Guest lectures and seminars

The Alumni Network in Art History and Visual Studies welcomes everyone to a guest lecture by professor Ashley Thompson, Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art, SOAS University of London.

The lecture is open to all who are interested.

In this lunch seminar, associate professor in history of ideas Henning Trüper will present his brand new (German-language) book on the history of humanitarian lifeboat movements in Europe, Rettung aus Seenot (Rescue from distress at sea).

Erlend Østrem Myklebust (University of Oslo)

Following the Annual Exphil lecture, the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas is excited to host a workshop on the themes raised in C. Thi Nguyen’s work.

Bureaucracy changes our values and our concepts. Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah) explores questions of why and how in this year’s Exphil lecture.

The Philosophical Seminar With John Hyman (UCL)

Gabriele Cifani (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)

The Philosophical Seminar With Ram Neta

Brad Jordan (IFIKK, UiO)

In this lecture, Juliane Rebentisch (Hochscule für bildende Künste Hamburg / Princeton University) will discuss imaginaries of the future in a time of ecological crisis.

In this lecture, Timotheus Vermeulen will outline the need for a new theory of "plastic time" in order to account for the significance of gestures in recent screen media.

Alessandro Palumbo (UiO)

The Philosophical Seminar With Eliot Michaelson

This spring we welcome Carolyn Yerkes and Bridget Alsdorf from the Department of Art & Archeology at Princeton University to present their forthcoming book projects. The lectures are followed by a reception. The event is open to the public, but registration is obligatory.

In this lecture, Antonio Somaini (Sorbonne) will discuss how artificial intelligence transforms our relation to history and memory, among other by looking at how AI is perspectivized in a number of contemporary artworks. 

David Goldstein (UCLA)

Diletta Pompei (Rome, Tor Vergata)

Please join us for a one day seminar organised by Idéhistorisk lunsjseminar (IFIKK) og Norsk Oversetterleksikon (NOleks) in connection with the visit to Oslo by Christine Lombez from Nantes Université.

Ambra Serangeli (Tor Vergata, Rome)

The Philosophical Seminar With Karina Vold

Workshop with Prof. Nancy L. Wicker

The Philosophical Seminar With Wolfgang Mann