Guest lectures and seminars - Page 2

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.

Lecture by Sera Yeong Seo Park, associate lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. 

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?

Welcome to a CIMS Friday lecture By Prof. Vemund Aarbakke who will introduce us to the Muslim-Turkish minority in contemporary Greece.

In this CIMs lecture, Prof. Stephan Guth explores what a Norwegian National Library manuscript tells us about the everyday life of a Levantine merchant in the mid-18th century.

Lecture by Ólafur Rastrick, Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Iceland. 

In this lecture, Pelle Valentin Olsen investigates the historical entanglement of capital, culture, and leisure by mapping the local Iraqi capitalist and entrepreneurial elites, many of whom were upper-class Iraqi Jews with international outlooks, who invested in film exhibition and production technology.

Seminar with Marta Hanson. 

Lecture by Marta Hanson. 

How do you take ownership of your own history after being written out of it for generations?

Welcome to a lecture by Prof. Bjørn Olav Utvik on the interplay between football, religion and politics in Morocco. 

Welcome to a conversation with Rahul Gandhi, member of the Indian parliament and leader of the opposition.

Lecture by Cheehyung Harrison Kim. 

In this lecture Dr. Lu will discuss the impact and conflicts arising from the development of offshore windfarms on Taiwan's western coastline among local fishing communities.

Join us for a CIMS seminar and panel discussion on Rebel Governance and Kinship Groups in the Middle East and Africa

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion, a great divergence appeared between the medical opinions of the East and West on the long-term consequences on public health. In this keynote lecture, Kate Brown, Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives us insight on what these conflicting stories can tell us about how Western and Soviet scientists understood humans and the ecologies in which they lived.

This lecture has unfortunately been cancelled. 

What would it mean to tell the stories of trees? How can we represent them in ways that do not rely on problematic forms of ventriloquism, which reinscribe inequalities, and which do not rely on various forms of empathy or sympathy? This talk by Dalia Nassar, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, aims to outline a theory of representation that aims to respond to these questions in relation to trees.

Research project Bodies in Translation at IKOS is delighted to invite you to a special afternoon of performance and presentations.

The Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMS) at UiO is inviting researchers and students of all levels to a Master Class with Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology from the University of Illinois. 

Join us for a CIMS lecture with Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology from the University of Illinois.

In this talk, Stuart Earle Strange, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will explore the contradictions between law, sovereignty, animal agency, and the sacred in Singaporean wildlife conservation.

Join us for a CIMS seminar with Jørgen Jensehaugen (PRIO) on Robert Capa's imagery and photography of Palestine, 1948-1950

In the fourth and last Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Dr. Stephanie Roe, a WWF’s Global Climate & Energy Lead Scientist, will discuss the technical, economic, political, and social approaches for mitigating climate change and other key challenges of the Anthropocene.

In this talk, professor of philosophy, Alejandra Mancilla, asks who should be the political representatives in a place with no human inhabitants, namely, Antarctica. While the Antarctic Treaty has been celebrated as a successful legal instrument for the protection of the continent, some have criticized its elitist nature and demanded a more democratic system of governance. But, should only humans be part of this arrangement? Why not penguins and maybe icebergs too?