Guest lectures and seminars - Page 2

Actor and director Tarjei Sandvik Moe will talk about his recent film about the making of a performance of Ibsen's debut play Catiline (1850).

Arun Prakash Singh presents the HindiBabyNet project.

Rebecca Rose Lebens will present her ongoing PhD study on whether multilingual adults develop language-specific self-concepts.

PhD candidate Yifan Zhang (Fudan University, Shanghai, China), will present her current research on sensory geographies and the performativity of space in Ibsen’s plays.

Bahra Rashidi presents an overview of her PhD project, with a primary focus on the first study which investigates syntactic variation in main clauses in spoken Norwegian.

Helle Nystad presents and discusses findings from her PhD project on linguistic norms and variation in adolescents’ digital social writing.

Our new PhD candidate Farid Manouchehrian will present his research project on Ingmar Bergman's film adaptations of Ibsen's plays.

The centre leadership will present the aims and plans of the Centre for the Use of Norwegian as an Academic Language, followed by presentations by two MA students who are recipients of the centre’s master’s project grants. The centre presentation will be in English, while the student presentations will be in Norwegian.

This talk explores the acoustic features of Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) in Tashlhiyt Berber, focusing on how variations in hyper-articulation and consonant neutralization by caregivers may affect language perception and phonological development in infants, while also testing theories related to the facilitative role of IDS in phonemic acquisition. Also on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/63633923986 

Jason Litzenberg discusses how language teaching and learning can survive and thrive with AI.

Kellie Rolstad and Jeff MacSwan will share insights into language ontology in multilinguals.

Marit Moum Aune (Norwegian National Ballet) will hold a lecture on her working method when transposing Ibsen's plays to the silent world of ballet.

Eskil Blaaflat Mundal, PhD candidate at ILOS, will present the main findings from his MA thesis on the pronunciation of nasal vowels in the Paris area from a diachronic and sociophonetic perspective. The presentation will be in Norwegian. For an abstract, see the Norwegian page. 

Jakob Scherm Eikner with Luca Onnis and Bruno Laeng on possible effects of language on perception.

The presentation explores the role of English among kindergarten children in Norway.

Kayla Amity Hanson (University of Oslo) will present her current research on Henrik Ibsen and the construction of Norwegian-American identity.

Justin Brown will present metalinguistic reflections about Khoekhoegowab, or Nama language, among KhoeSan reclamation activists in Cape Town.

Madeleine Adkins explores adult learners’ experience in an  immersion program designed to create new speakers of Breton.

With Norwegian Sign Language celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2025, this year's Einar Haugen lecture will focus on signed languages and explore the relationship between human diversity and linguistic diversity. The hybrid lecture will be in English, with interpretation into Norwegian Sign Language.

This presentation explores dual language programs in the U.S. and their potential to promote social justice for U.S. Latinos.

This presentation explores methodological and ethical approaches to researching family language policies in multilingual migratory contexts such as Switzerland, highlighting collaborative strategies for Spanish language maintenance in Swiss bilingual preschools.

Two guest lectures by Associate Professor Siân Grønlie (Oxford University) and Professor Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University)

Lianna Torres (University of Washington) will talk about motherhood, grief, and transformation in Lille Eyolf and Anna-Liisa

José Alemán Bañón (Stockholm University) will present his work on lexicosemantic prediction in native speakers of English and Swedish-speaking learners of English