Guest lectures and seminars

An extra lecture in Portuguese on the social movements in Portugal after the Carnation revolution of 25 April 1974, by Professor Luísa Tiago de Oliveira from ISCTE-IUL.

Luísa Tiago de Oliveira from ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute will be talking about the genesis and the consequences of the 25th of April 1974 in Portugal for European, African and global history. (Her talk is available here)

An open conversation with a renowned film director, writer, photographer and artist.

A moderated discussion open to audience participation, with topics ranging from nationhood and war to literature and language — the whole Ukrainian experience, from one public intellectual's point of view. Followed by a literary performance.

Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg) on her recent article on fictionality in the eighteenth century and earlier. All are welcome!

Guest lecture by Noëlle Batt (Paris VIII).

Jonathan Charteris-Black is Professor of Linguistics at the University of the West of England, UK. His research interests are metaphor, rhetoric and political discourse.

Mitja Velikonja is professor of cultural studies and head of the Center for Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Social Sciences in Slovenia.

Andreja Vezovnik, PhD, is an assistant professor and researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Social Sciences.

The lecture is open to all.

By Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3). Open for all.

Talks by Lord Hain of Neath (British Labour Party) and Dr. Peter McLoughlin (Lecturer at Queens University Belfast)

Alexandra Grigorieva, Ph.D., Classics and Food History scholar, core research fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Åpent for alle.

A Symposium to be held at the University of Oslo

Sponsored by the Project – Discourses of the Nation and National

Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)

Professor Tim Machan will be speaking about the prominence of English in the Norwegian linguistic repertoire.

His speciality is mediaeval language and literature, and historical English linguistics; he has published extensively on a wide variety of topics.

Professor Tim Machan will be speaking about the future of English in a globalized world.  

His speciality is mediaeval language and literature, and historical English linguistics; he has published extensively on a wide variety of topics. 

By Allegra Fryxell, University of Cambridge

The guest lecture is part of the Lecture Series «Reading, Mind and Body». Open for all.

At this workshop linguists from Russia and Norway meet to discuss topics related to comparative Slavic syntax and semantics. The workshop is part of the GRAMNORUS project financed by SIU.

All interested are welcome!

The guest lecture is part of the Lecture Series «Reading, Mind and Body». Open for all.

Tatjana Aleksić is Associate Professor of Balkan and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

The lecture is open to all.

This seminar, organized by The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Theology (MF), will focus on theological and literary interpretation, intersecting some postmodern philosophy with literary criticism and theology.