Guest lectures and seminars

Anežka Matěnová (Charles University, Prague) will delve into the ironical side of a selection of Ibsen's plays.

Vincent DeLuca will discuss how different aspects of multilingual experience shape neurocognitive adaptations across the lifespan, including executive function, language control, and cognitive aging.

CIMS is pleased to welcome you to a book launch event with author Mehdi Mousavi, translator Fatemeh Ekhtesari and discussant Senior Lecturer in Persian Samad Alavi.

Welcome to another HumAIn talks! This time, we invite you to join in on a conversation with Lauren Goodlad, the editor of Critical AI.

Professor at Ghent University, Pieter-Jan Maes, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

A talk by Sebastian Eicher, associate professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

For the tenth edition of HumAIn talks, we are joined by Dr. Andreas Hepp from the University of Bremen, Germany, who is going to talk about Silicon Valley, pioneer communities, and AI futures. Welcome!

CIMS ønsker velkommen til fredagsseminar med førsteamanuensis Nora Sunniva Eggen fra Det teologiske fakultet.

Erlend Østrem Myklebust (University of Oslo)

A talk by Mareike Wulff, a socio-cultural anthropologist with a regional focus on Bhutan and the Himalayas.

In this lunch seminar, associate professor in history of ideas Henning Trüper will present his brand new (German-language) book on the history of humanitarian lifeboat movements in Europe, Rettung aus Seenot (Rescue from distress at sea).

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

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

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.

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.

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".

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. 

Ashwini Lakshminarayanan (University of Oslo)

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. 

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.