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Michail Sitkovsky, Professor and Director of the New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute at the Northeastern University College of Science, Boston, USA, will give a guest lecture titled, 'Anti-Hypoxia/HIF-1alpha and anti-A2A-Adenosinergic Co-adjuvants to enable the rejection of the most therapy-resistant tumors' 

Paula Linnea B?ckd¨¦n at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law will be defending the thesis The Contract of Carriage - multimodal transports and unimodal regulations for the degree of Ph.D.

Algae can be used to make foods, medicines and energy. What role can researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and investors play in bringing ideas to the market?

ESOP seminar. Pamela Giustinelli is an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. She will present a paper entitled "Tail and Center Rounding of Probability Expectation in the Health and Retirement Study", co-authored  Charles F. Manski, and Francesca Molinari.

Dr. Christopher Yau, Reader in Computational Biology based in the Centre for Computational Biology at the University of Birmingham will give a lecture titled, "Probabilistic modelling approach for pseudotime estimation in single cells and populations."

Professor Banu Subramaniam is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Subramaniam is a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Subramaniam won the 2016 Ludwik Fleck Prize for the book ¡°Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity".

The lecture is open for everyone!

ESOP seminar. Lore Vandewalle is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She will present a paper entitled "Identities and Public Policies: Unintended Effects of Political Reservations for Women in India", co-authored by Guilhem Cassan.

Cand.polit. Inga Staal Jenset defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

Practice-Based Teacher Education Coursework: An Examination of the Extent and Characteristics of How Teacher Education Coursework Is Grounded in Practice Across Six Teacher Education Programs in Finland, Norway and California, US.

Cand.polit. Hilde Christine Hofslundsengen defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Ph.d.:

Title:

The meaning of children's invented writing in preschool. A quasi-experimental intervention study.

The objective of this interdisciplinary course is to explore challenges to sustainable modernity in cultural, economic, political and institutional realms.

Application deadline was May 02, 2017.

First guest of the seminar series "Global Health Unpacked", Adam Fejerskov will discuss the Gates Foundation's promotion of technology-based development policies and question the power, legitimacy and accountability of this major player.

GLOBUS researchers will chair the section The European Union: Promoting or obstructing global justice at the EISA conference on International Relations in Barcelona, September 2017.

Jarle Trondal and Morten Egeberg will chair a panel at the 2017 ECPR General Conference in Oslo. 

Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells ¨C iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. 

Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells ¨C iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

ARENA is strongly represented at the ECPR General Conference 2017 in Oslo. Our researchers will participate in around 20 different panels and sections.  

'Exploring and exploiting the constraints of local signaling', by Professor John D. Scott

Professor and Director Sylvia Richardson will receive the Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo. She will hold an open Lecture on A personal view of statistics as a tool for discovery in the health Sciences. Welcome!

Morten Schak Nielsen, of Copenhagen University, will give a lecture titled, 'Connexin 43 gap junctions at the nexus of cardiac activation'.

Tor Egil F?rland, Professor of History at the Department of Archaeology, conservation and history, University of Oslo, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The Lecture is open for everyone!

ESOP seminar. Gordon B. Dahl is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He will present a paper entitled "Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance", co-authored by Anne C. Gielen.

ESOP seminar. Swati Dhingra is an Assistant Professor at LSE. She will present a paper entitled "Piggy-back exporting, intermediation, and the gains from trade to small farmers in developing economies", co-authored by Silvana Tenreyro.

The Department of Economics and BI (Norwegian Business School), are organizing a workshop on trade, growth and firm dynamics. The workshop is funded by the department's research project GLOBALPROD.