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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.

The Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Norwegian Human Rights Fund (NHRF) have the pleasure of inviting key institutions and individuals to strategize on how to advance the agenda on the Right to Defend Rights and support to human rights defenders in the frontline.

¡°The good, the bad and the ugly¡±. Why would we need a Centre for Healthy Ageing at the University of Oslo (UiO) and why should it be an inter-disciplinary approach? The 4th NO-Age meeting has compiled a high caliber inter-disciplinary speakers to share and discuss their expertise on such topics.

How is energy demand made, how does it change and how can it be steered? Join us in the first Hal Wilhite Memorial Lecture with Elizabeth Shove.

Prof. Tone Kvernbekk is visiting the Science Colloquium Series. Kvernbekk is Deputy Head and Head of Studies at UiO's Department of Education. Her professional interests are primarily within philosophy of science, philosophy of education, argumentation and narrative theory, or some combination of them, as exemplified in this talk.

What are the most important transnational political determinants of health inequity as we enter the final decade of the SDG era, and how can we best address them?

Torma is a Research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center (Munich), working on the history of marine biology. Her research interests include the history of science, and the cultural and environmental history of the nineteenth and twentieth century.  She has published on the history of mountaineering, animal protection issues in Africa, on Germany and the oceans, and on the broader field of colonialism. The event is organized in lieu of the corona-postponed  8^th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, and is a collaboration between the conference¡¯s program committee, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the Science Studies Colloquium. More info here.

Nathaniel Comfort is Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively about the history of human genetics and the relationships between attempts to understand human heredity and to ¡°improve¡± humans. His online lecture will be followed by an online panel session. The event is organized in lieu of the corona-postponed 8^th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, and is a collaboration between the conference¡¯s program committee, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the Science Studies Colloquium. More info here.

On behalf of BIOCAT, PX-Oslo and NCMM, the NBS Oslo Chapter would like to invite all interested researchers to the mini-symposium: "Biomolecular Structure and Function -  Beyond the Genetic Code", featuring Nikolina Sekulic (UiO), Stephen Cusack (EMBL) and Wei Yang (NIH) as speakers.

Prof. Barbara Osimani is Director of the Center for Philosophy, Science, and Policy and Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Polytechnic University of the Marche, Italy. She has been recently heading an ERC project, which also ran at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU: "Philosophy of Pharmacology: Safety, Statistical Standards, and Evidence Amalgamation" (GA StG 639276). She is an ordinary member of the Open Science Center at the LudwigMaximilians Universit?t, Munich, and Visiting Professor at the MCMP, LMU. Her current research interests are focused on philosophy of statistics and scientific inference in research contexts characterised by strategic behaviour. She is developing a "Formal Epistemology of Medicine", with the aim to analyse the complex interaction of methodological, social and regulatory as well as ethical dimensions in medicine. Her scientific interests include: the precautionary principle, evidence hierarchies, causality, and statistical inference in medicine. Her recent papers analyse issues around philosophy of evidence (reliability, bias, reproducibility, coherence) from a Bayesian perspective. Within her ERC Grant she developed a Bayesian framework for the integration of heterogenous items of evidence and higher order evidence for the purpose of causal assessment of drug-induced harm ("E-Synthesis"), in collaboration with Drug Agencies across Europe.

?The Norwegian national commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325) will consider both the major achievements of the past two decades, and the challenges that lie ahead. 

Na?d Mubalegh is a PhD student in Philosophy of Science (Biology) at the University of Lisbon and the University Paris 1 Sorbonne, and currently a guest researcher at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the University of Oslo. She investigates the relationship between economic theories and the development of evolutionary theory. She is interested, among others, in understanding how certain, often strictly defined, concepts of rationality have been transferred from economics to evolutionary biology. How has an utilitarian research method been so successful in describing and explaining evolutionary processes and biodiversity? What is left outside by such a perspective, and what happens when scientific models from biology influence economics in return?

How would a victory for Biden or Trump affect the relationship between Latin America and the US?

ESOP-seminar. Lan Lan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, UiO. She will present the paper: "Mergers and Acquisitions in Production Network".