Events - Page 9

This talk explores the acoustic features of Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) in Tashlhiyt Berber, focusing on how variations in hyper-articulation and consonant neutralization by caregivers may affect language perception and phonological development in infants, while also testing theories related to the facilitative role of IDS in phonemic acquisition. Also on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/63633923986 

Master Tyler Barrott at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Powering a Nation: Hydropower Development and the Tanzanian-Norwegian Relationship, 1989-2003 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Wed. Dec. 10, we invite everyone to the last HumAIn event of the year for The Human Measure(d): Discussion on N. Katherine Hayles’ Bacteria to AI – Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts where we will have a discussion of the introduction and the work of Hayles on approaches to understand AI.

Please register here to get the reading material on email up front.

Between Warsaw and Cambridge, between then and now: Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum

Jason Litzenberg discusses how language teaching and learning can survive and thrive with AI.

Master Zsolt Györegy at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation Close Encounters with the Tupi-Guarani: Art, Genre, and Translational Epistemology in Early Modern Ethnography for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Øyvind Haug Nordbotten at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation An Unfulfilled Promise of Industrial Adventure: Analyzing Freyr’s emergence and attempt at establishing battery industry in Norway 2017–2023 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Art History at the University of Oslo

An evening exploring music with AI and quantum computing with Eduardo Reck Miranda and Victoria Johnson.

Master Daniel X Y Fong at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Queer Living and Dying in Opera: (Re)thinking Gender-Sex-Sexuality as/for Queer Opera Singers for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Kellie Rolstad and Jeff MacSwan will share insights into language ontology in multilinguals.

Marit Moum Aune (Norwegian National Ballet) will hold a lecture on her working method when transposing Ibsen's plays to the silent world of ballet.

Margaretha Miles (MA-student at IFIKK)

I will be presenting passages about Artemis from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, which I will be analysing and discussing in my MA project to highlight her different roles.

Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

A Seminar in Honour of Christel Fricke

Eskil Blaaflat Mundal, PhD candidate at ILOS, will present the main findings from his MA thesis on the pronunciation of nasal vowels in the Paris area from a diachronic and sociophonetic perspective. The presentation will be in Norwegian. For an abstract, see the Norwegian page. 

Antti Lampinen (Univ. of Turku)

This seminar explores disconnection and news avoidance, and the relationship between research on public connection and digital disconnection.

Talk by Jude Blanchette

Jakob Scherm Eikner with Luca Onnis and Bruno Laeng on possible effects of language on perception.

Science Gallery is the world’s first university-linked network dedicated to public engagement with science and art. Speak by Jahnavi Phalkey.

Wednesday Nov. 12, HumAIn presents a guest lecture by Professor emeritus Charles Ess, followed by a discussion between Ess and Professor Steffen Krüger.

Talk by Sara Ann Swenson,  Assistant Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College.

The presentation explores the role of English among kindergarten children in Norway.