Guest lectures and seminars
Upcoming
Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham) will present her research on Orkneyinga saga in the fifth edition of the Sophus Bugge Lecture series.
Iida Pöllänen (University of Tampere) will present her current postdoctoral research about the Ibsen legacy in the Harlem Renaissance.
Professor James Kirby from LMU Munich will present his research on perceptual similarity and acoustic variability as filters on tonal variation and change
Lecture by Miyo Tanaka, second-year master's student in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights at the UiO.
In this talk, Christopher S. Wood (NYU) seeks to locate impressionism within a wider horizon of self-taught or DIY artistic practices
Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, Laurel Trainor from McMaster University, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series
Previous
Welcome to a talk by Dr. Monica Pearl (University of Manchester) on rage and generational tensions in recent cultural texts about the AIDS epidemic.
In this lecture, Marit Grøtta (University of Oslo) will discuss the ambivalent responses to portrait photographs in the writings of Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, and Virginia Woolf.
The fourth and final Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture by Laura Mai, Postdoctoral Researcher at Tilburg University.
Join President of Moldova Maia Sandu for a discussion on Moldova's perspective on Russia's war against Ukraine and Europe's security.
Join us for a CIMS seminar with IKOS PhD candidate Jonathan Jonsson.
Our third Welcome to the Anthropocene Lecture will be given by Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University.
In this lecture, Tobias Dias (Aarhus University) will discuss the history and politics of artist-led alternative university projects.
Philosophical Seminar with Joshua Gert
Carmen Sumillera Iglesias presents the outline and methodology of her PhD project about South African language policies in higher education.
Ilaria Marazzina will present her ongoing Master's project on first language use in second language teaching.
Join us for a special CIMS seminar with Dr. Ricarda Stegmann .
Migration, superdiversity and conspiracy theories
In this lecture, Dr. Ming-yeh Rawnsley will present and discuss Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema.
Glenn Ø. Wehus (MF)
In this lecture, Professor Bi-yu Chang discusses state policies and interventions in constructing ideas of identity and nationhood in Taiwan's educational system.
Nele Põldvere and Elizaveta Kibisova present their research on the grammatical differences between fake and genuine news in English and Russian.
Join us for a special CIMS seminar with IKOS Professor of Arabic and Arabic literature, Stephan Guth.
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.
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.