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The third Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be given by Jason Allen-Paisant, Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, and will address the challenge of a just ecological transition by exploring how ideas and praxes of ‘cultivation’ might foster an awareness of deep time in mainstream political consciousness.
Department seminar. David Hémous is the UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Zurich and an Affiliated Professor at the UBS Center. He will present the paper: "Trade, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection" (written with Simon Lepot, Ralph Ossa, Tom Sampson, Julian Sch?rer)
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)
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 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.
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.
J?rg Rüpke (Erfurt)
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)
Professor Adam Martin, from Leeds Conservatoire, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
Jér?me Epsztein from Inmed will present his research on neuronal determinants of spatial cognition as part of the NCMM Tuesday Seminar Series.
Talk by Barbara Siller, lecturer in the Department of German and the Programme Director of the MA Applied Linguistics within the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork.
Department seminar. Rahul Deb is a Professor at University of Toronto Mississauga. He will present the paper: "Which wage distributions are consistent with statistical discrimination?" (written with Ludovic Renou).
Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg)
Department seminar. Lutz Sager is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. He will present the paper: "Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities and House Prices" (written with Gregor Singer).
This seminar considers the current status of gender equality in Poland, and the effects of what some call the "anti-gender movement".
Diane Cuny (Université de Tours, France)