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Gender Expansive Philosophy (GEP) invites all philosophy students and staff to a seminar!
In this lecture, Fred Moten (New York University) will discuss the question of observation in the context of violence and mourning.
Lecture by Cheehyung Harrison Kim.
Department seminar. Aurélien Baillon is a Professor of economics of uncertainty at Emlyon business school. He will present the paper: "Follow the money, not the majority: Markets for predicting unverifiable events" (written with Benjamin Tereick and Tong V. Wang).
In this lecture Dr. Lu will discuss the impact and conflicts arising from the development of offshore windfarms on Taiwan's western coastline among local fishing communities.
What novel forms of health interventions and markets do impact bonds generate? And in what ways is the provision of healthcare re-imagined through this financing mechanism?
The fifth event in the seminar series "Perspectives on Thinking" will focus on objective hermeneutics. The guest speaker will be Katarina Busch (Sigmund-Freud-Institute).
Melania Terrazas, senior lecturer at the University of La Rioja, will be giving a lecture on contested boundaries and uncharted entanglements in Evelyn Conlon’s short story collection Moving About the Place (2023)”. In her stories, Conlon creates characters living and setting up relationships in countries in which she has had a longstanding interest: Australia, Japan, Italy, Indonesia, Monaco and South Africa. Terrazas will suggest that Conlon’s stories use transculturality as a method that addresses culture as a dynamic category and debunks ideological dichotomies.
Why We Seek Them Out, and What Their Future Holds. Guest lecture by professor Brenden Rensink.
Comparing Indigenous Refugees in the North American Borderlands: Historical Lessons for Contemporary Crises.
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Invited speaker Ben Black will present on the topic “Learning About Natural Chromosomes to Make New Ones”.
Department seminar. Kai Liu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. He will present the paper: "Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of Head Start with Multiple Alternatives" (written with Marc K. Chan Antonio and Dalla-Zuanna).
Benjamin Donald Smith is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). This seminar marks his midway evaluation.
Department seminar. Ingrid Mikkelsen Semb is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. She will present the paper: "Evaluating affirmative action when college applications are endogenous."
Department seminar. Lee Fleming is a Professor at UC Berkeley. He will present a paper: "Isolating the inter-personal mechanisms of absorptive capacity" (written with Benjamin Balsmeier and Sonja Lück).
Department seminar. Laura Derksen is a researcher at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research in Oslo. She will present the paper: "Who Knows? The Effect of Information Access on Social Network Centrality" (written with Pedro CL Souza).
In this seminar, Professor Susan Erikson will use the World Bank's pandemic bond fiasco to offer new insights into how capitalism shapes pandemic preparedness and response.
Department seminar. Anders Humlum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He will present the paper: "Changing Tracks: Does Reskilling Help Disabled Workers Back to Work?" (written with Jakob R. Munch and Pernille Plato).
Philippe Huneman is a Professor at the IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques), Université Paris 1. He focuses on the philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology. His
main interests are: the variety of evolutionary explanations; the relations between variation, selection, and drift; the issue of individuality in biology related to the “evolutionary transitions” program and the formal definitions of emergence; the philosophy of ecology and especially neutral theories in community ecology. Last books published: Why? The philosophy behind the question (Stanford University Press) and Death. Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology (Palgrave-McMillam).
Note that exceptionally, the session will be held on a Friday, between 11:15 and 12:30.
Department seminar. Kyle Herkenhoff is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. He will present the paper: "Intergenerational Mobility and Credit" (written with J. Carter Braxton, Nisha Chikhale, and Gordon Phillips).
Find out how CoMorMent's research on the links between mental and physical health can be translated into clinical practice at this webinar.