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Time and place: –, P.A. Munchs Seminarrom 6

This seminar will untangle these puzzles to say something about how Yuqing’s local people approached the climate. Talk by Erling Agøy.

Time and place: –, Georg Sverdrups hus, Auditorum 1

Can the goals of revolution justify the means, or are societal upheavals of this kind always wrong? Professor Lea Ypi (LSE) explores these questions in this year's Exphil lecture. 

Time and place: –, Forskningsparken IMK: 428 Glassburet

The workshop will be hands-on and participation is open to anyone interested, researchers, staff, and students. The monster workshop works along the premises of inviting people to show light to the monsters that otherwise remain invisible, allowing them to minimise their power.

Time and place: –, GM 452

Giulia Frigerio (Univ. of Kent)

Time and place: –, Sophus Bugges hus, seminarrom 4

One-day symposium marking 50 years of Seamus Heaney’s landmark poetry collection "North".

Time and place: –, Zoom - digital

This seminar explores designer responses to digital normativity and how post-digital experiences are curated.

Time and place: –, Eilert Sundt's Hus, Seminar Room 947, Blindern

In this lecture, Dr. Genevieve Liveley (University of Bristol) will discuss whether narratologists and futurists might mutually benefit from a critical toolkit for understanding foretelling as a narrative practice.

Time and place: –, Forskningsparken, 435

The Department of Media and Communication are happy to invite you to a panel conversation on Media Events and Everyday Life

Time and place: –, 452 Georg Morgenstiernes Hus

The Philosophical Seminar with Louise Hanson

Time and place: –, Meeting room 225, Henrik Wergelands hus, Blindern campus

Kayla Amity Hanson (University of Oslo) will present her current research on Henrik Ibsen and the construction of Norwegian-American identity.

Time and place: –, University of Oslo, Kristine Bonnevies hus, Aud 2 (U180)

Dr. Michiel Baas will give a talk on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creative processes of Indian artists.

Time and place: –, Trekanten, Pilestredet 24, Oslo City center.

We invite you to a filmscreening and performance-lecture at Trekanten with Eryk Salvaggio, a researcher, artist, and filmmaker

Time and place: –, Niels Trechows House 12th floor

We invite everyone to a workshop with Eryk Salvaggio, a researcher, artist, and filmmaker.

Time and place: –, RITMO, Forsamlingssalen/YouTube

Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Time and place: –, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka, Room: Auditorium 2

This seminar will be based on Stéphane Lacroix's recent book which came out in August 2025, Twilight of the Saints: The History and Politics of Salafism in Contemporary Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2025).

Time and place: –, Henrik Wergelands hus: Seminarrom 609

Justin Brown will present metalinguistic reflections about Khoekhoegowab, or Nama language, among KhoeSan reclamation activists in Cape Town.

Time and place: –, Henrik Wergelands hus 421

Madeleine Adkins explores adult learners’ experience in an  immersion program designed to create new speakers of Breton.

Time and place: –, Helga Engs hus, Auditorium 2 + Zoom

With Norwegian Sign Language celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2025, this year's Einar Haugen lecture will focus on signed languages and explore the relationship between human diversity and linguistic diversity. The hybrid lecture will be in English, with interpretation into Norwegian Sign Language.

Time and place: –, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus, Rom 452

Eco-Racism in the History of Philosophy: From Buffon to Hegel

 

Time and place: –, Universitetet i Oslo, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka - Auditorium 4

How has the imperial legacy of Central European states shaped the relationship between nation and state, especially in Ukraine?

Time and place: –, GM 452

Guy Bradley (Univ. of Cardiff)

Time and place: –, Zoom - digital

This seminar will explore the social aspects of disconnection: how people react to be disconnected from and the technological mediations of interpersonal presence and abscence