Tidligere gjesteforelesninger og seminarer - Side 14

Ellen Rees har hatt en raptus i sommer og sittet og lest franske og danske vaudeviller og andre lettbeinte komedier. Basert på dette materialet vil hun nå demontere to myter om Ibsen og fortelle om to «funn». Velkommen til litterært instituttseminar onsdag 16. november kl. 14.15!

In this talk, professor of design history Dr. Kjetil Fallan, explores design interventions at, and in the wake of, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972. What can design activism tell us about the conference's influence on future political decision-making? Or about the development of environmental thinking and ecologically informed design ideology in Scandinavia?

Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen vil præsentere sit postdoc-projekt ”Stories of War and Refuge. Imagining Futures in Afghan Exile Art”.

In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences. 

ILNs egen Hans-Olav Enger, professor i nordisk språk, forklarer hvorfor hypoteser om at visse skandinaviske særdrag skyldes samisk påvirkning, neppe holder vann.

How has our understandings of relations between soil, plants, and fungi have changed over time? In this lecture, professor of anthropology Dr. Michael J. Hathaway will explore the role of fungal mycelium in engaging the soil matrix.

The environment is having a massive impact on music, changing what music is and how it comes to be, not just what it is about or how it sounds. In this lecture, Dr. Kyle Devine, professor of musicology at UiO, presents the nuances in this Great Recomposition, and the importance of overriding our defaults. 

Dr. Katie Overy, senior lecturer at University of Edinburgh, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

In this lecture, the Medical Humanities and the Environmental Humanities meet. Associate Professor Eben Kirksey from the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, Australia, will introduce us to the "virosphere".

Are you writing your MA or Ph.D. thesis on Chinese cities, global urban studies, infrastructure, Special economic zone, urbanism, or the Belt and Road initiative?

Linnea Eirin Timmermann Buerskogen fortæller om sit PhD-projekt ved Center for Ibsen-Studier.

Cathrine Bjerknes vil fortælle om sit postdoc-projekt tilknyttet projektet "Medborgerskap uten skam" på ILN.

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The Chinese political system includes several million full-time professional staff often referred to as 'cadres'. Who are these local administrators, and how important are they for the Chinese Communist Party's developmental policies? How will it influence an individual to become a CCP cadre? In this seminar, we will examine cadres' roles from the perspective of two case studies, one focusing on environmental policies and the other with a focus on gender.

Caroline Palmer, Professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series

How important is gender for young people in contemporary China? What challenges and aspirations are central to young Chinese women? This seminar will focus on how young women from China negotiate different expectations and identities both inside and outside their homeland.

Nicola Dibben, Professor at the Department of Music, University of Sheffield, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series

Jill Locke will introduce her concept of unashamed citizenship (2016) through the case of young women desegregating US schools and extend it to the global climate strike led by Greta Thunberg. She uses her concept of "unashamed citizenship" to re-read young women's activism as deeply connected, intergenerational, and complex struggle rather than the special properties of "girl power" with its tropes and memes of girls' special vision and social power. 

Hvilke utfordringer støter man på når man skal gjendikte norsk økopoesi til engelsk? Kathleen Maris Paltrineri, forfatter og gjendikter fra Iowa, vil snakke om sin praksis som gjendikter, om etikk og ansvar ved oversettelse og om gleden over oppfinnsomt språk og poetisk eksperimentering. Hun deler noen dikt hun har oversatt og diskuterer oversettelsesstrategier for disse diktene. Dette blir en tospråklig diskusjon på skandinavisk og engelsk.

Det har nå gått to år siden nedstengingen i Danmark og Norge og den første smittebølgen. Prosjektet "Retorikk om Pandemi" (PAR) gir en forløpig oppsummering.

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, Associate Professor at Aarhus University, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

China’s main foreign policy initiatives are not directed at the West but prioritise south-south relations. In this seminar, we will learn more about China’s orientation towards developing countries and the meaning of the concept of a ‘more democratic world order’ for the Chinese Communist Party.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of China’s most discussed foreign policy initiatives. What is the BRI? How does it influence other countries? In this webinar, Freymann will give a presentation of his book and answer questions from the audience, in discussion with Özge Söylemez.