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As part of the 5th International Conference on Democracy as Idea and Practice, John Erik Fossum will organise a workshop with Andreas F?llesdal on crisis, innovation/experimentation and the governance of European integration.

Cand.Ed. Ann-Cathrin Faldet defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Girls who perpetrate violence: an empirical study of girls' experiences of gang activity, family and schooling.

The contributors to a forthoming book Europe's prolonged crisis: The making or the unmaking of a political Union, edited by Virginie Guiraudon, Carlo Ruzza and Hans-J?rg Trenz, will gather at ARENA in workshop to discuss draft chapters.

The financial crisis in the EU has pushed thousands of citizens to migrate in a bid to escape uncertainty, unemployment and poverty. Many pick Norway as their destination. What are their experiences? On 5 December ARENA invites to a public debate at the House of Literature to discuss findings from a research project on EU migrants in Norway.

Yang Wang, at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, will defend her thesis:

Direct Actions and Their Justification: A Tentative Analysis on Direct Actions against Maritime Performing Parties under the Rotterdam Rules

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, researcher at KULTRANS, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The lecture is open for everyone.

Christian Fleck, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The lecture is open for everyone.

As part of the seminar series Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, jointly organised by the Freedom of Expression Foundation and ARENA, Prof. Timothy Garton Ash from Oxford University held the public lecture 'Rethinking Europe'.

ARENA organises a workshop gathering contributors to a forthcoming special issue of Journal of European Public Policy to discuss different visions of Differentiated Integration (DI). The aim is to contribute towards a clear, complete and concise definition of the notion.

Professor of Medicine and the Arts, Brian Hurwitz, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The lecture is open for everyone.

Thomas Fr?berg, at the Departement of Public and International Law, will defend his thesis "Arguing with legal principles"

Cand.Ed. Randi Myklebust S?lvik defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Friluftsliv as social learning landscape for at-risk youth. A phenomenological-inspired case study.

The bicentennial celebration of the Norwegian Constitution in 2014 represents an important milestone and an opportunity to reflect on the role and status of the constitution and of democracy. ARENA and ASANOR will organise a seminar which is open for everyone, but which is particularly directed towards teachers within the social sciences and humanities.

As part of the seminar series Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, jointly organised by the Freedom of Expression Foundation and ARENA, Prof. Jeremy Adelman from Princeton University held the public lecture 'Intellectuals and the crisis of democracy in the 20th century: The odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman'.

Cand.Philol. Joke Ingrid Dewilde defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Ambulating Teachers. A case study of bilingual teachers and teacher collaboration.

MSc Crina Damsa defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Knowledge Co-construction and Object-oriented Collaboration. A Study of Learning through Collaborative Construction of Knowledge Objects in Higher Education.

Candidate Ann Elise Kristoffersen defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Literacy practices in preschools with deaf and hearing children.

Cand.Ed. Kristin Vonheim defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Early interaction in families with internationaly adopted children. an observational study of parent-child interactions at age two and three.

Master Eria Paul Njuki and Master Rita Christine Nakitende will defend their joint doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

The effect of training teachers in phonemic awareness and letter-sound knowledge on children's reading compentencies: A Ugandan urban context.

Siri Hustvedt, novelist, poet and essayist, is visiting The Science Studies Colloquium Series. The lecture is open for everyone.

Cand.scient. Anders McDonald Sookermany defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Dr.Philos.:

On Developing (Post)modern Soldiers - An Inquiry into the Ontological and Epistemological Foundation of Skill-Acquisition in an Age of Military Transformation.

Cand.Philol. Gunn Elin Heimark defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

A practical approach in theory and in praxis. Lower secondary school teachers' understanding of a practical approach to the teaching of foreign languages.

Southern Europe has been severely struck by the financial crisis, in social as well as political terms. How has the crisis been handled, and could it have been done differently? These questions were discussed at a seminar staged by ARENA during the National Science Week.

Cand.Philol. Kristin Helstad defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Knowledge development among teachers in upper secondary schools. A study of a school development project on writing in and across disciplines.