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Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance (ESOP) at the University of Oslo is organizing the Nordic International Trade Seminars (NOITS) 17th Annual Workshop to be held 19-20 May 2016.
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.
ESOP seminar. Eliana La Ferrara is Professor at Bocconi University and a Professor II at the University of Oslo. She will present a paper entitled "News vs. novelas: Can entertainment media undermine dictatorships?" written jointly with A. Chong, C. Ferraz, F. Finan and L. Meloni.
ESOP seminar. Simon Alder is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He will present a paper entitled "Chinese Roads in India: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development".
ESOP-seminar. Bernt Bratsberg is a senior research fellow at the Frisch Centre and a Professor II at the University of Oslo. He will talk about excess churning in integrated labor markets.
PET ligands for imaging Alzheimer’s disease – neuropathological validation.
ESOP invites to a public lecture with professor Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University. Sachs is a leading scholar in sustainable development and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
ESOP seminar. Geoffrey Heal is the Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University. He will present a paper entitled "Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations", written jointly with Jisung Park.
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.
ESOP seminar. Toke Aidt is a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He will present a paper entitled "The social dynamics of riots: Evidence from the Captain Swing Riots 1830-31".
Christian Abrahamsson, lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography (UiO), is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium.The lecture is open for everyone.
ESOP seminar. Vincent Somville is a senior researcher at the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI). He will present a paper entitled "Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India", written jointly with Lore Vandewalle.
ESOP seminar. Paolo Piacquadio is Assistant Professor of Economics at UiO. He will present the paper "A Fairness Justification of Utilitarianism".
John Erik Fossum and Jozef Bátora organise a workshop on differentiation and democratic governance in the EU on 31 March 2016.
ESOP workshop. Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University.
ESOP invites to a public lecture with professor Richard Freeman from Harvard University. Freeman will discuss how a combination of Shared Capitalism and Pension Fund Socialism can become a viable and more equitable new economy.
ESOP seminar. Astrid Marie Jorde Sands?r is PhD-student at UiO. She will present a paper entitled "Grade Variance".
Together with the Centre for European Research (CERGU) at the University of Gothenburg, Guri Rosén at ARENA co-organises an interdisciplinary conference on the TTIP in Gothenburg on 14-15 March 2016. EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstr?m will hold a keynote address.
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
Asimina Michailidou and Mauro Barisione organise a workshop on social media and European politics in Oslo on 10-11 March 2016.
Professor Geir Hestmark, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (UiO), is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium.The lecture is open for everyone.
ESOP seminar. Ragnar Torvik is professor of economics at NTNU. He will present a paper entitled “The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization”, written jointly with Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.
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.