Events

Research Scientist Mikkel Lepperød (Simula) will give a talk entitled "Validating models in NeuroAI".

"Ecological beings, human beings, and human rights"

Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers) visits the GoodAttention Group

Michael Morreau is coming to the GOODATTENTION speaker series to present on his paper "Learning from Ranters: The Effect of Information Resistance on the Epistemic Quality of Social Network Deliberation"

In this lecture, Marit Grøtta (University of Oslo) will discuss the ambivalent responses to portrait photographs in the writings of Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, and Virginia Woolf.

We are delighted to announce the workshop Polysemi, concepts and representation by the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences,  University of Oslo. 

Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.

Public lecture by Åsa Wikforss, Stockholm University. All are welcome!

"Due process and discrimination. A normative analysis of (un)principled justification in NAV"

Mag.art. Kari J. Brandtzæg ved Institutt for filosofi, ide- og kunsthistorie og klassiske språk vil forsvare sin avhandling Henrik Sørensen og mellomkrigstidens tendenskunst i et transnasjonalt avantgardeperspektiv for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.).

Presentation by Pål Fjeldvig Antonsen, IFIKK. All are welcome!

Ulrike Felt's (University of Vienna) presentation will focus on the 'twin transition' as a buzzword in European policy discourse, and draw on the research project Innovation Residues - Modes and Infrastructures of Caring for our Longue-durée Environmental Futures. 

Advanced course in Research Ethics: Scholars in the humanities are expected to contribute knowledge to the society. Their work and insights often call for or aims at social change. This course critically examines research for social change and debates about scholar activism.

SciDem Research Seminar: Presentation by Nick Hughes.

Philosophy of Self-Assembly and Self-Organisation in Living Systems 

An interdisciplinary workshop exploring themes related to the philosophy of communication, University of Oslo

Robert Aronowitz is Professor, History and Sociology of Science, and the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied linguistics at Berkeley before receiving his M.D. from Yale.  He did his internal medicine residency at Pennsylvania Hospital and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Penn.  Before starting his present position, Aronowitz was an attending physician at Cooper Hospital and taught at the RWJ medical school.  At Penn, Aronowitz was the founding director of the Health and Societies Program and co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program.  He is the author of Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear & Uncertainty (Chicago University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions (Hopkins, 2010), and has published widely on the history of medicine. 

An interdisciplinar PhD course on structural racism with invited lecturers from UiO, USN, NTNU, and HL-Senteret.

Ethical, political, social and epistemic dimensions

In this talk, Christopher S. Wood (NYU) seeks to locate impressionism within a wider horizon of self-taught or DIY artistic practices