Guest lectures and seminars
See also guest lectures from 2010 to 2024.
Upcoming
In this lecture, professor Dmytro Iarovyi from Kyiv School of Economics looks at how the war between Russia and Ukraine is being fought not only on the front line but also in films, TV shows, memes, and social media.
What’s new in Irish poetry? Three brilliant poets present their recent work in a lively and informal session of readings and conversation.
This one-day seminar will examine the controversies and fears concerning secularism and youth culture in 1960s Britain and America.
A PopCult! 2-part workshop with film screenings. Special guest scholar: Dr. Aaron Ackerley, University of Stavanger.
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California as Scandinavia's Founding Myth of America.
Come and listen to a number of guests who will be visiting ILOS in week 38.They will give public presentations on Tuesday morning, 15 September.
Guest seminar by Dr Jessica Cox, Brunel University of London.
In this lecture, Viktoria Sereda examines how war-driven displacement reshapes memory and belonging in displaced people and host communities.
European thinkers begin to specify anthropology as an independent field of study in the course of the Enlightenment.
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) will be in discussion with Alexandra Effe about her two new books published this year, Southern Imagining: a literary and cultural history of the far southern hemisphere, and Ice Shock: a love story.
The Word, Sound and Power Workshop 2026 will be held at the University of Oslo on the 28th of April. The workshop will take place on the 12th floor or Niels Treschows hus, from 11am to 5pm. Lunch included. All welcome!
In this presentation, Jules Sergei Fediunin will show that Russia’s demographic agenda has evolved in accordance with the Putin regime’s authoritarian consolidation and ideological tightening
In this talk, Andriy Danylenko explores how the varieties of modern Ukrainian have developed and changed, and what this means for the language today
In this lecture, Andriy Danylenko will provide a historical background to the current language situation in Ukraine
Worlding and Postwestern Fiction.
In this presentation, Mélanie Sadozaï will talk about cross-border relations in Central Asia since 2021
The American West and the Global Imagination.
In this talk, Maryna Shevtsova will discuss how the Russian full-scale invasion has affected LGBTQ+ activism in Ukraine
In this talk, Professor Jeremy Morris will explore how everyday practices and informal interactions between people and the state shape political legitimacy in contemporary Russia
A workshop about how the welfare state has been understood and depicted in popular culture and the media.
One-day symposium marking 50 years of Seamus Heaney’s landmark poetry collection "North".
How has the imperial legacy of Central European states shaped the relationship between nation and state, especially in Ukraine?
In this talk, Etienne Boisserie will discuss the historical narrative of the Czechoslovak nation and its implications
In this talk, Professor Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University, USA) will compare Russia’s covert intervention in 2014 with its full-scale invasion in 2022.
Which issues are addressed by area studies-scholars doing research on contemporary politics, and what characterises an area studies approach to politics?