Upcoming 5 days

today Nov.
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).

10. Nov.
Time and place: –, GM 452

Ashwini Lakshminarayanan (University of Oslo)

Further upcoming events

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).