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Geoffrey Galt Harpham is the author of thirteen books and over one hundred articles and essays in the fields of literary studies, philosophy, linguistics, and intellectual history. His recent books are Scholarship and Freedom (Harvard Univ. Press) and Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Entertainment (Univ. of South Carolina Press). His Theories of Race 1684-1900, an anthology of scientific and philosophical discussions of the race concept, will be online in early summer 2023. He has taught at Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University, and from 2002-15, he was director of the National Humanities Center.
David Grimaldi (University of Oslo)
In this seminar, Dr Sarah Marks will discuss critiques of Global Mental Health and highlight experiences and practices in Ghana and Zimbabwe that integrate modern interventions with indigenous understandings of mental distress.
Electoral defeat is often viewed as the mother of party change. However, studies show that parties do not necessary learn the right lessons of defeat. In this lecture, Dr. Dafydd Fell reflects on this using the case of the Green Party Taiwan
Department seminar. Karl Harmenberg is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Cost-effective fiscal stabilization."
In this DynamiTE lunchtime seminar, Teea Kortetm?ki will be presenting her paper on ‘Cohabitability and land use’.
Join us for a CIMS seminar with Mona Baker on Researching Protest Movements: Methodological and Ethical Challenges, a study of human and cultural collaboration during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
In the second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Matthew Chrulew, a writer and researcher from Boorloo/Perth, will talk about behavioural and cultural change among animals exposed to human activity.
In this lecture, the Australian cultural theorist Ian Buchanan will discuss the notions of flow and resistance in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s assemblage theory.
Department seminar. Morten O. Ravn is a Professor at University College London. He will present the paper: "Foreign Portfolios and Domestic Business Cycles with Heterogeneous Agents".
Kristin Oxley is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). This seminar marks her midway evaluation.
Alongside the democratic development and the rise of Taiwanese consciousness over the last three decades, the dominant China-centric discourse has given way to a Taiwan-first mindset. This lecture discusses the making of Taiwan identity.
J?rg Rüpke (Erfurt)
Join us for a CIMS seminar with Sardar Aziz, on superpower engagement and relations with Kurdistan.
The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be led by Dr. Hanna Guttorm, senior researcher at the University of Helsinki, who focuses on Indigenous studies and is a member of Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Sciences.
Welcome to a seminar on Lyme disease and forest tick encephalitis (TBE) for doctors and other health personnel with an interest in tick-borne diseases.
Lecturer Dr. Barbara Siller, University College Cork, will give a talk on “Kafka Tales of the Twenty-First Century – Doors, Walls, and Fences in The Gurugu Pledge (2017) by Juan Tomás ?vila Laurel and Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) by Daniel Trilling”.
Filippo Battistoni (Pisa) - Discussant: Ed Bispham (Oxford)
Why do we consume as we do, how is consumption changing, and why do we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet?
Professor Adam Martin, from Leeds Conservatoire, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
With a proportion of 43 percent of women in its national legislature since 2020, Taiwan has arguably become Asia's leader in women's political representation. Dr. Chang-Ling Huang offers some perspectives on how and why that is.
Jér?me Epsztein from Inmed will present his research on neuronal determinants of spatial cognition as part of the NCMM Tuesday Seminar Series.