Guest lectures and seminars - Page 6

Join us for a CIMS roundtable seminar with Professor Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi and Senior Lecturer Samad Josef Alavi, both from Middle East Studies at IKOS.

Join us for a seminar discussion of debates about improvement in Eighteenth-Century Europe.

The centre leadership will present the aims and plans of the Centre for the Use of Norwegian as an Academic Language, followed by presentations by two MA students who are recipients of the centre’s master’s project grants. The centre presentation will be in English, while the student presentations will be in Norwegian.

This seminar will be based on Marc Lynch’s recent book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Hurst, 2025).

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 

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.

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.

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.

A workshop about how the welfare state has been understood and depicted in popular culture and the media.

The Philosophical Seminar With Guy Kahane

Brent Nongbri (MF Vitenskapelig høyskole)