Kommende arrangementer

This biweekly open lecture series looks at heroism and human agency through the prism of epic and the novel from diachronic, comparative and cross-cultural perspectives.

Master William Wessel Nore at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his thesis Picturing the Farm: Photography and Post-War Agrarian Modernity in Norway for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Velkommen til idéhistorisk lunsjseminar fredag 16. oktober med Reidar Aasgaard.

Erlend Østrem Myklebust (University of Oslo)

Democratic societies constantly face more challenges than they can possibly address at once, and they all compete for our limited collective attention. This raises a fundamental democratic question: who gets to decide what deserves public attention?

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).

Master Chiara Mosti at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend her thesis The innate right as legal self-consciousness for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

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.

Ashwini Lakshminarayanan (University of Oslo)

This PhD course is designed for those working in Ancient Philosophy. It offers students an opportunity to present their work in progress while critically examining and reflecting on the methodological approaches employed in their research.

Functionalism is a tool that is useful across many areas of science, and in the philosophy of science. What can we learn from its use in these different areas?