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This talk by Alessandro Iandolo examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. 

Department seminar. John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics and Digital Fellow, Initiative for the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT). He will present the paper: "Ray of Hope? China and the Rise of Solar Energy".

Christopher Siwicki (The Norwegian Institute in Rome)

Giuliano Sidro (Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, UC Berkeley)

Camille Coye (Institut Jean Nicod, ?cole Normale Sup¨¦rieure, Paris) is a visiting researcher at the Super Linguistics research group. She works on animal communication.

Valentina Orr¨´ (University of Pavia)

Department seminar. Rafael Dix-Carneiro is an Associate Professor of Economics at Duke University. He will present the paper: "Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks" (written with Kirill Borusyak and Brian K. Kovak).

Dr Suki Finn is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London and a visiting fellow with the CPS at the University of Oslo. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southampton and has held other visiting fellowships at the University of Vienna (2023), Australian National University (2019), New York University (2018), and City University of New York Graduate Center (2014). Her areas of research span the philosophy of logic, metaphysics, philosophy of science, feminism, and epistemology. She has published a number of articles on these topics in Synthese, Bioethics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, European Journal of the Philosophy of Science, Australasian Journal of Logic, Philosophia, and more. She is the author of What¡¯s in a Doughnut Hole? And other philosophical food for thought (Icon, 2024) and editor of Women of Ideas (Oxford University Press, 2021). Dr Finn. is a University and College Union representative, and is on the Executive Committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy UK and the Council for the Royal Institute of Philosophy. For more information on her research, see: www.sukifinn.com  

Isak H?rem (University of Oslo)

Dr. David Adams, Senior Group Leader & Head of Experimental Cancer Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, will present his research as part of the NCMM Tuesday Seminar Series.

Department seminar. Timm Behler is a Doctoral Student at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg. He will present the paper: "Salience-Based Stereotyping."

- Causes, prevention and intervention

Nikoletta Kanavou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Department seminar. David H¨¦mous 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."

Lea Fricke, Patrick Grosz & Tatjana Scheffler.

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 R¨¹pke (Erfurt)

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.