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UiO:Life Science will fund several ?konvergensmilj?? – research groups with collaboration across conventional disciplinary boundaries. The application process starts with workshops with speed dating September 28 and 29.
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.
Genetic and environmental pathways to substance use and misuse.
Professor Geoffrey Bowker, UCI-Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The Seminar is open for everyone.
Open for all! Speakers: Corina E. Tarnita from Princeton University and Jan M. Nordbotten from Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen. This event is part of the University’s annual celebration.
Welcome to the opening of K.G. Jebsen Coeliac Disease Research Centre. The seminar is open to the public.
Will Wimsatt, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The Seminar is open for everyone. His work centers on the philosophy of the inexact sciences-biology, psychology, and the social sciences-the history of biology, and the study of complex systems.
Master of Laws Olga Mironenko Enerstvedt will be defending the thesis Aviation security and protection of individuals: Technologies and legal principles for the degree of Ph.D.
The disputation will be held in English
Candidate Lisbet Skregelid defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Scenes of dissensus. A study of secondary school students' encounters with contemporary art in a school and art museum context.
The seminar has been cancelled due to personal circumstances.
Master Jens Jungblut defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Party Politics in Higher Education Policy - Partisan Preferences, Coalition Positions and Higher Education Policy in Western Europe.
Samuel Etikpah will defend his doctoral dissertation: "The Kundum And Mother River Festivals: Exploring Ritual, Interreligious Collaboration And Community Development In Jomoro, Ghana" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Theology.
Fredrik Lanner, assistant professor, Karolinska Institutet, will present the work leading up to the recent publication on gene expression in early human embryos, and present his plans to use CRISPR technology to edit genes in early human embryos, as one of the first researchers in the world.
Master Ellen Brinchmann defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
The role of word knowledge in the development of reading comprehension.
Torbj?rn Gundersen, stipendiat ved Senter for profesjonsstudier ved HiOA, kommer til Forum for vitenskapsteori. Han leverer i 2017 avhandlingen "Epistemiske og sosiale verdier i styring av vitenskap: En case-studie av norske klimaforskeres profesjonelle forst?else av forholdet mellom vitenskap og politikk". Seminaret er ?pent for alle.
Andrew Collins has been a staff scientist at the Department of Nutrition since 2002 and is a leading international expert on nutrition and DNA damage.
In honour of Professor Collins’ 70th birthday, we invite you to an international symposium with a wide range of topics that touch on Prof. Collin's areas of scientific interest.
Master Hedvig Neerland Abrahamsen defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Title: School Leadership as Educational Discourses in an Age of Increased Accountability.
Hugh Raffles, professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research in New York, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. He will show a short film, followed by a conversation with John Law. John Law is Professor Emeritus at Open University UK; and fellow at Center for Advanced Study in Oslo, with the research group 'Arctic Domestication in the Era of the Anthropocene'.
The lecture is open for everyone.
PET ligands for imaging Alzheimer’s disease – neuropathological validation.
Anine Kierulf, Postdoktor ved Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter (UiO), kommer til forum for vitenskapsteori. Seminaret er ?pent for alle.
Master Lill-Johanne Eilertsen defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:
Participation in peer groups: interaction between children with and without hearing impairment and complex needs.
Christian Abrahamsson, lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography (UiO), is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium.The lecture is open for everyone.
Cand. philol Dagfinn Chr. Selvaag will be defending the thesis Recognition of States and Governments in International Law – With Particular Reference to Norwegian State Practice for the degree of dr. Philos.
Original title: Anerkjennelse av stater og regjeringer i folkeretten – Med s?rlig vekt p? norsk anerkjennelsespraksis,
The disputation will be held in Norwegian
Professor Geir Hestmark, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (UiO), is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium.The lecture is open for everyone.
Ilkka Niiniluoto, professor of theoretical philosophy, University of Helsinki, and Chairman of the Philosophical Society of Finland, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium. The lecture is open for everyone.
Niiniluoto has been rector and then chancellor of the University of Helsinki and has played central role in Finnish politics of science and higher education. As a scholar he has made important contributions to the philosophy of science, its epistemic as well as its social and policy aspects.