Guest lectures and seminars - Page 8
The religious landscape of Taiwan is made of a large variety of denominations. Buddhism, Daoism, Yiguandao, and also Christianity, Islam, aboriginal religions: These are just some of the faces of Taiwanese religion. These beliefs and practices also appear in society in different forms and on several platforms.
Velkommen til Arabiske Filmdager og samtale om politisk satire med “Midtøstens Jon Stewart”!
In this DynamiTE lunchtime seminar, Jamie Draper will be presenting his paper ‘Climate Change and Territorial Sovereignty’.
Join us for the book launch of The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary Impact, exploring how nahda translations of the Bible transformed Arabic language and literature. Rana Issa discusses her book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023, in conversation with Ingeborg Amadou Fossestøl.
The actress, director and producer Agnete Haaland shares her reflections on the intersection between performance practice and academic study of Henrik Ibsen's works and stage legacy.
Sayragul Sauytbay will give unique insight into what is happening in Xinjiang concentration camps, and what the Communist Party's ideology and strategy is.
Elena Dahlberg (Uppsala University)
Taiwan as the cradle of Austronesian expansion is a widely accepted hypothesis. This lecture discusses the significance of Taiwan as an island.
In this lecture, Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths University) will discuss "investigative aesthetics", or the role of sensing and sense-making in investigative practices in art, journalism and law.
The Emergence of the Modern United States, 1896-1929
The whale is held to have great symbolic meaning, as an environmental emblem, as food, as tourist attraction, and more. In Andenes, Vesterålen, two anthropologists, Britt Kramvig and Sadie Hale talk about their search for different kinds of whales and the particular ways that the whale-as-symbol is contested in this place.
In this talk, Agnieszka Kałdonek-Crnjaković (Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw) will discuss the effect of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on additional language learning considering theoretical assumptions and her recent research findings.
Hege Randi Tørressen will visit the Centre for Ibsen Studies to talk about her profession as a dramaturg at the National Theatre. This industry talk will be informative and provide a unique perspective about the National Theatre. There will be a Q&A session afterwards. Light refreshments will be served.
Prof. Julian Caskel, from Folkwang University of the Arts, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
Visa A. J. Kurki (University of Helsinki) will present his article 'Can nature hold rights?: It's not as easy as you think'
Reading Armenian History as a Socially Symbolic Act
Nicholas S.M. Matheou (University of Edinburgh)
Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo)
This lecture will address Taiwan’s relations with mainland China and Taiwan’s domestic developments since 1949.
What’s in a ‘verb’? Is there some lexical content which marks a word as a ‘verb’ or ‘noun’, or even a single level of analysis at which we could define them? Evidence from multiple fields of linguistics suggests not.
A guest lecture by Juan Cruz Forgnone (University of Buenos Aires)
Women in Music Technology Seminar with Mari Lesteberg and Ane Bjerkan.
Philosophical Seminar with Jens Timmermann (St Andrews)
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).
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.
The political dynamics of fragmentation and polarization after the covid crisis and Russia's war in Ukraine.