Previous events
Listening to the backgroundification of nature and the silence of extinction in the twentieth century.
MSc Herman Krogstad Netskar at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Single-Cell Mapping of Natural Killer Cell Diversity Informing Strategies for Cancer Immunotherapy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Phoi Phoi Diep at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Outcome and cost-utility of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Norwegian children, adolescents, and young adults 1974–2009” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Martin Alavi Treider at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Congenital Duodenal Obstruction Trends in treatment and patient-reported outcomes” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Danial Lashkari is a Research Economist at the Research and Statistics department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He will present the paper "Creative Destruction through Innovation Bursts."
Master Hanna Pauliina R?kenes at Department of Teacher Education and School Research will be defending the thesis "Hope and narratives of change in future-oriented Open schooling science education" for the degree of PhD.
Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series.
Ragnar Enger Juelsrud will give a trial lecture entitled "Interest rates and firm investment" at the Department of Economics.
Daniel Globisch is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden.
He will be presenting his work on "Chemical Metabolomics – Unique Chemical Biology Tools to Explore Gut Microbiota Metabolism for Biomarker Discovery".
In this open lecture, Professor Désirée van der Heijde will cover novel aspects of design, analysis and presentation of clinical trials
Department seminar. Ragnar Enger Juelsrud is Principal Research Economist, Norges Bank. He will present the paper "Granular Credit Risk."
M.Phil. in Economics Guri Natalie Jordbakke at Department of Economics will defend her thesis "Pricing and consumption externalities: policy measures and incentives for pushing consumer choices" for the PhD degree.
M.Sc. Phong Khac Thanh Chau at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Thermoregulation and Pain Perception: Does the timing matter?” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Vegard Testad Svendsen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Psychiatric disorders, recidivism, and mortality among women with a history of incarceration in Norway: A registry-based national cohort study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Hil Ousland Vandeskog at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Out of text, out of mind? Exploring competing discourses of gendered vulnerabilities in Norwegian NGOs’ development aid through corpus-assisted discourse analysis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Benjamin Balsmeier is Associate professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Luxembourg. He will present the paper "When R&D tax credits meet the patent system: Exploitation, blockings, and entrenchment."
In this talk, Professor Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University, USA) will compare Russia’s covert intervention in 2014 with its full-scale invasion in 2022.
Master Kristina Torine Litherland at Department of Education will be defending the thesis "Learning to program, programming to learn: Conceptual and methodological investigations of programming as a sociotechnical learning process" for the degree of PhD.
In this lecture, Jennifer McWeeny uses Beauvoir’s phenomenological approach to trace the meaning of woman beyond the alternatives of biological determinism and social constructionism.
Olga Golburean will be presenting her trial lecture for the academic position of Associate Professor in Dentistry (Science Oral Hygiene) on the topic: “Digitalization in the Dental Health Service – Electronic Patient Records as a Tool for Better Oral Health”.
Master Ine Tracey Cockerell at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Evaluation of renal manifestations and treatment with mTOR-inhibitor everolimus for three indications in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Line Hustad Widing at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Psychotic disorder not otherwise specified – clinical characteristics and long-term outcomes” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Adam Rogers will be presenting his trial lecture for the academic position of Associate Professor in Dentistry (Science Oral Hygiene) on the topic: The science of dental hygiene: Challenges and opportunities
MD Ingvild Kristin Elisabeth Finckenhagen Farnes at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Optimizing the Diagnostic Work-Up and Treatment for Borderline Resectable - and Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Insights from the NORPACT-2 Trial” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Lianna Torres (University of Washington) will talk about motherhood, grief, and transformation in Lille Eyolf and Anna-Liisa