lettres (The World Republic of Letters, 1999) as its point of departure, this conference seeks to decentralize the praxis of cultural reading and literary critique that the notion of Paris as the world capital of literature represents. Drawing inspiration from a host of decolonial projects that seek to renegotiate the terms in which we understand the world—a process that Walter Mignolo terms “epistemic delinking”—we seek to examine trans-peripheral and counter-hegemonic cultural infrastructures that flourished despite, in resistance to, and in the aftermath of colonial domination. This project is historical, but also oriented toward the present and, crucially, dedicated to rethinking the epistemic assumptions that undergird the study of literature and associated forms of cultural production in the present. 

A two-day conference at the University of Oslo, on the publication of the anthology The Poverty of Anti-realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History.

*NB! The workshop has been postponed to the autumn term due to illness*

Kick-off workshop for the HF Strategic Research Priorities Project 'Communication with Large Language Models' (2024-2028)

International Conference

The Cultural Heritage Day is a day for dialogue and inspiration for everyone who studies and works with cultural heritage. 

This is a conference to celebrate the life and achievements of Prof. Eyólfur Kjalar Emilsson on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Welcome to HEI's annual International Student Conference! This conference unites early career researchers in both formal and informal settings, providing a platform to explore the latest developments in the field of heritage studies.

As MultiLing is coming to a closure in 2023, we invite all interested to join us as we discuss and synthesize our research and achievements.

In her keynote lecture for MultiLing’s Closing Conference, Lourdes Ortega will discuss the potential for a decolonial lens to sharpen social justice orientations in the study of multilingual learning.

The research network MultiNord organizes lectures that are open for everyone.

The Department for Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH) cordially invites you to its first Digital Humanities Day, which will take place on 14 September 2023. This event will bring together a range of experts in the Digital Humanities to discuss the possibilities of using digital tools for historical research. Registration below.

Possible worlds are total ways the world could have been and have played a crucial role in the metaphysics and logic of modality. Many issues in the philosophy of possible worlds are discussed in terms of the debate between actualists and possibilists. This workshop aims to bring together philosophers working broadly in the metaphysics of modality to discuss the extent to which these issues about possible worlds can be understood and interact with the more recent debate in modal metaphysics between contingentists and necessitists.

A conference to explore the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; to invoke the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences as essential services for medicine and health care; and to reappraise the impact of biomedicine in our linguistic, cultural, and societal ecosystems. 

The program is now online!

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

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».

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.

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.

The Perceiving Representations project is organising a workshop on perceptions in which learning, imagination or the structure of the perception has significantly influenced or contributed to it.

MultiLing Colloquia A & B 2023

The workshop is part of the project “Rethinking the Soviet experiment: Ukrainian and Russian perspectives” (RSE) which brings together scholars of 20^th c. Soviet culture and society who had to flee the ongoing war in Ukraine and its catastrophic aftermath. RSE is being organized as a cooperation between the University of Oslo, the Humboldt University in Berlin, and the University of Belgrade and aims to provide opportunities of networking and intellectual exchange for Ukrainian, Russian, and Ukrainian-Russian scholars who are currently based in Europe.

Sponsored by Circle U (European University Alliance).

If you wish to participate in the first workshop, please contact the organizers.

Welcome to HEI's heritage day 2023!

An interdisciplinary seminar aimed at scholars and students, supported by UiO Faculty of Humanities and the Young Academy of Norway.