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Jeremy Greene, Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The seminar is open for everyone!

Noah Smith is an economist and blogger at Bloomberg View. His blog, under the name ¡°Noahpinion¡± is one of the most widely read blogs on the scholarly discipline of economics in the world, and he has become something close to a blog superstar in economics. Smith has a Phd in economics from the University of Michigan, and was an assistant professor of Finance at Stony Brook University, New York. 

Master of Laws Nertila Kuraj at the Deparment of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis: REACHing AN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY. An analysis of REACH as an instrument for preventing and reducing the environmental impacts of nanomaterials for the degree of Ph.D.

It is 50 years since the first scientific articles about the lack of LCAT was published. The symposium will discuss the importance of what lecitihin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) means for the transport of cholesterol in the organism, and it will take place at the hospital where the hereditary disease LCAT deficiency was first discovered.

The meeting is open to all interested, but registration is needed

Second in the Sven Furberg Seminar Series: Dr. Robin Andersson, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will present the lecture, "Characterisation of regulatory activities and active chromatin architectures from transcription initiation events."

Cand.theol. Ole Jakob L?land will defend his doctoral dissertation: "Pauline Refigurations. A Study in the Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Jacob Taubes and Slavoj ?i?ek" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.

John Warner, Avalon Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of American Studies and of History, Yale School of Medicine at Yale University, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium. The lecture is open for everyone. 

Wendy Kline, Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine at Purdue University, is visiting the Science Stuides Colloquium Series. The Seminar is open for everyone!

  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1998. She is the author of several articles and two books: Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women¡¯s Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001).

Professor Steve Bova is a Professor and Group Leader at the Prostate Cancer Research Center, Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere University Hospital in Finland.

He will give a talk titled, 'Leveraging the evolutionary history of metastatic prostate cancer'.

Jaime Castro-Mondrag¨°n is a PhD student in Bioinformatics. The title of his talk is, 'Identification of Transcription Factors related to mammalian promoters with distal functions'.

Alan Love is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. His research focuses on conceptual issues in biology.

Cand. jur, LL.M Michael Reiertsen at the Department of Public and International Law will defend his thesis The European Convention on Human Rights Article 13 - Past, Present and Future for the degree of Ph.D.

Dr. Harald Binder, Professor, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, will present the lecture: 

"Two uses of stagewise regression: from landmarking in cancer patients to deep learning for SNPs".

Master of Laws Eivind Junker at the Department of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis Climate adaptation in land use planning for the degree of Ph.D.

Original title: Klimatilpasning i arealplanlegging

The disputation will be held in Norwegian

 Eva Krick is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The seminar is open for everyone. 

Krick is guest researcher at ARENA from April 2015 to March 2017. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Master of Laws Blazej Kuzniacki at the Department of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis "Controlled Foreign Companies and Tax Avoidance: International and Comparative Perspectives with Specific Reference to Polish Tax and Constitutional Law, EU Law and Tax Treaties¡± for the degree of Ph.D.

Carl-G?ran Heidegren, professor i sosiologi ved Lunds universitet kommer til Forum For Vitenskapsteori. Seminaret er ?pent for alle!

Carl-G?ran Heidegren, er forfatter av b?ker som Det moderna genombrottet i nordisk universitetsfilosofi 1860¨C1915 og Positivismstrider (2016).

Vibeke Pihl is a sociologist, who holds a PhD in Medicine, Culture and Society. She is affiliated with the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The lecture is open for everyone.

Azin Tadjdini at Department of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis: Constitutional De-Secularization and Limitations in Equality of Liberty for the degree of Ph.D.

 F?rsteamanuensis Svein Atle Sk?lev?g ved Universitetet i Bergen, kommer til Forum for Vitenskapsteori. Foredraget er ?pent for alle. 

Nick Hopwood, Department of History and Philosophy of Science,University of Cambridge, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The lecture is open for everyone.

Richard Swedber professor at the Cornell University,department of Sociology is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.  Before Cornell, he worked at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. Swedberg's main areas of interest are economic sociology, theorizing in social science, and classical sociological theories. He recently published The Art of Social Theory (2014).

The lecture is open for everyone.