Previous events
Master Lu Chen at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Environmental and Climate Engagement and Disengagement in China: Case studies of State-led Governance and Local Responses for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).
Master Laura Juliana Osorio Iregui at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages and the Museum of Cultural History will defend her dissertation Weaving Wounaan identity in an age of migration. A study of Wounaan basketry for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Japanese Studies Ben Grafstrom. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Assistant Professor of ethnography and performing arts of Japan, Andrea Giolai (Leiden University).
Can exhibitions be qualified as research-in-itself? If they can, then how? Which criteria should be the basis of evaluating and verify research exhibitions? The aim of the PhD course is to build a solid knowledge-base for understanding the relationship between exhibitions and research in the past and today, in order to collectively explore potentials and challenges for what can be called research-by-display.
Master Hyebin Lee at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation A Study of the Māṇavikā Chapter in the Uttaragrantha with Newly Identified Sanskrit fragments for the degree doctor philosophiae (Dr.philos).
Lecture by Miyo Tanaka, second-year master's student in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights at the UiO.
The fourth and final Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture by Laura Mai, Postdoctoral Researcher at Tilburg University.
Join us for a CIMS seminar with IKOS PhD candidate Jonathan Jonsson.
Our third Welcome to the Anthropocene Lecture will be given by Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University.
Join us for a special CIMS seminar with Dr. Ricarda Stegmann .
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In this lecture, Dr. Ming-yeh Rawnsley will present and discuss Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema.
PhD workshop with Dr. Ricarda Stegmann and Professor Einar Wigen.
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In this lecture, Professor Bi-yu Chang discusses state policies and interventions in constructing ideas of identity and nationhood in Taiwan's educational system.
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Join us for a special CIMS seminar with IKOS Professor of Arabic and Arabic literature, Stephan Guth.
The second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture of 2024 will be led by Dr. Rahul Ranjan, writer and Assistant Professor of Climate/Environmental Justice at the Department of Human Geography, University of Edinburgh.
In this lecture, Dr. Chin-yi Lee will discuss the economic relations between mainland China and Taiwan.
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Legitimacy, espionage, and nation branding in the Apple v. Samsung “smartphone patent wars”. Lecture by Irina Lyan.
We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Religious Studies Deva Nandan Harikrishna. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Associate Professor Deonnie Moodie from the Department of Religious Studies, University of Oklahoma
In this lecture, Dr. Hung-yi Chien will discuss China-Taiwan relations in a colonial perspective.
Join us for a CIMS panel conversation with contributors to the edited volume Branding the Middle East.
Master Erica Colman-Denstad at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Wildness and control: Mediating technology and perceptions of nature in nineteenth century Norway for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
In this lecture, Henning Klöter will discuss whether Taiwanese is linguistically distinct from Mandarin as well as its history of ideological linguistic emancipation.
In this lecture, Dr. Stefania Travagnin will trace the role of women in Taiwan in crafting local history, discussing how listening to their voices and experiences will help us rethink agency in the discourse of Buddhism on the island.
Join us for a CIMS conversation with Palestinian Human Rights Defender, Omar Barghouti.
The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture of the year will be given by Professor Britt Kramvig and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tarja Salmela at the Department of Tourism and Northern Studies, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.