Upcoming events

Department seminar. Jonathon Hazell is an Assistant Professor at London School of Economics. He will present the paper "How Does Monetary Policy Affect Consumption? The Indebted Demand Channel" (written with Angus Foulis, Atif Mian and Belinda Tracey).

By Atacan Atakan (Sabanci University)

Aspasia, Socrates¡¯ lover and teacher, and Clodia, Catullus¡¯s lover and Muse

Armand D'Angour (Univ. of Oxford)

Department seminar. Sophie Cottet is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Stavanger, a CESifo Affiliate and a research affiliate at the Institut des Politiques Publiques. She will present the paper "Payroll Tax Reductions for Minimum Wage Workers: Relative Labor Cost or Cash Windfall Effects?".

Does gender make a difference in translations of ancient texts by women? The question is raised in the open lecture by Teaching Associate Professor Mette Christiansen, University of Copenhagen. She visits STK 8th of April.

In this lecture, Professor Henning Kl?ter will discuss visible language in official and unofficial use in Taiwan. While the former reflects more standard language norms, the latter is more varied and playful. 

Jon Kyllingstad (Kulturhistorisk museum) holder foredraget "Nasjonalistisk internasjonalisme 1914-1940: Instituttet for Sammenlignende kulturforsking, Norge som frednasjon og framveksten av agrarhistorie som norsk paradedisiplin" i Forum for vitenskapsteori.

Department seminar. Sebasti¨¢n Otero is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He will present the paper "The Effects of Widespread Online Education on Market Structure and Enrollment" (written with Nano Barahoba, Cau¨º Dobbin and Joaqu¨ªn Fuenzalida).

In this lecture, Dr. Chun-yi Lee will discuss the economic relations between mainland China and Taiwan.

Elisabeth Fosseli Olsen is a PhD candidate at TIK Centre for technology, innovation and culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation. 

Erlend ?strem Myklebust

In this lecture Dr. Scott Pacey will shine the light on the Taiwanese Buddhist movement Tzu Chi, its rise, activities and presence on the global stage.

In this lecture, Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago) will discuss what happens when we question standard psychoanalytic accounts of the "silence of the drives" and instead see it as a point of departure for a new theory of music.

Department seminar. Tymon S?oczy¨½ski is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and International Business School (IBS) at Brandeis University.

Jan Bremmer

Talk by Ainu artist and scholar Kanako Uzawa. 

The Science Studies Colloquium (Forum for vitenskapsteori) organizes a seminar where recipients of the Colloquium's scholarship will present results of their work. 

Department seminar. Agneta Berge is a PhD student in economics at the IIES at Stockholm University.

Margaretha Miles (IFIKK)

Department seminar. Joseph Altonji is a Professor of Economics at Yale University.

By Geoffrey Hughes, University of Exeter

Department seminar. Aude Pommeret is a Professor at Universit¨¦ Savoie Mont Blanc.

Patrick R. H. Steinmetz, deputy director at the Michael Sars Centre in Bergen, will present his work: "Win some, lose some: The cellular basis of food-dependent body plasticity in a sea anemone".

Peder Roberts (Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series.