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Henrik Johnsson (University of Tromsø) will present his ongoing research on Ibsen's plays and the degeneration discourse.

Alastair Pennycook (Professor Emeritus, University of Technology Sydney and Research Professor, MultiLing) presents on how a language assemblage framework shows how languages are put together within local combinations of things, people and places and are also part of wider social and political entanglements.

EyeHub invites: An eye-tracking workshop with Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos 

Nate Young has made an app that could make the lives of those interested in sound change in Scandinavian a lot easier. Come and see the beta version presented!

Laura Bishop (Researcher at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion) will present a study that investigates how classical string quartet musicians are affected by playing conditions designed to enable, perturb, or enhance experiences of musical togetherness.

Internationally acclaimed theatre director Wang Chong is guest speaker at Centre for Ibsen Studies

ILN is looking for committed students who want to work as learning assistants at ILN during the autumn of 2023. The learning assistants will help with ensuring a good learning outcome, learning environment and study progression for the students, and help to follow-up with academic and social events. We want students who wishes to contribute to learning in a social community, counteract loneliness and create a good study environment.

MultiLing Colloquia A & B 2023

Camille Coye (Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, Paris) is a visiting researcher at the Super Linguistics research group. She works on animal communication.

Based on long-term engagement with the Provençal case, this talk by James Costa (Professor, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle) explores why language revitalization often fails.

Anne Pauwels (Emerita Professor, SOAS and Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne) presents her research exploring multilingual soundscapes in two cities: Melbourne and Antwerp.

Lea Fricke, Patrick Grosz & Tatjana Scheffler.

Emma Krane Mathisen (MA-student in English language and linguistics) will give a presentation of her master's project on the processing differences between metaphors and similes. 

Thesis seminar/text development

Jannis Androutsopoulos (Research Professor, MultiLing) outlines a new three-year project within linguistic landscape (LL) studies that explores traces and discourses of inequality in the semiotic landscape of educational spaces (‘schoolscape’).

Oliwia Szymańska (Postdoctoral Fellow, MultiLing) will present and discuss the results of metaphor training carried out with psychiatrists during an intensive Norwegian course.

Saeedeh Salimifar talks about presupposition projection:

The Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (also known as ILN) are hosting our POP-UP CAFÉ again!

All students who are curious about the masters' programmes offered at the institute are very welcome!

The actress, director and producer Agnete Haaland shares her reflections on the intersection between performance practice and academic study of Henrik Ibsen's works and stage legacy.

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

In this talk, Agnieszka Kałdonek-Crnjaković (Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw) will discuss the effect of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on additional language learning considering theoretical assumptions and her recent research findings.

Hege Randi Tørressen will visit the Centre for Ibsen Studies to talk about her profession as a dramaturg at the National Theatre.  This industry talk will be informative and provide a unique perspective about the National Theatre.  There will be a Q&A session afterwards. Light refreshments will be served.

The 2023 Winter School focuses on bi/multilingual families as a complex and dynamic space whose norms are informed both by family-internal factors and home-external affordances, including technological developments supporting digital communication, and constraints.

What’s in a ‘verb’? Is there some lexical content which marks a word as a ‘verb’ or ‘noun’, or even a single level of analysis at which we could define them? Evidence from multiple fields of linguistics suggests not.