Previous events

Madeleine Adkins explores adult learners¡¯ experience in an  immersion program designed to create new speakers of Breton.

Department seminar. Lars Hansen is David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor The University of Chicago Departments of Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business. He will present the paper "Robust Mean-Field Control with Aggregate Shocks" (written with Michael Barnett, Ruimeng Hu, and Hezhong).

Carl Hoefer, University of Barcelona, will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series.

With Norwegian Sign Language celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2025, this year's Einar Haugen lecture will focus on signed languages and explore the relationship between human diversity and linguistic diversity. The hybrid lecture will be in English, with interpretation into Norwegian Sign Language.

Professor Maximilian Fochler (University of Viennna and TIK Centre) visits TIK in September, and will on this occasion give a talk on science and socio-environmental challenges. The talk will be followed by a discussion.

Eco-Racism in the History of Philosophy: From Buffon to Hegel

Department seminar. Terrence Iverson is a Professor at Colorado State University. He will present the paper "Tiered Climate Clubs: Global Abatement Without Global Agreement."

Torjus Solheim Eckhoff is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks his midway evaluation. 

Guy Bradley (Univ. of Cardiff)

How can we develop unconditional relationships with earth?

This presentation explores dual language programs in the U.S. and their potential to promote social justice for U.S. Latinos.

Department seminar. Alison Andrew is an Associate Professor of Economics (without tenure) at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford. She will present the paper "Flexibility versus Performance: The Determinants of Labor Contracts in Nairobi, Kenya" (written with Nathan Barker, Inbar Amit, Rob Garlick, Kate Orkin, and Carolyne Nekesa).

In this seminar, Professor Frank Weigelt will outline the central functional principles of the system of Arabic politeness formulas and explore the religious and cultural foundations on which it rests. His analysis will focus on the dialect of Damascus.

How can the varied approaches more common in creative practice help those of us in the humanities who are struggling with disciplinary placement in an undisciplined age?

Philosophical Seminar with Rob Simpson

Department seminar. Jan Knoepfle is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Queen Mary University of London. He will present the paper ¡°Competitive Sequential Screening¡± (written with Ian Ball and Deniz Kattwinkel).

We will explore how to harness AI¡¯s potential responsibly, prevent misuse, and safeguard the principles of transparency, reproducibility, and ethical conduct in research.

In this open lecture, Professor Kim Bennell will talk about the future of osteoarthritis managemen.

Department seminar. Stanislav Avdeev is a PhD student in Economics, University of Amsterdam. He will present the paper "University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization."

This presentation explores methodological and ethical approaches to researching family language policies in multilingual migratory contexts such as Switzerland, highlighting collaborative strategies for Spanish language maintenance in Swiss bilingual preschools.

Two guest lectures by Associate Professor Si?n Gr?nlie (Oxford University) and Professor Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University)

Department seminar. Luisa Wallossek is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, UiO. She will give a presentation entitled ¡°Soft Skill Seminar: Research Workflows.¡±

Marius Mikkel Kj?lstad (Institutt for offentlig rett, Universitetet i Oslo) holder et innlegg i Forum for vitenskapsteori. 

Pierre Chymkowitch, from the Department of Bioscience at UiO will be presenting his work: "SUMOylation Safeguards Adipogenic Fate and Restricts Epigenetic Drift in Human Adipocytes".