Events - Page 8

Topic: 'Communication, disagreement, and social epistemology'

PhD candidate Yifan Zhang (Fudan University, Shanghai, China), will present her current research on sensory geographies and the performativity of space in Ibsen’s plays.

Master Hólmfríður Sveinsdottir at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation The Materiality of Medieval Healing Practices for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

A talk by Associate Professor of Korean History, James Lewis. 

Master Harish Pedaprolu at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Questions in Conflict: On the Role of Attention in Inquiry and Communication for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Zihao Guo at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Good Attention in Plato and Aristotle for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Bahra Rashidi presents an overview of her PhD project, with a primary focus on the first study which investigates syntactic variation in main clauses in spoken Norwegian.

Master Deva Nandan Harikrishna at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation Vernacularising Hindutva: Popular Hinduism and Ritual Change at the Kodungallur Bharani Festival for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)

The Philosophical Seminar With Pauline Kleingeld (University of Groningen)

We welcome everyone to HumAIn Talks #7 with Nick Srnicek. He will be joining us for a talk about his latest book, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI (Polity), published in 2025. 

In this talk, Professor Jeremy Morris will explore how everyday practices and informal interactions between people and the state shape political legitimacy in contemporary Russia

Master Mats Haraldsen at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation Remembering in writing: Literature, memory and the extended mind for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Jørn Kløvfjell Mjelva at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Understanding Entanglement: A realist approach for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Nikhil Malik at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Manufacturing Utopia: Refugees, Labour, and the Making of the New Industrial Township Faridabad, 1947-1960 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Join us for a CIMS lecture with Dr. Anne Likuski, senior researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).

Helle Nystad presents and discusses findings from her PhD project on linguistic norms and variation in adolescents’ digital social writing.

Our new PhD candidate Farid Manouchehrian will present his research project on Ingmar Bergman's film adaptations of Ibsen's plays.

The state of the field: A panel conversation on theoretical and methodological developments in disconnection studies. Where have we been and where are we going?

Join us for a CIMS roundtable seminar with Professor Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi and Senior Lecturer Samad Josef Alavi, both from Middle East Studies at IKOS.

Join us for a seminar discussion of debates about improvement in Eighteenth-Century Europe.

The centre leadership will present the aims and plans of the Centre for the Use of Norwegian as an Academic Language, followed by presentations by two MA students who are recipients of the centre’s master’s project grants. The centre presentation will be in English, while the student presentations will be in Norwegian.

Master Chiara Arnavas at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation The Mafiazation of Land: Crime, the State, and Real Estate Capital in West Bengal, India for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)

Master Nhung Lu Rots at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Engaged Buddhism and Environmentality among Buddhist Minorities in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)

This seminar will be based on Marc Lynch’s recent book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Hurst, 2025).