Guest lectures and seminars - Page 4

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.

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

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.

The Centre for Ibsen Studies invites to a short lecture performance and Q&A with Julian Blaue on his work with Vinge/Müller and their controversial 9-hours version of The Master Builder.

Dr. Tymoteusz Król (Institute of Slavic Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences, The Centre for Regional Studies of University of Ostrava) will discuss the endangered Wymysorys language (Poland) and the significance of multilingualism for Vilamovian identity in the face of 'safe' Polish monolingualism.

Judith Hendriksma (IFIKK)

Professor Alexandra Assis Rosa (University of Lisbon) will give an open lecture on the phenomenon of indirect translation.

Universal quantification over sum entities

Wona Lee (IFIKK)

Lecture by Sera Yeong Seo Park, associate lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. 

By Valentina Alfarano and Åshild Næss.

In this Environmental Humanities Lecture, anthropologists Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, and Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle,  present their research on human-animal relationships, climate change, and religious ecology in India. What form might the environmental humanities take if considered from the place of the Indian Himalaya?

Georgios (George) Georgiou (Assistant Professor, University of Nikosia) will discuss the capacity of bidialectal and monodialectal speakers to perceive second language speech sounds, unveiling a potential advantage for bidialectals, possibly rooted in the development of advanced higher-order abilities linked to their diverse linguistic background.

Isak Hærem (IFIKK)

Our ex-colleague Jozina Vander Klok from Humboldt University Berlin is visiting to talk about Javanese applicatives in (formal) syntactic and semantic terms.

Welcome to a CIMS Friday lecture By Prof. Vemund Aarbakke who will introduce us to the Muslim-Turkish minority in contemporary Greece.

Public lecture by Roberto Frega, who is a permanent senior researcher (directeur de recherche) at the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS). 

Ágnes T. Mihálykó (IFIKK)

Professor of Systematic Musicology, Clemens Wöllner, from the University of Music Freiburg, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series

Philosophical Seminar with Timothy Williamson (in conjunction with the CPS Lunch Forum)

By Dag Haug.

How can we use drawings and graphic narratives to develop and communicate our research? The Border Readings group at ILOS has invited researchers and artists, guest researcher Kari Korolainen and ILOS researcher Fabian Heffermehl, to share with us their thoughts and experiences of using drawing and graphic storytelling to think about their research problems – and thinking with their research materials – in visual and bodily ways. Welcome to this open discussion, if you are interested in exploring these possibilities or already have experiences which you might share.

A conversation with Roma Liberov - director, scriptwriter, and producer.

In this CIMs lecture, Prof. Stephan Guth explores what a Norwegian National Library manuscript tells us about the everyday life of a Levantine merchant in the mid-18th century.