Conferences
See also previous conferences from 2010 to 2024.
Previous
The study of meter in the 20th century has generally been marked by the foregrounding of some types of verse that proved amenable to a particular theoretical approach (e.g. English iambic pentameter in generative metrics, Russian iambic tetrameter in statistical work on verse, Greek hexameter in diachronic reconstruction), to the detriment of others.
Over the past several years the Linguistics and Poetics research group at the University of Oslo has sought to circumvent this kind of bias by exploring various manifestations and uses of poetic language in ancient (Greek) and Medieval (Latin, Germanic) cultural milieus. We have dwelt on the diversity of attested literary cultures (sometimes proliferating within a single national “tradition”) and prioritized an empiricist ethos over the goal of finessing any particular methodology.
The international symposium “Comparative metrics sub specie philologiae” aims to expand our vision of comparative metrics by interrogating and juxtaposing novel, tailor-made, and empirically-driven approaches to cross-culturally diverse uses of poetic meter.
Topic: 'Communication, disagreement, and social epistemology'
Conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Art History at the University of Oslo
A Seminar in Honour of Christel Fricke
The symposium will consider the origins of modern literary theory as a body of critical thought that spans at least two centuries.
The conference considers how the intersections between modern art and medicine have been curated in the past and are being curated today. The conference is a collaboration with MUNCH, and partners in Canada and USA.
At this workshop, we will discuss the revised versions of papers that were initially presented at the previous Language Myths workshop held in Copenhagen on 16 January 2025.
3rd Nordic Epistemology Network Workshop
An interdisciplinary workshop for bachelor and master students interested in learning and discussing about social discrimination in Norway
The Perceiving Representations project is organising a workshop on perceptions in which learning, imagination or the structure of the perception has significantly influenced or contributed to it.
A conference on the perception of music and speech as part of the ‘Perceiving Representations’ project. In particular, we are interested in whether there are interesting similarities between the perception of these two auditory phenomena, and in gathering together specialists who are working on each to foster fruitful discussions and novel insights.