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Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy and Founding Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego. He also sits on the Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the International Science Council, Paris and the Faculty of The John Bell Institute, Hvar, Croatia. Before moving to San Diego, he worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He works in many areas of philosophy of science. His book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford University Press, 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award.
China both sends and hosts high numbers of international students. Is education a means to become cosmopolitan? How is China's place in the global educational landscape changing after Covid?
NCMM Associate Investigators, Emmet McCormack (Professor Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen) & Eivind Valen (Ass. Professor Computational Biology Unit, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen), will present their research as part of NCMM's Tuesday Seminar series
On April 26, Kjersti Fj?rtoft (UiT) will give a presentation titled "Martha Nussbaum: Is Justice a Matter of Love?". This is the fifth event in our digital lecture series Perspectives on Love, in which we explore different understandings of the concept of love.
NCMM Associate Investigators, Yvonne B?ttcher (Professor Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, Akershus University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO) & Cinzia Progida (Professor Section for Physiology and Cell Biology, Department of Biosciences, UiO), will present their research as part of NCMM's Tuesday Seminar series.
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On April 19, Monica Roland (OsloMet) will give a presentation titled "Love as Seeing: Iris Murdoch and David Velleman on the Nature of Love and Loving". This is the fourth event in our digital lecture series Perspectives on Love, in which we explore different understandings of the concept of love.
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On April 12, guest researcher at STK Kaja Jenssen Rathe will give a presentation titled "Between Erotic Perception and Lived Openness: Merleau-Ponty’s Perspective". This is the third event in our digital lecture series Perspectives on Love, in which we explore different understandings of the concept of love.
The growth of the Greater Bay Area in South China is still heavily reliant on the access to cheap labor. This seminar examines the role of labor brokers in shaping rural-urban labor migration in China.
In Performing Indigenous Health Research in a Multiethnic Landscape: The Population-based Study on Health and Living in Regions with Sami and Norwegian Populations - the SAMINOR Study Ann Ragnhild Broderstad, head of SAMINOR, will be discussing the upcoming third SAMINOR survey, in the broader context of how the modern history of indigenous groups has created both distinct needs for focused health-research and distinct considerations in such research. Prof. Broderstad is academic director of the Centre for Sami Health Research at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, in addition to her role with the Department of Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway.
NCMM Associate Investigators, June Myklebust (Associate Professor, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital and Institute for Clinical Medcine, UiO) and Joel Glover (Professor Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, UiO) will present their research as part of NCMM's Tuesday Seminar series.
On March 22nd, guest researcher at STK Helgard Mahrdt will give a presentation titled "Hannah Arendt on Love, Friendship, and Politics". This is the second event in our digital lecture series Perspectives on Love, in which we explore different understandings of the concept of love.
Liliana Doganova is finally (digitally) visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series, after her scheduled visit last year had to be postponed. Doganova teaches at Ecole des Mines and PSL. Her research lies at the intersection of economic sociology and STS (Science and Technology Studies), and explores market construction processes and valuation devices. She is currently preparing a monograph on the historical sociology of discounting.
The seminar is open for everyone!
NCMM Associate Investigators, Gunnveig Gr?deland (Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO and Oslo University Hospital) and Marc Vaudel (Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen), will present their research as part of NCMM's Tuesday Seminar series
This year's International Women's Day seminar at the University of Oslo will explore gendered and intersecting consequences of COVID-19, with particular emphasis on work and migration. Invited speakers, including Professor Beverley Skeggs, will consider the ways in which the pandemic has revealed and reinforced existing inequalities, both in Norway and globally.
China’s global economic and political power has expanded. How will China use its new position to change the world? How does the country’s rise change its self-perception?
In the first lecture of STK's new event series Perspectives on Love, Professor Tove Pettersen will consider Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy of love.
ESOP seminar. Marius Ring recently completed his Ph.D. in Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He will present the paper: "Wealth Taxation and Hou?sehold Saving: Evidence from Assessment Discontinuities in Norway".
Thomas Pradeu is CNRS Senior Investigator in Philosophy of Science embedded in a biology lab, ImmunoConcept (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France), Co-PI of the Conceptual Biology & Medicine Team, Coordinator of the PhilInBioMed international network, & was PI of the ERC-funded IDEM project (2015-2020). His research is in philosophy of biology, with a focus on biological individuality, immunology, cancer, and the microbiota. His book, The Limits of the Self: Immunology and Biological Identity (OUP, 2012), received the Lakatos Award.
Ma?l Lemoine is Full Professor in Philosophy of Medical Sciences, Univ. of Bordeaux, France, embedded in a biology lab, ImmunoConcept (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France), Co-PI of the Conceptual Biology & Medicine Team. He is a philosopher of medicine, with a focus on the definition of health and disease, ageing, cancer, and precision medicine.
Shenzhen was declared China’s first special economic zone 40 years ago. Which path does the city take? What is its role as a development model today?
Steven Orzack is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Orzack has a B.A. in Biology from The University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University. He is President and Senior Research Scientist at Fresh Pond Research Institute, a non-profit scientific research institute researching pure and applied topics relating to the evolution of insects, demography, population dynamics and ecology, population genetics and evolution, the statistics of sampling for Census 2000, the dynamics of atmospheric gases, and human genetics.
The seminar is open for everyone!
ESOP-seminar. Maria Hoen is a Doctoral Student at the Frisch Centre. She will present the paper: "Immigration and Economic Mobility" (with Simen Markussen and Knut R?ed).
ESOP seminar. Johannes Fleck is a PhD candidate in economics at the European University Institute in Florence and a guest researcher at the University of Oslo. He will present the paper: Beliefs, Precautionary Savings and Homeownership.