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Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, Auditorium 3

Join Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago) in looking at games through the lense of the Fluxus experimental art movement, and hear how this approach might help us better understand the constraints we enact upon ourselves. 

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus: Undervisningsrom 2

Insights from EV Lithium-ion Battery Technological Innovation System in China

Time and place: , Zoom only, click here to sign up.

In this lecture, Dr. Saša Istenič Kotar will provide an overview of Taiwan’s foreign relations and the key factors influencing the formulation of Taiwan’s foreign policy.

Time and place: , Zoom only, click here to sign up.

In this lecture, Dr. Julia Christine Marinaccio will discuss transnational ties between Taiwanese political parties and overseas communities and other constituencies abroad.

Time and place: , GM 452

Giulia Frigerio (IFIKK)

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands Hus 421

Guri Bordal Steien will present her longitudinal study of refugee learners of Norwegian, organized by the Multilingualism Research Forum

Time and place: , Niels Treschows hus floor 12, Universitetet i Oslo

Alexander Agadjanian, Alicja Curanović and Pål Kolstø will discuss Russian identity and religion in light of Russia's war in Ukraine.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands Hus 421

Janet Connor presents her ethnographic research on communication, diversity and convergence in the central Oslo neighborhood of Tøyen, organized by the Multilingualism Research Forum

Time and place: , Seminar room 1, P.A. Munchs hus, Blindern campus

Thomas Mohnike (University of Strasbourg) will lecture about the transnational geographies of a Norwegian national poet between 1890 and 1918.

Time and place: , The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, The Education Center

An interdisciplinary half-day seminar related to the triple bill Bluebeard's Castle, staged by Tobias Kratzer and conducted by Edward Gardner premiering at The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, January 20.

Time and place: , Ibsen Museum & Teater

Erik Henning Edvardsen, Ibsen Museum & Teater, Oslo

Time and place: , Seminar room 1, P.A Munchs hus

Lecture by Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. 

Time and place: , Seminarrom 2, P.A. Munchs hus

On the sidelines of Solya’s midterm evaluation: a half-day workshop on mood in Slavic (and Romance and Germanic).

Special guest: Marco Biasio (Univ. Verona), Solya’s evaluator.

Time and place: , Sophus Bugge Seminarrom 3, Universitetet i Oslo, Blindern

Julie Hansen will discuss Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus as examples of translingual literature.

Time and place: , Sophus Bugges hus, seminar room 2 & 3

How do we read novels translingually? What strategies and literary techniques characterise multilingual literary texts? How does multilingual literature (re-)shape the canon? What metaphors do bilingual authors use to conceptualise multilingualism?

At this workshop, we will discuss multilingual writing from Eastern Europe from different theoretical and historical perspectives. 

Time and place: , Aud 4 Eilert Sundts Hus, Blindern

In this lecture, Alexandre de Vitry (Sorbonne) will discuss the concept of brotherhood in literary history

Time and place: , P.A. Munchs hus, seminar room 10

Professor Kurt Villads Jensen from Stockholm University will be giving a lecture on the concept of the Crusades as pilgrimage.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MultiLing meeting room, HWH 421

Fatima Reda (PhD Fellow, University of Oslo) will give a talk on how teachers and newly arrived Arabic-speaking students utilize digital tools during oral communication tasks in the classroom.

Time and place: , Seminarrom 2, P.A Munchs hus

Book presentation with Alessandro Rippa. 

Time and place: , Harriet Holters hus, room 201

In this CIMs lecture, Dr. Eirik Hovden will give an overview over how to understand changes in Islamic law in institutions, genres and rules, ca. 1200-1800 CE.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MultiLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Nina Teigland (PhD Fellow, University of Bergen) will discuss language policy in Norway from a public policy perspective.

Time and place: , PAM 4

Nina Hagen Kaldhol is a PhD Candidate in Linguistics at the University of California San Diego. In collaboration with native speakers of Tira, Rere and Somali, she works on language documentation while also aiming to advance our theoretical understanding of tone and morphological complexity.