Previous events
Job talk. Edward Jee is a PhD candidate in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He will present the paper "Traps and Transfers."
Join us for a seminar discussion of debates about improvement in Eighteenth-Century Europe.
Job talk. Mikael M?kimattila is a PhD student in Economics at Aalto University. He will present the paper "Inequality-Aware Regulation."?
The centre leadership will present the aims and plans of the Centre for the Use of Norwegian as an Academic Language, followed by presentations by two MA students who are recipients of the centre’s master’s project grants. The centre presentation will be in English, while the student presentations will be in Norwegian.
Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Kari-Elisabeth Vambeseth Skogen?will be defending her dissertation "Using research: Perspectives from inside policy organisations".
Seminar by Associate Professor Johan Christensen, Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University.
Job talk. Anders Yding is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at U.C. Berkeley. He will present the paper "The Macroeconomic Effects of Defense Spending News."
Master of Science in Conflict Resolution Bintu Zahara Sakor will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:
Unlocking Africa’s Demographic Future: Youth Bulges, State Policies, and Pathways to Dividend and Political Stability
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).