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How can we use drawings and graphic narratives to develop and communicate our research? The Border Readings group at ILOS has invited researchers and artists, guest researcher Kari Korolainen and ILOS researcher Fabian Heffermehl, to share with us their thoughts and experiences of using drawing and graphic storytelling to think about their research problems – and thinking with their research materials – in visual and bodily ways. Welcome to this open discussion, if you are interested in exploring these possibilities or already have experiences which you might share.

Join us for our final OSEH event where we explore issues of race, ethnicity, and gender, but also diverse ways of opening up environmental problems and possibilities in the academy and beyond. We are joined by acclaimed poet and nature writer Camille Dungy and prominent scholars in the environmental humanities, and there will be upcycled music, celebration and food.

A conversation with Roma Liberov - director, scriptwriter, and producer.

A guest seminar by Professor Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne. Can Seamus Heaney’s poetry be understood as environmental, if not environmentalist?

A guest seminar by Dr Kristine Johansen, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Host: Juan Christian Pellicer, ILOS. 

Master Nikolay Sarkisyan at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation “Tolerance… is in Our Blood” Discourse of Tolerance and the Russia’s Governance, 2000–2010s for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Staff and students are cordiallly invited to a three-paper workshop on the application of digital tools for the analysis of historical English materials. The organiser is grateful to the Anders Jahre Fond for financial support.

Melania Terrazas, senior lecturer at the University of La Rioja, will be giving a lecture on contested boundaries and uncharted entanglements in Evelyn Conlon’s short story collection Moving About the Place (2023)”. In her stories, Conlon creates characters living and setting up relationships in countries in which she has had a longstanding interest: Australia, Japan, Italy, Indonesia, Monaco and South Africa. Terrazas will suggest that Conlon’s stories use transculturality as a method that addresses culture as a dynamic category and debunks ideological dichotomies.

Why We Seek Them Out, and What Their Future Holds. Guest lecture by professor Brenden Rensink.

Comparing Indigenous Refugees in the North American Borderlands: Historical Lessons for Contemporary Crises.

Chomsky, Russian, fake news, Old French. These are all keywords for the GAME ON workshop on June 13th.

Text development seminar in literature organized by Associate Professor Geir Uvsløkk at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.

Contemporary Russian society does not visibly oppose the invasion of Ukraine. There are no barricades or protesters in the streets, and even the military mobilisation has not triggered an open clash between the public and the authorities. But does this silence mean consent and support for the war?

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.

The conference 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.

Welcome to an open talk with PhD candidate Tamta Gelashvili on Georgian and Ukrainian far-right movements.

Master Anastasia Kriachko Roeren at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Documenting the nation: How TV documentaries reflect and shape Russian national identity for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Stephen Kelly from Queen's University Belfast, will present "The Dead are Always With Us: The Ethics of Writing the Past in the Work of John Berger". 

The lecture will explore the challenges and triumphs of the Ukrainian language over the years.

Lecturer Dr. Barbara Siller, University College Cork, will give a talk on “Kafka Tales of the Twenty-First Century – Doors, Walls, and Fences in The Gurugu Pledge (2017) by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel and Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) by Daniel Trilling”.

EU-tilpasning eller autokrati og etno-nasjonalistisk samfunnsmodell?

Talk by Barbara Siller, lecturer in the Department of German and the Programme Director of the MA Applied Linguistics within the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork. 

Master Anna Young at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Unaccountable Violence: The Murderous Child in the British and American Novel, 1954-2003 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

THIS SEMINAR IS FULLY BOOKED.

Text development seminar in literature organized by Associate Professor Geir Uvsløkk at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.