Previous events
Department seminar. Aarushi Kalra is a PhD candidate in Economics at Brown University. She will present the paper "Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence on Online Behavior from a Large-Scale Experiment".
M.Sc. Petra Hei Sun Larsson at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Physical fitness, physical activity and fatigue after stroke” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Anna Chebotarova at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Fading Ambivalence, Mounting Uncertainty: Societal Unity and Belonging in Wartime Ukraine, for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Cand.med. Eivind Heggernes Ask at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Integrative immune profiling and computational tools for prognostic biomarker discovery in lymphoma” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Anette Sand-Eriksen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Houses of Their Own. The emergence of farmsteads and the persistence of mobile living in southeast Norway, 2350–500 BCE: Explorations towards the Nordic Bronze Ages for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Cand.med. Lars Aasteb?l Fr?jd at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Insomnia in patients with coronary heart disease: A cross-sectional and prospective observational study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
At this workshop, we will discuss the revised versions of papers that were initially presented at the previous Language Myths workshop held in Copenhagen on 16 January 2025.
In this final seminar, Tanja Knaus will present the draft of her PhD thesis.
Cand.med. Jorun Tangen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Disease manifestations and prognostication by imaging and echocardiography in covid-19 patients and in patients with myocardial infarction” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Hanne Amanda Trangerud at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation To Use or Refuse? A Study of Religious Vaccine Skepticism and its Interaction with Childhood Immunization Policies in the United States for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).
MSc Erin Beate Bj?rkeli at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Enhancing Glioma Diagnosis with Deep Learning and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Kevin Bryan is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He will present the paper "Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups" (written with Mitchell Hoffman and Amir Sariri).
Master Carrie Ann Russpatrick at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation The Return of the Vulva Monster: Screen Cultures of the Gender-Monstrous for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
The organizing committee is excited to welcome you to Oslo, Norway in June 2025 for a conference gathering colleagues working at the intersection of biomedical science and the social sciences and humanities. We aim to build a network of peers working in the field of social medicine, including health practitioners jointly trained in the social sciences or humanities and scholars across disciplines committed to nurturing health for all through practice, theory, and/or action.
Tokhir Pallaev is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks his midway evaluation.
MD Matthias Lippert at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Towards anatomic digital twins in structural heart disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MSc Mirjam Podgorica at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Precision medicine in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with subtype classification for biomarker and therapeutic target discovery” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Marie S?renstua at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks within the thoracolumbar fascia for postoperative analgesia” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Hans K. Hvide is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Bergen. He will present the paper "Text as data: applying LLMs to a procurement setting" (written with Anantha Divakaruni).
José Alemán Ba?ón (Stockholm University) will present his work on lexicosemantic prediction in native speakers of English and Swedish-speaking learners of English
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Jacob Schreiber is a visiting scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology at the Vienna BioCenter. His talk is entitled:"Understanding and designing regulatory DNA using machine learning".
Master of Laws Trygve Gudmund Harlem Losnedahl will be defending the thesis "On purposes and means of public procurement law" for the degree of PhD.
Original title: Om form?l og virkemidler i regulering av offentlige anskaffelser. The dispuation will be held in Norwegian.
In this final seminar, Benjamin Donald Smith will present the draft of his PhD thesis.
Department seminar. Mikkel Mertz is a Research Economist at the ROCKWOOL foundation research unit. He will present the paper "Direct and Indirect Effects of a Housing Policy on Neighborhoods, Residential Mobility, and Inequality" (written with Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landers?).
Master Tatiana Petrukhina at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Custom in the Long Twelfth Century Canon Law: Theory and Practice for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).