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Guest lecture. Dr. Adrien Vigier will hold a guest lecture about "Moral hazard".

The guest lecture is open to the public, and staff and students are welcome to attend.

In this talk, professor of cultural studies, Ben Highmore explores the role of playgrounds in equipping the young with skills to face a climate catastrophe. How should we understand the history of playgrounds? What is their relationship to their environments and the environment, and what role could they play in the current climate emergency?  

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)

In this informal seminar, Eline Visser will report about her last field trip to the Indonesian Karas Islands, where she gathered data on the previously undocumented language Uruangnirin. She'll talk about language endangerment, fieldwork methods, Uruangnirin grammatical relations, some other preliminary findings and whatever else comes up.

Department seminar. Adrien Vigier is a Professor/Chair in Economics at University of Nottingham. He will present the paper: "Product Variety and Market Segmentation"

Department seminar. Andreas Ravndal Kost?l is an applied economist at Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business and a faculty research fellow at the NBER and IZA. He will present the paper: "Layoff Costs, Insurance and Precautionary Job Mobility".

Martin Enge from the Karolinska Institutet will present his research as part of the NCMM Tuesday Seminar Series.

Elena Varona and Margareta Berg (master students at ILN) practice their presentations for the ConSOLE conference. Elena will talk about grammatical gender selection in Spanish-Norwegian code switching and Margareta will discuss attitudes towards gender neutral pronouns in Norwegian.

How did India¡¯s pharmaceutical industry become a major global supplier of generic medicines? And what role does India play in the globalized manufacturing and trade of generic antibiotics?

NCMM starts the year actively, and invites all interested to a mini-symposium in translational computational biology in Oslo Science Park.

Welcome to an inaugural lecture by Professor Karen V. Lykke.

Bj?rn Hofmann (UiO, NTNU Gj?vik) er professor i medisinsk filosofi og etikk ved Senter for medisinsk etikk ved Det medisinske fakultet ved Universitetet i Oslo og ved Institutt for helsevitenskap ved NTNU Gj?vik. Han er utdannet innen teknologifag, id¨¦historie, filosofi og etikk. Hofmann forsker og underviser innenfor medisinsk filosofi, helsefaglig etikk, vitenskapsteori, helsetjenesteforskning og teknologivurdering. Han er s?rlig opptatt av h?ndtering av teknologi generelt og av etiske aspekter ved helseteknologi spesielt. Hofmann har blant annet skrevet boken Hva er sykdom? i tillegg til en lang rekke vitenskapelige artikler og han deltar aktivt i samfunnsdebatten om ulike sider av helsetjenesten.

RSG Norway invites you to a panel discussion on career opportunities for bioinformaticians in and beyond academia

Guest lecture, Charlotte Taylor

Prof. Sofian Audry, from University of Quebec in Montreal, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

How do consulting firms influence global health politics? In this seminar, Assistant Professor Tine Hanrieder will present research on consulting firms' role in WHO reform and discuss how it raises new questions about WHO's convening power.

In this talk, professor of design history Dr. Kjetil Fallan, explores design interventions at, and in the wake of, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972. What can design activism tell us about the conference's influence on future political decision-making? Or about the development of environmental thinking and ecologically informed design ideology in Scandinavia?

Ole Jacob Madsen (f. 1978) er utdannet psykolog og filosof og jobber som professor i kultur- og samfunnspsykologi ved Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo. Hans forskning har s?rlig omhandlet hvordan psykologien utgj?r et meningsrammeverk for det moderne menneskets liv. Han har tidligere utgitt b?kene Den terapeutiske kultur (2010/2017), "Det er innover vi m? g?" (2014), Generasjon prestasjon (2018), Livsmestring p? timeplanen (2020) og Skolevegringsmysteriet (sammen med Gaute Brochmann) (2022). 

Welcome to this seminar with Tumaini Malenga from The African Institute for Development Policy, Malawi.

This conference will bring together leading ageing researchers from around the world working on molecular, cellular, individual and societal levels of ageing.