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Join us for the screening of Pili, a feature length drama set in rural Tanzania reflecting the life a poor, HIV-positive single mother of two children. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Sophie Harman, producer of the film and researcher in International Relations/Global Health (QMUL).

ESOP seminar. Claudia Steinwender is an Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. She will present a paper entitled "Spinning the web: The impact of ICT on trade in intermediates and technology diffusion", co-authored by R¨¦ka Juh¨¢sz.

In this seminar drawing from a combined epidemiological and ethnographic study, Dr Freya Jephcott (Queen's College Cambridge), will unpack the consequences of involving different types of actors, both national and international, in the response to a mysterious outbreak in Ghana (2012). Come and join us for an interesting discussion!

ESOP seminar. Francesco Decarolis is an Associate Professor at Bocconi University. He will present a paper entitled "Past performance and procurement outcomes", co-authored by Giancarlo Spagnolo and Riccardo Pacini.

Workshop at UiO, 26-27 April 2018

CAN A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH ACCELERATE REDUCTION OF UNDERNUTRITION AND OBESITY?

The seminar is open to everybody and free of charge, but registration was required for lunch order. Registration is now closed, but you are welcome to join the seminar without lunch. 

Tenured associate professor Richard Dawid is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Dawid is professor of philosophy of science at Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna. After some years as a phyisicist at the TU Munich and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he switched to philosophy in 2000. He worked as a philosopher of science at the University of Vienna and the MCMP Munich before coming to Stockholm in 2016. 

ESOP seminar. Niels Johannesen is a professor at the University of Copenhagen. He will present a paper entitled "Tax evasion and inequality", co-authored by Annette Alstads?ter, and Grabiel Zucman,

Professor Maria Baghramian is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.  Baghramians main research areas are Philosophy of Language, Contemporary American Philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty and Quine), Relativism, Topics in Cognitive Science; her publications primarily focus on the topic of intractable disagreements in beliefs and values and on Neo-Pragmatism.

The seminar is open for everyone!

Jim T?rresen and Charles Martin (RITMO/IFI) will present on the topic "Time series analysis and prediction with sequence learning and recurrent neural networks (RNN)".

Welcome to the next Oslo University Hospital (OUH) research seminar entitled  "Precision medicine in complex diseases". The seminar is open to all.

ESOP seminar. Christopher A. Neilson is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He will present a paper entitled "The Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice", co-authored by Claudia Allende, and Francisco Gallego.

Grant Ramsey is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Ramsey is a currently a BOFZAP Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Ramseys work concentrates around the philosophy of biology and disciplinary philosophy of science.  

The seminar is open for everyone!

Annual workshop for Innate immunity in cardiovascular disease.

Did we forget newborns in the global focus on maternal health? In this breakfast seminar, Dr Emma Sacks (John Hopkins University) will discuss why mistreatment of newborns is a critical issue, unpack the ethics of competing priorities in global health, and present options for policy responses.

G?ran Sundqvist is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Sundqvist is Professor at Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. He is currently working with the relationship between science and politics, and his talk will focus on how knowledge can be transformed into synthesising science, with the purpose of policy-making.

The seminar is open for everyone!

Dr. Chris Wallace, Senior Research Fellow, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge University, UK, will present her research on "Conditional false discovery rates in genetic association studies of rare diseases and disease subtypes¡±.

Thorleif Aas Kristiansen fra Museum for universitets- og vitenskapshistorie ved UiO kommer til Forum for Vitenskapsteori. Han skal holde et foredrag basert p? doktorgradsavhandlingen sin fra Universitetet i Bergen. Den heter "Meteorologi p? reise: Veivalg og impulser i Arnt Eliassen og Ragnar Fj?rtofts forskerkarrierer", og handler alts? om dem og om norsk meteorologisk forskning i etterkrigs?rene.

Foredraget er ?pent for alle!

ESOP Seminar

ESOP is organising a workshop on Social and Economic Development.

Heparin and Low Molecular Weight Heparins. A Century of Scientific and Clinical Progress.

Newer Oral Anticoagulant Drugs. Clinical Scope and Limitations.

Ana Delgado is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. She is Associate Professor at Centre for Techonology, Innovation and Culture at UiO. Delgado¡¯s research is concerned with the public dimensions of science and technology. Her research combines resources from Science and Technology Studies (STS), Social Anthropology and Political Science.

The seminar is open for everyone!

ESOP Seminar. Pablo Querubin is an Assistant Professor of Politics and Economics at New York University. He will present a paper entitled "Village Social Network Structures and Electoral Competition", co-authored by Cesi Cruz and Julien Labonne.