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Time and place: –, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka Auditorium 5 (BL09113)

We are pleased to host PhD candidate Orwa Ajjoub who will speak about "How Leaders Reshape Social Identity in a Jihadi Group? The Case of the Syria Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham 2013-2017".

Time and place: –, Auditorium 4, Eilert Sundts House, Block A

Welcome to HumAIn talks #11! This time, we are joined by Olga Goriunova, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, who will present her new book Ideal Subjects: The Abstract People of AI. 

Time and place: , Helga Engs hus, aud. 2

Master Ingvild Kristine Melby at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend her thesis Cutting into Colonial Visual Regimes: Form, Ethics, Opacity, and the Collages of Frida Orupabo for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: –, GM 452

Ashwini Lakshminarayanan (University of Oslo)

Time and place: –, Harriet Holters hus, seminarrom 101

What’s new in Irish poetry? Three brilliant poets present their recent work in a lively and informal session of readings and conversation.

Time and place: –, Auditorium 2, Eilert Sundts Hus, Block A

We welcome everyone to yet another interdisciplinary talk on what it means to be human in the age of AI.  This time, we are joined by Matt Finch, who will be talking about death, dying, and afterlife in the age of AI. 

Time and place: –, Henrik Wergelands hus 536

In this talk, David Thornton will explore whether recovering from COVID-related brain fog means the brain has truly recovered, using EEG and a working-memory task to look beneath how people say they feel.

Time and place: –, Sophus Bugges hus, seminar room 1

This one-day seminar will examine the controversies and fears concerning secularism and youth culture in 1960s Britain and America.

Time and place: , Gamle festsal

Master Andreas Ropeid Sæbø at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his thesis Mounds as active cooperation. A bottom-up analysis of monument construction and social relations in Scandinavia in the fifth to eleventh centuries AD for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: –, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus 652

In this seminar, Peter Tietze will address Richard Koebner's pioneering ideas on historical semantics, in particular his critique of the 'ideology of turning points in history'.

Time and place: –, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka Auditorium 5 (BL09113)

CIMS and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs are pleased to announce a co-organized event featuring a lecture by Senior Research Fellow Tine Gade.

Time and place: , Sophus Bugges hus, aud. 3

Master Anders Lysne at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his thesis Serious Matters: Youth in Scandinavian Screen Fiction for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: –, Sophus Bugges hus

A PopCult! 2-part workshop with film screenings. Special guest scholar: Dr. Aaron Ackerley, University of Stavanger.

Time and place: –, Henrik Wergelands hus 421

Sarah Cameron will discuss gender asymmetries in Norwegian, focusing on how neuter and masculine gender differences affect language processing.

Time and place: –, RITMO

RITMO and the Department of Musicology will host the European Hiphop Studies Network’s 10th annual meeting at our conference from the 7th to the 9th of June 2027.

Time and place: –, Georg Sverdrups hus

After ten years of operation, RITMO will organise a closing conference that sums up important findings and looks ahead at outstanding challenges.

Time and place: –, Sophus Bugges hus

The Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) and the University of Oslo (UiO) are hosting the 36th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf.

Time and place: –, Department of Musicology

The Third International Conference in AI Music Studies (AIMS) explores the prospects, challenges and methodologies of studying AI music within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Time and place: , Scene Domus Bibliotheca, Karl Johans gate 47

The Alumni Network in Art History and Visual Studies welcomes everyone to a guest lecture by professor Ashley Thompson, Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art, SOAS University of London.

The lecture is open to all who are interested.

Time and place: –, Undervisningsrom 1, Georg Sverdrups hus

The day before her HumAIn Talks #11 on Ideal Subjects, we invite you to a workshop on Truths and AI with Olga Goriunova. The workshop is free and open to interested researchers and students, but please register by Monday November 2nd to secure your spot. 

Time and place: –, Meeting room 225, Henrik Wergelands hus, Blindern campus

Ewa Partyga (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) will present her project on Ibsen's Munich Trilogy and its Polish interpreters.

Time and place: –, Scene HumSam, Georg Sverdrups hus

In this lecture, professor Dmytro Iarovyi from Kyiv School of Economics looks at how the war between Russia and Ukraine is being fought not only on the front line but also in films, TV shows, memes, and social media.

Time and place: –, Zoom - digital

This seminar invites participants to a conversation about social media age bans from a (dis)connection perspective

Time and place: –, P. A. Munchs hus room 360

A writing, making and zine workshop hosted by Hattie Morrison - an artist, facilitator and writer from Carmarthenshire.

Time and place: , Forum i Forskningsparken

Master Elin Tinuviel Torbergsen at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation Reconstructing the Invisible: Mobile Augmented Reality and the Interpretation of Archaeological Landscapes at Lofotr Viking Museum at Borg in Lofoten for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).