Previous events - Page 21
Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo)
This lecture will address Taiwan’s relations with mainland China and Taiwan’s domestic developments since 1949.
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.
A guest lecture by Juan Cruz Forgnone (University of Buenos Aires)
Women in Music Technology Seminar with Mari Lesteberg and Ane Bjerkan.
Philosophical Seminar with Jens Timmermann (St Andrews)
Einar Duenger B?hn (b. 1977) is Professor of philosophy at the University of Agder. Main research areas: metaphysics, the philosophy of technology, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and ethics. B?hn has published many international articles and several books, e.g. “God and Abstract objects” (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and “Teknologiens Filosofi” (Cappelen Damm, 2022). Bohn is also an active voice on behalf of philosophy outside of academia, with many radio appearances and philosophy podcasts on his conscience. Other than that, he seems to experience some meaning from driving his motorcycle, drawing with charcoal, and hanging out with his cat and his kids.
Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (National Library of Norway) will present the anthology Silent Ibsen and introduce a screening of Theodore Marston's silent film adaptation of A Doll's House (1911).
The 2008 Taiwanese film Cape No. 7 海角七號, directed by Wei Te-sheng, will be shown on Tuesday 14 Feb from 12.00 (NOT 12.15!) in seminar room 2, P. A. Munchs hus. This is one of the films Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley will discuss in her lecture on 21 March.
Department seminar. Inga Deimen is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona. She will present the paper: "Strategic information transmission in the employment relationship" (written with Andreas Blume).
In this lecture, art historian Mechtild Widrich (Chicago) will review recent debates about contemporary monuments in light of overwhelming experiences of a world in crisis.
Guest lecture. Dr. Andreas Ravndal Kost?l will hold a guest lecture with the title "Workforce Analytics: Understanding Labor Demand".
The digital guest lecture is open to the public, and staff and students are welcome to attend.
Women in Music Technology Seminar with Kristin Norderval.
Guest lecture. Dr. Adrien Vigier will hold a guest lecture about "Moral hazard".
The guest lecture is open to the public, and staff and students are welcome to attend.
In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?
This lecture will discuss the key issues and debates in post-Martial Law Taiwan by reviewing recent scholarship and representative works by local historians.
Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)
This lecture will introduce the major trends and development of Taiwan history using the collections and exhibitions of National Museum of Taiwan History as examples.
In this informal seminar, Eline Visser will report about her last field trip to the Indonesian Karas Islands, where she gathered data on the previously undocumented language Uruangnirin. She'll talk about language endangerment, fieldwork methods, Uruangnirin grammatical relations, some other preliminary findings and whatever else comes up.
Department seminar. Adrien Vigier is a Professor/Chair in Economics at University of Nottingham. He will present the paper: "Product Variety and Market Segmentation"
Department seminar. Andreas Ravndal Kost?l is an applied economist at Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business and a faculty research fellow at the NBER and IZA. He will present the paper: "Layoff Costs, Insurance and Precautionary Job Mobility".
Martin Enge from the Karolinska Institutet will present his research as part of the NCMM Tuesday Seminar Series.
Elena Varona and Margareta Berg (master students at ILN) practice their presentations for the ConSOLE conference. Elena will talk about grammatical gender selection in Spanish-Norwegian code switching and Margareta will discuss attitudes towards gender neutral pronouns in Norwegian.
How did India’s pharmaceutical industry become a major global supplier of generic medicines? And what role does India play in the globalized manufacturing and trade of generic antibiotics?
