Kommende arrangementer

Organized by IKOS in cooperation with IMK, ILN and ILOS

Hosted by Kathinka Frøystad and Cristina Archetti.

We are pleased to host PhD candidate Orwa Ajjoub who will speak about "How Leaders Reshape Social Identity in a Jihadi Group? The Case of the Syria Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham 2013-2017".

"Ecology and religion" is an established research field. But the term "ecology" can mean different things in different contexts, and its relationship to "religion" is not always straightforward. Join us for a lunch seminar with Associate Professor Stuart Strange (National University of Singapore), who will shed light on this important but complicated topic.

What makes a research application successfull? How does it differ from other forms of academic writing, and what happens after an application has been submitted?

Artist and researcher Park Ji Yun will talk about her project (Welcome to) The Planet of Orchids, which weaves together multispecies ethnography, conservation ecology and ecocinema, investigating and engaging with orchids and their multispecies communities.

CIMS and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs are pleased to announce a co-organized event featuring a lecture by Senior Research Fellow Tine Gade.

What can desert history teach us about the study of the past, humans’ relationship to other beings and place, and how to build an ecological consciousness for the future?

In this course, PhD fellows are acquainted with the ethical dilemmas and controversies arising from four interpretative approaches.

For the last couple of decades, a lot of humanities scholarship have been scaling up. Scholars have approached their objects of study at larger scales, both temporally and spatially. In a sense, this represents a break with much postwar humanities, in which scale has not really been an issue.

Coastal Lives in Flux (CLiF) is a new project funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO). In this seminar, the three team members present the project and some of its central case studies.

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss Of Loss and Lavender by the Iraqi author Sinan Antoon (2026).

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss Honey Hunger by the Omani author Zahran Alqasmi (2017)

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Japanese Studies Maaike van der Burg, who is working on a project with the title "Anti-Cult Measures at Japanese Universities: Constructing religion as a category and its ramifications". 

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Drowning by the Sudanese author Hammour Ziada (2018).

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History and Museology Kathrine Emilie Haarseth, who is working on a project with the title "From Sacred Texts to Sacred Objects: Repurposing of Medieval Manuscript Fragments and Their Museum Afterlives". 

Announcement of PhD course set for April 5–7, 2027, in Trondheim.

This meeting of the Al-Ard Book Club invites participants to read and discuss The Bleeding of the Stone by the Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni (1990).