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What happens when political priorities, cultural squabbles and business interests undermine public health efforts during a pandemic? In this breakfast seminar, Professor Emily Mendenhall will discuss how people responded to COVID-19 in Okoboji, a small town in the American Midwest.
Philosophical Seminar with Endre Begby (Simon Fraser University)
MSc Richard John Massey at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Cardiac dysfunction in young survivors of allogeneic stem-cell transplantation” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Pawel Wilkosz at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The impact of unilateral oophorectomy on follicle dynamics, reproductive ageing, and infertility treatment” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. John Finlay is a postdoc at Columbia Business School. He will present the paper: "Exporters, Credit Constraints, and Misallocation."
Master Klaudia Dominika Karpińska at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation On Wings to the Otherworld: Bird Remains in Viking Age Graves from Scandinavia for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Nate Young has made an app that could make the lives of those interested in sound change in Scandinavian a lot easier. Come and see the beta version presented!
Master Emil Flat? at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend his dissertation When Science Could Not Wait: Climate, Experts, and the Times of Anthropogenic Change, 1945-79 for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
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Cand.med. Cecilie Bugge Bakketun at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Roles of Astrocytes in Extracellular Potassium and Glutamate Regulation” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Sigurd Berger at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Aspects of health-related quality of life and magnetic resonance imaging in patients with vascular malformations” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand. Med. Christina Tanem M?ller at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Treatment and survival of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer: A nationwide register-based approach” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
In this talk, Stuart Earle Strange, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will explore the contradictions between law, sovereignty, animal agency, and the sacred in Singaporean wildlife conservation.
Department seminar. Hessel Oosterbeek is Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He will present the paper: "Spillovers of field of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors."
The Perceiving Representations project is organising a workshop on perceptions in which learning, imagination or the structure of the perception has significantly influenced or contributed to it.
How does health inform foreign policies? And how can health’s role in policy decision-making be strengthened? In this breakfast seminar, Professor Ronald Labontè will share his experiences from studying Canadian global health diplomacy over the last decade.
Department seminar. Dario Tortarolo is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham and a Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He will present the paper: "Can VAT Cuts Dampen the Effects of Food Price Inflation?" (written with Youssef Benzarti and Santiago Garriga).
MSc Mohammad Albatat at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Optimal Pacing Sites in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Eric Turkheimer is a psychologist and behavioral geneticist, known for his research on the complex interplay between genetics and environmental factors in human behavior. His work has challenged the traditional nature vs. nurture dichotomy, demonstrating instead that genetic and environmental factors interact in complex and dynamic ways to shape human development and behavior. His influential "Three Laws of Behavior Genetics" have become a cornerstone of the field, guiding researchers and shaping public understanding of the interplay between genes and environment. He is currently the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
Stephen Kelly from Queen's University Belfast, will present "The Dead are Always With Us: The Ethics of Writing the Past in the Work of John Berger".
Erlend Myklebust (University of Oslo)
Professor & PI of Learning, Elvira Brattico, from Aarhus University and University of Bari Aldo Moro, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series
Internationally acclaimed theatre director Wang Chong is guest speaker at Centre for Ibsen Studies
MD Janna Berg at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Pulmonary function and serum biomarkers in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, radiation pneumonitis and chronic obstructive lung disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MPhil Amna Farooq at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Integrative data analysis of human genome and epigenome to improve understanding of multifactorial disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
The NorMIC series of workshops aims to teach biological researchers (PhD students, engineers, postdocs and young PIs) the principles of biological microscopes and image processing.