Guest lectures and seminars - Page 3
Alexander Agadjanian, Alicja Curanović and Pål Kolstø will discuss Russian identity and religion in light of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Janet Connor presents her ethnographic research on communication, diversity and convergence in the central Oslo neighborhood of Tøyen, organized by the Multilingualism Research Forum
Thomas Mohnike (University of Strasbourg) will lecture about the transnational geographies of a Norwegian national poet between 1890 and 1918.
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.
By Yves Scherrer (IFI).
Erik Henning Edvardsen, Ibsen Museum & Teater, Oslo
Lecture by Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London.
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.
Julie Hansen will discuss Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus as examples of translingual literature.
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.
In this lecture, Alexandre de Vitry (Sorbonne) will discuss the concept of brotherhood in literary history
Professor Kurt Villads Jensen from Stockholm University will be giving a lecture on the concept of the Crusades as pilgrimage.
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.
Chiara Gazzini (IFIKK)
Book presentation with Alessandro Rippa.
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.