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Guest lectures and seminars - Page 9

Time and place: , Niels Treschows hus - Møterom 1016

A guest lecture by Juan Cruz Forgnone (University of Buenos Aires)

Time and place: , Salen, ZEB Building, U1

Women in Music Technology Seminar with Mari Lesteberg and Ane Bjerkan.

Time and place: , Georg Morgenstiernes hus, rom 152

Philosophical Seminar with Jens Timmermann (St Andrews)

Time and place: , Undervisningsrom 1, Georg Sverdrups Hus

Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (National Library of Norway) will present the anthology Silent Ibsen and introduce a screening of Theodore Marston's silent film adaptation of A Doll's House (1911).

Time and place: , P. A. Munch building room 2

The 2008 Taiwanese film Cape No. 7 海角七號, directed by Wei Te-sheng, will be shown on Tuesday 14 Feb from 12.00 (NOT 12.15!) in seminar room 2, P. A. Munchs hus. This is one of the films Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley will discuss in her lecture on 21 March.

Time and place: , University of Oslo, Scene HumSam, Georg Sverdrups hus

The political dynamics of fragmentation and polarization after the covid crisis and Russia's war in Ukraine.

Time and place: , Aud. 5, Eilert Sundt's Hus, Blindern

In this lecture, art historian Mechtild Widrich (Chicago) will review recent debates about contemporary monuments in light of overwhelming experiences of a world in crisis.

Time and place: , Salen, ZEB Building, U1

Women in Music Technology Seminar with Kristin Norderval.

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?  

This lecture will discuss the key issues and debates in post-Martial Law Taiwan by reviewing recent scholarship and representative works by local historians.

Time and place: , GM 452

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)

This lecture will introduce the major trends and development of Taiwan history using the collections and exhibitions of National Museum of Taiwan History as examples.

Time and place: , PAM1

In this informal seminar, Eline Visser will report about her last field trip to the Indonesian Karas Islands, where she gathered data on the previously undocumented language Uruangnirin. She'll talk about language endangerment, fieldwork methods, Uruangnirin grammatical relations, some other preliminary findings and whatever else comes up.

Time and place: , PAM1

Elena Varona and Margareta Berg (master students at ILN) practice their presentations for the ConSOLE conference. Elena will talk about grammatical gender selection in Spanish-Norwegian code switching and Margareta will discuss attitudes towards gender neutral pronouns in Norwegian.

Time and place: , GM 452 or via zoom
Time and place: , PAM 389
Lecture by Kristian Novak, professor of sociolinguistics and German at the University of Zagreb
Time and place: , Forsamlingssalen, Harald Schjelderups hus/Zoom

Prof. Sofian Audry, from University of Quebec in Montreal, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

In this talk, professor of design history Dr. Kjetil Fallan, explores design interventions at, and in the wake of, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972. What can design activism tell us about the conference's influence on future political decision-making? Or about the development of environmental thinking and ecologically informed design ideology in Scandinavia?

Time and place: , Auditorium 4, Eilert Sundts hus

In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences. 

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

How has our understandings of relations between soil, plants, and fungi have changed over time? In this lecture, professor of anthropology Dr. Michael J. Hathaway will explore the role of fungal mycelium in engaging the soil matrix.

Time and place: , 12th floor Niels Treschows hus

The environment is having a massive impact on music, changing what music is and how it comes to be, not just what it is about or how it sounds. In this lecture, Dr. Kyle Devine, professor of musicology at UiO, presents the nuances in this Great Recomposition, and the importance of overriding our defaults. 

Time and place: , Forsamlingssalen

Dr. Katie Overy, senior lecturer at University of Edinburgh, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Time and place: , Nome
Time and place: , Linken, Georg Sverdrups hus

In this lecture, the Medical Humanities and the Environmental Humanities meet. Associate Professor Eben Kirksey from the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, Australia, will introduce us to the "virosphere".