Research events
Upcoming 5 days
Department seminar. Ester B?ckmann is a Researcher at Fafo. She will present the paper "Where the Penalty Hits: Decomposing Parenthood’s Impact on Earnings.”
MD Christian Kullmann Five at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Mitral Valve Prolapse: Clinical Risk Stratification and Systemic Associations” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Simen Hyll Hansen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Diagnostic and Prognostic Potential of the Gut Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Daniela Sant'Ana is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation.?
Tomasz Wo?niakowski presents the paper?Invisible taxes, visible defense: lessons from US fiscal-military history for financing European security at?the Tuesday Seminar on 16 December 2025.
Master of Science?Oleksandra Mittal at?Department of Teacher Education and School Research will be defending the thesis "Educational Equity Revisited: Validity evidence and factors associated with narrowing socioeconomic and minority achievement gaps" for the degree of PhD.
Cand.psychol. Alma Viktoria Johansen Birken?s at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “From Psychometric Validation to Prediction: Exploring a Measure of Psychotic Experiences as a Tool for Psychosis Detection” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
This seminar will be based on Marc Lynch’s recent book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Hurst, 2025).
Emil Flat? (NYU Gallatin) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series.
Further upcoming events
Cand.med. Astrid Telhaug Karlsson at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer - survival, patient functioning and quality of life after radiotherapy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Kathinka Schmidt Sl?rdahl at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Treatment outcomes after chemoradiotherapy for anal cancer and patient reported outcomes after treatment for anorectal cancer in Norway” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
“Leading issues in development – A symposium on Progress, Conflict, and Distribution” organized by the Department of Economics, UiO, will take place at the ?The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on the 5th of January 2026.
Master Nhung Lu Rots at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Engaged Buddhism and Environmentality among Buddhist Minorities in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)
Cand. Polit. in Political Science Lisa Scordato?will be defending her dissertation "Public sector capabilities for resilience. Tensions between knowledge and action in crisis management".