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Job talk. Marta Guasch-Rusi?olis is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. She will present the paper "Debt Without Investment."
Isabell Burmester presents her paper Whose legitimacy? The EU's external security role and Local Perceptions in Armenia and Moldova at the Tuesday Seminar on 13 January 2026.
Master Chiara Arnavas at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation The Mafiazation of Land: Crime, the State, and Real Estate Capital in West Bengal, India for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)
Job talk. Max Marczinek is a PhD (DPhil) student in Economics at the University of Oxford. He will present the paper "Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague."
NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming David Kent, from the University of York, and Julia Skokowa, from University Hospital Tübingen.
Master of Arts and Master of Public Policy Ari Mamshae will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science:
Who Gets Appointed and Why? The Politics of Selecting Senior Civil Servants in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region
Cand. Polit. in Political Science Lisa Scordato?will be defending her dissertation "Public sector capabilities for resilience. Tensions between knowledge and action in crisis management".
Job talk. Carolina Kansikas is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Warwick. She will present the paper "Carbon and Coordination: Incentives and Local Institutions in Conservation Policy."
Master Nhung Lu Rots at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Engaged Buddhism and Environmentality among Buddhist Minorities in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)
Job talk. Bence Bardóczy is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. He will present the paper "Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy."
Job talk. Morten H?varstein is a postdoc at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. He will present the paper "Substitution and income effects of labor income taxation”.
“Leading issues in development – A symposium on Progress, Conflict, and Distribution” organized by the Department of Economics, UiO, will take place at the ?The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on the 5th of January 2026.
Cand.med. Astrid Telhaug Karlsson at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer - survival, patient functioning and quality of life after radiotherapy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Kathinka Schmidt Sl?rdahl at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Treatment outcomes after chemoradiotherapy for anal cancer and patient reported outcomes after treatment for anorectal cancer in Norway” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Emil Flat? (NYU Gallatin) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series.
This seminar will be based on Marc Lynch’s recent book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Hurst, 2025).
Cand.psychol. Alma Viktoria Johansen Birken?s at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “From Psychometric Validation to Prediction: Exploring a Measure of Psychotic Experiences as a Tool for Psychosis Detection” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master of Science?Oleksandra Mittal at?Department of Teacher Education and School Research will be defending the thesis "Educational Equity Revisited: Validity evidence and factors associated with narrowing socioeconomic and minority achievement gaps" for the degree of PhD.
Tomasz Wo?niakowski presents the paper?Invisible taxes, visible defense: lessons from US fiscal-military history for financing European security at?the Tuesday Seminar on 16 December 2025.
Daniela Sant'Ana is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation.?
M.Sc. Simen Hyll Hansen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Diagnostic and Prognostic Potential of the Gut Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Christian Kullmann Five at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Mitral Valve Prolapse: Clinical Risk Stratification and Systemic Associations” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Ester B?ckmann is a Researcher at Fafo. She will present the paper "Where the Penalty Hits: Decomposing Parenthood’s Impact on Earnings.”
M.Sc. Elna Hamilton Larsen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “End of Treatment: What Now? Ensuring a good transition from active treatment to follow-up care for adolescents with cancer” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Ragnhild Holmberg Aunsmo at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Depression, anxiety and loneliness as risk factors for dementia” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).