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Master Camilla Gr?ver Aukrust at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Beyond the operating rooms: An exploration of paediatric hydrocephalus across Africa and in the district of Blantyre, Malawi” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Chiara Veroni at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “The interplays between lipids, autophagy and lysosomes” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Anne Berg Breen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Epiphysiodesis for Leg Length Discrepancy - keep it safe and simple” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
By Geoffrey Hughes, University of Exeter
Master Zahra Abbasi at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Heal Thyself: Construction of Knowledges of Self-Care in Contemporary Iran for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).
M.Sc. Ragnhild Nyhagen at Insitute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Symptom Communication in the Intensive Care Unit: An Exploration Through Participant Observation and Individual Interviews with Patients, Family members and Clinicians” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Joseph Altonji is a Professor of Economics at Yale University. He will present the paper "Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers" (written with John Eric Humphries, Yagmur Yuksel and Ling Zhong).
Lecture by Professor Dr. Ilka Lensen-Saal (University of Erfurt) about American political theatre in the neoliberal age.
Margaretha Miles (IFIKK)
Trine B. Rounge, professor at UiO will present her work: "Signals in the noise - Discovering biomarkers for early cancer detection".
M.Sc. Gulim Murzakanova at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Adverse Perinatal Outcomes: Exploring Term and Postterm Pregnancies in Norway” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Ewan Birney, Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), will give a talk entitled "AI modelling of Healthcare trajectories and Scandinavian and UK history with genetics".
Department seminar. Agneta Berge is a PhD student in economics at the IIES at Stockholm University. She will present the paper "Two-tier collective wage bargaining in a frictional labor market".
Zack Abrams has recently joined the project Eco-Emotions: Affective Response to Environmental Change in and through Literature as a postdoctoral fellow. He will present his project at the upcoming departmental literary seminar.
The Science Studies Colloquium (Forum for vitenskapsteori) organizes a seminar where recipients of the Colloquium's scholarship will present results of their work.
Talk by Ainu artist and scholar Kanako Uzawa.
Jan Bremmer
Erik Jones presents the paper European Integration from Club to Commons at the Tuesday Seminar on 29 April 2025.
Cand.med. Marte Heide at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Is radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy (rESWT), sham-rESWT or a standardised exercise programme in combination with advice plus customised foot orthoses more effective than advice plus customised foot orthoses alone in the treatment of plantar fasciopathy? A double-blind, randomised, sham-controlled trial” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Tomás Alejandro Schmauck-Medina at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “ATG-18/WIPI2, NAD+, and fasting converge through autophagy in healthy ageing and Alzheimer’s disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Tymon S?oczyński is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and International Business School (IBS) at Brandeis University. He will present the paper "Quantifying the Internal Validity of Weighted Estimands" (written with Alexandre Poririer).
Rasmus Vangshardt presents his research on the literary culture of early modern Europe
MD Mari Kathrine Sand at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Cataract surgery and primary intraocular lens implantation in infants before 12 weeks of age” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
In this lecture, Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago) will discuss what happens when we question standard psychoanalytic accounts of the "silence of the drives" and instead see it as a point of departure for a new theory of music.
Musicologist Holly Watkins discusses her recent shift away from discursive eco-poetics toward embodied eco-practice.