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Dr. Mimi E. Lam is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Lam is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Bergen, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities. Her research focuses on seafood values and ethics, policy, and governance. In her eSEAS project, she is developing fit-for-purpose decision-support tools to aid decision-makers in resolving resource conflicts and policy trade-offs.
Andrea Schiavio (University of Graz) will lecture on "Being, Knowing, and Doing. 4E Cognition and the Dynamics of Musical Development".
Jon R?yne Kyllingstad (F?rsteamanuensis ved MUV - avdeling for universitets- og vitenskapshistorie ved Kulturhistorisk museum) bes?ker Forum for Vitenskapsteori.
Foredraget er ?pent for alle!
Ass. Prof. Dr. Maximilian Fochler is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Fochler is Head of Department / Deputy Director of the Sociology Studies Programme at the University of Vienna.
The seminar is open for everyone!
You are invited to the celebration of the prize winners; associate professor Anne Kveim Lie and Mphil student Salma A. Eljailani on 20th of September.
David Wootton is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. He works on the intellectual and cultural history of the English speaking countries, Italy, and France, 1500-1800.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Professor ved Institutt for Teknologi, Innovasjon og kultur ved Universitetet i Oslo, Magnus Gulbrandsen kommer til Forum for Vitenskapsteori! Gulbrandsen jobber blant annet med offentlige forskningsorganisasjoner rolle i innovasjon, prosessen omkring “impact”, kommersialisering av forskning og forholdet mellom universitet og industri.
Foredraget er ?pent for alle!
Karsten Specht (University of Bergen) will lecture on Rhythm, Tempo, and the Brain: fMRI studies in Bergen
Holger Strassheim, Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bielefeld and leader of the research project ‘Nexus: interfaces between climate, energy, mobility and consumer policy’ at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. His work explores the constellations of political and epistemic authority in world society, the role of expertise in public policy, the ways economic discourses shape social regulation and the governance networks in and between policy areas. Together with colleagues he has established the ‘WZB Mercator Forum’, a series of transdisciplinary workshops bringing together people from science, policy and society.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Dr. Zoll will give the talk, "Trypanosomes' magic bullet - Understanding the structural basis of SRA-mediated immune escape in Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense"
Dr. Javier Gutiérrez-Fernández, postdoc in Leonid Sazanov’s group at IST (Institute of Science and Technology) Austria, will give a guest lecture titled, "Insights into the structure and mechanism of bacterial proteins and complexes"
Ebola is striking once again, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A few years after the 2014-2015 Ebola crisis, has the world learnt its lessons? Are we better prepared? Come and join the debate!
Professor Frank Sobott, Chair of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at the Astbury Centre, University of Leeds, will give the talk titled, "Dynamic protein structure: from protein disorder to membrane pores"
Maria Witek (Birmingham) will lecture on "Musical Groove: Effect on pleasure, body-movement and the brain".
Dr. Jane Maienschein is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Maienschein is University Professor, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. She is also a Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she heads the project funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation on “Putting History and Philosophy of Science to Work with the Life Sciences.” Maienschein has served as president of the History of Science Society and of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Author of Embryos Under the Microscope and Whose View of Life?, she is also (co)editor of a dozen volumes including most recently Visions of Cell Biology and The Ark and Beyond.
Dr. Mika R?met, of PEDEGO research unit, University of Oulo, Finland, will give a talk titled, "Zebrafish as a model to study Mycobacterial infection".
Ankur Garg, PhD, will give a talk titled, "Structural and functional analysis of ribonuclease ZC3H12C mediated regulation of immune responses"
Lecture by Gabriele Iannàccaro, University of Milano-Bicocca
Melissa Lane is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. An associated faculty member in the Princeton Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy, she researches and teaches in the area of the history of political thought, with a special expertise in ancient Greek thought, and in normative political philosophy, including especially environmental ethics and politics.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Marieke Kuijjer, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. School of Public Health, will give a talk titled: "Understanding cancer using integrative network models"
Samir Okasha is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol. His research is focused around philosophy of biology, evolutionary theory, epistemology and philosophy of science.He is a winner of Lakatos Award for his book Evolution and the Levels of Selection.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Join us for the screening of Pili, a feature length drama set in rural Tanzania reflecting the life a poor, HIV-positive single mother of two children. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Sophie Harman, producer of the film and researcher in International Relations/Global Health (QMUL).
In this seminar drawing from a combined epidemiological and ethnographic study, Dr Freya Jephcott (Queen's College Cambridge), will unpack the consequences of involving different types of actors, both national and international, in the response to a mysterious outbreak in Ghana (2012). Come and join us for an interesting discussion!
CAN A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH ACCELERATE REDUCTION OF UNDERNUTRITION AND OBESITY?
The seminar is open to everybody and free of charge, but registration was required for lunch order. Registration is now closed, but you are welcome to join the seminar without lunch.
Tenured associate professor Richard Dawid is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Dawid is professor of philosophy of science at Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna. After some years as a phyisicist at the TU Munich and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he switched to philosophy in 2000. He worked as a philosopher of science at the University of Vienna and the MCMP Munich before coming to Stockholm in 2016.