Upcoming events
In this lecture, Henning Klöter will discuss whether Taiwanese is linguistically distinct from Mandarin as well as its history of ideological linguistic emancipation.
Master Erica Colman-Denstad at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Wildness and control: Mediating technology and perceptions of nature in nineteenth century Norway for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Aleksandra Ita Olszewska and Toril Opsahl present a narrative study of Polish migrant workers’ lived experiences at the intersection of linguistic racism and Whiteness, organized by the Multilingualism Research Forum
Join us for a CIMS panel conversation with contributors to the edited volume Branding the Middle East.
Christian Airikka (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "On Role Spacetime Functionalism".
Emily J. Lordi (Vanderbilt) will give a lecture about the life and work of Whitney Houston in the "Word, Sound and Power" Lecture 2024.
The spectrum of noun incorporation
In this lecture, Dr. Hung-yi Chien will discuss China-Taiwan relations in a colonial perspective.
Legitimacy, espionage, and nation branding in the Apple v. Samsung “smartphone patent wars”. Lecture by Irina Lyan.
Philosophical Seminar with Andreas Dorschel
In this lecture, Dr. Chin-yi Lee will discuss the economic relations between mainland China and Taiwan.
International Conference
In this lecture, Sven Lütticken (Leiden University) will discuss how the political aesthetics of the people's tribunal form have been articulated in new ways by contemporary artists.
The second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture of 2024 will be led by Dr. Rahul Ranjan, writer and Assistant Professor of Climate/Environmental Justice at the Department of Human Geography, University of Edinburgh.
SciDem Research Seminar: Presentation by Philippe Stamenkovic.
In this lecture, Professor Bi-yu Chang discusses state policies and interventions in constructing ideas of identity and nationhood in Taiwan's educational system.
In this lecture, Dr. Ming-yeh Rawnsley will present and discuss Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema.
SciDem Research Seminar: Presentation by Antoinette Scherz.
Philosophical Seminar with Joshua Gert
Our third Welcome to the Anthropocene Lecture will be given by Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University.
A two-day conference at the University of Oslo, on the publication of the anthology The Poverty of Anti-realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History.
The fourth and final Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture by Laura Mai, Postdoctoral Researcher at Tilburg University.
Welcome to a talk by Dr. Monica Pearl (University of Manchester) on rage and generational tensions in recent cultural texts about the AIDS epidemic.
We are delighted to announce the workshop Polysemi, concepts and representation by the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences, University of Oslo.
Public lecture by Åsa Wikforss, Stockholm University. All are welcome!