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The Departmental Seminar Series features Ola Gunhildrud Berta, MSCA Postdoctoral fellow, SEAS programme, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen

How sickled cells remember: Genetics as embodied history in Tanzania.

Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace.

with Dr. Valentine Crosset, University of Geneva, and Jennifer West, American University Washington

In this final seminar, Kari-Elisabeth Vambeseth Skogen will present the draft of her PhD thesis titled "The use of research in policy: A study of how civil servants engage with research knowledge".

Master of Science in Organisational and Social Psychology and Master of Arts with Honours in Politics Tine Elisabeth Johnsen Brøgger at ARENA Centre for European Studies and Department of Political Science will be defending her dissertation: "Beyond the State? The Establishment of Integrative Commitments in European Security and Defence Cooperation"

Master in Technology and Society (STS) Sylvia Irene Lysgård will be defending her dissertation: "Statoil in the Canadian Oil Sands: Tar versus Oil and the Trouble of Storytelling". 

Professor Andrew Barry (University College London) will present a paper on the idea of the project, empirically focusing on the Georgian hydropower plant construction project Namakhvani, which has been cancelled following protests. 

Master in Political Sociology Tércio Ávila Pinho Filho will be defending his dissertation: "Contracting and Innovation in Megaprojects".

with Celestine Kunkeler, Catherine Tebaldi, Meili Criezis and Chelsea Daymon

Title: To be announced

Department seminar. Morten Håvarstein is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Meritocratic Labor Income Taxation" (written with Kristoffer Berg and Magnus Stubhaug).

Title of the presentation: To Nip it in the Bud: Democratization and Institutional Safeguards against Redistribution

What is green gentrification, and how can we best understand it?

Department seminar. Gaurab Aryal is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis. He will present the paper: "Auctioning Annuities" (written with Eduardo Fajnzylber, Maria F. Gabrielli, Manuel Willington). 

Lydia Tiede presents the paper Rule of Law Promotion in Times of De-Democratization at the Tuesday Seminar on 5 December 2023.

Title: To be announced

Stine Engen is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation.

Department seminar. Lars Thorvaldsen is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Reassessing the Tax Sensitivity of Debt in Multinational Corporations."

Gurminder K. Bhambra, professor at the University of Sussex, will give this year's Aubert memorial lecture.

Department seminar. Francis Wong is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. He will present the paper: "Taxing Homeowners Who Won't Borrow."

Lecturer: Chenchen Zhang, Durham University

We hereby invite you to a seminar on AI and learning, taking place on November 29, 2023, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at HF:studios in Sophus Bugges Hus, 1st floor. The seminar will address the impact of AI in conjunction with natural learning on education, knowledge workers, and students. There will be presentations and interactive discussions.

The SOILS team is excited to welcome Tommaso Trevisani, Associate Professor of Societies and Cultures of Central Asia at the L’Orientale University of Naples, as the presenter for the reading group.