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A guest seminar by Dr Kristine Johansen, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Host: Juan Christian Pellicer, ILOS. 

Jamie Y. Findlay explores the idea that the distinction between fast/automatic and slow/deliberate thought processes can be drawn inside the domain of language processing.

Master Helene Killmer at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Participation in conversations by persons with aphasia: A study of everyday activities for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

M.Sc. Elisabeth Elje at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis ¡°Advanced lung and liver models for hazard characterization of nanomaterials¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Kristine L?k?s Haftorn at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis ¡°The role of DNA methylation in gestational age¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Susanne Stuhlfauth at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis ¡°Constructions of user involvement in research: A qualitative study¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Department seminar. Sandeep Baliga is the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences in the MEDS Department at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He will present the paper: "Long Wars" (written with Tomas Sj?str?m). 

M.Sc. Margit Gausdal Stranden?s at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis ¡°Day care for people with dementia A service to promote activity and quality of life¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Department seminar. Karine Nyborg is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. She will present the paper: "Moral responsibility as a driver of polarization" (written with Kjell Arne Brekke).

Master Anu Elisa Koivisto-M?rk at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis ¡°Nutrition and altitude training in elite endurance athletes: The impact of antioxidant-rich foods and iron in optimising the outcome of training at moderate altitude¡± for the degree of Dr. Philos. (Doctor Philosophiae).

M.Sc. Nicolas Fragoso Bargas at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°DNA Methylation and cardiometabolic health: associations with insulin resistance, folate, and physical activity in pregnancy¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand. Med. Ingrid Kvello Stake at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°On the Treatment of Unstable Ankle Fractures¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Franziska Klaas at the Department of Social Anthropology will be defending the thesis Persistent Organic Pollutants becoming Multiple: An ethnography of encountering pollutants in science, policy, and waste incineration for the degree of PhD.

In this lecture, Pelle Valentin Olsen investigates the historical entanglement of capital, culture, and leisure by mapping the local Iraqi capitalist and entrepreneurial elites, many of whom were upper-class Iraqi Jews with international outlooks, who invested in film exhibition and production technology.

Philosophical Seminar with Aness Webster

M.Sc. Yohan Lefol at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°The use of temporality within transcriptomic data¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Bianca Margrethe Holmedal Lorntzsen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°Surgical Treatment of Aggressive Thyroid Cancers and Long-term Perspective on Health-Related Quality of Life after Thyroid Surgery¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Lisa Svartdal Normann at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°HER2-Positive Breast Cancer and Drug Response in Pre-Clinical Models¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Department seminar. Marta Prato is an Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University. She will present the paper: "Career Choice of Entrepreneurs and the Rise of "Smart" Firms" (written with Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, and Jeremy Pearce). 

Master of Philosophy in Political Science Torbj?rg Jevnaker at University of Oslo and the Department of Political science will be defending her dissertation: "With a Little help from My Friends? Organising the External Relations of European Union Agencies". 

Professor Elin Lerum Boasson was a lead author in the sixth assessment report cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III Mitigation and is a member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council. She has published extensively on climate policy and politics, particularly on policy entrepreneurship, business influence, political steering, policy diffusion and the EU. Her work is primarily comparative and contributes to climate governance studies as well as to historical and sociological institutionalism. Boasson is deputy head of the Political Science Department at the University of Oslo and is also affiliated with CICERO, Center for International Climate Research. Her fifth book was published in 2021. The research project Accelerating Climate Action and the State: Getting to Net Zero (ACCELZ) - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV) (uio.no) is led by Boasson.

Department seminar. Pamela Giustinelli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Bocconi University. She will present the paper: "The Coherence Side of Rationality: Rules of thumb, narrow bracketing, and managerial incoherence in corporate forecasts" (written with Stefano Rossi).  

Visste du at ditt valg av mat p?virker klimaet? At noen matvarer fremst?r som klimaverstinger mens andre matvarer er mer klimavennlige?

Bernhard Hollick (IAKH, UiO)