Guest lectures and seminars - Page 9

In this talk, Agnieszka Kałdonek-Crnjaković (Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw) will discuss the effect of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on additional language learning considering theoretical assumptions and her recent research findings.

Hege Randi Tørressen will visit the Centre for Ibsen Studies to talk about her profession as a dramaturg at the National Theatre.  This industry talk will be informative and provide a unique perspective about the National Theatre.  There will be a Q&A session afterwards. Light refreshments will be served.

Prof. Julian Caskel, from Folkwang University of the Arts, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Visa A. J. Kurki (University of Helsinki) will present his article 'Can nature hold rights?: It's not as easy as you think'

Reading Armenian History as a Socially Symbolic Act

Nicholas S.M. Matheou (University of Edinburgh)

Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo)

This lecture will address Taiwan’s relations with mainland China and Taiwan’s domestic developments since 1949.

What’s in a ‘verb’? Is there some lexical content which marks a word as a ‘verb’ or ‘noun’, or even a single level of analysis at which we could define them? Evidence from multiple fields of linguistics suggests not.

A guest lecture by Juan Cruz Forgnone (University of Buenos Aires)

Women in Music Technology Seminar with Mari Lesteberg and Ane Bjerkan.

Philosophical Seminar with Jens Timmermann (St Andrews)

Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (National Library of Norway) will present the anthology Silent Ibsen and introduce a screening of Theodore Marston's silent film adaptation of A Doll's House (1911).

The 2008 Taiwanese film Cape No. 7 海角七號, directed by Wei Te-sheng, will be shown on Tuesday 14 Feb from 12.00 (NOT 12.15!) in seminar room 2, P. A. Munchs hus. This is one of the films Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley will discuss in her lecture on 21 March.

The political dynamics of fragmentation and polarization after the covid crisis and Russia's war in Ukraine.

In this lecture, art historian Mechtild Widrich (Chicago) will review recent debates about contemporary monuments in light of overwhelming experiences of a world in crisis.

Women in Music Technology Seminar with Kristin Norderval.

In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?  

This lecture will discuss the key issues and debates in post-Martial Law Taiwan by reviewing recent scholarship and representative works by local historians.

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)

This lecture will introduce the major trends and development of Taiwan history using the collections and exhibitions of National Museum of Taiwan History as examples.

In this informal seminar, Eline Visser will report about her last field trip to the Indonesian Karas Islands, where she gathered data on the previously undocumented language Uruangnirin. She'll talk about language endangerment, fieldwork methods, Uruangnirin grammatical relations, some other preliminary findings and whatever else comes up.

Elena Varona and Margareta Berg (master students at ILN) practice their presentations for the ConSOLE conference. Elena will talk about grammatical gender selection in Spanish-Norwegian code switching and Margareta will discuss attitudes towards gender neutral pronouns in Norwegian.