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Title: Paths to Power: A new dataset on the social profile of governments

Origins and Consequences of Structural Change in Government (STATE-DNA)

The ENROL project organises a workshop on theoretical perspectives on democratic backsliding in the EU.

Title of the presentation: Disguising as Democrats: The Origins and Outcomes of Partially Independent EMBs in Autocracies

Department seminar. Sebastian Siegloch is a Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne.

On the 12th and 13th of September 2023 Ariane Dupont-Kieffer will give four lectures about the history of econometrics and the specific contributions of Frisch and Haavelmo in the formative period of econometrics as discipline specific methodology. The lectures are open to all interested.

Congo Calling is a patient, empathetic but clear-sighted if not disillusioned film about three people of European and American origin, who work in Eastern Congo in the present. The main character is a young US American social science PhD student, which makes the film particularly relevant for us.  The film invites us to discuss the concept of 'Africa', and critically engage with European (and US American, and other privileged) modes of imagining and acting in 'Africa'.

Theresa Kuhn presents the co-authored paper When a line becomes a wall. The effect of intra-EU border closures on European identity during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Tuesday Seminar on 12 September 2023.

Title: The Dance of European Integration: How Ideology and Policy Shape Support for the EU

On the 12th and 13th of September 2023 Ariane Dupont-Kieffer will give four lectures about the history of econometrics and the specific contributions of Frisch and Haavelmo in the formative period of econometrics as discipline specific methodology. The lectures are open to all interested.

Department seminar. Danial Ali Akbari is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Technology Adoption and Human Capital Accumulation."

Master in Political Science Martin Moland at ARENA Centre for European Studies and the Department of Political Science will be defending his dissertation: "Differentiated Views on Differentiated Union? Investigating popular support for a differentiated European Union". 

Department seminar. Johannes Spinnewijn is a Professor of Economics at London School of Economics. He will present the paper: "The Chronic Condition Index: Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle" (written with Kaveh Danesh, Jon Kolstad and Will Parket).

Rafiki (Swahili for ‘friend’) is a Kenyan drama, made for popular audiences by filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu. 

What is segregation, and how do we study it?

The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2024, and we cordially invite you to join the celebration with a day of scholarly discussions and an evening of revelry.

Department seminar. Giacomo Brusco is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Tübingen. He will present the paper: "Guess Who's Evading on Dinner: Experimental Evidence on the Incidence of Tax Evasion."

Department seminar. Aurélien Baillon is a Professor of economics of uncertainty at Emlyon business school. He will present the paper: "Follow the money, not the majority: Markets for predicting unverifiable events" (written with Benjamin Tereick and Tong V. Wang).

On the formalization and institutionalisation of democratic innovations

Lecturers: Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) and Lisa Zanotti (Diego Portales University)

Lucas Schramm presents the paper Some differences, many similarities: Comparing Europe’s responses to the 1973 oil crisis and the 2022 gas crisis at the Tuesday Seminar on 29 August 2023.

Title of the presentation: "Willing to Pay? A Reasonable Choice Approach"

This year’s SCANCOR Workshop on Institutional Analysis will be hosted by the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo in collaboration with BI Norwegian Business School and Oslo Metropolitan University. The workshop is supported through funding from the NFR INPART- project SCANCOR-NEWORG. Join the event for a one-week intense PhD workshop on institutional analysis. In the public morning lectures leading international as well as local faculty present and discuss recent research within the field of institutional theory. Afternoon workshop sessions with leading international faculty are limited to PhD students who successfully apply to the workshop.

Department seminar. Kai Liu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. He will present the paper: "Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of Head Start with Multiple Alternatives" (written with Marc K. Chan Antonio and Dalla-Zuanna).